Recent content by dozer

Hello..does anybody have advice about moving aquariums? I have 40 g and a 29 g....the 40 g has an assortment of barbs and the 29g has guppies and neons. The tanks will be too heavy with any water in them, so don't know if the fish will be ok in a bucket for an hour or so...I also have 1 10...

I have a large tank with a mixed variety of fish...One by one, they are dying, but before they do, they seem to lose their bouency....They struggle to swim and act like they've swallowed something heavy..I have lost some danios and some cherry barbs so far.... My tiger barbs, gold barbs and...

I have had a betta for about 5 months...I've noticed over the last few days, his belly is getting bigger and bigger, and his colouring in his face is getting grey. He is also not as active as he once was...Just going up to the surface for air..( more than normal ) I actually don't think he's...

woo hoo....it's almost been a month for my tiger barb, but I'm proud to say today, that I have released him to swim with his buddies...actually I set him free out of his ICU about 2 days ago, but I was still corralling him to feed him to make sure he was getting enough to eat...he's gotten...

wow...who would have thought fish can get food poisoning...He's still hanging on...His breathing is definitely better and his colour is also a little better today...He's loving his peas, so as long as he's eating I'm happy... He is my favourite fish...He's one the original fish I had when I...

I occasionally like to treat my tiger barbs with frozen blood worms...I thaw a cube out and then feed them by dropping the worms in a little at a time with a toothpick....I've noticed that I often will lose a fish or 2 a week or to after...like they are getting sick from the worms...I lost two...

I just recently lost my betta...He got bloated like that too....He was like that for about 2 months...He slowly started losing his colour too. The last 2 days of his life, he started just hanging around behind the heater....I knew his time was almost up. I don't know what caused that. I have...

That is awesome!!!! Yeah, I finally know what they are, and that the red lip is normal...lol...only my one has it...possibly a gender difference????...thanks a bunch

I have 2 of these silver fish that were sold to me as 'panda barbs', but I have not been able to find any info on the internet. They kind of look like rosy barbs, but they are silver and the black dot is closer to the base of the tail with a little shimmer of pink just infront of it. The one I...

I've been watching my tanks, and I think I need to get a bottom feeder for my 10g tanks....my tiger barbs in the large tank do a lot of bottom feeding, so they take good care of that area. I would like to get some small ones....I've seen plecos that are huge, so don't want to get one of...

I had a heck of a time when I first started with tiger barbs...I think I had every disease in the book....I virtually let them die off, although 1 of them was a fighter. After his fins grew back (fin rot), I got him some more friends...I haven't lost a fish in my big tank for a long time...

A friend gave me a 10g tank they were no longer using, and I just can't stand to see it empty. I already have a 29g tank with 3 tiger barbs, 3 rosy barbs, 3 serpae tetra and 2 panda barbs (that's what they were labelled on the lfs tank, but I've never been able to confirm the name). I also...

sorry to hear that!!! :( ....Well that's another disease I can put in my 'experience' book...So far I've battled ich, fungus, dropsy and now lockjaw...I'm sure there will be more in the future, although it's been a while since I lost one, now that I have the feeding and cleaning down to a...

yes he did have laboured breathing too...Too bad...he was so pretty.

You nailed it on the head...Within hours of separating him from the rest, he died...very strange thing indeed! Thanks anyways.