Recent content by madrhy

I'm here on and off. I'm in NSW too, south of Wollongong

We still have all but one of these cuties. They're a bit bigger now though! Axos

Yes very familiar with it, tank has been cycled and running for about 5 years, we barely touch the filter, but if it is rinsed it's in water just taken from the tank and never all at once. Parameters are good, ammonia 0, nitrites 0, nitrates around 5 (it's a planted tank). The isolation tank...

So bizzare. I think she was weakened and stressed by the pregnancy then maybe has some fin rot? Her tail looks like someone took a bite out of the middle of it but she was alone when it happened. Whatever it is she looks otherwise perfect today! I thought she was a goner a couple of days ago

This afternoon she's mostly upright and eating again! I'll keep her in the hospital tank for a few days to make sure but she's looking so much better

Thanks for the replies crystalbettas, I've put her in a shallow tank, she delivered another 7 fry last night, only one survived so it has been moved to the main tank. She's trying to turn herself the right way up today but her tail is looking awful so I've tried a bit of aquarium salt in her...

I took her out straight away, any idea what has happened to her? I'm hoping it's not going to kill the other fish... perhaps something to do with birth? she's still hanging in there, poor thing [emoji17]

I have a guppy floating on her side with rapid gill/mouth movements. She had been hanging around the top of the tank most for a few days and wasn't very active but I thought she was perhaps just ready to drop fry (and I believe she has, I have new tiny fry in the tank and she looks way less boxy...

I'm in NSW, couple of hours south of Sydney. I Haven't been around here much lately but just found our mystery snails have laid eggs so doing some reading :)

oh I get it, cheers. I know where I can buy that actually, I've seen it in a local shop.

hi :) What is a fuge?? We live in Australia. For lights I think we're all good, we have that planted tank in a window and it is growing like mad.There are lights but both bulbs have blown, so no worries there. We have a heater, not sure we need it at this time of year (coming in to summer, it...

We have a very well established 42 ish (160L) freshwater planted tank that pretty much looks after itself and we're looking for a new project :) we have a few small tanks, one is a 15ishG on a stand which I would love to turn into a small saltwater setup. What do you think are the minimum...

yeah pretty rude, definitely cheaper to drive there and get it, I considered that too, we're a couple of hours south of Sydney but the drive with 2 young kids was so appealing I decided I'd prefer daily water changes for a while :)

I decided the same thing, especially when I saw the postage. We ended up taking some of the substrate, filter medium and water from our yabby tank (those things are grotty so plenty of bacteria there!), ran the tank for a few days then started slowly adding fish. It meant we needed lots of water...

Oh great idea! Thanks