Recent content by weaselandalf

Hey! A month back my two goldies died when a disease they had worsened, it seems the fish in the shop I had bought them from had also been afflicted. Anyway I have one fish (not a goldfish) left, he's a little tank cleaning fish, however I have no idea what he is, he's tear shaped and about two...

The tank is 23 gallons, and I will not add any fish. I admitt I don't do water changes as often as I should, only about once every one a a half weeks :oops:. The water shows very low levels of Nitrite, which I am waiting to come back down (I treated with Machalite green and apparently this...

I am doing water changes, and I try to get the stuff to come off. My tank is 30" x 12" x 15" and heavily planted, I've had it just over a month. I must say that after posting, the blackmoor (the only fish except a tiny one that lives under the filter) looked a bit better. I was going to get...

I have read the rules about posting in this forum, and I think it is Ich, but I'ma newbie please, please could someone confirm this please? I treated with Machalite green last time I thought he had this, my Pearlscale died last week, please confirm! 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O 8O My tank is full of...

NO, adding Ich treatment JUST for snails may be overkill (forgive the pun). My blackmoor picks them up in his mouth and then fires them across the tank, this is also a fairly good way to keep the population down, they just don't feel life is worth living when they become sport for an insane...

Out of interest I dont think snails are big fans of machalite green, I have one left after a whitespot treatment... ...though I did loose a fish too, sniff.

Well, he looked okay the night before, though he seemed to have a bit of trouble eating his fish flakes, as he was to slow to catch them. But the Blackmoor is fine at the moment. Because of his colour it was harder to look for whitespot if that's what it was that killed him. I had only had...

He had a shrivelled tail apparently.

I started using Malachite Green, and they seemed OK afterwards, but this morning my Pearlscale died.

Okay, I'm really woried at the moment, I got a Blackmoor and a pearlscale yesterday. We took a sample of the water to the pet store and they tested it and said it was perfect. My tank is planted, freshwater with a good three way filter. My Blackmoor has a spot the size of a grain of salt on...

Just and update: as of this morning Bob has been joined by Bob2 through 37 and they are garden pond snails... ...groan.... thanks for the help

Okay so is there anything I can get that'll eat them [sob] or am I gonna have to put the cat in to fish them out? The shape of his shell is pointy, about twice as long as it is wide and he's only a couple of milimeters long. So what could he be?

The tank is 30" x 12", I'm planning to get Blackmoors and pearlscales as well as a weather loach or two. Of course I'll get these slowly, but might start with one of each, as it should be okay, my tank having already cycled. Thanks for the advice and WATER SNAIL EGGS !!??? Prehaps it...

Hey, I'll keep this short. I'm still waiting to get fish after taking the cat to the vets... :evil: Anyway, my tank is all set up and ready for the goldfish and I have live plants in there. I looked in just now and I have a tiny water snail in there. I didn't put him in there, so he must...

Hey, I'm really hoping I've posted in the right place this time! My tank is:- 30" x 12" Cold, freshwater, with a biological/mechanical/chemical filter that also provides streams of bubbles. It also has about 12 live oxygenating plants. The tank is set up and ready for goldfish. A week ago...