Recent content by Sparky Jones

I believe Aiken to be correct, lockjaw (tetanus) is very common for goldfish and koi. All you can really do is wait it out and try to treat the symptoms. if you have a quarantine tank, you'd want to get the temp as low as you can like 32-40 to slow the fishes metabolism, and increase the...

Most tropicals can tolerate for a couple days temps as low as 20 Celsius and as high as 32 celcius. the sweet spot is 24-27 celcius, if colder they will slow down maybe stop eating and not move much, if hotter they will speed up, eat more work harder to get oxygen... to an extent until it gets...

they make Danio glo-fish and Barb glowfish, I've even seen a glo-fish rainbow shark in a pink color. If I had glo-fish, I'd stick to glo-fish and just add different colors. If you have the lights and set up for it, no reason to not just stick with the product in my opinion. Outside of...

I'd say when you're ready for the switch, rinse out your old filters into the new tank, the water won't be clear at first, but the good bacteria should just transplant to the new filter from the water, just moving the colony in this manner. It should kick start it immediately. and will establish...

Hard to say really, Black ghost knife fish can reach 18-20" size so that's a juvenile still, and they need room to grow and food to eat or will slowly get cramped up or "eating starve". where they eat, but not nearly enough so they can grow and have energy. Some times they can be hungry but too...

Hi All, I had a spawn and I'm at 21 days (3 weeks) since eggs were laid. I've basically bucked the advised methods which failed me for the first half dozen spawns. I left the eggs with the parents, until freeswimming for a week, and then I removed the parents from the tank and left the fry. No...