Recent content by tomfleet

at a bit of a loss... Hi Guppyman and thanks for your further advice. Bad luck for me. Formalin 3 is unavailable where I am, in Korea. There doesn't seem to be any other formaldehyde-based fish medicine either. There is however a powder with H2CO3 (rather than H2CO), it's called Sulfa...

oh no. that's bad Thanks very much guppyman for your advice. Well, one of the guppies died 2 days later, which disappointed me enough that I didn't check back at this forum for a while--makes no sense, I know. The other guppy's tail wore away some more, but not much. I will be sure to try...

Just took a look at Rohan's tank. WOW. The plants look so good you'd think they were plastic, and I also dig the grassy plain look in front. I wish Rohan could upload some bigger and higher-res pics of his tank though; I cant seem to find a real clear pic of his tank, unlike the Korean...

Aside from the lighting I'd definitely lay off the algae killer, like Rex G said too. I'm just a beginner and so my advice isn't worth much. But the story is, all my plants had been doing terribly (I've had problems with lighting, CO2 and minerals), except my microsorium. Then I added a C02...

Just wanted to share these pictures I found on a Korean aquarist website http://www.trofish.net/album/id_gallery.html?user_id=kyd6794&tab=3 This guy's tanks are amazing. In the bigger tank (which is 1.3m x 0.5m x 0.6m) , this guy says (in Korean) that he's got 35 (35!!) varieties of plants...

Hi forum, I'm a beginner. I have just a quick question about my guppies: 2 of my 3 male guppies seem to have lost bits of their tails lately. I don't think it's fin rot, it looks like trauma, like bites from other fish. There's even a slight red tinge along the edges which I assume is...

Hi, well, our platy's looking no better tonite. I guess it could be a parasite as you say, so I'm going to look for the drug if there's no improvement in another couple days (we're finding there's a wide variety of aquarium products available in Seoul, along with a lot of aquarist websites)...

Hi Allivymar and thanks very much for your reply. I see what you mean and will get the ammonia tester too and water treatment stuff. (My guess is chloramine is used in Seoul.) Now that you point it out, we think you're probably right that the platy was already weaker, and imperfections in the...

I hope someone can help us, we're beginners. First a guppy and now a platy won't eat and seems to be fading day by day. Other than not eating, there's no sign of anything wrong. If it's some other sort of stress, we can't figure it out. It's a 12-week old 13-gallon vertical tank, with 4...