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ok... one guppy dead, the other taken out of the tank with the raphy. guess we know his temperament now... :clown: he'll get solitary till i can get him in a larger tank.

we've put two that were being bullied in our guppy tank into the tank with the raphy. he is a rescue from my brothers stupid friend. :)

i was reading about the raphy online, and getting the usual conflicting and poorly copy and pasted advice on some questionable websites. cool to know they can live that long, he's still pretty small, less than three inches. he'll eventually go into a big community tank when we buck up some...

my thought is if the betta wants a bite of the spikes than moer power etc... i don't see the cat getting bullied, but i don't want to kill the betta. i've not got a betta, just curious what i can put in the tank. thanks tim

specifically, i've got a spotted raphael catfish in a ten gallon tank. can i add a betta, or bad idea? thanks. tim

i know how to whack fish painlessly... and don't flush live bait down the toilet. that's what i was sold, was bait, my fault i know... i don't want to spend money true, but i've not been able to identify what the ailment is, nobody here has been able to correctly identify the ailment that i...

we all love the ecosystems we create for our finned friends. what other wild life do you enjoy in your own backyard? i'm blown away constantly, growing up in cleveland, where a drive way separated you from your neighbor. living out a bit in the sticks now, i've got maybe half an acre... i've...

well we're down to two in the twenty long, and we've isolated the third remaining gold fish in his own ten gallon quarantine tank. he's got a red mouth and it looks like gills from where he was biting at the other deceased fish's flesh wound. that'll learn him, or maybe not. anyhoo, i am...

if it was liquid and exposed to atmosphere, it'd 'boil off' and freeze whatever it came into contact with. it has to stay in a compressed state, within the confines of something very strong, steel, copper etc. he's full of s#$% so to say. ;)

cool, so i can read up on some salts, and move on? the ick attack smells no worse than some garlic. can i drop cloves of garlic in my tank? ;) edit: bronco fan, i hope brady takes you guys to the superbowl, it would be fitting! *disgruntled browns fan. honestly, i've given up on pro-sports.

thanks broncofan! i forgot to mention i am a diehard browns fan.... elway killed football for me ages ago! bastards! ;) seriously though, even if your ambient is 100, a decent sized body of water/pond will keep the goldies where they need to be temp wise. mine are in an aquarium, and only...

speeding up the ich cycle and sucking their hopeful cysts from the bottom. sounds like a more sound treatment imo. thanks for the input. any adverse affects on goldfishes? :D tim

i'm interested in folks thoughts on this medication by kordon. is it as effective as other ich medicines? do you buy the no water changes needed? do you like the idea of herbs instead of chems in your tank? do the herbs actually work? from my read of ich, it's sorta hit or miss, that's why...

i've still got my first tank set up in the basement with a little catfish in it, going on five years in it's current setup. it's well over twenty years old, a little ten gallon job. it used to be stuffed to the gills with guppies, and has housed the dreaded carnie goldfish prizes during it's...

if it could be done, i could make all sorts of wrecks, from bermuda triangle aircraft, to lake eire wooden frigates from 1812... if i could somehow dip the entire model in marine friendly silicon to seal it... 0X

what constitutes a safe decoration for a tank? many sold in pet stores are some sort of plastic, are these some sort of food grade plastic? i ask because one of my other hobbies is building plastic models, particularly, ships. now i'm not gonna sink one of my models in the fish tank, but it...

this trio dances for food, they are hilarious! peas scheduled for tomorrow, thanks for the replies and clarifications. i tried to take some pics, but i need to adjust my settings and set up something more stable than my hands... :rolleyes: tim

thanks, they really like the wafers, feeding frenzy at the bottom! :laugh:

i tried to search, sorry for the n00b post... i got this. so gold fish like algae, can i break up some of my wafers that i feed to the pleco, and give it to the goldfish? also, how should i serve up the peas to the little guys? thaw them, and split them, i don't think they can swallow them...

well he took his final lap around the porcelain circuit this morning. not sure what his malady really was, but it's done and over now. thanks for the well wishes, and after looking at that diagnostic picture link posted, if i had to guess, i'd say some sort of bacterial infection...

he's still alive in the little isolation chamber. i've been changing his water daily. the redness from the wound is gone, now he's got a slaw of scar tissues attempting to grow back. he was pretty active this morning. we will see. :rolleyes: cheers to 17 cent feeder fish... ;)

i got some(4) feeder comet goldfish for my daughter after our dog passed this sunday. i took a lot of gravel and filter media out of another tank we have had established for a long time and set her up a twenty gallon long, after my inherited twenty gallon failed. i've done several water...

it leaked, like a sieve, don't know if it got bumped on the transit over, or it was just old and the joints dried up. anyhoo, i had to quickly drain about 15 gallons of water. it never starts leaking until you get more than half way filled. luckily, my other passtime is brewing fine ales, and...

well the twenty gallon tank leaks. glad i found that out before i broke down the ten gallon tank. now shopping for a bigger tank. bah! :rolleyes:

w00t! thanks dragonfish71, i appreciate your candor. :) i'll put the fish in a bucket of water from the old tank and get the new one ready with the old gravel and caves. i assume by drip you mean dripping some of the new water into the holding tank/cell. edit: i'm also going to be moving...