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hi have read lots of posts where maracyn,maracynII & other similar meds are recommended for various ailments for fish. ive never seen them here in the uk the only thing we can get nearby is interpet meds which we have had varying success with but what i dont like about interpet is they dont...

hi i put a post a few weeks ago about a couple of neons we have that had developed grossly(& i mean grossly 8O ) distended abdomens. thanks to all who responded with lots of good advice...but my 2 neons are still huge & still eating & swimming as normal & basically i dont have a clue. should i...

hi what can make fish flick apart from obvious diseases???? have noticed quite a few of our fish are flicking every now & again(no particular species - theyre all at it) our water params are fine 0 ammonia0nitrite,20 nitrate (always this our water supply) ph 7.8.(again has always been around...

hi just wondering does anyone know if its safe to put interpets anti internal bacteria med in a tank that has been dosed with melafix the other day??? theres no info on either bottle & i dont want to hurt my fish any info most appreciated thanks

help one of our zebra danios is swimming a bit wonky. this also happened about 5 weeks ago to another danio just before we went on holidays & we treated the tank for internal bacteria (interpet anti internal bacteria med) as it was only slighly wobbly but listless & we thought this may be the...

a couple of months ago there was a thread about caes & how to catch them! we had to catch & rehome ours as he had grown big & was turning very mean.......bullying our poor corys constantly. well finally about a month ago we caught him..........thanks patwa( & others) i used your bottle trap &...

hi we have a few female neon tetras & have just noticed that 2 of them have HUGE bellies. 8O is this babies??? or obesity???? ive posted a pic - its a bit blurry but i think you'll get the general idea you can see some slender males nearby. thanks

hi bought some new dechlorinator last week called bioactive tapsafe. according to the instructions im supposed to add 1 inner capful to 45 L of water, our bucket is 10L so this means i am having to use a dropper & try & guess what 1/5 th of this little measure is. am i doing something stupid...

i read somewhere that clown loaches quite often make a clicking noise & while watching one of our yoyos feasting on a food tablet today i noticed he seemed to be making a clicking noise???!!! im sure it wasnt him moving the gravel against the glass. is this possible or am i imagining things 8O

help have just lost 2 of our red eye tetras in a week. one of them was a big strapping boy ( 2 inches long an inch tall- can a fish be tall ??) and looked v healthy right up till i found him dead :( the other was possibly a little skinny & shy. but neither had any obvious signs of disease at...

hi we went into a new lfs(kilburn london uk) the other day & spotted some rather strange looking fish. they were called blue tiger barbs, they were a little like albino tigers except were much more 'see thru' as you could see all their insides 8O & they had a weird blue tinge to their fins &...

hi we have 3 green tigers & 3 stripey tigers in our community tank & after the sad loss of 4 zebra danios to fungus over the past 2 months we're thinking about getting a couple of new tigers. our barb gang is well established having been in our tank for approx 4 months, they all seem to get...

hi checked tank levels this morning. ammonia 0,nitrite0,nitrate 10 BUT the pH which has always read 8 is now 7.8. is this a problem???? we have put medication in the tank for velvet/slime disease(about a week ago) but nothing else new. we've had the tank going for about 4 months & we cycled it...

hi there, we just lost another zebra danio this morning. we noticed that it had a cotton wool fungally thing on its tail & wasnt behaving like himself. we have a med for finrot/fungus but as we have been treating our tank for velvet/slime we didnt know if we could just bung this med in to try &...

hi we have a little pakistani loach & the other night i happened to glance at our tank & noticed a little whiskery face poking out from the outlet of the internal fluval filter in the tank. our loach has decided that this is the perfect spot for a home, peace, quiet no nosy barbs irritating...

help! have just noticed that one of our pakistani loaches looks v sick. hes lying on the bottom of the tank & seems to be breathing a lot quicker than usual. when he tries to swim up it seems to be very hard for him. his movement is totally different to the other loach that is pottering around...

hi there have a 33gal tank with tiger & green barbs,zebra & leopard danios, 2 peppered corys,neons,algae eater,red eye tetras & 2 pakistani loaches. quite new to the fishy world & in attempt to vary our finned friends diet ive been trying lettuce in the tank. as i heard some fish (esp tiger...