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mattrox: call me mad but we're already expecting a new arrival, we should have been able to bring him home yesterday but he's throwing a bit of a wobbler since his nestmate got sold and is going backwards a bit with his weaning....A PARROT! once he's settled in, we'll think about restarting our...

yeah, we thought he was recovering too.....guess he took a turn for the worse last night. I wonder if his cuddles might have been a cry for help :( either that or HE knew he was going. I feel so awful that there wasn't more I could do. I keep looking at the tank and thinking, oh why's...

I got up this morning to feed Schnitzel only to be shocked finding him upside down...gone. What the heck happened?! he was ok last week, in fact I was saying on my last thread how well he was recovering. That hit me hard. Poor Ellie's wailing her heart out in her bedroom and I feel really...

Well, it's been a while now and Schnitzel is still with us. we managed to get his swelling down a bit and then i went on holiday leaving the hubby in charge. when i got back, he looked like he had Dropsey again and some of his scales were up! well, today he's looking a lot better than he did...

thanks, I've been using liquid tests for it, they both come out a 0. I just feel so crushed about it. they're such great fish! they all used to go for my fingers whenever I'd be maintaining the tank and one guy even used to rub his belly across my fingers, we figured out he liked to have his...

Hi Guys, I've been AWOL for a bit. to be honest, very depressed and somewhat lost faith in every hope and dream that i have. (I always wanted to be a zoo keeper and i've always been very close to my animals) we lost 4 of our five fish. now we have only Schnitzel left and now he's all swollen...

hi jsoong: no i don't think there's white spots on him, but'i'll have a closer look. (update: had a look, he has white and gold pattern on his tail but no white spots.) how long can i fast him for as i tried one day and then my husband couldn't take the filthy looks from him any more and snuck...

thanks jsoong, I posted that because i thought it might give you a giggle at my nutty fish! i understand the need for the bigger tank is for the water quality. doing daily gravel vacs shows how much these fish produce, it often astounds me because they don't get fed that much!!! makes me wonder...

Lol, my fish don't seem to use the space they have too well! YouTube - fishie squishie.AVI

hi all, some of you may know, i lost two of my precious babies a few weeks ago. and now i'm paranoid about my other three. the two died from dropsy-like symptoms of swelling up, (one with the pine-comb effect scales) but te other just got fat and started sitting around on the bottom until she...

This is my beautiful Bolly, she's beautiful to me despite her droopy fins and her wonky swim, not helped recently since the males decided to tear all her fins apart! she's now recovering well and seems to have forgiven the boys as she huddles with them every afternoon when they have their weird...

yes i'm in the UK. to be honest, getting a great deal is nice, but i always buy new tanks if i'm purchasing. that way i know it comes with no nasty residues etc and also if it has been used to keep gerbils in previously, chances are it'll leak. i have a nice big 20G (compared to my 10G!) tank...

thanksguys. logansmomma and jsoong: agreeing with you there on the overcrowding. we were only told that we "might be overstocked" by the aquarium once we'd bought our fifth fish! managing to convince the hubby that more fish isn't the best idea, besides, i could never REPLACE the two we've...

dkpate: it has been talked about, we were thinking of a couple more red caps. David said he likes the sound of black moors but i've heard these are even more delicate than fantails! i'm a bit scared at the moment. obviously i'm not even entertaining the thought of adding new fish until all...

she was pretty brave, people kept asking if i was ok at the school gates (had left a note on Facebook regarding poor glimmer as some of my friends who've seen the fish in the last few days asked to be kept posted.) Ellie guessed on the way home, bless her, she held in her tears until she got...

thanks for all your help guys, sadly Glimmer died last night at 10:30. she went over for a fourth time and couldn't get back up. after about 15 minutes, she gave it another attempt to get up but exhausted herself and just stayed upside down. she made a few more bursts and at one point was...

yeah, i've re-posted this in sick fish under "upside down fish!" things aren't going too well. (all advice welcome) my local pet store does a starter tank with a filter for £25, would make a great QT tank, just don't know where I'd put it though, also, beginning to think it's a little late...

bang goes my theory, Star's still a bloke!

thanks guys, I was led to believe that the bloodworms would help with the constipation back when first got the fish. i'll give the peas a go, but this morning Glimmer wasn't the slightest bit interested in any food. talk about worried sick!! i've always said to Ellie "it's fine so long as...

darn, last half of my post is missing and vid has posted twice for some reason.... following video was: "I did a water change earlier and all but glimmer got up and started digging about in the gravel in case the poover (gravel Vac) had left behind or unearched anything tasty, but they soon...

I think the store uses the API tests. (big 8 bottle set that costs about £30) i was going to buy one but the staff said they get sent their supplies for free and don't mind doing regular checks for me. it would be nice to have a set though, just so that i can test the water any time, rather than...

thanks guys, she's been eating fine, gave her some bloodworms this morning just to help along in case it's constipation, she has been pooping but not as much as usual, quite thin and occasionally just the white thread. nothing new added to the tank, except the divider, but she'd been sitting on...

well, news that may explain the Bolly-shredding....Schnitzel is a boy!! he had the classic white "thorns/pimples" along the front edge of his pectoral fins and white pimples on his gill plates! i'm guessing now that Star may in fact be a girl and chsed bolly as competition. seems likely, no...

update: at 4:30 Glimmer started struggling again and collapsed again upsaide down, she stayed for a lot longer this time and i was really certain that the little fin waving feebly was a wave good-bye. my friend was on hand hugging me when the fish struggled up again, righted herself and seemed...

"since poor Ponyo died on monday, the fish tank has been very odd. Glimmer has been sitting on the bottom for most of the day and there are some shadowy parts on her body which worry me. but this morning i was horrified to find my poor Bolly being relentlessly chased by Star and ALL of her fins...