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Hi, I got three of these guys at the weekend - was going for 1m 2f but think I might have 2m 1f. Definitely one male, has the fringes and he's bigger. The other two are smaller, one I'm pretty **** sure is a female, the other I'm less sure - he has a bigger (but still not frayed like the...

Hi there, Last weekend I finally started stocking my new 400l tank, it took a few weeks to cycle, I started a much smaller (Quarantine) tank cycling at the same time, both with seed media from my existing 200l, the QT cycled in a matter of days, the 400l cycled the ammonia pretty quickly but...

Ok update - water tank is plumbed in and fillable. New 400 litre aquarium coming on thurs Going to try and get the substrate and non-living decor sorted this weekend and then fill it. To that end I will require a pump to pump the water from the holding/prep tank into the aquarium - some sort of...

actually thinking about it since you stress the point, it'll be less work and barely any difference in convenience for me to just stick the end of the waste pipe out the door, into the shower in the bathroom next door (when I do changes, with some flexible tubing instead of fixed piping) than...

the room is a ground floor room, I'll check but I'm pretty sure there's no space underneath, so weight shouldn't be an issue I went away recently for 10 days and pretty did exactly what you recommend and was fine, the main aim is just to make the water changes feasible and simple while having...

Thanks for the responses. I'm going to set up a standpipe type drain to the outside for run/siphoned off water. I'm only planning one 90g tank and my quarantine tank (think is 20g maybe) initially, but if it seems to be working well I might consider a couple of smaller more specialized tanks (I...

Hi there, I have a spare room that I am planning to turn into an aquarium room. The setup will be fairly simply, as I'm not planning masses of tanks with central filtration etc. I am planning to tap off the water main and run it into the room, into a 50 gallon storage tank, with the option to...

hi - I've noticed a white patch or two before one on of my corys recently, it wasn't raised or fuzzy and it seemed to go away/get better by itself - I think it was just an abrasion as it seems to have improved (not gone away completely) I'd keep a close eye on it and see if it gets worse/bigger...

hopefully final update...temp still at 30c, added the boesemanis on weds as they were starting to get really aggressive with each other in the QT. After the male made it very clear who was boss they all seem to be getting along fairly well now. No more sick/dead fish, although two of the...

update for anyone who stumbles across this thread while running a search (as I got a bit tired of never finding out the ending when doing the same) I'm a bit superstitious about tempting fate, but the problem appears to have subsided for now - all appear to be healthy and eating - it seems one...

still looking good today. Tank is looking cleaner than it ever has also, I'll check the nitrates soon to see how the JBL nitronatex is helping, but with less feeding also the algae seems to be coming under control I did notice last night one of the corys had a couple of white/light splotches on...

update - this evening, apart from for some reason the lights not having come on today, ammonium and nitrite are still fine, ph is back where it used to be (was back this morning) I'm still not sure the two celebes females are 100%, they seem a little lethargic, but they are more active than...

hmm this is troubling - I just tested the water parameters, and ammonia and nitrite were 0, didn't bother testing nitrates as I've changed about 90% of the water today, but the high range ph test didn't seem to get a reading, I used the normal ph test and it is around 7 possibly lower. this...

update - after doing a tank clean and it still getting worse, after I saw it corkscrewing several times I decided enough was enough, took it out (it was easy to catch) and ended its suffering swiftly with a small hammer to the head. this made me quite sad but I think it was for the best. it was...

the thing is my general understanding is when ich kills fish, it is very clearly what has happened ie there are quite a few ich spots covering the fish - whereas I'm seeing what looks like ich, but to such a small extent that I really can't be 100% sure

I've put the purigen back in the filter along with the carbon that came with the filter originally that i never used. he's been progressively getting paler and is now extremely pale, and I think I'm now seeing ich spots a bit on its sides. it isn't doing very well. I'm going to give it a little...

also wondering if I should try a bit of salt rather than meds, as it will definitely benefit the celebes by all accounts (they can thrive in brackish), would be a bit worried about the corys but they don't seem bothered by the heat or meds, not sure about the boesemanis

ok so he was literally just hanging at the top this morning, so I thought it was time to make an end of it, but given it was a challenge to scoop him out I decided it wasn't fair to put him down just yet, and tried another salt dip while I changed about 30/40% of the tank water. he survived the...

oh and I should have pretty good oxygenation, got an airstone running pretty much 24/7 and the spray bar return, about half the surface of the water is constantly agitate. they were definitely having a bit of trouble without the airstone at night though

so do you think if I put the purigen back in the filter (took it out as it was removing the meds), do my big clean and water change today and should keep the heat up and the flow down (for uv) and stop the meds and I should still be ok? the male is still with us this morning but I don't think...

well, the male continued to go the same way as the female. in desperation I just tried a salt dip, which didn't kill it outright :P but doesn't seem to have improved it any - for the first 30 mins back in the tank it seemed maybe a little more active, but now its back near the top by itself. I'm...

I'm having a similar issue - I'm worried that I'm doing more harm than good with my treatment (see my other thread 'is this ich...') Got a beautiful male celebes who I think is going to follow the same path as last death :(

hmm I thought that would be the last of this set of troubles but it looks now like one of the males is having a similar problem - I can't see any ich spots, one of his sides has something at the right angle but I think its just that they all have shiny patches in general on their sides. But he's...

update: dead :( at least she's at peace, and didn't seem to suffer a great deal

Hi, A couple of weeks ago I noticed one of my female boesemani rainbowfish, the one that had never really developed a lower half (normally they have a deep, rounded chest, this one's stayed flat) was swimming constantly in the filter return, one of the jets of the spray bars. After a day or so...