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Today I did something that was long overdue - changing the main, long-term filter pads in my Fluval 2-Plus filter. One of the pads is still going quite well after 3 years since I last replaced it, but the other pad I have replaced in a bit of a mish-mash kind of way. I ended up with two...

Thanks for the reply. :)

The past week I've been thinking about my three White Cloud Mountain Minnows and the temperature in the tank. Tank is ~50 litres when full (I'd reckon about 46-48 litres as it is with the filter, heater, airstone and plants). Tank lighting is Sun-Glo 46cm 15w T8, on for 6 hours a day from 2pm...

Thanks for both the private message and the replies to this thread, it is much appreciated. :) I bought some JBL Spirulina today, but the Ocean Nutrition Spirulina Flakes are still on order from Amazon - it'll hardly break the bank.

I'm erring on the side of caution, but the brine shrimp may well have had a beneficial effect. I started feeding the brine shrimp on Tuesday, and fed it on Wednesday and yesterday, with flake food on Thursday and this evening. While it's still too soon to tell this evening, at least Wednesday...

I fed some defrosted brine shrimp this evening, and the female Minnow doesn't appear to be having too much trouble swimming about. I just left the block to melt for about 15-20 minutes (if that), squirting a bit of tank water on to it to get it moving along. I was able to extract individual...

Well, here I am again...the Epsom salt dip appeared to reduce the severity of the symptoms for about a month, and as I noticed the female Minnow was starting to have problems again, last weekend I fed some de-shelled, microwaved pea. That did no good at all. I didn't microwave it for the whole 4...

I've been tempted to think that too. An additional observation - at one stage when she was on the gravel, she was curving her tail and caudal fin/backside upwards quite a bit. She may also have been angling her body slightly upwards also (with her head/front down, though not to any large degree).

Curious, what are the signs of White Cloud Mountain Minnows about to mate or spawn? I've noticed on occasion - most recently this evening - my female Minnow shaking her body and fins while in a relatively stationary position close to the gravel, as if she's vibrating or fluttering (some...

Regardless of whether I'd observed any bloating or not, just to eliminate potential causes for the symptoms, I conducted the epsom salt dip as best I could tonight, 2 litres in a bucket with ~140g of the epsom salts dissolved as much as possible. I actually dissolved it in 1.5 litres because...

Thank you for the links. I haven't considered epsom salts, thank you also for that suggestion. I've been out today, and she had taken to lying upright on the gravel again when I got home; she was even curving her tail sideways/curling her body (possibly at an awkward angle due to the incline...

Well, she's definitely more active this morning. I've looked in a couple of times, and she hasn't been lying on the gravel, upright or otherwise; she's been swimming about, and hovering in the corner. She did hang at the surface a little bit, and still appears to have some difficulty moving...

She's swimming about a bit more now, but still with balance issues - it looks like a bit of work for her. She has been to the top to gasp now and then, but she's more or less swimming low to mid level. I don't know if there's any internal redness around her anus or above it (behind her...

Okay, I don't have Interpet #9...I have NT Labs Anti-Internal Bacteria (Aquarium) #10 (thought it was Interpet...I think I did have some, must have replaced it!), and also now NT Labs Swimbladder Treatment (Aquarium) #12. I have emailed NT Labs, but would anyone happen to know if their...

Friday through to this morning, I have noticed my female White Cloud Mountain Minnow having swimming problems; specifically, yesterday morning she was hanging just above the gravel in the far corner under the filter, quite still - sometimes lying on the gravel - and in the afternoon she was...

I'm going to fast for a few days, and try a different approach to food preparation. For one, I'll try soaking any flake food prior to feeding, about 5 minutes should probably be okay - possibly dried foods expanding inside the Minnow is causing her the problems (there is virtually no time for...

I fed some de-shelled, de-thawed pea tonight, and she is experiencing problems right now. She is basically struggling to keep her balance as she swims about, with a see-saw movement and her front higher than her tail (she's angled slightly upwards). She's also settling on the gravel from...

Observed some very peculiar behaviour from the female White Cloud Mountain Minnow this morning (I've had her almost three years now). She was in the far corner near the filter, lying partly on the gravel but at an angle, with her body erect and her tail curving upwards. She wasn’t...

Thank you for that. :)

Sadly, I had to euthanise the female Minnow with the eruption. She did appear to respond at first, but then I wasn't anywhere near completely satisfied the morning prior to the day I went away. I had actually resumed to using the heater, so I'm unsure if that had anything to do with it (no...

I have been having issues in my tank with the White Cloud Mountain Minnows, and I have virtually completed the first course of Esha 2000 and Exit combined - but added a fourth day on to it. The female Minnow appears to have made some improvement; she is hanging at the surface much less than...

Day three of the combined Esha 2000 and Exit treatment. I'd like to say things are improving, the female Minnow isn't at the surface as much as she was by the looks of it - at least not when the light is on (she'd started hanging at the surface up the back of the tank). The male Minnow's white...

I'm opting for Esha 2000 first thing in the morning as I had some concern that the aquarium salt might interact with the Esha 2000 and harm the fish. I've emailed the manufacturer of the Esha to query this, but have had no reply back. Is it safe to dose Esha 2000 alongside the 3g/litre (or just...

Well, the Prime should be worn out by now. Either today or tomorrow is the optimum time for the Esha Anti-White Spot, just hoping the vet gets back soon on the Ich observation. Do I start right away, or time it for the free-swimming stage? I can use both 2000 and Anti-White Spot together if need...

Just one more observation - the female Minnow has curved her spine upwards and downwards at times. At one point yesterday, she was lying on the top of a Canadensis plant while the other Minnows were schooling by her, and she was at an angle and curving her spine (can't quite remember if upwards...