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I've got some really good spiky moss growing on in my breeder tanks, some on stones, some just sitting in the tank, it's growing great, nice and green. I removed some, divided it and put on stones...it's gone a golden brown colour. I think its dead. Does it ever revive or should I just get rid?

I have some little offsets on java fern leaves I want to propagate for my guppy breeder tanks. I want to grow them on a bit before putting them in their home tank. I'm torn between just attaching them to little rocks and growing them that way...or something I saw on you tube. They took the...

I put dry unwashed sand in a small pop bottle 3/4 full. In the tank you want it in, put the bottle under water to fill to brim, no bubbles. Then tip the bottle up and pour the sand where you want it, quickly lifting the bottle out when the sand has gone and not letting the dirty water out in...

I have 4 breeder tanks, two have a thin layer of black limpopo sand. Two are bare bottom. The aforementioned sand is good as the fry are invisible against it, decreasing predation. The other two bare tanks look messy, one that has least detritus on it has built up a biofilm on the bottom. I...

Yes 5 or 6 days. I can make up some more. Got a trip coming up though, need to give it some more thought.

Trying Esha NDX which is levamisole. They have been wormed before, but trying a different wormer.

They have been back in their old tank for well over a week now. No illness or death, but two fish, both female, have had white stringy poop. Don't appear ill. I am puzzled.

One of those drip acclimatising lines dripping water and moina into tank. Just getting settings right.

It's guppy fry which are a decent size at the moment. I had also wondered about using a mixture of decapsulated brine shrimp eggs and powdered fry food on an auto feeder.

something like this. I had seen that video a while ago, but he was just resetting it twice a day. Thanks, I will look at it again.

So I would need to estimate the liquid volume to be dispensed and not fill the aquarium right up. I'm not drilling the tanks, lol.

I will see how they work.

This is what I thought of doing.

Now I have moina, I popped them in a little tank with some yeasty water. Do they need an airline? I wonder if I could gradually drip them into the tank whilst I'm away, sort of intravenous infusion style?

I keep thinking there must be a way to slowly drip moina or brine shrimp into my growing on tank whilst I'm away. I'm picturing an intravenous infusion like you see in hospital, but dripping live food in over say 7 days. Is it a crazy idea? I'm not one of those lucky people that have friends...

I havent cultured moina, but have done daphnia. Is it like daphnia?

I think its because its a bare bottom quarantine tank they are used to fully planted. I did put a couple of urns in with anubias.

Fancy guppy, pure strains.

I wish there was a brilliant way of hatching and drip feeding bbs mechanically whilst I was away.

I was going to set up a growing on tank for fry rather than keep them in with their parents then put fry food in my fish mate which rotates slowly.. The parents ' tanks are matured more and have plants, but I was afraid that during the holiday the fry would be predated. No one to come in and...

Well, it's hard to say about behaviour as there is still some hiding. Poop is back to normal. Today will be the last day on metroplex. Half the fish will go back to their usual tank which has been thoroughly cleaned.

What do you use? I had some infections. Want to disinfect nets etc. I used potassium permanganate, to disinfect tank and items, is it OK to continue to use it and how long does a bucket with pp in last?

THANKS EVERYONE THIS SEEMS TO HAVE WORKED, No more deaths, touches wood.

Got crypts going melty! 😞

I have more substrate on order as I've realised its not deep enough. I am going to experiment with trimming some, not others.

Yes I saw one or two fish not eating or spitting out some of tge ones I lost. They all really go for the repashy though. Poop looking good. They are fine in the 105 litre, I put new substrate down in the 200 and replanted my crypts, it looks awful now but I know from experience it will come...

Pomacea canaliculata do eat plants. They have pink eggs. I keep Pomacea diffusa and feed them well, they don't eat crypts and anubias, which I grow. They tend to only eat plant matter that is dying or rotting. There are many different types of apple snails or mystery snails. Go to...

I have stripped down my tank, put new substrate in and replanted the various types and sizes of crypts. They have very long roots and keep floating up. Should I be trimming the roots? Any other tips? I hate how it looks today but know when they've established it will be just right.

Food made up with metroplex and they have started it. The food made up more than I thought, they will be taking it for a few days.

I have emptied a tank I had some mystery deaths in. After taking all the plants out. I added potassium permanganate thinking it would kill any pathogens. It was pink. The colour has gone. Why? Could it be the carbon sponge? Shall I remove it and add more?

State of play: The Roma 200 fish are now in a 105 L quarantine tank. The Roma has had substrate removed, it is full of water and potassium permanganate , the bottle says 10ml to 200L so that's what I'm doing the wood and stones and filters are all in there. I don't know if the potassium...

Yes I thought that too.

Repashy is a food with gelatin, you buy as a powder, mix with hot water and set and cut into pieces. It's supposed not to mess with water quality if not eaten all at once because of gelatine. I also have basic gelatine. I've made up snail jello using it. I have a new quarantine tank now so...

@Simon Cole got metroplex. Is it better to treat the tank or food?

@×zalos Got metroplex not the other thing. Would it be safe made up in repashy? Or is it safer to treat whole tank as let's just say certain fish are hogs.

What type of metronidazole? Is it a tablet @xZalos

Where do you get metronidazole in uk?

I will try it. I have liquid potassium permanganate in stock as I bought it to do a dip on my plants following anubias rot. It's the same permanganate they use to dip koi. I was concerned that by letting the permanganate come into contact with filters i would kill off the archaea or...

Still can't decide what to do about filters.

I realise that mycobacterium is one in a list of possible diagnoses. Another suggestion is Aeromonas. Still getting my head round it all. Thanks everyone.

Thankyou. I will never skip quarantine again.

@Simon Cole Right. I have treated the tank several times over the past few months. With Esha 2000, Myxazin, Protozin, 2 different wormers: flubendazole and praziquantel. Obviously when you have a chain of individual deaths you keep having different theories. My head is spinning a bit. The...

200 L planted community tank. PH7.5. KH6 GH16 in January. KH 5 GH15 February, same in March. APRIL KH4 GH15. I made larger water changes for two weeks. Now KH5 and GH15. Are these changes in KH significant? I have lost a few fish, not all at once. Trying to cover all eventualities.

I have used Prime for years. It used to be the most economical one. Now there are so many I'm not sure. At one point I had some doubts. I was wondering if by locking away ammonia it caused problems with cycling. But I don't think there was evidence for this.

Thankyou. I have thought of asking my local vet who cares for our dog, as they might do fish (I know the family of one of the vets and they keep fish). I wish I had kept yesterdays corpse as it was literally unmarked and in really good condition. Its getting hard sitting looking at the fish...

You may have seen my post "mystery deaths" on fish forum. I have been in tears as two of my bristlenose are displaying obvious pre- mating behaviour. I had meant to move them out weeks ago to a breeder but didn't as was going through this mystery deaths thing and it would be wrong to allow them...

The vet thing. How do you start this off? Do you take a corpse to the vet or a living fish?

I do realise I cannot just watch and do nothing, but taking apart the tank...in practical terms...how? Filters...

Simon, Bacterial disease in fish...acute septicaemia....lesions...Gill damage. Not seen any of this. I don't go out to work, I have health problems, and spend a large part of my day seated next to my 200L. I see fish going down, they swim irregularly or hide. But I cannot think of one of the...

Simon...Disinfectation and decontamination. This kind of goes against a lot of my fishkeeping principles. It's a fully planted 200L. Has 2 internal filters. The largest a juwel biofilter has been running 3 years, the smaller one U4, 5 month. Isn't decontamination pointless unless you deal...

Simon, thanks for this detailed response. I will deal with it in sections. FROZEN FOOD, CORYS. This is one point I have given a lot of thought to. I have a range of frozen foods which I am using on other tanks to condition fish. I also grow my own daphnia, indoors in a tank, fed mostly on...

Looks like Walstad had success with UV. Do you have to have external filtration to run UV? I cannot bend down to maintain externals (bad back) so I run 2 internals.

Yes tell me about the UV. I didnt think they could cure it.

I will look at Walstads post. I did treat last Thursday with NT Labs Anti fluke and wormer , which is flubendazole. Straight after all the livebearers had irregular white shaped poo, and today another fish has produced some ( I thought it was all over). Everyone OK today. I'm going to do a...

Does anyone know how long TB can be in a fishes system before causing death? I want to know if I can consider after x weeks or months of the deaths stopping that I am clear, or if I should regard this tank as being infected forever?

Fish TB, yes I've heard of that. I will try and be careful as I have started a couple of breeding tanks, no stock transferred. What is strange is it seems to affect some but ignore others. In particular I have a 3 year old otocinclus who seems bomb proof.

I couldn't work out if this was water chemistry or fish tbh.

I set up my 200L planted tank at beginning of January moving across stock, substrate, plants and my Juwel internal from my 125L. I also added a U4 filter as it came with the new tank. Its running at 24 degrees. Latest readings pH7.5 NH3 0 NO2 0 NO3 5 KH 4 GH 15. The only readings that...

I have just revisited this. My local fish shop are quite well informed and suggested a permanganate bath. I've tried it today on all my anubias remainders. I won't be buying any more until I see if this Permanganate helps. I'm cross as I lost 3 big a. Barteri from the back and now have a...

I seem to have anubias rot too. It took me a while to realise. Unfortunately I have a lot of anubias. At first I thought the leaves had been bitten off by snails and floated to surface, as I've seen snails on the affected plants. will all my plants become infected from this?

Ah, the one I want can be used on its own. I don't know its correct name. I need to go onto a shop and look at them.

Has tropica plant soil substrate changed lately? I used it 3 years since and it was mostly even 2 or 3mm spheres which weren't hard. Upgraded my tank, bought what I thought was the same stuff, it's strange and tan coloured fine like sand. So as I was on tank upgrade day, I decided to use...

I have such a bad memory! 3 weeks ago I bought 10 serpae for a community tank. I forgot having them in 2018. They became very nippy...then I thought, i think this has happened before....fortunately they are very good at the shop I now use, I took them back, got male only guppies.

None of it came in a take away container, they both came in tiny bags. The sandwich box its sat in is mine.

Some sellers take the trouble to use a small box which is narrow enough for large letter, others put it in a flat envelope with a cardboard back. Lot 2 Not the best way is it.

So your advice would be to drop only the stem pieces in the tank and see what happens? I felt so doubtful, that I contacted the seller and asked them to send me a proper stem piece as I didnt think the leaves on their own were any good.

They have stopped nipping the snails as they aren't interested in the courgette the snails have. The 8 rainbows have made it clear that they are the boss. Now there are only 4 they are less bother, but I have an option of rehoming if necessary. They are attractive fish and I'm starting to...

I bought some "guppy grass" to try. It seems to be all leaf clippings. Will a new plant grow from just a leaf or does it need a length of stem? I can't see how singular leaves would grow. I have tried to delete the nestle file and cant :) I didnt remember it being there to upload!

Cant exchange them now. I can only find 4, lifted the filter etc, but the tank is so densely planted I cannot take everything out.

Today they have been a whole lot better. Following yesterdays waterchange I lowered the temp slightly, just one degree. When I fed them, although I stopped using flake, today I used it. Flake went in on left and was siezed buy first the rainbows then the serpae, whilst they were interested...

I dont know if they are any worse today because I did a big water change and trimmed back some of the plants. You do get the impression that the rainbows are in charge, and when the food goes in the rainbows are there before the serpae, but if any sinking food is put in for catfish, they seem...

All is not happy in my lovely densely planted tank. I have 8 dwarf rainbows, 8 small cories, and recently bought 5 serpae tetra. They nip absolutely everything and frankly the corys are living in the plants at the back. At first they were ok, but 3 weeks down the line, they nip anything and...

Yellowish brown hairgrass. What's happening? It started so well in May. I'm using co2 and tropica premium nutrition. The substrate is tropica. I'm nervous it will rot and make tank conditions unhealthy.

There is a patch on my dwarf hairgrass carpet that keeps getting dug up by Amano. It established and grew really well at first but isn't looking so good now. I replant this with bits from the back and it gets uprooted every time. I haven't changed lighting or ferts from when it was first...

The tank has been set up around 6 weeks. Two swordplants, java ferns and anubias. The light is the stock light which comes with the Aquael Leddy which is around 30cm long and its on 8 hrs. I removed mechanically and also the LED rainbow air stone which I thought was the problem. Tropica...

If my bubble counter water keeps disappearing, or evaporating. It didnt do it before, Im assuming it might be weather. It does it after about 5 days. Do I buy a better quality one or just keep topping it up.?

The bazooka stopped again. So I bought a glass one, it doesnt seem as fine but its OK.

Its been a week and it hasnt returned. I think it was the rainbow LED air stone my granddaughter insisted on as it was only near this.

I do it with a home made python system on a mixer tap, and I get it as close as possible, but recently water going in has been cooler and I havent adjusted it.

Oh, I wish they wouldnt do that.

What is the difference between tropica premium nutrition and plant growth premium fertiliser? I have been using the latter for a while the bottle was low so I bought another bottle and they are different names. The back of the large bottle has a declaration the small bottle doesn't.

I have removed and the tank has had a good clean. The tank isnt stocked but during our holiday the filter stopped. I think the lack of circulation caused it like you said. Thank you.

I thought you were going to tell us you had bred them in your community tank!

How do you get rid of the blue green slime? The tank has no fish in, I set it up for my granddaughter 3 weeks ago, and put a few plants in, meaning to get her fancy goldfish after our holiday. It is on a sword plant and there is another patch half on half off a java fern. Optimistically I...

Just warmed some distilled white vinegar and given it a soak and flushed some through and I think its worked. Phew! Now I have a spare on the way too from Amazon.

No external. I will look for an aquario. thanks

I used a bazooka atomizer for not much more than a month, turned it off for 2 weeks, and its not working presumably clogged. I had noticed shrimp feeding off it whilst it was off so I presumed it had a coating of algae. I tried rinsing it, couldnt figure out how to clean it at first. Then I...

I have got it working a little better. I decided to unscrew the bubble counter. Cue hiss and water spurt. I wondered if during the holiday water went backwards. Someone told me I didn't need a check valve as the bubble counter was one way, but I've added one now, not sure if it was right...

I can't remember who but a member recommended a particular co2 kit from eBay. I can't find my instructions and I m not sure if my solenoid valve is sticking or if my tank has suddenly emptied. I'm wondering how to find out what the problem is. I turned it off for 2 weeks holiday and on my...

I have turned the screw knob on solenoid as far as it goes and I'm only getting one bubble every 8 seconds. Later I will weigh the cylinder. As its been off for two weeks can the valve get clogged up? I don't know what's inside these things but have heard people refer to needle valves.

Well it looks like I will be doing without it. I just turned it on and despite increasing the bubble rate by turning the thread, nothing is coming out. Solenoid is on, obviously. Tank was full 10.6 so I'm assuming I've run out. Before holiday when I turned it off it was going great but I was...

Just got back from holiday. I was aware that one or two Amano shrimp were berried but on return all 10 females are berried. The other two are males who have obviously been doing their job. I was thinking of set to g up a red cherry shrimp tank, but I am wondering about having a go with the...

Just got back from a fortnight away. In the end I decided to turn off the co2. Nothing has suffered and plant growth is good. As my plants are fairly well established I am considering taking off the CO2 altogether. I'm pleased with how things are. The only thing I'm worried about is the...

Microworms/walterworm easy to culture with sliced bread or ready brek. Smells a bit. Gammarus little shrimp things (think I got that right) will breed in your tank if you introduce them*, vinegar eels a little more messy but not difficult. Brine shrimp are a bit more hard work but I used to...

The nest or arlo is probably what I was thinking of.

Oh! I want one!

My otos are shy but they do come to the front. I want more but LFS haven't had any for weeks. I am beginning to regret the Amano shrimp a little. They steal small wafers I put in for otos and tablets I put in for Cory. I even get my pincers and deliver the wafer to the oto and Cories but...

It's an awful thing to have to do, but if any more show signs I will have to do it and start again.

Sitting beside the tank tonight after co2 solenoid went off I smelled a smell of gas. It smelt like an unlit gas ring. I have no gas in the living room only in the kitchen so I thought co2 and checked the tightness of connections etc but still smelled something beside the tank. When I stood...

Were other different species of fish in the same tank affected by the disease? (sorry about grammar, no neat way to say that!) Or was it just M.praecox?