I have several babies at several stages now - YAY ^:)^ they're ranging from 4 days to 4 months old :YMPARTY: I have the secret as to what gets them through the juvenile stage ********************* OXYGENATE YOUR WATER!!! ******************* it was articles here and elsewhere talking about the foam a...

No the missing Oto was another one they took out in the breeding wars!? Well, My mother has given 3 sets of fry so far the last one totaled 10 fry, but I failed to provide the right food obviously.... I can get them to a week old & they are strong little tikes. This last breed I put netting over...

So the other day my Royal whiptail (as it's called in Aus) or Sturisoma barbatum was getting very fat. I was worried she was sick & over eating. Especially when I had a missing Otocinclus!?!? So today I see a body of another Oto, dead!!!!????? :-T I start inspecting the tank as I remove the litt...

So I WAS killing Oto's but in my search for food I found Seaweed. I have been using the sushi wrap you buy from asian stores to make your own sushi & it is a great success!! My pleco jumps ecstatically as it hits the water & swims in any position to get it. The Otocinclus wait until it is fu...

I had a chocolate plec' who used to love swimming from the bottom & spinning at the top, flipping his tail out as he dived back down (big whale style). You could hear him going off in the next room - SLOP!!
But I agree with advice above - Hello

YAY Milton.
The fact that you lost me while you were explaining your poster just makes me impressed enough....

Nice Fushy's Bru!!
I'm full up or i'd love one

Yes, Australia likes to keep the nasty's out...
Great list MatsP, although I look & see half the list are fish I have seen in aquariums...
Must be just brought in as "freshwater fish" & get past customs

Ok so my algae appears to be Black brush/beard Algae - the same as rhodophyta??? And it appears I should continue with hand removal of that. ~X( I researched diatoms & periphytons. It appears I have a healthy growth on some of my plants, hints for further growth??? I have from this zucchini as a...

Aus prices for what we call a Striped/talking Raphael (??You too??) start from around $25 if you're the luckiest SOB ever. Average is closer to $50 getting up-to $250 for fry....
All depends where you shop & how long you wait...

Diatoms???? Ok, so as I got the replacements(which in Sydney are a mid/high priced fish- TY) imported from Chermany :cheers: :orcs-cheers: , yesterday. I thought about the amount of excessive algal growth I get in one tank & did a major op roll1 :animals-chickencatch: :chores-laundry: :romance-g...

INHERITED!?!?!?
Zomg- they're worth a fortune in Sydney....

Yes I agree with MatsP -sausage machine :-J I've seen mine "resting" IN his zucchini at the top of the tank (i don't bother cooking at all anymore, to slow him as much as I can) with a string coasting down from bum to a new coil down below... :YMPARTY: But mine steals fish flake too- so no...

All other readings are normal (except for weekly fluctuations) i.e nitrate's maybe reaching 0.5ppm & nitrite's reaching 0.25 before weekly clean. I try to keep my PH at 6.6. They weren't hungry, none of them died with a depression in the tummy or anything... They all looked fine. I had had the l...

So it appears i'm an Otocinclus killer.... I have no diseases in the tank, nobody else has an issue. My blue rams are healthy so i'm pretty positive nothiing is wrong with the tank, but I keep losing Oto's?? I even had a friend who works in a LFS here today when another body floated & he agreed,...

Umm I found that mine get sick when the PH is that high. Happiest with a total 6.6... I also lost one to the big belly syndrome & THAT problem turned out to be high PH again. He just got irritated, then sick & bloated, then.... :oops: Have you taken the shells off the peas & even crushed...

Yes, that thread is great!!
I just did like most people said, clean the detritus material out, clean filters, FEED LESS!!!

no, i'm not using one of those stupid things

Ok lime must be wrong, i don't really know what the rocks where releasing, someone else suggested lime, aaagh too much pressure
It was the rocks anyway. I have stable ph now & everyone is healthy

Luckily I can get live worms locally & my cats LOVE them. They graze through the gravel for them :) But I have bought the Freeze dried ones you are talking about & they are really difficult to use. I find I have to pre-soak them in BOILING water at least 3-4 times. This washes half the blood...

Yes, My Euptera beats up my Kirbensis (dwarf c******s) & has even eaten a couple of the dying ones.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =2&t=29140

But he makes himself WELL KNOWN at feeding time. The fact that he hides so much reminds me of a friends pimelodus pictus

To finalise this I should add- After losing a couple of other fish I realised I had a rock releasing lime into the water- FEKK!! :oops: I had been monitoring the Ph, but seeing all other water conditions were fine, I had been raising it when I saw it was low, but not realising how low it was going- ...

Apistomaster, I had to use antibiotics in one tank, because I determined the organism was living in the tank!!! I kept getting the fish healthy & returning them to the tank, whence they would become diseased again.... So I treated that Fekker with so much amoxocillin (about 1500mg in a 29ltr)tha...

Have only just discovered Praziquantel Suffice to say, this was the most appropriate way I could report my experience with Piperazine. Thought I should document it, just because I could find no useful information out there about effective doses & side affects... The information is here to be dig...

Yes understood. If it was infection it must have been what made the Krib week enough to become food... But the other 1 recovered... The slime she developed was strange- not sure. But she did recover from her constipation, only to become sick again few days later. No other fish have been trouble in t...

My experience with Anitbiotics is that some just DESTROY your biological filter!! Chloramphenicol will knock it but bio filter will recover- Having used this in the form of, Chlorsig eye drops, i've found that a sick fish (normally floating near the surface) can have drops dropped right in it's litt...

Yeah well... :P There is a price you pay it appears... 3 days after my 2 inch krib disappeared both my Euptera became extremely bloated :roll: I treated the tank with epsom salts to get things going. The smallest Euptera recovered within an hour & was back to normal quite fast, obviously she'd o...

Just here to note my experience with Piperazine. 1 of my tanks got struck with some hell of an internal parasite. Fish are fine until... I first found out when my Gourami had an ALIEN come out his stomach, like the movie. I have tried to identify which parasite, but can't get answers anywhere... So ...

Ok, sort of YAY... confirmation is a good thing. Means i'm not mad, but my Syno is :? I thought Syno's would be happy tankmates, when they're little they're such happy little gang fish... Now I gotta feed with a shovel just to keep the peace :D At least I wont be searching my tank anymore saying &qu...

Hey, One of my communal tanks has 2 Synodontis euptera in it. With a Pleco (yet to be identified L2something) & kribensis. I am trying to get the Krib's to breed again, after "Big Boy" Pleco snuffled up those gorgeous eggs the first time. One of the syno's is a lovely chap, comes up &a...

Oh & to answer your barbel question- yes all did when I got them
1 lost some whisker bulk, but is still whiskered
but 1 lost almost whole mouth, just a little tunnel left