Recent content by bobman64

OK. Will give it a try. Thanks.

She seems to be pretty much the same, swimming around now and again but didn't seem to eat as much today. We started a course of Sterazin yesterday on the advice of our LFS as it is supposed to treat internal worms. Is it any good or do you think we should switch to the Sera Nematol in a...

Thanks for your reply Wilder. She is definitley not bloated and doesn't look particularly thin. The red anus is not constant, it appears very, very rarely. The most apparent symptoms are her sitting at either the bottom or top of the tank and the lack of her passing anything noticeable...

About 10 days ago one of my platies started hiding or spending most of her time in the top corner of the tank although at feeding time she would eat normally with the rest of the fish only to disappear again. On one occasion, using a magnifying glass I noticed her pass a small amount of reddish...

I suspect he must be nibbling when we are not watching. He is definitely not eating his tankmates lol. He is not aggresive to them at all, only to the other gouramis we put in. Thanks for your input, a second opinion is always welcome and it has put my mind at ease.

All the water parameters are tested very regularly and are fine. The filter etc. was kept wet during tranportation and we transported the water as there is a huge difference in the hardness of the water where the fish came from and our water here. We actually see the gourami make very little...

About 8 weeks ago we acquired a 200 litre tank with fish. The tank underwent a 3 hour journey and we set it up using most of the original tank water. One of the inhabitants is a golden gourami and we have never seen it eat (apart from one bloodworm) in all the time we have had it. We have tried...

That sounds like a good idea. I will give it a try after removing the rosy.

Cheers Wilder. I think for now I will give him his salt bath and put him in with the rosy tetra and maybe move the tetra back to the main tank in the morning.

Thanks for all your advice. I will do the salt bath then and see how it goes. Do you think I should move the neon in with the rosy tetra or leave him where he is. I am just concerned he may have something which will spread throughout the tank.

The main tank (where the neon is) is being treated for whitespot. We put the rosy tetra in a separate tank to treat as he had quite a lot of white spots on him whereas the other few fish in the main tank had only one or two spots. They are tiny white spots (like salt) with no redness.

We've got some bacterial med and aquarium salt. Would that be ok. We have got a hospital tank but there is a rosy tetra in that being treated for whitespot. He is from the same tank as the neon. Do you think it would a bad idea to put the tetra in that tank with him. The neon looks like he...

We put peas in the other day but not sure if he ate any. Will try a salt bath I think. His colour still looks fine, just looks bloated with rapid mouth movements and keeping pretty much to himself. If the other neons go near him he stays with them but if they swim off he stays put.

We thought that at first and have reduced food over the past 2/3 days but there is no difference. I don't think it has eaten anything yesterday or today. There are 7 other neons in the tank and all seem ok.

Thanks for that quick response. Will look into it. Only quoted the age as we got the fish third hand from someone who had it about a year and it was passed on to them by someone who had a tank for three years previous to that.