Recent content by charlie_em

Thank you. Just took me ages to work out how you knew I'd recently got married! :lol:

Thanks Wilder. I know I definitely have whitespot, had it before and managed to treat it well enough. I've not put in the anti fungal since yesterday so I won't use that again. I've got in there the anti bacterial med which went in three days ago, and tonight I spotted the white spot so I added...

Feeling like a really bad pet owner at the moment. Can anyone help? It all started while we were on honeymoon. We came back and we'd lost one molly and our loach was twice the size. He then started to attack other fish and we lost a couple more before we dropped him back at the shop. I think we...

okay, sorry to bounce. The first gourami died :( Now my second gourami appears to have exactly the same thing. He has a tiny sore on his side. I've been and got the bacterial med. I'm still doing regular partial water changes so thats okay. My question is this: I was using the fungal and fin...

It's okay. I feel pretty pessimistic to be honest and suspect he won't last too long as the wound is getting worse very quickly and Although I can get to the pet shop tomorrow I dread to think what state he'll be in by tomorrow.

Okay well the good news is that I'm using the anti finrot and fungus stuff anyway. The bad news is that its not helping at all. The poor thing is getting worse by the hour it seems like, just been in to check on him for the billionth time this evening and really does look even worse, he has...

oh no. I have been doing daily water changes so at least I'm doing the right thing. I don't have a quarantine tank though. Perhaps I ought to get one tomorrow. Where do I get antibiotics from? I'm sorry to sound so ignorant I just don't know. Is it worth still treating with the anti fungal...

Bought three gourami on monday. One honey and two dwarf. On thursday evening I noticed my stripey gourami had a discloured (white) patch on his side. I immediately put in an generic fungus control medicine as it was the only thing I had to hand. By thursday night the discoloured patch was...

Thanks guys, I think I'll take them out and put them in some tank water :) Really appreciate the help and I'm glad to hear everyone seems to have problems at first !

The tank is really small - we have 10 neons, one catfish, four mollies, one siamese fighting fish and then these odessa's. It's 58 litres.

I'd never have bought them if I'd have known they were "semi-agressive". I'm a total newbie fish keeper and have had some hard lessons to learn while setting up. Finally got a lovely tank up and running and now this. Do shops normally take returns does anyone know?

We bought two odessa barbs at the weekend, and were assured by the guy in the shop they were peaceful fish. Since we put them in our tank they've been a total pain in the proverbial. They chase and nip at pretty much all the bigger fish (mollies, betta, catfish) and so far they've not caused any...

Yes! Thats them, thank you. Are they known for being aggressive? I've just been do a partial water change and the silver molly that had a chunk taken out of its tail is looking really poorly now :(

Help! I've bought two fish and stupidly don't know what they are! I have black mollies, silver mollies, glowlight tetras, neon tetras, two catfish and a siamese fighting fish and I've noticed these two new ones are very agressive. They are fairly large, roughly the same size as the silver...