Recent content by daver555

I understand your point and I have emailed the Head Office of the MA group explaining what happened. From previous experiences its a waste of time speaking direct to the branch concerned. I'm not after any form of reimbursement or anything like that as thats the kind of person I am. I just...

Woah there my fishy chum, I never said I would disregard or stated they were rubbish or untrustworthy :no: All I said was that they had lost my faith in them. What should be a reliable source of livestock has become a bit of a letdown to me. The MA group are normally an excellent bunch but...

Water chemistry is checked once a week as I have a full range test kit plus others. The levels are all within acceptable limits with no change in chemistry for the last eight months. Just after the Christmas break 2005/06 I changed the carbon sachets and polywool within the space of a week and...

You did use de-chlorine/chloramine treatment to the tap water didnt you? What type of filter are you using? I ask because an external filter with normal inlet pipe would suck through the fry so it might be worth putting a foam filter over the inlet pipe and turning down your flow rate. If its...

Nice idea Paul but there's probably a VERY small percentage of the fishkeeper population in the UK who have quarantine facilities. Anyway MA have a policy of quarantining fish before going on sale to the public of a few days if not a week. I am 99.9% certain that the white spot outbreak...

In theory yes, but I'd still keep an eye on the water chemistry for a week just to make sure. Another way would be to add a bucket or three of water from your other tank (the same one your taking the filter media from).

Apologies, I'm now confusing myself (been a busy day). The time between the first outbreak and second in the 800 tank was about 2 or 3 weeks ago. The last purchase from MA we placed some of the fish into the 1000 tank and white spot broke-out in both within a couple of days. We use the eSHa...

Should have made myself a bit clearer. This happened in seperate tanks. We have separate buckets and nets etc for each tank so cross-contamination is not an issue.

The company I work for allows us to run a couple of tanks in the office. We've got a Fluval Duo 1000 deep and 800 deep. We recently bought some new fish from 2 lfs. I will refer to Maidenhead Aquatics as LFS1 and Pets at Home as LFS2. LFS2 is right opposite where I work and have recently...