Recent content by fishie1

I just had a look at that link, and looked up more pictures on google images. It does look strikingly similar apart from the skin - the skin was soft, no scales, nothing. It was just like a translucent axolotl, really. Perhaps it's just in an earlier stage of developing and has not yet grown...

Yesterday I purchased some new plants, and 3 new fish. A few hours after adding them to the tank, I noticed a strange little creature indeed. About 2CM long, with six little legs close together at the front of the body, a good length of body then a three-finned fanned tail complete with little...

Thanks for the reply. I don't think I should completely trash the salts, as our water is fairly soft ( about 55 ppm). I live in the country and our water is sourced from a river, and treated only with chlorine. The water is safe to drink, so it should be safe for the fish. I use water ager...

I have a tank that had 12 platies in it. A while ago it included tetras, which I found were the wrong companion fish after the local pet store advised me that I was killing my fish with too low a pH level for the platies (who had become ill). At their advice, I added significantly more...