Recent content by fruity

Signs of stress are numerous and non specific sadly! May include: loss of appetite hiding hanging around in the corners of the tank, head down or up tendancy to panic darker colouration than normal sometimes paler than normal increased respitorary rate I guess you will just spot abnormal...

doing what I love, when not mucking out fish, rabbits and my child.

Does NOONE cycle a new tank for over 5-6 weeks anymore?????????? I was doing daily tests, weekly water changes etc for at least a month before I went anywhere near my LFS to buy some. Then, I only added 4 black neons (which are still alive!! ) and then waited yet another month before adding...

I'm not a newbie, but pop in from time to time when emergencies strike and I have to say, as a regular user of other such sites that I was quite shocked at the harsh approach to the posters questions!!!!!! Much the same as the newbie poster must realise that they have made a mistake, hopefully...

I would (Reading up) do another 30% water change....... and get some aquatic salt too, if you can use salt with barbs. I have a 45 ltr tank (10 galls approx) and would add 15 level spoon fulls to the water. It seems that whitespot (ich) is often caused by chilling, ie not matching the...

I have to say that I was warned to cycle my new tank for at least six weeks before adding any fish...... and I note yours is only 5 weeks old now. I confess, the nitrate/nitro info will mean a lot to an expert (which I am not!) but the evidence points to a water problem more than white spot to...

It could just be the quality of the fish in the first place....... I have bought neons in the past and lost all of them within a week. On the other hand, my black neon tetra are still alive (I have 4) and they were the cycle fish when I bought the tank!!!!! They must be nearly six now!!! I have...

All ok!!!!!!!!! We left them alone, in the dark and at 6am I came down with my torch........and there they both were, swimming around happy as fish are, I guess!! little monkeys!!! I have removed the offending cannon. Not going through that again!!!!! :hyper:

ok I will give it a go....... will reply tomorrow and let you know how we get on! Thanks Wilder, you have calmed me down.. :flowers:

I think so....... but how long will they be ok outside the water, while I try to get the stuff on the cannon? I have no idea.

You can tell I am panicking! tried that straight away, but he waggles it like mad and moves further in. Thats why I dont want to do anything hasty like that....... part of me is hoping that tomorrow morning, they will both have taken up residence elsewhere in the tank and I will feel like an...

You can tell I am panicking! tried that straight away, but he waggles it like mad and moves further in. Thats why I dont want to do anything hasty like that....... part of me is hoping that tomorrow morning, they will both have taken up residence elsewhere in the tank and I will feel like an...

nope. I think they are head to head, or side by side attached to the cannon.....I confess I even removed the cannon from the water to see if that made them panic or something but they just didnt budge. They are both alive and breathing.....the bristle nose has his tail dangling out the bottom of...

We have tried that, being sucker mouthed, I suspect they both immediately attached themselves to the inside of the cannon. At the moment, I have put a towel over the tank to blank out the lights in our room and am hoping that the food will attract them........ but any further comments would be...

I have in my tank, a bristle nose and a talking catfish. I noticed this morning that the bristle nose seemed to be wedged in a cannon in my tank. I came home tonight and the bristle nose has not moved and now, I have spotted he is head to head in the cannon, with my talking catfish. Neither...