Recent content by Mola Mola

Thanks guys. I don't have any family nearby and, for various reasons, none of my friends can house them either. I can investigate the LFS angle. My concern is that one of the mollies seems to be developing pop-eye again, and so I wonder if they would be nervous about putting it in one of their...

Hi, I have a real problem at the moment, and I'm hoping you guys might be able to offer some advice. The short story is that I need to move out of my current house and can't move into my new house until 5 days later, so I'll have to stay in a hotel for those few days. The problem is that...

Thanks to all. It looks like it will be fine with the mollies and platies but, given that they might not be at their strongest right now, I might err on the side of caution and defrost them first.

Thanks for all of the advice guys. Much appreciated. Ruskull's post reminded me of a question I had about feeding with bloodworms. Can you just put the frozen cube in the tank, or do you have to defrost it first? I was a little worried about shock or frostbite! :unsure:

Hi, I've had 3 fish die in the last week (a platy and then, a couple of days later, a molly and another platy). I think that the last two (which died on the same day) might have succumbed partly to the big ammonia spike from the first one (which might have been dead 2-3 days before I found it)...

Hi FishBlast It is an internal filter, and the fish can't get into it. What I think happened is that the fish died of natural causes and then the suction of the inlet basically stuck the fish to the grill. I had a similar situation with a fish that was dying some time back, it was very weak...

I came home yesterday, after having been away for 3 days, to find a dead platy stuck against the filter inlet. After removing him, I tested the water and got a very high ammonia reading. In such a rush to do a big water change, I forgot to turn the heater off. Even worse, I left my wife to do...

Thanks to all for the kind words, much appreciated. To answer Tizer's question about the water quality. I generally vac the gravel every 7-10 days, and I tend to do quite a big water change when I do that, perhaps as much as 80%. I also test the water at least once a week, and the levels have...

Thanks Clarousel. Unfortunately, I think that he has died. :( To be honest I'm not surprised, the poor thing was clearly suffering and I think that the mollies must have terrified it this morning. I've taken a video, simply because I am hoping that somebody might be able to give me a better...

Hi, I started a thread elsewhere http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/378257-sunset-platy-has-lost-half-of-its-tail-fin/ and I'm just wondering if anybody could please have a look at it, especially my last post, and give me any advice there. I wouldn't normally double post like this...

Thanks Tizer. I have scooped him out of the tank now, and he is in a plastic container filled with water from the tank. He is just laying on his side on the surface, and the only movement is the gills. Where do I go from here? I really don't have any space to set up a separate tank. Does it...

Hi, Things seem much worse this morning. The platy seems almost under to move himself through the water, and is just being swept around and around by the current, while he wiggles feebly. He is so weak that when he comes close to the filter grille he gets stuck on it, until a combination of his...

Thanks Tizer. Yeah, as I mentioned, he has stuck to that one patch with the algae. I was really pleased with how clean the tank looked, until I saw that patch. Honestly! :) I suppose I could break out my still boxed scraper, but I found that a kitchen sponge scourer worked a treat...as long as...

Hi again, Just wondering if anybody had a chance to look at the video and had any thoughts on what the cause might be. I noticed that on the other side of the platy there is quite a big white patch, although I can't really get a good look at it. I wonder if that might indicate that there could...

OK, here is a video. Sorry that the first half of it isn't very clear, the platy has decided stay next to the only patch of algae that I missed when cleaning the tank last week. The second half of the video is much clearer, because the platy moves in front of a clear bit of glass. It has stayed...