Recent content by Monsk12

No more deaths so far and fish seem to get better day by day, fingers crossed. What a relief! :good:

Yes, that sounds pretty much like my neons. This is what the LFS guy recommended. She should know, he's been on loads of fish disease courses. We had a good 20 minute chat going through all my assorted evidence. No more losses in 48 hours. Omnipur made the water nice and fluorescent green. You...

Just heard it from my LFS that my water is spot on. So that's a relief. In that I have done nothing major wrong and that I am alsao capable of doing water checks. There's hope for me yet. After much deliberating over corpses, fish videos, photos and listening to their entire medical and life...

Cheers Tina, yes, it was the Nutrafin test, so no ammonia. Here's some good news. Although now I am really freaked out about what's going on with my fish.

Oh, by the way, more bad news - two fish down after yesterday (the one with the severe signs of mouth rot and another one of the old neons - without too many disturbing signs). The other neon with mouth rot in severe trouble today. Photos on http://s580.photobucket.com/albums/ss249/Monsk12/...

Right, the ammonia test came back clear - as in the water was clear. Does that mean I have done something wrong or does that mean ammonia levels are non-existent? Having never been a whizz at chemistry at school, I am rather nervous at my practical skills when it comes to drop tests. Obviously...

Cheers, it's a very good article which scared the living daylights out of me - time for bed I think, since I can't really hold the little fellas' flippers all night long... fingers crossed for tomorrow!

Water change and putting carbon back in coming up. Cheers for all your help, you're a star!

Myxazin is the one I just used. Do you reckon the sooner the water change the better and then test for ammonia? Having just read the most dire article on ammonia poisoning, I am on a level of freaking not previously seen! While you, slowly and steadily become my number one hero :-)

RIght, first thing in the morning will get new ammonia test kit. The pump lets lot of bubbles in the water so that should be alright? I hope? The spot looks like some flakiness or fluff on his back. His fins are quite frayed - they were fine on Friday before I left Platies and catfish look fine...

Hi there, isn't it typical that all these things kick off when I am not around. Was the same thing with the first signs of mouth rot, have to say in that respect my boyfriend is a bit on the useless side, but then, as you will probably figure out in two seconds, so am I! right, here goes: 1)...

Hi there, this is pretty much an emergency. I have a 45 l fish tank with a small catfish, five platies (recently reduced from way too many as they were breeding like crazy) and currently 7 neons, three of which are new (two weeks), as is the catfish. I noticed shortly after introducing the...