Recent content by TransientWolf

Definately no pledge! Hood gets dusted by my hand when it comes off for a change!! Picture of both silver mollies, both female now male died, you can see that one is bright silver white, and the other is a yellowy colour from top to middle. Was never brilliant white but seems to have got...

All fish look much happier today - Platys back to chasing around like usual and all the rainbows in full colour. Water nice and clear. Cut right back on the feeding for the time being. No clamping - never been clamping at all. No gasping and I have two big airstones and a lot or aeration...

Thanks Molly doesn;t look like velvet - the skin has just changed colour in the skin not as in a coating. I have ordered Interpet Anti Internal Bacteria and will use that together with weekly water changes and see how I get on. If another fish dies I will take to vet for autopsy as you...

Ok thanks for all this. I will speak to my vet for advice and see if worth treating. Presume only real alternative is to break down the tank completely, euthanase the fish, and scrub everything with disenfectant and rinse well then start from scratch? If I do nothing, continue with weekly...

Thanks for your help. Do you know where I could get minocycline or tetracycline in Peterborough UK? Also if this will kill the filter will that not create bigger problems with ammonia and nitrite spikes as the filter cycles? Is it worth trating with a general internal bacteria treatment...

OK Tapwater fine - ph 7.8 everything else normal. I have tested and stood. ph 7.8, Ammonia nil, Nitite Nil, Nitrate 10 Gravel substrate A few rocks but there since beginning Ammonia remover was left in as seemed a good idea but was only added to cure the initial problem. Rowa is in as...

Just read SKimpy's article on internal bacteria. Might be relevent that the fish for some weeks have had very long stringy faeces, and the female molly's look like they have dark insides through the wight skin - almost thought they might be pregnant once. Is that internal bacteria? And how...

Mmmm no not really just looked a thin and wasted version of himself overnight. No arching, no other obvious signs, and the only one to have been affected like that. The Blue neon rainbow I added that dies 36 hours later was perfectly normal apart from being completely upside down. No wasting...

Thanks for the reply. Only the one golden barb suddenly overnight seemed completely wasted away and cadaverous (but still yellow) and had been eating prior to that as far as I know. None of the others have gone like that. The Plec was absolutely fine until he suddenly dissapeared and died...

I am not the best person to give advice here, trust me, but I do know that my fish when added often lose colour for several hours to a couple of days as they have beem stressed. Once used to surroundings and happy they should colour up again.

Hi New member and really appreciate any help you might be able to offer me with a problem I have been having. Background - Initial Setup I have a 230 litre (50 gallon) tropical tank established since early January this year. I use a Fluval 305 external filter with fluval ceramic media in...