Good evening one and all.
Another newbie to join this forum and my name is David.
MOH Lynda and I live in Clacton On Sea in Essex - the land of the hard water - and have a tank which contains 80l of water.
In this we keep 8 Harlequin Rasbora - one by the name of Rodney, 5 Zebra Danios - one by the name of Harry, three Platy's and two German Blue Rams - three of these were returned to the LFS due to bullying issues.
Now the two named fish came about because of what happened to them.
Taking Harry first: We initially had six danios. One of them bullied the others and was isolated. After two weeks he was reintroduced to the tank and continued his behaviour. So back to the LFS he went and was replaced by another danio. This one turned out to be a cross between a leopard danio and a zebra danio. This one BIT Harry's tail fin off. Harry goes into our hospital tank (29l of water) and the crossbreed goes back to the LFS and was not replaced.
Harry got treated with Melafix and Pimafix for a week and ten days after his incident was put back into the main tank where he thrives to this day.
He has a slight problem swimming as his tail has not regrown but he's a fighter and still there.
I did a head check one morning to find that one of our Rasbora was missing.
Fortunately for him, I was planning a water change that day along with a filter clean. Our filter is an Eheim 2210 internal and when I took it out to clean it,
I found Rodney stuck head first in one of the case recesses that sits behind one of the rubber suckers. I put the filter case in the foul water bucket and gently tried to release Rodney. Unfortunately half his tail was detached in the process and he ended up in the hospital tank for ten days. He is now back in the main tank with no problems at all.
The unfortunate fish were named by Lynda and Rodney was originally called "Rudderless Rodney" for obvious reasons!!
So that is where our tank stands. It is our intention to add six pygmy cory's to the tank in about six months time but the substrate will have to be changed to sand due to the coarse gravel we have in there at the moment. Whether or not the rams will allow this to happen remains to be seen given they also forage along the bottom of the tank. Fun and games in due course methinks
Anyways that's us and our tankmates - look forward to "speaking" with you all in due course.
Our regards
David and Lynda
Another newbie to join this forum and my name is David.
MOH Lynda and I live in Clacton On Sea in Essex - the land of the hard water - and have a tank which contains 80l of water.
In this we keep 8 Harlequin Rasbora - one by the name of Rodney, 5 Zebra Danios - one by the name of Harry, three Platy's and two German Blue Rams - three of these were returned to the LFS due to bullying issues.
Now the two named fish came about because of what happened to them.
Taking Harry first: We initially had six danios. One of them bullied the others and was isolated. After two weeks he was reintroduced to the tank and continued his behaviour. So back to the LFS he went and was replaced by another danio. This one turned out to be a cross between a leopard danio and a zebra danio. This one BIT Harry's tail fin off. Harry goes into our hospital tank (29l of water) and the crossbreed goes back to the LFS and was not replaced.
Harry got treated with Melafix and Pimafix for a week and ten days after his incident was put back into the main tank where he thrives to this day.
He has a slight problem swimming as his tail has not regrown but he's a fighter and still there.
I did a head check one morning to find that one of our Rasbora was missing.
Fortunately for him, I was planning a water change that day along with a filter clean. Our filter is an Eheim 2210 internal and when I took it out to clean it,
I found Rodney stuck head first in one of the case recesses that sits behind one of the rubber suckers. I put the filter case in the foul water bucket and gently tried to release Rodney. Unfortunately half his tail was detached in the process and he ended up in the hospital tank for ten days. He is now back in the main tank with no problems at all.
The unfortunate fish were named by Lynda and Rodney was originally called "Rudderless Rodney" for obvious reasons!!
So that is where our tank stands. It is our intention to add six pygmy cory's to the tank in about six months time but the substrate will have to be changed to sand due to the coarse gravel we have in there at the moment. Whether or not the rams will allow this to happen remains to be seen given they also forage along the bottom of the tank. Fun and games in due course methinks
Anyways that's us and our tankmates - look forward to "speaking" with you all in due course.
Our regards
David and Lynda
