Krystle

I'm so excited! Who else is planning on going anyways? -ham- -ham- -ham- -ham- -ham- -ham- -ham-

sweet! took me a few tries to see it tho lol! it really is fast O.O

Grats Val! little baby fishies that is so cool... :bow:

well, I covered the tank, and turned off the filters to prevent paint fumes fom being drawn into the water, plus the window is open wide. Wish me luck guys!

I have a 4 foot tank in my bedroom and today I'm painting said room. I'm wondering if the paint fumes will negatively affect the fish and if so, will covering the tank with a sheet and opening the window wide, and running a fan will be enough, or if I shall have to move the fish to another room for a few hours (>.<) In case it's relevant, the fish are C. moori and C. borleyi juvies and the tank's filtration is a bigass aquaclear and an XP3. thanks in advance for your advice guys! Krystle

They are very pretty! Looks like you've got a baby fish in there, too!

thanks everyone I agree, they are sooo cute! LOL loks like I ended up with two more of your fish hey, Tony? By the way your weather loach says "hi" :P You should see him now, he's SO BIG! His name is Herman and he's pretty much my favorite fish :3

thanks guys the trick is to take like 200 pics and only keep about 5 lol

Here ya go Tanker, as promised, pics of your babies So here's Yam Roll and Minamiko in their Happy Kingdom lol. (inside joke..?) The heavily planted Happy Kingdom idea didn't work out so well, so it's heavily *fake* planted with some java fern lol. the Happy Kingdom Minamiko! Yam Roll!

lol look - I'm no whizz with a camera and my photo editor is MS Paint lmao - but these are my babies I got from the auction in Saskatoon C. borleyi C. moori they're still very little, only about an inch and a half to two inches long. I'm pretty much in luff with them :3 Oh, and please excuse the gawdawful roman decorationslol - they're only in there until I make the trip to get them some pretty rocks

LOL! Oh, he is, he is... -roll- That's awesome about your wife tho Nev, I'm with Qattara on this one She was peeping in on the fish, noticed something wrong, and did the right thing by calling to alert you to it. Definitely a good thing as she was expressing an interest in your hobby, albeit subtly.

Just fyi - in my experience if you have a swollen fish and suspect bloat or dropsy, the last thing you want to do is add aquarium salt, as the fish is having trouble with fluid buildup in the first place, and I forget the "scientific terminology" but the aquarium salt will make them retain more water. Quaranting the fish and trying an epsom salt treatment may help, as it affects the fish's osmotic balance in the opposite way as aquarium salt does, by drawing the excess fluid out (I think, it's been a while - someone correct me if I'm wrong here!) You don't use the same amount as you would with aquarium salt, you use far far less. The epsom salt treatment doesn't always work, but it's a handy thing to know about, also good if you have a constipated fish and peas aren't helping, or a very eggbound female. Epsom Salts Dosage Epsoms salt is useful as a laxative for constipated fish and is often suggested for bloated/dropsied fish or fish with any kinds of fluid build up problems. Doseage is 1/4 teaspoon (US) per 10 US gallons. If this is going to be successful you should see reduction in swelling within the first few days so treatment really only needs to be done once. It doesn't work in many instances but it is a safe treatment that is always worth a try. -from www.goldfishparadise.com Sorry to hear about your fish hon! *hugs*

...and you know this HOW Toirtis? :P

-roll- I think I'm in love with you!

I'm so sorry Val, I know what it's like to lose the favorite *hugs*

lol awesome! I am glad I spoke up We seem to have cracked the mystery

my nerite (zebra) snails lay eggs on the glass that look like tiny hard white dots, like white sesame seeds or something almost, and are friggin impossible to get off the glass lol. They never hatch because the salinity of the water isn't right (I have them in FW). But then reading over your post you said there's no snails in the tank so I really have no clue o.O Just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents I guess lol :P

:cuss: So I'm cleaning my Xp3's today and long story short, I can't get one of them to prime after cleaning it. It was running really really crappily and slowly, like just barely pushing the water through (only a tiny trickle made it through one end of the spraybar) before I cleaned it, and now I can't prime the damn thing :cuss: Any ideas why this might be? Someone please help me! All I did was rinse the sponges! O.O

:'( Ohhhhh! I wish I had room to help you and the fishies right now Devon, but I am seriously cramped for space I do, however, need to clean my canister filters on my 48 gallon downstairs in a BAD way lol so if you want, you can have some VERY established filter sponges to get your cycle jumpstarted for them if you come get them PM me if you want them, k?

dude o.o bumblebees are a lot more scary looking when they're that close up! other than that, beautiful picture

that's more than likely it, if the water quality is perfect. I would get that filter fixed asap or put a new one on, and in the meantime, throw an airstone in there

They can do lots of pretty amazing stuff nowadays, like operating to remove tumors, quartz implant coeleotomies (sp?) to upright fish with permanent Swimbladder dysfunctions, If you have large fish like koi that get attacked by cats or herons and live to tell about it, they can stitch the wounds closed, apply antibacterial ointments, and of course the antibiotic injections I was metioning earlier. The injections are great because there are certain diseases that need to be treated internally, and if you have a fish that refuses to eat med food because it is too ill, injections can save the day. They also have the equipment readily available to take scrapes, stool samples, and gill biopsies from your fish, examine it, and thus identify exactly what is causing the problem. Without a good microscope, stain, and agood understanding of fish microscopy we as hobbyists are often limited to guessing at diagnoses and then treating wih either the wrong meds, or in a "shotgun" treatment with a couple different meds hoping that one does the trick. check out this site http://www.koivet.com/html/articles/articl...y&intro=Surgery http://www.koivet.com/html/articles/articl...20&%20Disorders http://www.koivet.com/html/articles/articl...ons%20&%20Doses At first glance, the idea of spending so much money on a sick pet is unsettling, be it a fish or a dog or a cat, but as you said, once one that you own and love falls ill and needs treatment, you don't think twice. The meds I'm using now are for a really nasty case of septicemia on wonton's left pec fin, that blew out half of his fin. Poor guy's looking kinda bloody and upset He needs the meds internally, but won't eat medicated food, so hence the injections. I think companion animal medicine, and especially fish medicine is very interesting. I wish there was more of a market for it here, I'd happily pursue it as a career choice. thanks Syno I guess it comes down to how much I love my fish, they've never been just ornaments to me, you know? when I bring something home to be my pet, I feel that I'm taking on every responsibility for it's welfare, even moreso in the case of fish because we control every aspect of their environment... I've never understood how people could have the whole "disposable fish" mentality where if it dies, you can just buy a new one... That's why on my tattoo, one of the latin phrases surrounding the fish is "life is treasured" lol gawd I'm such a hippie lmao

My vet here on the northside treats fish, and since I was just in today with my ryukin Wonton getting some baytril for injections, I was curious how many of you have ever taken your fish to the vet as well. I remember when I first went looking for a vet that would look at fish or help a hobbyist out by giving you some of those hard to get meds like baytril, metronidazole, praziquantel etc - it was brutal! My crown pearlscale Ariel was Dr. Jackson's first fish patient back in the day, now she's regularly performing surgeries removing tumors etc. $57 is a small price to pay if a fish cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars to begin with... I stopped in, got Wonton looked at, they did a scrape to check for abnormal cells, fungus starting at his wound, or any other nasties like parasites, and since that came back normal, she went ahead with the first injection, and showed me how to do it. I left with enough Baytril for the next 6 injections and syringes as well. Well worth the 57 dollar fee, which also included the medicine. Anywho, just wondering if I'm the only nut here

A home of glass, a pool of water. Amidst this world with all the clatter, One of the things, to us that matters- this slice of heaven in a pool of water. -Unknown that poem pretty much sums it up for me right there.

The guy who's behind fish-school.com posts on goldfishparadise.com sometimes lol and a couple of the members there actually did order the training kits for their goldies :P I can't remember the name of his soccer playing fish now, it's gonna bug me until I do >.<