trevorich

Had henry's help over at natures corner, wasn't able to do it. Not without causing damage to his cartiledge or cutting into his tissue. I'm going to consult with an ichtyologist at the university and see if there's other options.

I'd happily accept anyones assistance, please let me know about availability. I can do the procedure, I just need someone to gently hold the fish while i do it. I will gladly take and post pics of this here. please call me at 780-633-4622 if you're willing to help. sorry hybrid, i have no idea how to access pm's or where. thanks all trev

I'm back! hi all! trev

I got a tiger datnoid for free yesterday, as you can see in the pics, tiger dat needs some serious help. What I need is someone with firm but gentle hands who isn't too squimish for about an hour on thursday. I live in millwoods and I'm thinking morning, just don't want to leave him like this for too long. the issue: his tongue has been forced somehow below his jaw line. I put him to sleep to look at the problem closely. As i have one arm, i was not able to assist him right away so i put him in the recovery tank and coaxed him awake. He's now under observation and will be returned to his main tank tonight. Allowing 40 hours between immersion in the anesthetic, he'll be in fine shape to undergo the actual procedure. If anyone is willing to help it is appreciated. My phone number is 780-633-4622 ask for trev. Here's the beauty:

Personally, depending on the tank size of course, I set up my new tank. Fill it with water. Get the temperature stable. Then use it as a rinse sink for my filter sponge/foam from my other tanks (using a new filter on the new tank) during maintenance. The bacteria spread, the biological mass breaks down and feeds them. I find I can be ready to start adding fish within a week. I also pour the water from the filter into the new tank to help jump start the cycle. I add permanent fish a couple at a time, wait a couple of days, add more. Till its stocked the way i want it. Been doing it this way for about 20 years with no problems so far.

As an update; Since I replaced the heater and the thermometer, I have not had a single fish death. The tank is back to being a safe and inviting place for my fish to live. Thanks again for all the help folks! Trevor

thanks! I am also getting used to apartment living, I didn't realise it but this place gets HOT!!! I just got home and its 34 in the house with...you guessed it...more deaths... I bought a new heater and thermometer and have replaced the bad ones. Now I have to go out and buy an air conditioner on monday. Did a partial water change on all my tanks with cold water to bring the temp down (5% change only) unfortunately my neons have been hit the hardest, lost 6...as well as a Pearl Ghourami and my male Betta. Luckily my other tanks fared better with no deaths at all. Will be leaving all fans on, windows/patio door open with drapes drawn to try to minimize the effect tomorrow. Good about the discus! Thanks again everyone Trev

I did the temp test before I did a partial water change...won't be doing another water change, will let the tank cool naturally.

I feel like a complete idiot, my poor fish. You'd think with 20 years experience I would have thought of this first. On a whim I put one of my spare thermometers in another area of the tank and my water temp is sitting at 31 degrees. I moved the thermometer to another part of the tank and same reading. The old one was reading 26 degrees. I checked the old thermometer against the temp in the house. It didn't change. Thermometer wasn't working and was cooking fish. So I have pulled the heater out of the tank and the old thermometer. Tomorrow morning I will be replacing them. Thanks for all your help folks. Moron in the second row, Trev

Thats the big problem, most of the kill off's were acting perfectly normal then next morning they were dead, I did have two ghourami's and one angel that hung around the surface listlessly for a day or two before they finally died. Thanks by the way to the suggestion of daily water changes, started yesterday. The bacteria i added were in response to the filter change and the one a couple of weeks ago was an attempt at trying to figure out if that was the cause (through nitrate spikes occuring overnight). the behaviour of the fish since this started has been a tad bizarre, most of the time they act normal for thier species but periodicly since the kill off started, the ghourami's just panic around once a week and blindly flee about the tank, of course this is causing the others to panic as well. There is no abnormal noises in the room or anything when they do this. No abnormal movement outside the aquarium. They just decide to flip out and cause a chain reaction with the other species in the tank... The truly puzzling thing to me is that the neon tetra's have not been affected in any way. Trev

Actually all the species I have in the tank get along well except for the kribensis but its a 55 gallon and yes it has a lot of cover for the fish. The kribies have claimed a cave I built for them in one corner of the tank which they keep other fish away from but it doesn't intrude on more than about 1/5 of the tank the others just avoid the area and get along just fine. They've been together in one of my other tanks for a couple of years...except for the angels... As for the levels in the water, they are all normal which is what is confusing. Even with water changes and reintroduction of bacteria culture, there is still the kill off.. i have tested and restested seriously....i have had aquariums for 20 years this past july and have never experienced this before, its almost as if there is foriegn matter in the tank but it isn't possible....

I need help badly, I am experiencing a kill off in one of my tanks with no known cause. I have lost a german ram, 2 paradise fish, one angel fish, 2 yamato shrimp, one honey gourami, one gold ghourami in the last week. I did buy 2 dwarf ghouramis a month ago and added them to my tank directly (i've had an isolation tank for five years but daughters tank sprung a leak and i gave her the isolation tank...arrggghh) these two had a bad case of ich/fin rot which didn't develope for 5 days but rapidly killed my one dwarf and the two new ones. I treated the tank for that and thought I was through the woods with my first outbreak in 6 years. Right now my Nitrites are 0, ph is 7.6, hardness is normal for edmonton water, nitrate 35 ppm, alkalinity kh ppm is 40. I have added some salt as per normal for a 55 gal community fresh water tank. I have an Aqua Clear 500 running with 2 week old carbon and a one month old sponge filter. I have added the appropriate amount of bacteria for the new media to revitalise the culture in the filter. I have done one 20% water change 10 days ago, and one 50% water change 4 days ago. This tank is driving me insane and I have several fish in there I don't want to lose but am timid about moving them into another tank as I don't know what the problem is. I have many live plants, 3 broadleaf low light swords which have been in the tank for a year. Aside from the dwarves I have had these fish in the tank for 6 months now with no issues. I currently have my prized breeding pair of Kribensis with 8- 3 week babies, a 6"weather loach, 2 gold ghouramis, 2 pearl ghourami's, one unidentified 6" pearl coloured ghourami, 10 neon tetra's, one banjo cat, one baby albino cory, 2 Black Angel Fish, one male betta, one female betta (they ignore each other), I just had a hatch of Apple snail pods a week ago so about 300 2 mm apple snails (makes the loach happy lol) The substrate is crushed red rock which is aquarium approved. 3 Java ferns, and some water sprite. I have no clue whats happening in here at all and am alomst at my wits end, the top of the tank is 6 and a half feet off the floor with no way for my kids to get up there and my kids all have tanks of thier own...have had for over a year now and they know not to put anything in the tank without checking first. Help Trevor R. Edmonton

I have no idea if you've put it up yet but I am willing to give you a hand, I live in edmonton though. I also have 8 yrs renovation experience (including putting in hot tubs) so if you want to take advantage of some free advice as far as load tolerances and construction I'd be more than happy to help... Trev