Willfishguy

I use and have used melafix on all Anabantoides and Polyperides and other surface breathers such as Channa and my electric eel and my lungfish with no problems at all. The thing is that melafix puts a thick slick of oil and bubbles on the water surface and that interfers with their abbility to take air. So small doses are important to keep the oil and bubbles down to a minimum. Keep the water surface ventilated so a fresh supply air will keep replacing the gas that the melafix releases.

Yeah, they definately like to 'hang' out. I don't see why one would not do well though. I do however suggest keeping them in a group of atleast three.

I agree with snaggle and their treatment. Hows the water quality/excess uneaten food situation? Do you hydro vac the gravel every week? Cause plecos and cats like synos are big time waste makers. I'm thinking that because all the fish in this tank are bottom feeders, so to speak, that there is an abundance of waste in the gravel. Also, both the eupterus and the pleco are very territorial and they will scrap each other for the best space. And there is no way a bushynose of that size will win against a 6" eupterus. So, those could be battle wounds and the fungus is eating the dead flesh. Fungus that is prolific because of the excess waste in the gravel. With a cat tank do atleast 50% water changes and hydro vac atleast once every two weeks.

ABF are awesome and so very very cool and they love the crickets! And easy to breed too. I love how they jump out of the water to take food from my hand. ABF FTW :thumbs:

Heat, lots of heat, 30c heat. Heat. *edit* Regardless of the ailment, the first priority is to increase the temperature of the water. Lethargic, bloated, constipated Bettas almost always recover with high heat theropy. And the reason they do is because most Betta ailments are do to too cool of water living conditions; included is the fungal problems often seen in our winter season.

I raised a dozen of these a few years back. They are a cool fish when they become adults, in that just sitting back and watching them socialize is very relaxing. They like tall dense thickets of plants ( I used Cyrpt. balanse) and very warm water; 26C. They ate all frozen foods and flakes. They do get big enough to eat small neon sized fish. These fish are very sensitive to temperature flux. and are HIGHLY susceptible to Ich during the acclimation period of about 2 months. They are always wild caught and though they take food readily and eat lots, ammonia kills them very quickly, so good filtration is in order and regular water changes if kept in a small tank. It took me three trys with these fish to be successful, but once I got it figured out they became almost next to carefree. I do em again anyday.

I had the opportunity yesterday to check out the red sea and I was very impressed for the most part.

And people say I'm crazy! :smokey: My name is not Heiko Bleher, ya know? Good thing then that I forgot to mention the Indian Mugger Funny you should say that, cause I've always dreamed of caring for a group of Chinese dwarf crocs.

You bring up a very good point skinless. I apologize to everyone as I was not very clear in my post and I myself am confused. I asked what you would do? I didn't ask what you think I should do and in so doing I have confused myself. I already knew what I was going to do with the second tank, but I really am just interesting in what YOU would do if you had the option to use one. Sorry people for any confusion. OK, I'm going to go up my med. dose now. :smokey:

Including the 4 sumps (one on each end of them) they are 60'L x 13'W x 7'H.

Hi *waves*

WOW! What a magnificent bird!

Can you imagine how big the corals and clams could get? The salt would cost fortune.

And people say I'm crazy! :smokey: My name is not Heiko Bleher, ya know?

haha, i love that movie. Especially the part about the mbu puffer being harrased by the otter. In this movie I believe there is also a part where two otters are hunting down a giant Altolamprologus calvis or a A. compressiseps.

I've discover that rays and big territorial cats don't mix very well. I lost a monster adonis pleco to a ray. I seriously doubt you will have issues with a tank that size. It's a case of once stung twice shy.

I've discover that rays and big territorial cats don't mix very well. I lost a monster adonis pleco to a ray.

Out of curiousity, what kind of job allows a person to have 2 40,000gal troughs in their office? I want a job like that. I own a manufacturing company and my fishroom is in the same building.

yup, shrimp are a host. Keep the fish healthy by way of water quality and nutrition and add freshly minced garlic to a home made food (1 clove per kg of food). Garlic in the diet will weaken intestinal parasites greatly and nowhere near as dangerous as the highly cancer causing chemicals. Are these infected fish being sold in a store? If so, which one?

The Motoros are a for sure thing as I've already begun growing up a collection, but I will very seriously keep you and yours in consideration. I'm going to smooth out as many ripples as I can pertaining to filtration and heating, but in the mean time my rays are going in a big homemade wooden tank to finish raising them and to see what it tanks to get these critters to fall in love.

lol, thankfully, these tanks are part of my job! :smokey:

I have done an indoor plant pond with community fish before (ofcoarse nothing of this magnatude) and it really was nice, though you are right that the schools are pretty much colourless. The tanks are 75% below ground so viewing from the side is not an option. With the proper light lighting and intense enough I think that some species of plants should do very well, especially one's like sword plants that naturally grow very large. One thing I'd do is plant clusters with intense light, then open space with just fluoresent light.

lol, you have a good imagination. I won't do S. formosus because of the other reason I mentioned and as much as I love A. gigas, they just get waaaaaaaaaay to big for my liking. I have an electric eel and even it's size is getting a little out of hand at a little over 100cm. Oh, and Koi aren't my thing.

Nope, my fishroom is attached to one of my businesses.

Motoros, infact.