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.

Thanks. Are they a schooling type or are they okay as solitary fish.

Jonah

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.

how about a realative with the same mouth configuration, African butterfly fish, heck them out.

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.

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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.

Here's a thought I seen some sturgeon in the fishstore recently--a group of them and a bunch of good looking sunfish maybe a few bass and paddlefish--and you wouldn't have to heat it--throw in a freshwater sawfish too and maybe some turtles---

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've shot down both already, it's just what i guess i'd do.

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:

What are the diamensions of those tanks?

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!

I say a reef tank corals, clams, and fish always look the best veiwed from the the top :thumbs:

Can you imagine how big the corals and clams could get?

The salt would cost fortune.

Here's a thought I seen some sturgeon in the fishstore recently--a group of them and a bunch of good looking sunfish maybe a few bass and paddlefish--and you wouldn't have to heat it--throw in a freshwater sawfish too and maybe some turtles---

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.

Amazonian bio-tope with rays, big cats, arros, peacock bass and dorado

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.

Amazonian bio-tope with rays, big cats, arros, peacock bass and dorado

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

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

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.

Wow....you don't know how hard it is to track down something like this until you try...

I have made 24 calls this morning starting at 9am and have gotten absolutely nowhere! I have called vets (one in calgary will treat the fish...but wants $65 bucks to see it!), vet compounding dispensaries, UFA, feed mills, pfizer...the list goes on! Actually, the vet compounding dispensary will order it in...at about $60 for 5 grams. I just can't afford that...

This sucks.

I have the affected fish in 3 separate tanks...there were alot of fish.

tank #1- just females

tank #2- moved the males into my mystery snail tank

tank #3- moved babies into my amano shrimp tank

the questions I need answered are...

If I move the amano shrimp in with my cherry shrimp, will the amano shrimp carry the callamanus? Do shrimp get callamanus?

Where to put the mystery snails (and their eggs)? Can I put them in a betta bowl (no betta of course) for a few days? They are air breathers... so I wouldn't need a filter right?

What do I use to clean any nets, buckets etc that were used on those tanks? I soaked them overnight in a strong solution of vinegar and very hot water already.

Tammy

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?

Will if you get into breeding motoro's i have 2 16-18 inch right now a mature male and female we could talk? the female has beautiful orange spots where as the males are a little mottled. I also agree with asian aro's i have a green right now but would love to be involved with the breeding of these as well.

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.

On the positive side you would have to quit your job to maintain them :thumbs:

IMO only large fish would make sense,tetras would be lost. You could raise trout as well.

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

Arapaima would be really cool! Doesn't get much more unique than the worlds longest fish!

I think a 'community' tank would be lost in something that size; a bunch of tetras and barbs would essentially look like a bunch of uncoloured minnows. If they looked as bright from above as they do from the side, then predators would have an easy time picking them off.

Plants might also not be the easiest, depending on what depth you filled the tank up with, as you would need an enormous amount of lighting to actually get anything to grow on the bottom in as deep of a tank as it looks in the photos.

If cutting a hole in the side and installing viewing glass isnt' an option, I'd definitely be looking into koi, arowana's, and arapaima. With some rays on the bottom, of course (tigers would be very cool in a tank that size!).

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.

I'd go with Koi in one tank (cheap, no heating required), and Asian arowana in the other.

You could get 12 juvenile HBRTG aros shipped to you for under $4000. Raise them up for 4 years and then breed them. That would be a hoot!

Hmm...if you want "wow factor", forget the above and go with a few arapaima instead! Just think of the fun you could have in a few years time feeding them whole chickens or small pigs (just joking! :tongue: )

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.

Is this in your house? How would you even be able to fill that with water? Wouldn't it cost a fortune?

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

A ray tank!!! It would be perfect as its huge and rays can be viewed from above.

Motoros, infact.