Advice Needed Urgently

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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.

1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.

2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.

3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)

4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.

5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.

We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.

While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.

Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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flash.dan
Green Spotted Puffer
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My Puffers: 8 years of FW puffer care!
currently have 1x mbu
Bubba 17" gentle giant... loves a belly tickle.
2x Suvatti Pair
1x Carinotetraodon borneensis
Location: Coventry, UK

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matt748 wrote:Really sorry to hear about your loss mate.
Are you staying with the fish keeping now.? Saw an add you posted on Aquarist classifieds selling your fish. Hope you have decided to stick with it despite everything.
All the best

yes im keeping one main tank running and selling up then ill drill all of them into a huge central system will be a lot better for bubba and co..... my idea is 2x 8x3x3's hard plumbed into a 6x2x2 sump / refrigium i may even add a few 4 foots to the same system underneath with a few sequence pumps ruinning off it. idea is to place the 8 foots in the corner to make a huge L shape with sump / 4foot holders underneath ill also attach a huge sand filter i have from my old houses pond. I am selling most of my fish sadly but i dont want the hassel of finding homes for a 18" RTC, 17-19" fire eel, 2 rays etc when im drilling the tanks so ill setup a new system and restock then. i have thought about my tanks today and water changes take me about 5 hours a week so one system plumbed into drains with a 25% drilled bulkhead in one tank with balllvalves is the way forward oh so you understand both 8 foot tanks will ajointed by one bulkhead also so i only need one 25% bulkhead and both will drain accordingly auto top up from sump. it should only take a weekend to drilll and plumb in along with making stands. makes me feel dizzy thinking about it but i believe it will look amazing. thinking about this tonight / drawing diagrams is what has kept me sane trying not to think of cutie pie to much.

the project will cost me for pipework only i imagine as i have the tanks sequence pumps etc. guys that live in the UK be warned later in the year / early next ill be getting you all over! hahahaha ill need some mussel and people with knowhow LOL
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lilacamy931
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Location: Bournemouth

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Post by lilacamy931 »

lol but i am a weak girl!! ;)
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flash.dan
Green Spotted Puffer
Posts: 433
Joined: Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:50 am
My Puffers: 8 years of FW puffer care!
currently have 1x mbu
Bubba 17" gentle giant... loves a belly tickle.
2x Suvatti Pair
1x Carinotetraodon borneensis
Location: Coventry, UK

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Post by flash.dan »

delicate hands are needed aswell.. drained my 6x2 and a 8x3 yesterday just got one 8x3 and a few small 3 footers going now. ill put theose in my mothers shed until we move. my fire eel bit me yesterday aswell what a rubbish week. really hurt haha i didnt think it would becuase for the size of them there mouths are tiny to compare it hurt a lot more than my male jag biting me
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