Blue water??

[Acer]

I was reading some 30 year old Aquarium Digest mags, and the ads are really cool back then.

One of them was for water dyes, saying that they helped comfort fish by emulating their natural environment. They had dark coloured ones, red, blue, etc. Really neat.

Yours is definitely methylene blue, a dye that has anti-fungal properties... but reminded me of that

 

[niblit]

so a little off track but whats the yellow stuff they ship salt fish in?

 

[Mystix212]

Methylene Blue doesn't make fish lerthargic. The stresses from shipping alone can smite down any fish.

 

[princess]

i was going to get a fish from a pet shop and she squirted about 3 times Methylene Blue into the bag ....without mixing it, so i told her i didn't want the fish. This was about a year ago....still not sure if this was an ok practice? Didn't look right, so that's why i left it.

 

[Druu]

Oxygen tabs give a blue hue to the water as well.

it's the same fish on the package of Hikari Cichlid Gold

Nope, the fish on hikari cichlid gold is an oscar.

 

[]v[onster Loaches]

Bag Buddies turn the water blue also dont they?

 

[gomezladdams]

Tidy-bowl! it keeps my tanks sparkly clean!! j/k lol


Its probably bag buddies,they release oxygen prevent infection and calm the fish for shipping.I use them when I ship fish.

 

[ziggy2]

Yes bag buddies do turn the water blue and they will slow your fish down just a bit.

 

[Druu]

Are bag buddies the blue-ish tabs? The LFS has thrown a few into the stuff that I buy, but they just call em oxygen tablets.

 

[scubasteve06]

Oxygen tabs give a blue hue to the water as well.


Nope, the fish on hikari cichlid gold is an oscar.

There is an oscar, a firemouth, and what looks like a festae/