Hey from canada!
I am 16 year old and I am new here but not new to fish forums...Technically I have kept fish properly for 2 years but still I make a lot of mistakes... I love fishes, my favourite group has to be cyprinids. I have 2 tanks and 3 invertabrate buckets. ( I am not allowed to have more than 2 "tanks" set up)
Tank A: 72 gallon, 39'' long. Current stock: NONE
*for now*
Tank B:29 gallon, unknown dimensions. Current stock: 3 brook sticklebacks, 3 lake chub, 2 black moor and 2 upside down synodontis, whom of which cannot be moved to a warmer tropical tank until I can set one up for them.
Tank C: 35 gallon: 36'' long ...ERG it's a secret
1 gallon Buckets: Shrimps, a few mayfly larva, and 1 diving beetle larva.
Rubbermaid tub: 2 bushy tailed jirds
Habitrail tunnel complex: one 4.5 year old mongolian gerbil, his friends died a few months ago.
OK. Here goes. It is a long story. In my 72 I had a baby oscar and 2 blood parrots, along with 5 tinfoil barbs. THEN the blood parrots started picking on my baby Oscar. He lost condition, so we gave the blood parrots away and tried to nurse "Jimmy the oscar" back to health. But alas, a wound did not heal. Long time passed. It was thought to be hole in the head. We keep water real clean for months, biweekly changes of 60% and crickets and veggies. It didn't help, the hole on Jimmy's cheek didn't get better. So after a while it got worse so we go join "oscarfish.com" for some help. Identified ailment as part aeromonas infection. Treated with melafix, nothing happens. Gets worse... Oscarfish recommends baytril injection. Which is a prescription.
Eventually it gets sooo bad that Jimmy stops eating. we phone a vet and they say they will help but I have to get a sample. I catch Jimmy and it was hard to do. I take a cotton swab sample and bring it back to them, they say "thanks, we will get results in a week" one week later, they say we don't have results, bleach out the tank to buy time.
Naturally, I thought this was ridiculous, so I consulted my friends on oscarfish. They agreed. So the vet calls back on monday and yells at me for not bleaching. They said the bacteria was a combo of aeromonas and antibacter-iowoffi. Then one guy on the advise team said I could try it. SO I take my gerbil out of his aquarium cage and fill it up with water outside to test for leaks. It leaked. So I bought silicon at the pet store and bought bushy tailed jirds for good measure. Then my uncle sealed it up all nice and we fill it, catch my 8'' tinfoils and 10'' Jimmy and put them in. I figure it is around 55 gallons and I was all worried about ammonia and junk. THEN I got out my calculator. It was 35 gallons. OH SNAP.
Now I have had my fishes in it for 3 days, I have done a change once a day but ammonia still reads. HELP HELP HELP!!
My tank has to re-cycle...Also my main tank has been drained to one millimeter 3 times and it still smells like bleach. I added twice recommended dose of aquarium conditioner and I don't know if it is safe to move my fish. The vets said I could get some injectable medacine soon, and they would show me how to do it. My oscar hasn't eaten since the beggining of september, but my tin foil barbs are doing OK... well, they haven't spontaneously combusted or caught any diseases. I found out about stocking properly after I bought a bunch of tinfoils and my now-in-college-brother added an oscar, I thought a 72 gallon tank was immense. It was set up for 2 years and now it is barren of life...
In an ideal world, I would have a 1000 gallon indoor pond with 12 or more tinfoils and a healthy oscar, a 55 for the moors(also my brother's fish), a 55 for my upside down cats(and have more than 2), and a 70 for the native fishes, with 10 lake chub instead of 3... And I could use the 29 for my diving beetle larva...
Enjoy this clip of predacious diving beetles of Thailand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haswBVaZhko
(not mine) My little guy looks a bit like the second one, only his head is green. He is around a half inch. These things can get up to 2.7 inches long.
I am 16 year old and I am new here but not new to fish forums...Technically I have kept fish properly for 2 years but still I make a lot of mistakes... I love fishes, my favourite group has to be cyprinids. I have 2 tanks and 3 invertabrate buckets. ( I am not allowed to have more than 2 "tanks" set up)
Tank A: 72 gallon, 39'' long. Current stock: NONE
*for now*Tank B:29 gallon, unknown dimensions. Current stock: 3 brook sticklebacks, 3 lake chub, 2 black moor and 2 upside down synodontis, whom of which cannot be moved to a warmer tropical tank until I can set one up for them.
Tank C: 35 gallon: 36'' long ...ERG it's a secret
1 gallon Buckets: Shrimps, a few mayfly larva, and 1 diving beetle larva.
Rubbermaid tub: 2 bushy tailed jirds
Habitrail tunnel complex: one 4.5 year old mongolian gerbil, his friends died a few months ago.
OK. Here goes. It is a long story. In my 72 I had a baby oscar and 2 blood parrots, along with 5 tinfoil barbs. THEN the blood parrots started picking on my baby Oscar. He lost condition, so we gave the blood parrots away and tried to nurse "Jimmy the oscar" back to health. But alas, a wound did not heal. Long time passed. It was thought to be hole in the head. We keep water real clean for months, biweekly changes of 60% and crickets and veggies. It didn't help, the hole on Jimmy's cheek didn't get better. So after a while it got worse so we go join "oscarfish.com" for some help. Identified ailment as part aeromonas infection. Treated with melafix, nothing happens. Gets worse... Oscarfish recommends baytril injection. Which is a prescription.
Eventually it gets sooo bad that Jimmy stops eating. we phone a vet and they say they will help but I have to get a sample. I catch Jimmy and it was hard to do. I take a cotton swab sample and bring it back to them, they say "thanks, we will get results in a week" one week later, they say we don't have results, bleach out the tank to buy time.
Naturally, I thought this was ridiculous, so I consulted my friends on oscarfish. They agreed. So the vet calls back on monday and yells at me for not bleaching. They said the bacteria was a combo of aeromonas and antibacter-iowoffi. Then one guy on the advise team said I could try it. SO I take my gerbil out of his aquarium cage and fill it up with water outside to test for leaks. It leaked. So I bought silicon at the pet store and bought bushy tailed jirds for good measure. Then my uncle sealed it up all nice and we fill it, catch my 8'' tinfoils and 10'' Jimmy and put them in. I figure it is around 55 gallons and I was all worried about ammonia and junk. THEN I got out my calculator. It was 35 gallons. OH SNAP.
Now I have had my fishes in it for 3 days, I have done a change once a day but ammonia still reads. HELP HELP HELP!!
My tank has to re-cycle...Also my main tank has been drained to one millimeter 3 times and it still smells like bleach. I added twice recommended dose of aquarium conditioner and I don't know if it is safe to move my fish. The vets said I could get some injectable medacine soon, and they would show me how to do it. My oscar hasn't eaten since the beggining of september, but my tin foil barbs are doing OK... well, they haven't spontaneously combusted or caught any diseases. I found out about stocking properly after I bought a bunch of tinfoils and my now-in-college-brother added an oscar, I thought a 72 gallon tank was immense. It was set up for 2 years and now it is barren of life...In an ideal world, I would have a 1000 gallon indoor pond with 12 or more tinfoils and a healthy oscar, a 55 for the moors(also my brother's fish), a 55 for my upside down cats(and have more than 2), and a 70 for the native fishes, with 10 lake chub instead of 3... And I could use the 29 for my diving beetle larva...
Enjoy this clip of predacious diving beetles of Thailand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haswBVaZhko
(not mine) My little guy looks a bit like the second one, only his head is green. He is around a half inch. These things can get up to 2.7 inches long.
