Just got a healthy baby african aro
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No offense Blake, but you are one of the most immature, annoying, and obnoxious members besides your brother to grace these forums. All of the great members here at MFK try to help you, and you continue to ignore their helpful information and turn it into a joke. I am sure it won't be long until all of your fish are dead, which is a horrible way to learn a lesson, however maybe than it will knock some sense into you. I hope the moderators and administrators get you off these forums and keep both you and your brother off.
AwolAngler;1106657; said:
This is correct dose for ich, when you change water only add salt for the amount of water you are chnging. Example being; change 10 gallons of water, add 2 teaspoons of salt.
This is what i would do in your sitsuation, I'd get the aro into it's own barebottom tank. I would do daily cleaning of the tank, just before lights out. This includes a 10-20% water change daily. If juvi discus can handle 50% daily changes, I'm sure your aro can deal with the smaller ones. Continue feeding 5-6 times a day.
Also I would ignore the all the @$$holes and not even reply to any of thier nonsense. Sorry to see, thought MFKers would be more helpful
But in turn instead of helping save this fishes life you all just want to be a bunch of "off topic", "flaming"....
Bderick67;1108065; said:Also I would ignore the all the @$$holes and not even reply to any of thier nonsense. Sorry to see, thought MFKers would be more helpful
No one flamed early in this topic and sorry to say it but BOTR gave him exact feeding instructions/cleaning instructions. I would go with his instructions over yours since he's raised one. Not that they differ a whole lot and I know yours were in trying to give good advice.
But most of this thread has been help or trying to provide it. There's at least 9-10 pages of help here. Sure a little more people getting tired towards the end with some bitter replys. But no one screwed him up from the begginning.
And then when someone questions his tank sizes. (a 12g is tiny) All he has to say is he's getting a larger tank, he's going to eat the fish, whatever even I would have took up for him because there are good answers to that question. But instead he provides "That's about rite" "What about world or warcraft" It's hard to help someone who doesn't take you seriously.
Everything has had to be spelled out for him which tells most of us he was in over his head by the time he walked to the register with the fish. Which is cool if he admitted it. But then don't tell people in other threads you're a "very experianced keeper". Just be honest, put in a little research and try to help yourself as much as other people are.
I feel like I've seen this all before... It's like a really bad reality show, everything in me says turn it off, but I have to keep watching.
Blake, seriously, learn to be appreciate a little wisdom handed your way. When I was a kid in the hobby, I know how tough it was tough to get respect because of age (and I had some knowledge). You don't seem to give a damn about repect either way. This isn't some kiddy forum, most of the people on here are 2,3,4x your age.
If you want to be better at what you do, the tools have been laid out for you, it's time you use them. Everyone's laid out what you need to do, and it really seems like you just want someone to do it all for you. In my opinion, you should get rid of the Aro. But that's about a sure death, too. So maybe it'll turn into an expensive mistake. Maybe you can walk away from this having gained something.
Anyway, here's another tool for the box. Some people use salt, some people use meds, I've always just used heat (83-85f) and daily water changes to get rid of ich in FW. You need to get lots of oxygen in the water through heavy turbulence at the surface. With the water changes (30%) you need to get down in that gravel as best you can.
Do you have a water test kit??? At first sign of disease, test the water. You're feeding him a ton and the water is probably ful of ammonia. There's a problem right there.
This is why you need to hit the books. Learn some water chemistry. Learn the life cycle of Ichthyophthirius multifilis, and learn to conquer it.
This is no dis on the forum, which is great, but this is the type of place where you can get 5 wildly different right answers to the same question. This is not a place for primary education. No-one ever wrote a thesis with a 1st grade education, and someone with no real fish credentials shouldn't be tackling some of the toughest fish to keep.
The reality of the hobby is that all of these guys with real kickass fish and setups have killed/lost TONS of fish over the years. It's all a learning experience and I think your on your way to a yellow belt.
Blake, seriously, learn to be appreciate a little wisdom handed your way. When I was a kid in the hobby, I know how tough it was tough to get respect because of age (and I had some knowledge). You don't seem to give a damn about repect either way. This isn't some kiddy forum, most of the people on here are 2,3,4x your age.
If you want to be better at what you do, the tools have been laid out for you, it's time you use them. Everyone's laid out what you need to do, and it really seems like you just want someone to do it all for you. In my opinion, you should get rid of the Aro. But that's about a sure death, too. So maybe it'll turn into an expensive mistake. Maybe you can walk away from this having gained something.
Anyway, here's another tool for the box. Some people use salt, some people use meds, I've always just used heat (83-85f) and daily water changes to get rid of ich in FW. You need to get lots of oxygen in the water through heavy turbulence at the surface. With the water changes (30%) you need to get down in that gravel as best you can.
Do you have a water test kit??? At first sign of disease, test the water. You're feeding him a ton and the water is probably ful of ammonia. There's a problem right there.
This is why you need to hit the books. Learn some water chemistry. Learn the life cycle of Ichthyophthirius multifilis, and learn to conquer it.
This is no dis on the forum, which is great, but this is the type of place where you can get 5 wildly different right answers to the same question. This is not a place for primary education. No-one ever wrote a thesis with a 1st grade education, and someone with no real fish credentials shouldn't be tackling some of the toughest fish to keep.
The reality of the hobby is that all of these guys with real kickass fish and setups have killed/lost TONS of fish over the years. It's all a learning experience and I think your on your way to a yellow belt.
Blake,
its a good thing your only doing this to fish, not people, although its still faultable.
Like some of the stuff you ask is lifesaver questions, alot which could have been avoided beforehand, with some research. To put it in another perspective, your like a doctor and caregiver, and the treatments for your fish that you perscribe and the food you give them, only come through random questions that you hope someone answers, and that the someone hopefully is knowledgeable, and if not your fish are screwed..I know i dont exactly research all my purchases, but i do have a general direction as to what im dealing with before i buy it, and that i will have the tanks to accomodate them. Im glad you got into the fishkeeping hobby, i just wish you would do some more research next time you go to buy a fish, especially ones that even experts have trouble with.
its a good thing your only doing this to fish, not people, although its still faultable.
Like some of the stuff you ask is lifesaver questions, alot which could have been avoided beforehand, with some research. To put it in another perspective, your like a doctor and caregiver, and the treatments for your fish that you perscribe and the food you give them, only come through random questions that you hope someone answers, and that the someone hopefully is knowledgeable, and if not your fish are screwed..I know i dont exactly research all my purchases, but i do have a general direction as to what im dealing with before i buy it, and that i will have the tanks to accomodate them. Im glad you got into the fishkeeping hobby, i just wish you would do some more research next time you go to buy a fish, especially ones that even experts have trouble with.
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