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thanks guys and rob I did have a reliable source for some dourado but his supplier basically vanished but put in a word to wes and i'm sure he can help us out :D and I haven't had any aggression problems with any of the cats in that tank they all have their own areas but the fila and cap tend to "cuddle" when the fila isn't on the move lol


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Yes, I can get them, but the price is high right now for them. If you wait for the right time of the year, they come from Peru, and they're cheap, like $60-80 bucks a pop, now my cost is a bit more than that.

Also I hear there is a variety from Brazil that doesn't get the bent nose as easily and is more yellow gold,....
 
fugupuff said:
Yes, I can get them, but the price is high right now for them. If you wait for the right time of the year, they come from Peru, and they're cheap, like $60-80 bucks a pop, now my cost is a bit more than that.

Also I hear there is a variety from Brazil that doesn't get the bent nose as easily and is more yellow gold,....
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When would the right time of year be, Wes? Is there any chance you'd try to put together an import on the Brazilian ones? I know I'd be in for a day-glo, bright, irredescent gold B. rousseauxii and I'm sure Collin would, too. Part of the reason I've always held off on getting one is the bent nose problem. The idea of one that isn't as prone to the problem is quite favorable indeed.
 
well I just lost most of my kitties in an ick outbreak I guess I caught too late tried treating with mardel ick cure with temp bumped to 84* no luck I didn't think to save the body of the slobberhead to send to necrocansis but did save the piraiba and platysilurius mucosus so my brachy dreams are in tatters and I have to start from scratch again


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Terrible, Collin. Who survived and who perished?

Ich does not happen out of nowhere, as you know I am sure. There must have been a great stress factor that suppressed fishes' immune system. Ich occurs naturally on all fish but is kept in check by their immune system.

Just like our bodies carry lots of dangerous bacteria which are not allowed to raise their ugly head by our immune system. IIRC, the MMR and other shots we get as kids and adults work along similar lines.
 
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well I just lost most of my kitties in an ick outbreak I guess I caught too late tried treating with mardel ick cure with temp bumped to 84* no luck I didn't think to save the body of the slobberhead to send to necrocansis but did save the piraiba and platysilurius mucosus so my brachy dreams are in tatters and I have to start from scratch again


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Just read that, sorry about my last post then if you saw it. That SUCKS you lost all those amazing fish, sorry man.
 
well im still trying to norrow it down viktor but I almost everything the piraiba platyneum mucosus capapretum and a 6" clown plus 3 peacock bass so its been a bad week i've whittled it down to one or a combination of four things i recently increased wc schedule from on 70% a week to 3 25% a week I feed live ghost shrimp for this first time in a few months to get the mucosus eating again and they might have been contaminated my one of my hob filters broke so I replaced it with one that had been sitting around for a while I cleaned it out as but I could but maybe it contained ick or i just had a bad batch of ick medication once necro contacts me I'll hopefully send him the bodies snd he can determine cause of death


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I see. At the face value, I'd single out the ghost shrimp.

But... the "new" HOB that's been sitting for a while - was it sitting with water in it or dry? And what about the stuffing? You must have simply transferred all the stuffing from the broken HOB, right?

When I get ich, I too go for the meds. Always have. But... I've made friends with the owners of one of our LFSs in Cape Coral - Aquarium and Reef Center. Their new fish often gets ich (esp. susceptible fishes like clown loaches) and they put them right in the sale tanks (no LFS normally can afford to QT). They do not treat for ich at all. No salt in the water, nothing. The water system is one and the same for all of the sales tanks. They say the water is good, the fish are not stressed and recover on their own efficiently and quickly; moreover, the older resident fishes do not become infected.

This is not just talk. I witnessed it more than once. Good water goes a lo-o-ong way it appears in protecting our pets.
 
it was dry and yes I just transfered the filter pads from the other filter i had been running on the same tank before but it started to rattle and grind a bit I couldn't fix it so I just went ahead and bought a new one and this one was just a backup


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