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He's back in the big tank now. Swimming around and not hiding behind the filter on the top suckers like he was before. Fingers crossed he stays recovered. Will probably keep doing small partial changes in that tank the next few days before going away to make sure everything's as cleaned up as can be...

durrrrr! OF COURSE the antibiotics in the quarantine tank will have killed off any of the beneficial bacteria that was in the filter media.... instead of going away on Friday (tomorrow), we're now going on Monday, probably until the next Monday, so that'll be a week without water changes in an uncyc...

I went with the fishmox after as that was what I could get hold of quickly antibiotics wise. As making soap is another hobby, I have very sensitive scales so was able to dose accordingly with the size of the tank. Large water change and new dose every day for over a week now and he's definitely perk...

He appears to be doing SO much better now - is far brighter, more active, eating/defecating and generally seeming much happier in himself. No sign of any barbels growing back, but he's detecting the presence of food as soon as it's put into the tank. The question now, is would it be ok to reintroduc...

Oh dear - I set it up with a layer of substrate after reading somewhere that a bare base could potentially cause issues with other bacteria. Should I try to syphon as much of it out as possible with today's water change? The meds say to do a small water change before each dose. Have some of the filt...

Brilliant advice here thank you. Am looking to re-home the goldfish and replace them with the rosy barbs, white cloud mountain minnows and/or zebra danios. Ordered some wee clay pebbles, and have a tiny tank that I'll use to give any plants bought online a bit of a head start before putting them in ...

Going to put a sign in my local pet shop to try and find a GOOD home for the goldfish - somebody with bigger tanks or a pond that has protection over it so they dont end up as being food for the herons. There are a lot of herons around here, so anybody local with a pond should've learned that lesson...

Thank you for your reply - extremely helpful. The emergent plants wouldn't work though as the wee weather loaches are escape artists so lid is absolutely necessary! Going to attempt the stick on planter, have most of the 'bits', just waiting for the plants, will do the lid thing too, and stick some ...

Thank you for the advice - I can only really get hold of FISHMOX amoxicillin antibiotics here in the UK. Should I be treating the whole tank or setting up a quarantine tank for him? I've never had to deal with just one fish being affected before. My partner told me late last night that he remembered...

The substrate is fine sand. Less than two inches at it's deepest. Would it be worth trying some melafix do you think?

I'd really appreciate any advice anybody has with regards to plants in freshwater aquarium with weather loaches. Obviously they uproot EVERYTHING, so I bought a couple of pieces of bogroot with plants tied to them, one of which has been nibbled down to it's bare stalks, the other doing better but st...

* Type of fish that are affected - Weather loach * How long has the tank been set up for? - Six or seven months * Size of tank - 36" x 12" x 18" - 33.66 gallons * How is the tank being filtered? - 1000l/h internal filter with sponge media & activated carbon pellets * Water temperature. - at 70°F * Y...