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1045. It doesnt go fast enough!

Jane,
This is pretty funny!
Hope they stop fighting when their hormones settle down!

Thanks everybody for your help!!!!

Hi everybody,
Came back this morning and my clown looks better. His black stripe are very bright black (compared to whitish before) and pigmetn seems to be coming back on the dorsl fin starting from the body going outwards.

I'll keep up with the water changes and start giving it more vegges ...

Thanks Diana.

1 teaspoon of salt (sodium chloride) per 20 gallons

Can I use table salt?????? If yes does iodised or non iodised make a difference? I my calculations are right for a 2ft tank should hold 45 litres or 13 gallons, right? So i need just over half a teaspoon (hopefully US and ...

The pine I picked up on our farm (we arei n Australia ) and has probably been there for decades so no resin would be left in it. As to the species I'm not sure about the species, will ask my husband when I go back to the farm on the weekend).

It's been there for about 3 weeks now and hasn't leached ...

Sorry it not good quality but it's taken with my mobile.

Substrate is fine gravel, rocks are river stones bought from pet shop, there is a piece of driftwood (pine) and a couple of bunches of plants (sorry don't have the name)

Yes the fins are definitely in once piece.

I feed them quality tropical flakes and earthworm flakes twice a day and frozen bloodworms and brine shrimps twice a week as a treat.

I thought it being diet related yeaterday after reading a few posts on the website and noticing that my plants seem to ...

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Yan can see there throught the dorsal fin

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Hey chefkeith,

Test strips probably won't give much accuracy though.

Sorry that's all I can find in this remote part of the world (australian bush)and unfortunately can't really afford "proper" testers (5 years of drought, we're doing it very tough!).

Thanks for the link am signing up now ...

The only way I've found to post a picture is to put it in my profile. Have had a look in the FAQ but I haven't got access to public server to upload photo there.

As you can see on my profile photo you can see through the loach's doral (and pectoral) fin.

All other fish look very happy, behaving ...

we may be able to help you fix them
Lol that's what I meant

Stupid question but I'm having trouble inserting a picture. Do I have to upload it somewhere brefore inserting it into a reply?

I bought a kit (strips - 5 in 1) last night to test the water. Here are the results

Nitrate 20
Nitrite 0.5 ...

Thanks Shari2

I'm glad I found u too. When I saw this forum I thought "I'm sure these guys will fix my problem(s)".

Will try and upload a photo tomorrow. It was taken with my phone but hopefully it will be good enough til I can get my hand on a proper camera.

Water your houseplants more this way

Lol! Thanks for the advice that I will implement tonight when I get home.

Should be every 4 days or so. Do 1/2 the gravel each time

Wow the lfs told me every 4-6 weeks so I thought I was doing ok changing the water once a fortnight!!!
We live in the bush ...