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Is it possible, that you bring in copperor lead with the new water ( new tubes in the house or old lead tubes)?

[quote=" The vast majority of decent aquatic shops keep their fish on systems with UV sterilisers running 24/7. All this talk of sterile water and then not being able to move fish into a tank without a UV is verging on scare-mongering. You just don't hear of hoards of fishkeepers having these sort o...

A sterile environment is not healthy, because it makes the imune system lazy or incapable of dealing with new infections. In the 1990TH a lot of discus breeders or more their customers had to learn it the hard way, because the fishes were in a lot of trouble, when leaving those pampered aquariums. T...

Food, yeah I forgot I try everything, here`s what worked until now, but I have to add that not everything is taken at all times, like bananas, pieces of coconut, cucumber, noodles (isn`t that the word for pasta?), spinarch ( you know Popeye). Swimming food is sunken with stainless steel skrews. Eart...

I had to think about this and I´m not sure I can give you what you want. First the water: ph 6,5 - 7; hardness ~8,5° dH, carbon ~ 4° dH; my normal tapwater hardness; temperature 26 °C; 80% waterchange 5 days previously with aproximately temperature drop to 20 - 22°C, (hence the suspicion that somebo...

[quote="Emma Turner"]Hi rich, When you say that you think these clown loaches spawned for you before,/quote] Hi Emma, I posted this text at another place before, just copied it, corrected a bit and reuse it here ( should apply for a job at the TV) "Actually I think it was`nt the water or acidity ( m...

No offense taken. I posted the photo to discuss it and esspecially the odd spot. I knew that there would be some irritations about it, but didn`t realize that the poor thing looks like she was involved in a particularly ugly accident. It was ment as a cry of mock astonishment. So, sorry Graeme, I am...

Thank you for the tip, sounds like a related soul, will read it tomorrow thoroughly, it`s 3.30am and I had a long day. It will be more enjoyable then.

wow

It`s aproximedly 4,5 inch long, didn`t messure, because I don`t like to stress them and honestly I forgot. It is definitly female, because I`m sure that she spawned at least once. The spots are starting to appear, they`ll get bigger with extending belly and suddenly disappear. Bruise I might exclude...

After a long and stressfull journey, with the help off many, eventually I`m able to show a sucky photo of a female clown with what I assume is a spawning spot. It will increase in size with progressing maturity and dissapear after spawning. Has somebody else seen something like this or is there anot...

It was coppermine on loachtank .org, registered and all.

The pic has 380kb after resizing, my connection has 10 MBit/s, I tried again, waited 10 Minutes and nothing happened, it was like watching an Ingmar Bergman movie. No failure report, just the input side blank.

Those smart kids of mine, tried to help, but everything we get after trying to upload the pic, is a blank monitor. I`m open for every suggestion.

Thanks a lot,
but I forgot to mention, that I`m helpless witout a step by step manual.
Tomorrow my sons will have an opportunity to prove how much smarter than me they are