keeping tropical and cold water fish.

hubert_cumberdale

i have a 5foot tank full of malawis that breed like rabbits i have to take about 20 a month to a second tank or to the pet shop. some get eaten but many actually survive.

i used to have an oscar and a arrowana they were best mates but had to let them get rehomed at a sealife centre aquarium down south so hopefully they are enjoying the south american section

meritaten

help please - atrix in hospital and I have no idea how to feed his fish

do any of you know what atrix has been feeding his fish? he was taken into hospital this morning and undergone an emergency appendectomy. he is ok now but rather groggy and out of it! but its only now occured to me his fish havent been fed today! atrix is my son btw, if some of you havent guessed!

I have no real interest in fish so have no clue what he feeds them apart from the fact my freezer is full of strange items! I seem to remember him saying that HIS fish really need to be fed regularly otherwise they become a bit cannibalistic? or was that the last lot he had?
advice would be much appreciated - will be online for an hour or so and will feed the little beggars if they require it.

Froglet

Sorry you had no reply,i am tucked up in bed at the time you posted.Does he,like me,have some food under the tank or in a cupboard? If he has several fish,i think they are fairly small ones,feed a little of each.If there are fish that swim only along the bottom,the catfish pellets will keep them happy.Feed some this morning and a little at teatime.Over or underfeeding will not harm too much until you can get to talk to him and get more precise instructions.If the food is only in the freezer,thaw out a little and put that in.

Please pass on my wishes for a speedy recovery,poor chap.Must have been nasty.

Gingham_Ribbon

meritaten wrote: »

help please - atrix in hospital and I have no idea how to feed his fish

do any of you know what atrix has been feeding his fish? he was taken into hospital this morning and undergone an emergency appendectomy. he is ok now but rather groggy and out of it! but its only now occured to me his fish havent been fed today! atrix is my son btw, if some of you havent guessed!

I have no real interest in fish so have no clue what he feeds them apart from the fact my freezer is full of strange items! I seem to remember him saying that HIS fish really need to be fed regularly otherwise they become a bit cannibalistic? or was that the last lot he had?
advice would be much appreciated - will be online for an hour or so and will feed the little beggars if they require it.

Please wish him well from me and all of us here. I'm sure we're all hoping he makes a speedy recovery.

I don't know if he has bought more fish since the first posts, but guppies can do fine without food for a few days and overfeeding can be very poisonous to a tank so if in doubt do nowt!

However, he did say he was feeding his fish some packets of freeze dried bloodworm, I think. If you find it, a small amount will be fine, as will a very small pinch of flake food or a square of frozen brine shrimp or bloodworm if you find some in the freezer.

meritaten

Thanks for the replies - I fed the fish this morning with a couple of defrosted prawns. He has come out of hospital now (I was a bit gobsmacked at the speed of that - in my day an appendectomy required at least a week in hospital, but times change, and if ever I need an operation I will book my ride home so that I can walk out of recovery and into the car!).
Apparently, I did right so alls well in the world of Aquaria!

Mankysteve

Nice to hear he doing well. They can do it all though keyhole surgery now a days

no1catman

I also have a bow fronted tank - 48" x 18" x 12" with an internal filter. Curiously, it used to get a lot of green algae, but since changed the filter - seems to have been reduced.

It is well planted - the vallis spreads!
I have recently added three Albino Loaches, and a pair of Firemouths, added to the 7 to 8 Odessa Barbs (two were bred in the older smaller tank - before buying the bigger one), five Lemons and five Glowlghts.
Could I double the Tetras?

atrixblue.-MFR-.

meritaten wrote: »

help please - atrix in hospital and I have no idea how to feed his fish

do any of you know what atrix has been feeding his fish? he was taken into hospital this morning and undergone an emergency appendectomy. he is ok now but rather groggy and out of it! but its only now occured to me his fish havent been fed today! atrix is my son btw, if some of you havent guessed!

I have no real interest in fish so have no clue what he feeds them apart from the fact my freezer is full of strange items! I seem to remember him saying that HIS fish really need to be fed regularly otherwise they become a bit cannibalistic? or was that the last lot he had?
advice would be much appreciated - will be online for an hour or so and will feed the little beggars if they require it.

cheers muv! one prawn morn and night, cockle in the shell once a week. :rotfl:.

im doing ok apprt from aches n pains and few stitches.

covlass

Not posted for a while but would like to thank everyone who helped me on here setting up my tank ! Everything was going well until yesterday !! On Sunday we went to a Aquarium specialists and purchased some fish they settled in well no problems and looked very healthy. Yesterday all the fish purchased that day have white spot and now one of the first fish I got are showing signs.

I have got some white spot treatment done first dose last night then need to do 2nd dose on christmas eve, is there anything else I should be doing??

Froglet

If you turn up the temperature a little it will speed up the life cycle of the parasite.Make sure you get the dosage accurate.And follow the instructions to the letter,don't stop dosing even when they look ok because the parasites have to hatch before they can be destroyed. It can take time.

White spot is present in all fish but it is brought out by poor water conditions or stress.Make sure you test the water and everything that can cause stress is eliminated.