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A fish pathologist in the UK told me that around a week without food would actually be of long term benefit to the fishes health. It would would clean out a fishes gut and use up excess fat deposits for energy. Ive done it will no fatalities or ill health.

Play sand is the cheapest way to substrate your aquarium. It looks great, but you will need to syphon off dirt/faeces every other day. Just hold the tube about 1 or 2 inches above the sand and the muck should be sucked up. You pretty much always lose sand by this method, but once you have...

what an a perfect example of the ease at which one can judge, based only on what is written in black and white! Well done. Thanks for the advice about my problems with eglish. I will be sure and inform the editer of emap publications to inform her of my langwadge difficultees before the...

Some species...and hourly is not instantly...perhaps you should have studied more carefully at uni, hmm? Should i study more carefully? Nah mate, i got a first and best student of the year. Please check your IQ before becoming GODLY. 'Nothing in nature can compare to dumping a fish in...

Some species...and hourly is not instantly...perhaps you should have studied more carefully at uni, hmm? Should i study more carefully? Nah mate, i got a first and best student of the year. Please check your IQ before becoming GODLY.

In an estury or mangrove (tidal area in a swamp) certain (brackish)fish do encounter drastic and very sudden salinity (also hardness and pH) changes between standard freshwater and standard seawater, and it affects them minimumly... as they have evolved to cope with this (otherwise they wouldnt...

'true' brackishfish have both means of osmoregulation at hand (or fin). Seawater fish have chloride cells in the gills (thus metabolizing and dispencing unwanted salt) and also drink and pee a lot (to expell the rest of the salt), Freshwater fish never deliberatley consume freshwater...

I live in thailand, and see archer fish in the river by my home all the time. Being as the sea is about 100ks away, they definatley in freshwater. Maybe they breed in esturies and the juviniles migrate upstream, returning to the esturies when they themselves are to spawn. There are a lot...

In my experience, clown loaches and botias destroy snails. Puffers are reputed to be good snail eaters, but ive never tried them.

Should be ok, but you'd be better to check it out for peace of mind..

thats a bit harsh.

totally agree with orion girl. All fish have their own personalities, sometimes contradicting what you might read. For example, the most evil fish i have ever kept was a male dwarf gourami! Other than flake, his favourite foods were caudal fins and eyes (in that order) Fish are like...

out of interest mooman, did the study you read say anything about omega 3 oil levels in the feed? If so epa & dha levels? id be interested it to read if you have it... im convinced they complement and accelerate fry growth...

fish are exothermic, and so rely on their environment to heat them. their digestive process cannot withstand continual intake of saturated fats. In their natural environments, most fish will encounter little saturated fats(or at worst a varied diet containing different fats), and so have no...

anything that doesn't have saturated fat. for best growth, ive found beef heart and chicken/ox liver (shredded and with spinach) to be the best

Yeah, just ask questions about water quality etc, and if and when the staff cannot answer them, ask to speak with the manager. If they cant explain the deplorable conditions then they could surely give you a contact of someone in charge. Its excellent that you follwed this up and are...

what not try a fast flowing temperate (chinese?) system? You could have white clouds (best seen at lower temps and with water movement), chinese hillstream loaches etc. You would need a couple of powerheads in your tank - you can disguise these with lengths of state. Perhaps an airpump...

i think the point has been misunderstood and lost. I wish i had never used the 'E' word (which, again, wasnt the point)

agreed. My diagnosis was only one of several things that could be wrong witht he fish. He's hoping the fish will pull through. :thm:

Sorry, my post wasnt too clear. :sick: What i meant was (in my experience on betta farms) if the fish is swimming on its side, especially after feeding, then its probably been a problem from its time in the bubblenest - (the raft that the fry begin their life). If the male does not tend...