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  1. No diatomes yet, the tank is very early into the cycle.
  2. Yep, always. In this instance I used Prime to knock out the chlorine right away. I'm wondering if this could have been chemical over-spray from my cleaners. The amount of chlorine that was showing up was far in excess what my tap water has in it.
  3. Yes there are a few pieces of driftwood in the tank, perhaps that was it. I haven't seen it return and the driftwood has since been covered in a white furry coat of mold. Thanks for the info, I'll research that a bit more.
  4. I've had a 120L tank cycling for about a week and a half (fishless). It's had trace amounts of ammonia / nitrite / nitrates as would be expected. Then suddenly this morning when I checked the water with a Tetra test strip I had a very high chlorine reading out of nowhere. I haven't done a water change in a week and there's been nothing new added into the tank. Any ideas where this might have come from? I've tested multiple different strips with the same result, tested other tanks (which displayed no issues), then used Prime to knock the chlorine down and watched it vanish from the test... so I believe the readings are correct. Has anyone had experience with chlorine showing up mysteriously this way?
  5. No protrusions on the redness, just seems to be under the skin. The other corys are lacking that redness and instead seem more colored up (for their type, anyway). I'm wondering if this is a parasite that was missed in my treatment a few weeks ago. Since this morning they've picked up again, so I'll keep an eye on them. Thanks for the input!
  6. I've pulled them both out into a makeshift hospital tank. I've had them for less than a month and this just appeared today, so it seems odd. If they do have a wound, any suggestions on how to help them out? I put Stress Coat in as a first step. One funny theory I have right now: I put a block of Repashy into the tank and my wife saw two of the corys pushing it around with their heads. So I'm half wondering if that's actually Repashy gel pasted on their little heads. That makes more sense than them both sustaining random head wounds on the same day. They're now sitting in an un-cycled bucket that I'll have to watch like a hawk, due to my quarantine tank being used at present. It's like they know when you have nowhere to put them... who knew fishkeeping could be so much fun?
  7. Just walking by my tank I noticed that two of my Julii corys are sitting at the bottom of the tank with what look like head wounds. I've included a somewhat blurry picture below. I'm wondering if they were a little too enthusiastic digging around in the dragon stone. Has anyone seen this before? Water params: Ammonia: 0ppm Nitrite: 0ppm Nitrate: 20ppm pH: 6.9 GH: 300ppm KH: 0
  8. I've been using praziquantel in my quarantine regiment and have been having an awful time getting it to dissolve properly. Found this while doing a search and thought I'd share: The Best Way To Dissolve Praziquantel & Treat Flukes - Hydrosphere Water Gardens WWW.PONDEXPERTS.CA Pure Praziquantel powder used to treat flukes in koi and goldfish is notoriously hard to dissolve, however, there is a really simple way dissolve it Basically just place the meds into a nylon stocking and then crush it with your fingers while in the water. I tried it today (after painstakingly retrieving the un-dissolved bits from the tank) and it worked like magic. Hopefully that's handy for someone else as well!
  9. I think it was columnaris too, which is why I dosed the whole tank with tri-sulfa. Then I followed that with internal parasite meds and things seem stable now. Thanks for the link to the YouTube video--definitely useful to have not only the info but to have it translated into local meds!
  10. Yep, Blue Planet has been what I've settled on as well. Nice that it's readily available, too. I definitely have soft water here and have been using Equilibrium to slowly raise it up to acceptable limits, but I'm not sure that's what took out the guppies. They would get a white fluff (or white stringy poo) and then slowly stop moving their tails and lie down in different parts of the tank until they died. I took that to be bacterial and dosed the tank with tri-sulfa and now I'm in the middle of an internal parasite regiment. So far everyone has been happy and healthy, but I'm giving it a few weeks before I think about getting more fish!
  11. Awesome, thanks for that! I bought 8 guppies and a pleco from Nature Aquariums and I've only got three left alive (unknown disease), so I've switched over to Coburg now. Might go back to Nature for plants and aquascaping though. Thanks especially for the fertilizer tip, I'll give that a look.
  12. Thanks for the info, peanut! I haven't had my tank through a summer here, so I'm gearing up to see how that turns out for me. I'll check out the plant supplier you mentioned. I've found a good supplier near me for fish (located in Melbourne and does same-day delivery) but haven't tried the plants yet. I love all the videos on here, but it's often a challenge to translate the suggestions into products you can find, especially medications!
  13. Thanks, I'll dial this back a bit and keep an eye on them.
  14. Well, an American by way of Australia. Before I was interested in keeping fish I lived 30 minutes away from the Aquarium Co-op store, and now that I'm into it I live on the other side of the world... So far I've had a rough start to the hobby. Bought a bunch of guppies (and a pleco) from a sketchy local shop and watched them all get picked off one by one as I desperately tried to find the right medication to save them. After quite a few losses (and trying to translate medications from the US for here) I think the tank has become stable. Quite a demoralizing beginning. But now I'm setting up a quarantine tank so I'll be better prepared for the next arrivals. If there are any Aussies on here I'd love to chat about how to find supplies down here.
  15. Hi all, looking for a little advice about a snail issue I'm in the middle of. I've setup my first tank (130L) and currently have three guppies (down from eight thanks to a bogus supplier), five corydoras (julii) and an ever-expanding host of red ramshorn snails. Everything has been moving along, but the snails are starting to get out of control. After weeks of trying to control them manually by removing them, I've decided just to let them flare up and help clean up the tank and then hopefully settle down to a reasonable amount once that's done and food becomes scarce. However, I've been using sinking pellets to feed the corys and it feels like the snails are able to find and swarm those pellets faster than the corys can! I turn away for a minute and the snails come out of the woodwork while the corys blissfully run all around the tank, seemingly completely unaware there's food around. My concern is that I'm just rocketing up the snail population by giving them these sinking pellets, all while the corys aren't getting the food that's meant for them. The corys don't seem to touch the pellets once the snails are around (that I've seen). My gut says that the corys probably just aren't that hungry and I should dial back the amount I'm feeding them, and that if they were really hungry they'd get there faster and compete directly with the snails. But as this is my first tank I don't have any experience with how corys role. So I'm hoping you all could help lend some advice on how to approach this. Thanks!
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