NEONS DYING PLEASE HELP ME

[DeagonTheo]

[quote:2422885561]Personally the water restrictions line is a crock of sh#t, the people in power have known about the pending water problem for years yet have chosen to do nothing,[/quote:2422885561]

Thats easy for you to say Frenchy, if you're on the Gold Coast. It doesnt matter what the people in power do or say, the fact is, we are nearly out of water,(or maybe Peter Beattie was standing on the moon a couple of weeks ago and not in the Wivenhoe Dam).

If we dont get some decent rain soon we are going to be in trouble, and thats a fact, so I dont think wasting 100 litres of drinking water on two pancake shaped fish the size of a 50 cent piece is a real good idea.
I personally havent done a water change for 4 months, my fish are growing healthy and alive. When I had Discus I changed water every two weeks 10% their temp was 24 degrees, one night the heater broke and the temp went down to 10 degrees, I never lost one.

I think most people in Brisbane are doing the right thing regardless of the politics, I think we as fish keeping hobbiests have got the potential to waste a hell of a lot of water, in my opinion if we dont do the right thing and try to conserve water, our hobby might get a bit of a kick in the arse, so lets at least try to do the right thing.

Theo

[gingerbeer]

Jadels,

I am with you - it has been a good 5-10 years since I last saw a decent neon.  the breeding appears to have become so poor, that they keel over at the slightest thing.  I would suggest keeping an eye but wouldn't be sure of it being the BGK and not just the neons.

Cardinal, due to the fact they are harder to breed, do not seem to have suffered in breeding to the same extent as neons and are a lot better - still ya gatta buy from the right place.  I have had cardinals that I couldn't kill and if I told on here what  I did with them there would be shoc at the mistreatment forced by a rapid movement and still they lived on , and I have had them die within 6 months.

Temperature wise cardinals are a better match to discus too.  I might have to set up my tank the same as my old one, Discus, cardinals, rummy nos a pair or two of rams and a few checkerboards..  The perfect tank fpr a living room after a long day with a nice glass of red or two,  anyway i digress.

Neons evil - Cardinals good.

Steve

[Jadels]

I have had my tank set up and running for a bit over 8 months now and i think it is fairly established. I recently have done a bit of fish changing but before that it was very stable. I got rid of an angel and a few suckers and bought a Discus. then about 2 weeks later i bought neons and 2 weeks later they started to die - which were the fat and slower ones probably cos Ghosty could catch them a bit easier?? Now i havnt lost any in about 3 days and i bought a little friend for my discus on the weekend hehe (i thought i had enough but it was so cute and kept saying "jade buy me" so i did).

My fish are not 50c size!! 1 is just about 2.5-3inches and the other is 50c sizeish. I recently went to the hinze dam and there is plenty of water for me to waste.. living on the gold coast and all. And when i was on the sunny coast i lived on the water supply which was 98% capacity and we had tank water anyway, hows that the water lines went past my house yet they couldnt run them in... I would also like people in Noosa on town water to be aware that i swim my horses in the water they drink  :P
Anyways thats enough from me.No need to start a riot in this thread. Everything appears to be a happy family in my community.. Ghosty just wanted to trim down the stock a little hehe