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Re: Hey, I'm back
The Gardneri are doing fine, they are up to about half an inch now, and oddly enough, will not eat anything except for flake foods! Well, I am not sure about his real classification, I think it is one of those things that isn't finished yet, so some people call it the old thing, and some call it the new. I found out what he was from here: http://www.webcityof.com/miff1008.htm If you scroll down to Aplocheilus, you will see Aplocheilus Dayi Werneri, and then a little fish that you can click on to go to a page with information about it, and right next to the little fish is Aplocheilus Werneri, so I am not sure which he is, but either way, I am sure that is him. If you click the little fish, you go here: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=25301 and then if you click on the picture of the fish, you go to a page with 2 pictures, the one on the right looks exactly like mine, but without the clamped fins. When I put him in the tank, I treated it with Kordon's Rid!
Ich +. I have Alxelrod's book Aquarium Fishes of the World, which has Aplocheilus Dayi in it, and it says a temp of 24.5 for him which is about 76, right? 4 degrees is a little too much for him I guess.. I can't raise the temp in my 125 yet because of some of the other inhabitants, I have about 15 Bluefin Killies, which I was under the impression were another color form of Aplocheilus Panchax when I bid on them in an auction, imagine my surprise when I got these fish that I had no idea what they were. Luckily, they were in my book.
Tyrone Genade wrote:On 1 Oct 2002, at 21:56, Chris Browning wrote:
> I found out he was an Aplocheilus Dayi Werneri
Hello Chris! How are the gardneri?
The dayi are lovely fish.
> Now he swims
> around a lot, well, I assume so, because he is always in a different
> spot when I look for him, but he doesn't ever eat, and his fins are
> clamped.
I had a similiar problem with the dayi I got in my local petstore.
They would only take baby brine shrimp and slowly languished and
died.:-(
The problem I suspect is a flagelate infection of the gut. The
clamped fins are a result of perhaps an bacterial infection or just
of poor condition. YOu can try to treat the ailment with
metranozadole at 20 mg/gallon for 3 days with 50% water changes each
day and a new dose. YOu could also try some of the local meds for
hole-in-the-head or bloat. These are all very strong medications
though so be careful and don't treat a big tank with other fish.
Remove him to a smaller tank for treatment.
> My ph is 7.2, temperature is 72, and the hardness is 8.
The pH and hardness are fine but the temperature is a bit low for
this fish. It would need a temperature of about 78 to 80 to be really
happy but this won't stop it eating.
> Also, does anyone know where I can get more Dayi Werneri?
I don't think you will find any dayi 'werneri' as this is not a valid
name. There is a Aplocheilus werneri though... You should be able to
find dayi in the AKA somewhere. If they were at one store I'm sure
other stores woudld have.\
Keep well
Tyrone Genade
tgenade at sun_ac.za
http://www.tyronegenade.0catch.com
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