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Tropical Fish Keeping => Gallery Showcase => Topic started by: TigzFish on April 22, 2013, 10:07:00 PM

Title: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: TigzFish on April 22, 2013, 10:07:00 PM

Managed to get a decent shot (eventually) of one of my latest isolation box residents  :-*

Title: Re: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: Resa on April 22, 2013, 10:34:38 PM

Aaah...he looks worried......very pretty though.

Title: Re: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: ColinB on April 23, 2013, 07:33:41 AM

Good piccie..... nice fish.

Title: Re: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: water watcher on April 24, 2013, 09:30:41 PM

Great photo. I added 7 black neons to my tank yesterday. They are great fun, patrolling the upper level in a shoal. They seem to have settled in really quickly. I hope yours are doing as well as mine

Title: Re: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: TigzFish on April 24, 2013, 10:15:02 PM

They are indeed doing well.  The one I snapped was at the time suffering with a case of "long poo", which cleared up within a day.  Probably ate too much, so I've cut the level down a bit.  The other residents haven't been showing similar symptoms, so likely just a isolated incident.

Title: Re: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: Resa on April 24, 2013, 11:09:51 PM

Long Poo?  Is this something to be aware of then?  Does it mean they're poorly?

Title: Re: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: TigzFish on April 25, 2013, 12:19:12 AM

It's an affliction that is quite commonly caused by the fish eating too much too quickly, or if they suffer from a bit of constipation, wrong type of food. There are more sinister reasons, such as internal parasites, but I had no reason to suspect this was the case.  I had popped in some squished pea, but nobody touched them.  I cut down the level of food as a precaution and waited a day.  Any longer than that and I would have been worried, but as it was everything cleared up nicely.

Title: Re: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: ColinB on April 25, 2013, 07:42:45 AM

Long poo is a problem when the poo is thin, white, stringy and trails for a long time. This is often internal parasites like those that I got free with my platies from the LFS almost a year ago. >:(

I've become quite an observer of platy poo! :P

Title: Re: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: jesnon on April 25, 2013, 08:40:17 AM

Ok.... I think I have a fishy poo problem reading these comments. I have no idea what fish poo normally looks like never having fish before, and since my fish have always had poo like this I assumed it was normal.... Going to post over in Fish Health too, but if my fish fit these descriptions what should I do? Do I have a big problem? It makes me suspicious especially since Madge died :-(

Title: Re: Black Neon Tetra
Post by: water watcher on April 25, 2013, 09:20:06 AM

Apparently a dose of live daphnia can help with stringy poo. I don't have any scientific evidence to back this up but it has worked for me, it might have been coincidence. Others may know better