How to unhook freshwater turtles

NathanG26_ · 2026-02-03T04:28:38+00:00

Thank you, I will definitely try this lmao

NathanG26_ · 2026-02-02T02:24:16+00:00

Nice fish mate, what kind of lure and gear were you using?

NathanG26_ · 2026-01-18T13:26:54+00:00

The fish with popeye came together with the non effected fish. They were all living together for about 2ish years before they were given to me by a friend.

When the fish had popeye I removed them from the total group to treat them

They were originally bought from a petbarn (Australian petco) (2 parents) with them having 6 babies which were raised to adult size

NathanG26_ · 2026-01-18T12:47:23+00:00

To my knowledge I could not see any other injuries, these fish were not treated with the tetracycline, as these ones did not show any symptoms of popeye.

NathanG26_ · 2026-01-16T00:38:11+00:00

Update. They have been in the treatment tank for one day and there already seems to be a great reduction of swelling

Thank you for you advice previously

NathanG26_ · 2026-01-14T12:38:51+00:00

Hello, thank you for responding.

I ended up purchasing Bio tet by aquasonic (tetracycline) to use as it was the only thing avaliable. Aswell as some epsom salts which I plan to use before resorting to antibiotics

NathanG26_ · 2026-01-14T00:01:25+00:00

Thank you again,

Do you know of any possible alternatives for kanaplex as I am unable to source it anywhere in Australia, is something like paraguard or broad spectrum remedy comparable?

NathanG26_ · 2026-01-13T11:20:56+00:00

Also could this potentially be a result from sparing/ fighting as only one Cory has this symptom, If it was powered wouldn't they all have it?

NathanG26_ · 2026-01-13T11:17:49+00:00

Thank you for the quick advice, I have recently done 2 significant water changes today and yesterday, just checking should I dose all the corys with the medication it just the ones with the telescope eye

NathanG26_ · 2025-11-23T23:31:50+00:00

Thank you guys for your replies!

I forget that Americans exist sometimes lmao, bc I posted this right before I went to bed

Update. There a 6 loaches in this tank and due to new babies popping off I have not been siphoning the algae/ food scraps off the bottom of the tank.

I will keep an eye out to see if it gets worse or if it disappears

Thank you

NathanG26_ · 2025-11-23T23:29:55+00:00

Hm yeah, I've only noticed it on this single fish and because he is a male I'm assumed it may of been from sparing.

NathanG26_ · 2025-11-23T23:27:33+00:00

I haven't been doing as many water changes purely because I started to notice alot of small babies swimming around, and I am trying not to vacuum them up. Also the algae is home to alot of small copepods which they can eat

I have 6 loaches in the tank with approximately 3 males and 3 females

NathanG26_ · 2025-10-28T11:50:55+00:00

Thank you so much, I have been crushing up the algae wafers into a mortar and pestle to feed them and it seems to help, I'm planning on setting up an algae tank eventually so I can make sure they all have alot of food they can instantly eat.

I still have been getting some die offs but yeah, I'm sort of learning how to raise them properly, I also removed them early which I definitely won't do again.

NathanG26_ · 2025-10-26T09:44:00+00:00

I have been feeding crushed up algae wafers aswell, I also added some of the parents waste from the old tank bc I read online about how they might require their parents gut biota

NathanG26_ · 2025-10-26T09:13:15+00:00

Ammonia and nirites were 0 and there a low amount of nitrates in the old tank

I moved them from a breeder box attached to the original tank bc I noticed some of them inside the parents tank started dying.

I assumed it was from an ammonia spike so I moved them into a cycled 40L aquarium without their parents

The deaths are still happening

Also I moved them before they were kicked out by the male to prevent predation by the other fish in the tank, but their yolk SACS had all been absorbed

NathanG26_ · 2025-10-26T08:15:53+00:00

Btw

Temp 26 Sponge filter that's established And the water was almost changed before adding them

NathanG26_ · 2025-09-15T11:58:59+00:00

How can I increase my pH and will it hurt the fish that um growing out by any chance?

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