Recent content by Henrik

Hi there, I have fifteen or so young Kribs that need a new home. Perfect, easy-to-keep fish for a planted aquarium - interesting behaviour, do not touch plants, eat algae (yes, even though they are cichlids!). I live in Chester, 15 minutes from The Green Machine so if you are heading there, it...

I was worried that this might be the reply...I think I will have to give up on HC, it is just too high maintenance given the time I have available. What a pity, it had started off so well, and i was hoping for the same effect as in the TGM show tank that I got the inspiration from...

Yes, frozen foods, and their share of the ususal community flakes, crisps, wafers and pallets. Good to know that they are algae eaters, I will add a waver for them when I feed my plecs! Henrik

Hi there, I am growing HC Cuba in the foreground, which I started off with one Tropica pot split into five bunches that I fixed into the ground with the growing substrate attached. It spread out very nicely, but unfortunately I had to fight a battle with Cladophora and overtime had to remove a...

I recently got a pair of Kribs - I love dwarf cichlids, and have had Apistogramma in the past, but recently I had been too worried about water conditions, aggression in a fully stocked community tank, and plant uprooting. The Krib was described as 'as peaceful a cichlid as you can get', less...

How do the zebra and yoyo loaches get on with each other - do they interact, fight, ignore the other species? I finally got all of my five zebra loaches out into the open - I have been feeding more frozen food because of a recently added pair of Kribs, and the Botia striata seem to love it! I...

Hi, how often do other owners of Botia striata see the loaches out in the open? I put 5 in about a month ago, they dealt with my snail problem but now live rather sercretively, I have never again seen five, I think I saw three or four the other day, but mostly I see only one or two at a time...

James, can you let me know a source of this silicone grease - I assuem it is fully fish-safe? Thanks, Henrik

Gordon, did your old sealing ring show any sign of damage? And did you try just vaseline first? Thanks, Henrik

My Eheim professionel II filter is leaking from the sealing area between bucket and filter head, but only if the filter is NOT running - as soon as it is on, all is fine. It seems like it needs relief fro the water pressure by having the pump 'get rid of' water...I have obviously checked and...

I pulled out a lot today and it certainly feels gritty and not slimy, and looking at your picture on the website it very much looks like Cladopohora. Do SAE not eat it - they seem to go to difficult places to find food instead of eating chunks of these which are right in front of their noses. I...

My HC used to be full of algae, but after introduction of SAE and using EasyCarbo, plus an increase of CO2 levels and water circulation, it went all clean. Not sure which was the main reason for success! Lately, however, I am discovering hairy algae on the HC that the SEA do not seem to touch...

Sadly, one of my Corys was found with a bloody wound in the chest today and did not survive. Is there any chance the Botia striata could be reponsible, the Cory was still quite small?

Where am I going wrong - 38g/l Fe gives you almost 1 gram of Fe in a dose of 25ml gives you 2g/l if you dissolve this dose in 500ml - which makes 0.2% Fe as opposed to 0.08% in the standard TPN strength mix, i.e. more than double the strength?

How long did it take them to get into snail eating mode...I have ben observing mine for the last few days, they just take a sniff at the snails and swim on...They might still be settling in, or eat all the ones hidden behind the plants, but I am still to observe a meal!