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  1. Mr Bee

    Anyone have land Hermits?? - Advice, help and info please

    Hi, I've been thinking about a land hermit crab setup (a crabitat!) but could do with some info first. I read they are sociable and don't like tone alone, but how many do you need for them to be happy, is there a minimum number to create a happy hermit population? Given this, what size tank do...
  2. Mr Bee

    Help please! - What is this? Is it BBA?

    Thanks for replies so far everyone, but thats just opened up a lot more..... I thought water changes were an essential part of maintenance to keep a clean healthy tank for all fish/shrimp etc. if I stop water changes, won't that be detrimental to the fish? Similar thing with the airstone - I...
  3. Mr Bee

    Help please! - What is this? Is it BBA?

    OK, some stats..... 60L tropical (~24 C) with stock of:- 6 Glowlight tetra, 3 Neon tetra, ?? number of RCS and lots of MTS. Well established for years, and maintains ammonia/nitrate etc. levels all nicely. I have some spiky moss, anubias (barteri var. nana), and hygrophila (corymbosa...
  4. Mr Bee

    What is this snail??? - Can anyone identify?

    So its a pond snail? I was worried in case it was anything that is going to eat my live plants. Do they get big or breed like crazy or anything? Already got a nice population of MTS, don't wanna be overrun with these...
  5. Mr Bee

    What is this snail??? - Can anyone identify?

    I know I have loads of MTS, as I've added them myself on purpose, and know what they look like.... here's one of my big ones, about 25mm long :) But I recently added some live plants from the LFS, and since then I've seen a couple of different snails, that I dont know what they are...
  6. Mr Bee

    My new plants!!! - how to plant??

    I liked the little terracotta pot... :oops: Well, on closer inspection, it actually had no bottom in, just a hole, so I've now took all the foam/wool wrappings off everything, planted the Hygrophila directly into the gravel, and also planted the L. aquatica through the pot and into the...
  7. Mr Bee

    My new plants!!! - how to plant??

    Thanks for the replies everyone :D I'll remove my Anubia from the pot and tie it onto some slate when I get home then (at work at the moment!), and I'll also remove the Hygrophila from its pot, and try and dig it into the gravel, and maybe weigh it down with a bit of slate too - does that...
  8. Mr Bee

    My new plants!!! - how to plant??

    I've recently added some light to my tank, not having any before, in an attempt to bring back and revive my spiky moss which was dying off. Its slowly working, as I can see some new green growths on it. Then I decided I wanted to add some more "real" plants, so called in at the LFS today and...
  9. Mr Bee

    Reccomend me some suitable plants....

    Cheers Sam, I'll probably go to my LFS this week and enquire what they got in the way of those that you reccomend. Do they stay small too?, obviously I don't want something thats gonna grow like 12inch leaves, as I've only a relatively small tank. I don't suppose you have any pics of what...
  10. Mr Bee

    Reccomend me some suitable plants....

    Hi, I've just recently added lighting to my tank to try and recover my spiky moss which has virtually all died off over the dark winter months (I didn't have any lighting before - just what came through windows!) and now I'm wondering if there is anything else which might be suitable. I ask if...
  11. Mr Bee

    Advice please - Should I add lighting? ***Updated with pics!

    OK thanks Ed, I better swap it round the other way then!! Thanks for letting me know :D
  12. Mr Bee

    Advice please - Should I add lighting? ***Updated with pics!

    Re: Advice please - Should I add lighting? I got myself an Arcadia ballast unit, and a Interpet Triplus Tropical buld from the LFS, and have fitted it today :D :D The bulb I think is a Triphosphor bulb - if that means 3 light peaks? - with red, green and blue spectrum peaks according to...
  13. Mr Bee

    Advice please - Should I add lighting? ***Updated with pics!

    Re: Advice please - Should I add lighting? Oh yes, I like to research something I don't know about well before going into it! Thanks for the advice and info Egmel, it was very useful and worthwhile :D I've decided I'm definately gonna go for a ballast setup, most likely one of the Arcadia...
  14. Mr Bee

    Advice please - Should I add lighting? ***Updated with pics!

    Re: Advice please - Should I add lighting? I've been looking at the Arcadia Ultraseal light controllers, it looks like they just plug onto the ends of a light tube with watertight sealed plugs, and the light tube glass itself is the exposed surface - Is that right? As long as its safe, they...
  15. Mr Bee

    Advice please - Should I add lighting? ***Updated with pics!

    Re: Advice please - Should I add lighting? I have a 60L (13 UK gallons) Tetra Aqua-Art tank, but as I say, I removed the original light unit, so the inside of the lid is just bare. But if it's easy to add some lighting, and it will all be waterproof and safe then that would be cool 8)
  16. Mr Bee

    Advice please - Should I add lighting? ***Updated with pics!

    Hi, I've had my current tank and stock for about 1 - 1.5 years and the light never worked from buying it, but I wasn't bothered about using it really. This is mainly due to my previous experience when I had a goldfish and a few white cloud mountan minnows - whenever I switched the light on or...
  17. Mr Bee

    Shrimp with eggs??? - With pics and video!!

    Cool, some baby shrimps on the way :D :D :D They just gotta hide well enough to avoid the tetra's once they hatched!! Is there anything I can do to help or assist their development or growth? - I put some crushed crab cuisine, and brine shrimp onve or twice a week, is that ok for newly...
  18. Mr Bee

    Shrimp with eggs??? - With pics and video!!

    Doing my weekly w/c today, and saw one of the shrimp sitting under a leaf, with what looks like loads of eggs under it. I was always under the idea that with RCS, the females were bright red/pink coloured, and the males were a darker, browner colour?? But it's a darker coloured one which I...
  19. Mr Bee

    Help!!! - Missing neon tetra....

    Egmel - And there I was thinking MTS' were vegetarian! Well, you learn something new every day don't you. I thought the flesh might get eaten, but what about the bones of the (admittedtly very small) skeleton; I assume that would be the shrimps that would dispose of that, could they re-use the...
  20. Mr Bee

    Help!!! - Missing neon tetra....

    Cheers guys, I had no idea they could finish a whole body off that fast! :o I haven't noticed any scum but I'll keep a look out over the next week. I'm actually doing my weekly water change at the moment, and I might do another midweek one to be on the safe side.
  21. Mr Bee

    Help!!! - Missing neon tetra....

    OK, so on saturday night I definately had all 5 of my neons, I know because I counted them them at feeding time to check they were all there (as I usually do). But on Sunday mornng I could only find 4 of them. Had a good look in the tank, even rummaged in the bushes, lifted things up, lifted...
  22. Mr Bee

    Spiky moss growth rate in low maintenance tank??

    I added some spiky moss, on slate, about 3 weeks ago, and I was just wondering how long it is likely to take to get a nice bushy growth; it hasn't really grown yet that I can tell. I know its a slow grower, and the nature of my tank (see below) probably means it will grow even slower than...
  23. Mr Bee

    attaching moss to slate

    I have some spiky moss on slate in my tank, only added about 3 weeks ago, so still quite sparse. I read a guide which said to tie it down onto slate quite tight, but LD said not to tie it tight......which is right? should I loosen and re-do it? Also, if I find it doesn't stick to the slate...
  24. Mr Bee

    50 of what tetra?

    I love the classic blue neon tetra, IMO their colouring is brilliant. I've never seen green neons though to compare. I also really like glowlights, with their intense orange line. They're a bit bigger than neons, I suppose it depends if you want a smaller or larger fish. I think anything...
  25. Mr Bee

    Timid Rummynoses

    Yeah, all my tetra's do this too :D When anyone goes up to the tank, not just me..... they must think "Human = Food. Mmmmmm!"
  26. Mr Bee

    Timid Rummynoses

    My neons took a week or 2 to be brave enough in their new surroundings to come out when I first got them. You could peer into room, but as soon as you went in and they saw movement they'd swim off and hide. After a couple of weeks though they'd start coming up to me when I was next to the...
  27. Mr Bee

    General maintenance advice please....

    Thanks for replies guys, I do always rinse biofoam in tank water, to stop chlorine in tap water killing too many off. I remove water for a water change using a syphon/gravel vac, which lets me suck some detritus up and clean gravel a bit at same time, then rinse the filter foams in this...
  28. Mr Bee

    General maintenance advice please....

    Hi, I have a 60L tank with a Fluval 2+ internal, and just want to ask a few questions about general maintenance. Question 1 - So the white corse foam blocks (2 of them) are the bits where the good bacteria colonise and keep the tank cycled and mature right? - I've read different reports on...
  29. Mr Bee

    Mites in an aquarium

    A while ago, I had a problem (well, not really a 'problem' as they seemed harmless) with these tiny little creatures which were in my gravel and crawling up the glass. I had loads of them all over the tank, very, very small, could only just make them out, a kind of golden/beige colour and would...
  30. Mr Bee

    Boy gets betta stuck in p****!

    Was that the Nigel Marvin programme?? I thought only the Candiru (or some similar name) fish could do that - could a Betta do it?? I read it as though he dropped the fish striaght into the stream. With the speed and momentum it was travelling with due to gravity, could it have started...
  31. Mr Bee

    Boy gets betta stuck in p****!

    What an idiot! I don't for one second believe that explanation..... how many people while cleaning their tank hold their fish in their hand.... and then go for a pee still holding the fish. And what sort of aim must he have to drop the fish into the 'pee stream' so that it could swim up it...
  32. Mr Bee

    Yippee - I have some MTS!! (4 flavours!)

    But my snails dont quack like a duck, are they supposed to!! :? :wink: :wink: Ovovivipary looks like what it could be then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovoviviparity Sounds like the eggs are kept until hatching, then the larvae transform outside the mothers body. BTW, how do shrimps...
  33. Mr Bee

    Water Quality Report (West Yorkshire)

    Aah, Ceg4048, you are right.... I just looked at it again more carefully, and those values are indeed listed as the 'standard' - I assume this means the regulation limit. Because it then says the number of exceedences. So all the report tells me is that they didn't go over the 2ppm limit in...
  34. Mr Bee

    Water Quality Report (West Yorkshire)

    After reading a thread on here about water quality reports (had no idea you could get such things!) I have just been looking on the Yorkshire Water website. They seem to imply that they use chlorine, not chloramine, but I've filled an online contact form to ask them about this. I also found...
  35. Mr Bee

    Will these be suitable?

    OMG! :o I know it wasnt you, but surely that a little overstocked isn't it, even for a tank of that size?
  36. Mr Bee

    Yippee - I have some MTS!! (4 flavours!)

    Egmel - o they have eggs, but don't actually 'lay' them as such and leave them, but hold onto them until they hatch, is that right? I suppose thats effectively an equivalent of livebearing really! Thomas, I got them from the snailshop (http://www.snailshop.co.uk) have a look at MTS in the...
  37. Mr Bee

    Yippee - I have some MTS!! (4 flavours!)

    Well, this morning I was greeted early on with my parcel from the snailshop people...... I now have:- 2 'normal' MTS 2 Mahogany MTS 2 Spike Tail MTS 2 Dominican Republic MTS Lovely looking little creatures, nice colours, and all were very alive and active, even while still in their packaging...
  38. Mr Bee

    Should I add MTS?? - Yeay or Nay?

    Oh I see, didn't realise they survived out of water for transportation. Well, my MTS didn't arrive today as I'd hoped, the post must be a little slow :( Out of interest, how long can they survive out of water during shipping? They were due to be shipped on tuesday, but didn't come today...
  39. Mr Bee

    Should I add MTS?? - Yeay or Nay?

    LOL LD! :lol: :lol: OK, so I should have some MTS arriving in the post sometime today (our post is not very reliable for what time it will be!) but I've just thought of something...... Do you have to acclimatise them to the tank water as you do when adding fish? Same kind of thing - Hang...
  40. Mr Bee

    Diatom (brown) algae in a mature tank??

    Hi, Well its not from too much lighting, as I don't actually have any lights in my tank, the built in one broke and I never replaced it, as they seem to do fine without it. I do a regular 20 - 30% weekly water change, but am not dosing any ferts or anything, could that be it?
  41. Mr Bee

    Diatom (brown) algae in a mature tank??

    Hi all, I've been doing a bit of reading since finding this forum, and it seems that most sources say brown, diatom algae should only be present in newly set up (uncycled) tanks, and last a few weeks. But I still get brown algae in my tank, despite it being fully matured - why's this?? My...
  42. Mr Bee

    Should I add MTS?? - Yeay or Nay?

    Yeah I was after some, LD was trying to dig a few up for me.... No problem LD, Spalding has kindly offered to send me a few out, but thank you too for offering and looking for some :D Yours are obviously happy in there and don't want to leave. Maybe they heard of your plans to send them away...
  43. Mr Bee

    Should I add MTS?? - Yeay or Nay?

    Shouldn't that be "Snales team"? :wink:
  44. Mr Bee

    Should I add MTS?? - Yeay or Nay?

    Yes please, if you're offering! :D
  45. Mr Bee

    Should I add MTS?? - Yeay or Nay?

    So the general feeling is yeay! I'm seriously thinking of adding some then - but do they escape from the tank, or do they like to stay under water? Just been looking at snailshop.co.uk and they have standard MTS, Mahogany, and Dominican MTS..... Are they basically all the same thing (regards...
  46. Mr Bee

    Should I add MTS?? - Yeay or Nay?

    I'm thinking of adding some MTS to my tank, and have read lots of mixed reviews about wether they are a pest or a benefit. So I'm just posting this to try and get a broader and more specific sense of wether they are good or bad. I have a 60L well mature tank, with 5 Neons, 6 Glowlights and ~6...
  47. Mr Bee

    Cherry Shrimp Behaviour?

    Hmmm, could be normal then. Incidentally, I'm not running CO2 or dosing with anything for plants. I've only just added some live moss and a little fern yesterday, and I'm planning on just letting them grow without the use of any fert or CO2. Oh yeah, I have discovered how much cherry shrimp...
  48. Mr Bee

    Cherry Shrimp Behaviour?

    I've had my cherries a couple of weeks or so, and from the small ~half inch juveniles they were when I got them, they have now grown up a bit, with my biggest female being as big as my glowlight tetras now. The last couple of days I've seen her do something strange - or is it normal? She kind...
  49. Mr Bee

    Bow fronted aquariums?

    On the face of it, when I first saw one I thought they looked quite good, nice and fancy and different from the usual box. But I think when I see them in the shop, that the curve of the front tends to distort the image a bit, and looks to me a bit like your looking at the tank through a 'fish...
  50. Mr Bee

    I cant find this topic again!.....

    Aha, it was indeed 5teady. Someone on TFF gave me the link, below if anyone is interested:- http://www.fishforums.net/content/Tropi ... s-Mission/
  51. Mr Bee

    How/Where did you hear about Ukaps.org?????

    LondonDragon referred this site to me, when I was asking advice and availability about mosses for my tank on the Tropical Fish Forums (fishforums.org). Cheers LD, this site is brilliant, already learnt lots of new things in under a week
  52. Mr Bee

    I cant find this topic again!.....

    OK, it was only this morning at work I was reading a topic before I was unfairly interrupted and actually had to turn off and go do some actual work :x Grrrr...... I dont go to work to work, but they don't realise that! Anyway, I cant remember who it was, but basically it was a member from...
  53. Mr Bee

    Malasyan Trumpet Snails

    Cheers, I doubt I'll need it then. My pH is consistantly betwen 7 - 8, and going by colour, nearer to 8 than 7, so probably more like 7.5 - 8 I am also in a quite hard water area, and my test kit measures KH and GH to be 180ppm Is KH calcium hardness btw??
  54. Mr Bee

    Shrimp feeding problems - any ideas???

    Aah, I see - I have Red Cherry Shrimps (and I now see I got your name wrong too; 'thebullit', not 'thebuilt' LOL :lol: ) Thanks for info guys, I thought there might be plenty of general food, as it is a well matured tank, lots of algae ( :oops: ) and I've also got a marimo ball in for them...
  55. Mr Bee

    Malasyan Trumpet Snails

    Does anyone on here feel the need to use the 'snailstrong' liquid calcium stuff (as seen on snailshop) for MTS, or add anything extra or specific in the way of food/supplements?? Or is just a case of put them in and leave them to get on with it, and feed rest of aquarium inhabitants as normal??
  56. Mr Bee

    Shrimp feeding problems - any ideas???

    the built - Yeah, its shrimps we're talking about. I'd not thought of cuttlefish, but then I don't know where I would get some anyway, and would want to be sure it was safe and disease/chemical free. I did manage to give them a bit of a crab cuisine pellet yesterday. I placed it right in...
  57. Mr Bee

    Shrimp feeding problems - any ideas???

    Hi, a longish post, but please bear with me..... Tank is a 60L with 5 Neon & 6 Glowlight Tetras, and in the last couple of weeks have added 6 cherry shrimp. Wonderful little creatures, good to watch, but I also got them to partially help with the build up of algae on the tank decor/rocks etc...
  58. Mr Bee

    Malasyan Trumpet Snails

    No problem mate, I'll keep an eye on this post :D
  59. Mr Bee

    Malasyan Trumpet Snails

    Excellent!! Thanks LD, I'll donate a few quid to the forum :D Will wait to hear from you over the weekend if you dig some up 8)
  60. Mr Bee

    Malasyan Trumpet Snails

    Cool, thanks guys 8) I'll take a few MTS from you LD (if you can find some!) or anyone else if you dont mind :D Do you want anything (moneywise) for them, or just something to cover postage? Just let me know how to arrange it....... postage details/SAE/payments etc. ?? Cheers :D
  61. Mr Bee

    Malasyan Trumpet Snails

    Aah..... I might put some in then! I have a gravel substrate, can they burrow in that? Do they also eat detritus and any 'crap' in there? Out of interest, how big do they grow? I suppose if they get out of hand, I can just remove a load and leave a few in. I had a problem when I first got my...
  62. Mr Bee

    Malasyan Trumpet Snails

    I thought everyone regarded MTS as a pest?? Thats the impression I got from being on another forum (fishforums.net) and that most wanted rid of them but that they were too hard to remove once in a tank due to their rapid breeding. When I bought my cherry shrimp, there were quite a few MTS in...
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