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They did regularly, wrigglers and onto the sides of the adults, however I never took it any further as they were display fish and in a community they had little chance of surviving. cheerio,

I got all my discus from devotedly discus, great fish and grew to be beasts.... Cheerio, Ady.

Yeah I just don’t get it, I’m sure Maidenhead stock stendker discus which are the exact same fish in my images, only they never look their best and often are emaciated and highly priced in chain retailers. Keep them correctly and they would sell themselves as they are incredibly coloured fish. A...

Tbh they aren’t the most active fish but they do get big. Long term it would be unsuitable as they would reach 6” in length and that just wouldn’t seem right keeping them in a tank that narrow.....for me it is just that, they shouldn’t be kept in a tank that narrow as they are a big majestic...

Yep first definitely looks like a Rio atabapo crying whiptail. Second unsure, but perhaps a knobnose or Pinocchio although much darker than I’ve seen. I had crying whiptail some time ago: When they were younger the dark areas were more pronounced much like in your first image.

Sorry to hear about the ram X3NiTH.

I am really sorry for the fish, and those above with far greater knowledge have given the very best information.....but wow, those pictures are incredibly detailed. I hope the fish can recover.

I would try feeding your black neons more than once a day, twice minimum and that may help.

Sorry your post made me laugh.... I think you unfortunately already know the answer, last time you had to strip the tank and tilt it on edge to catch the blighter :mad: Alternatively keep it as a single fish only tank with hardy plants and be traumatised by the fishes taunting character daily...

Definitely a sucking loach. Can get quite large and boisterous in old age!

looks like a barb of some kind, perhaps dwarf golden barb? http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/pethia-gelius/

Thanks for the advice, ive decided to keep neither :)

Thanks roadmaster. Ive actually found a site dedicated to apistogramma and it seems perhaps a group of male only dwarf cichlids may be a better choice. I may just stick to Rams. Ill do some more research. :thumbup:

Hi all, after a little advice. Im wanting to add some dwarf cichlids - apistogramma species and ram cichlids to a set up i have. It is primarily an angelfish tank, but has a small school of corydoras duplicareus a few otto catfish and will have another school of 'dither' type fish, cardinals...

.....Clive told me :) ;)

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Hi Bertie, sorry to hear about the silver tip. Do you pre heat your water change water or is it just cold water used? if all the rest are ok id think it was a weak/old fish that has been easily effected by shock of some kind.

2 nets. 1 white one green. Use the white net to heard the green net to catch. For some reason the green nets seem less visible to fish. I discovered this whilst catching out my fish recently from a still hardscaped and semi planted tank :).....felt like sharing that with the young lad trying to...

This is what we want to see. Super conditioned fish living in our lush green tanks....the ideal combo :) Do you think this food will be ok long term or more of a conditioner? Are you feeding once, twice or more times a day? Really tempted to make some and see the effects for myself, is there any...

Tidied this thread up a little upon request. Try to remember that the forum is public and whilst good humour is embraced, members are encouraged to be considerate when posting, tongue in cheek can sometimes be seen as offensive :) Cheerio, Ady.

i think he needs to package it and sell it :) Natureboy, your bleeding hearts look stunning.

I'm sure this happened to someone else on the forum too! Its crazy that it can actually get in there. I doubt it would ever happen again.....

Also loaches will eat shrimp :)

i think its his signature picture , difficult to tell what it is exactly though from that picture.

your Mrs must be a saint, first moss yoghurt in the blender, now bloodwrom, brine shrimp and various other delicacy fish foods mixed with the blender.....note to self, never eat at Georges place :p Sounds great, but my Embers are bigger than your embers...they take bloodworms and smoke them like...

Nannostomus Marginatus.....Marginatus pencilfish, I like them too :)

As George said its not critical immediately, but just redose the one you dosed on the day of the water change. Ei is based on an excess anyway and whilst adapting your plants uptake won't be as high. With regards reducing lighting and co2, if you want to reduce lighting intensity significantly...

Regards ei dosing, just do it after your water change. Alternatively just add a proportionate amount of ferts back in to the water removed. Say for a 50% water change add another half dose of ferts after it to bring the levels back up.

Hi Andrew, I know it may be bad news but I'd suspect ammonia poisoning. Even with the Africana soil there will be an ammonia leaching period and I don't think 2x 50% water changes in the first week will be enough especially in a heavily stocked aquarium. The problem with ammonia is that it...

Think they are slightly different to the 'Peru' version Darell identified, but difficult to tell from toadass' avatar.

Robocop catfish, Nannoptopoma sp. Robocop | Features | Practical Fishkeeping

Seem to remember them featured in a shop tour in PFK one time....£9 each or something....could be wrong on the price but yeah a cool little fish :)

Hi Hixy, there are a lot if shrimp species that are happy at room temperatures, some even prefer it cooler. They also are small enough for nano tanks and are very interesting to watch. Cherry shrimp are tough cookies and would be an excellent starter choice. My CRShrimp nano tank has Crystal...

Hi, 'Sticleback' is the name of a native British fish we have here. As children many of us will have visited our local streams to catch them, much in the same way you can catch the butterfly barb above. Cheerio Ady

Sorry for spamming up your thread Zanguli-ya-zamba.... Nothing at all buddy....... nice one George!

yeah, lovely little fish. One of my LFS had them in a while ago, but they were pricey. Zanguli-ya-zamba, are you saying you wild source these? thats pretty :cool:

Yeah I'd second Ian there, tetra prima is a great all rounder, some floats some sinks so everything gets some. I also use the tetra min crisps, there's different types which I use for variety.

Yeah they are lovely, but conflicting stories on shrimp hunting and temperature requirements. Will be good to see how yours do as these would be ideal if they will go temperate :thumbup:

Cheers Rick. Got a few cherries but intend on getting some amanos.....will prob buy them from pets at home, they are like king size prawns! Then I may get 5 or 6 zebra loaches :)

Fancying some temperate fish for my room temp CRS tank. Will white clouds eat my CRS? Is there anything small enough that will live in 21-22degree celcius water that won't? Cheers Ady

Thanks guys, love zebra loaches but don't want anything that will eat my shrimp. Rick, do you have shrimp with your zebras?

As above, do these interesting little fellas do the good old loach trick of schnaffling up pest snails?...I have an epidemic of some small white mollusc like crustaceans that I want gone and fancy some khulis. It would be an added bonus if they got rid of them for me as I don't think they will...

Good point Darren. Pygmy rasboras would be good. Ady.

8) and thanks. Good luck with the tank mate, ive found it to be a really nice nano, although i dont like the supplied light. Google image micro rasboras or micro/nano fish, theres a few others worth a look too. Microrasbora Kubotai are understated, Ember tetras too, and chilli rasboras are nice...

Check out some if the micro rasbora species. They would be ideal. Maybe some galaxy rasboras. I'd agree with krazypara that 2 dozen would be too many and I'd be looking at around a dozen fish max. Cheerio Ady

Check out this link: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=19971&hilit=rams+nitrate it may put your mind at ease :thumbup:

One of my local fish shops had these a few weeks ago....I can't remember the name though but I'm sure they're not rosy tetras. I nearly bought them so I should remember....but I cant :roll:

Hi all, wondering people's experience with acceptable temperatures for these little beauties. My tank is room temperature 21-22 celcius which is prob borderline too low from what I've read but what are people's experiences, would they be ok long term or is it just too low. Don't really want to...

looks like a panchax sp. killifish. Thats my best guess. Killis are annual fish in the wild, laying eggs in the mud as the dry season comes around, when the wet season begins the following year the eggs hatch and the cycle continues. Probably explains the mystery arrival. Member Killi69 seems...

Very similar routine to what i used to do and my Harlequins used to do it occasionally too, i always put it down to c02....it did seem to be at water change time though, maybe something to do with the filters going off and high levels of c02? No other fish did this though.??? Maybe as Ian said...

are you injecting c02....if so its probably too high, if not ive no idea!

Paradise fish.....a fat one!

Hi there, i run my crs shrimp tank heaterless as they prefer around 22 degrees c which my room temp maintains. Ive thought about going heaterless on the studio tank but im apprehensive about it. Im concerned about any long term issues with lower temps as many of the fish we desire like 75-77...

I don't see any reason why you can't have plecs. You just need to add extra surface agitation and possibly an air stone. Of course you will use more c02 in doing so but you can have high levels of both oxygen and carbon dioxide within water. Co2 doesn't mean less oxygen and infact a healthy...

must be one of those very narrow tanks is it?

poor fish....tds 700 doesnt sound quite right for these...but hey, theyve got that big in there :silent:

Hi, look like parrot cichlids (http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=parrot ... s:76,i:348) to me, as opposed to the golden severums (http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=golden ... s:108,i:78) which have a less 'humped' head shape. Clown loach and Tinfoil barbs look correct id. Cheerio, Ady.

You do right striking while the iron is hot! Edge should be fine for the betta. The small surface area of these tanks means that oxygen exchange is limited, but labyrinth fish obviously dont mind this so much as they breathe air. They will find the 'air hole' where the surface is open no...

:lol: 10cm i read ....but its obviously wrong looking at all the inforamtion available as 1.4" seems the concensus. I could have misread of course or been looking at 2 tags and mixing them up :roll: Anyway they are great looking LITTLE :wink: fish, just a shame for me they like it a bit...

Hi mate, was over at paddock farm today and saw these again, they are very nice but they had them listed as growing to 10cm so prob get a fair bit bigger than standard issue ottos if they are correct. Cheerio, Ady.

My bettas used to eat shrimp. Botias are supposed to be a no go too! Some people seem to have more luck than others, but from what ive learned it is more luck than compatability.

Hi, i must admit when i read that article in PFK i was surprised at the recommendation to say the least....to the point i questioned it being a typo....will be interesting to hear others opinions. Big fish with big waste must need a very good filter and maticulous maintenance regime in that...

...indeed, im suffering with planaria at the moment. Think ill try some of the shrimp friendly treatments available from freshwatershrimp, if that doesnt do the trick ill try warm prawn in a bag baiting!!

Hi Joe, thanks for the links, its definitely a reticulatus :thumbup: That first link you posted was the same google image i found but i somehow missed the name :roll: . And in Sanjs identification thread the last one is the one i have so as you say it looks to be a well natured but bigger...

Cheers guys, i know the two common types of flying fox, i used to have a siamensis before i gassed it :( , and of course the original yellower fish with the stripe. My google image search only came up with one that looked similar with the checkerboard markings and caudal spot, but you had to...

Hi, bought myself a few additional fish today and did something i never do.... bought a fish i knew nothing about :oops: :shock: . They came to maidenhead aquatics as flying fox, but i know nothing about their temperament, size, etc and was wondering if anyone could help out. Its very shy at...

? are you a..... Jack Dempsey?

i like Khuli loaches, theyre great scavangers and watching out for them is part of the fun!

Hi, i havnt kept black neaons before, but was thinking of using them in my next scape along with marbled hatchetfish, a much more subtle looking fish choice but with enough interest. I see them more in 'rustic', mature looking scapes such as Tony Swinney's island scape. However i can see your...

Ha Ha, yeah Amano has a very unique sense of humour apparently, reading something recently in substrates i think on an ADA powersand thread, Plantbrain (Tom Barr) had asked him (Amano) what was in his powersand.... to which he replied "power"!! :lol: , dont think Tom found it too funny. With...

Hi, i think ceg4048 answerd the q on p1, then we went off a little but still quite relevant. surely youve seen Mark Evans last journal, he used lower c02, 2x T5 suspended quite high, and check out his growth! With this way of doing things he's the Amano of UKAPS! Cheerio, Ady.

Yeah, ultimately its the aquarists responsibility to care for the aquarium and its inhabitants. Due care and attention needs to be applied to all aspects of fishkeeping, and the addition of c02 enrichment in the planted tank is just an extension of this. As i was writing my post...

Thats ok, i dont mind looking stupid. :lol:

I know what you mean, hence 'mini ecosystems' of sorts. More of a manageable dependant system. However still interesting to find out more about c02 in nature to see what the fish out there have to put up with. Cheerio, Ady.

Hi, its an interesting point, but id also like to know to what level water is c02 enriched in nature where the plants grow naturally. Obviously were trying to recreate a 'mini ecosystem' of sorts, but if c02 isnt present in the water column in such high concentrations in nature, where do...

Hi, what filter do you have? i think even if its standard juwel filtration that level should be no problem with regular water changes and general tank maintanence. Id maybe add one new species at a time so as not to overload the filter. Another consideration is that when the angels get bigger...

Wow Tom, thats some diversity of fish you have there! Ive never seen a puffer puffed before! Does he do it regularly? Love the killifish. Ady.

Hi there, i noticed this same behaviour with my harlequins a while back. It was during a phase of trying to optimise c02 which i had just increased, i therefore drew a conclusion of c02 overdose.... perhaps wrongly? Ill be interested to see other replies. Ady.

Hi there, youve done the right thing disconnecting the c02 and raising the filter to oxygenate. Id also suggest a 50% water change to ensure no other water quality issues. Hopefully theyll pull through if it is c02 related. If the c02 is running continuously, newly purchased fish will need...

Scratch this q, ive seen in another part of the forum that its going to be planted.... it as the uk aquatic plant society after all :oops: , none the less im still very interested to see how it will look so hope the journal will go up soon. Ady.

Hi George, great looking angels, and a great feature in PFK. Was just wondering if a journal will be going up as im really interested on seeing them in the profile tank. Is it biotope specific again or have you been tempted to plant it up? I really like the non planted biotope set up you have...