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Yup, look like macmasteri to me. Sent from my HUAWEI GRA-L09 using Tapatalk

Raising the temperature that high is going to be pretty hard on the plants and any livestock. I've had good results with Protozin in planted tanks, doesn't seem to do any harm and very effective at clearing whitespot.

No idea if it's truly an adaptive response but I quite often see this behaviour when catching neons in the shop - they'll bob about like gonners for a few moments in the bag before righting themselves and continuing as normal. Sent from my Lenovo K50-t5 using Tapatalk

I'd go with male, but to be honest I seem to get these wrong as often as I'm right.

More like licorice gouramis I think Troi - very quiet and retiring fish by all accounts. Haven't kept them myself but have seen them a couple of times and they struck me as pretty timid. Lovely little fish but they'll want a nice subdued tank and lots of cover.

There are quite a number of distinct oto species, many of them very similar looking and never really distinguished in the trade. Take a look at planet catfish or somewhere similar. Sent from my Xperia T using Tapatalk

Not tempted by the Hisonotus then? They're pretty much the ultimate oto I reckon. Edit: hah, posted at the same time. Fair enough, I think they're amazing.

I'll just leave this here..... http://pieraquatics.com/shop/product.php?id_product=105

My otos are pretty keen on the spirulina crumb from TA Aquaculture but will happily take anything they can find. Some nice slimey veg often goes down a treat.

Yeah it's a good idea to expect to have to supplement the diet of both otos and Amanos anyway, so really it comes down to personal preference. I'd definitely go for at least 10 of each.

Just about I reckon James. They're a bit funny in that they spend a lot of time loafing about not doing much, but when they get moving they'll cover 2 or 3 feet in about a second. Give them plenty of plants to rootle about in and they should keep themselves occupied though. The other reason I...

I wouldn't keep rosies in less than a 2 footer to be honest - really active when they get going.

Yeah it's a possibility. Haven't read enough Badis/Dario breeding reports to see if anyone has noticed a temperature effect on sex determination. I wonder if they're still definitely all wild caught or if someone is breeding them out east. A more worrying alternative would be pollution induced...

Darrell I'm sure I'm not the first to ask but if you ever find yourself with an excess of hastatus please feel free to send some my way. Sent from my LT30p using Tapatalk

Finding females is really hard. My LFS just had 100 delivered - all male. Had a chat with Colin Dunlop about this a while ago and he's had batches of very young fish that are pretty much unsexable as far as he's concerned and they've still turned out to be 99% male. So either the collectors are...

Yeah I've got feelers out for Ammos Ed ;) Sent from my LT30p using Tapatalk

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Nope I've never bred any. Worth a shot though I reckon, I can't imagine there'd be vast differences between wild ones and whatever the preferred type is for cultures. Could be wrong though!

Look under any rock or branch at this time of year and you should find plenty. They're pretty much the most numerous macroscopic animal order on the planet iirc.

Ace. Must be really fun behaviour to watch.

Phone Rare, speak to Jo or Nick and they'll let you know what's available. They post.

Try Rare Aquatics and Pier Aquatics. I'm sure I've seen Iguanodectes of some sort on at least one of their lists in the last few months - can't remember which shop or which species though!

I've never seen anything smallish not go mad for microworms. All my fish love them, up to and including my 3" peacock gobies.

Yeah as above; Colin had a bit of a break over the winter while he's been working on a big dartfrog project. He's looking at getting a new fish order in soonish when he's got some time though.

Maidenhead Aquatics occasionally have some in stock (sometimes even with the right species name!). Otherwise Colin Dunlop over at The Fish Hut gets them in occasionally, although it depends heavily on demand. They crop up now and again at decent LFS. Certainly not impossible and you've plenty of...

If you've netted them into a little plastic bag or similar then it's all pretty self contained.

I net them out into a small bag and then crush them with a brick. Pretty instant - it's hard to know how much distress is caused by any of the more prolonged methods.

In stock now at Sweet Knowle where I got mine from. They post :) Rosy Loach - SWEET KNOWLE AQUATICS ONLINE SHOP Sexing is quite hit and miss at the age they had in before, but I've bought from them twice and both times some turned out to be female.

Having said all that, females are often hard to find and not at all colourful anyway and I don't know if you'd get the same problems in a male-only setup.

Sawbwa are lovely fish, but are schooling rather than shoaling. Depends how tight you want them to be. Males are also highly combatative in my experience, at least in the presence of breeding females. I'm down to 2 adult males from my original 6. I thought I was losing them to old age, but...

That's an interesting one, never seen those before. Flubendazole sounds like a good shout, it's pretty broad spectrum.

Male Oryzias woworae I reckon, or something very similar. Oryzias woworae – Daisy’s Ricefish — Seriously Fish

It doesn't kill shrimp outright (at least not my cherries and simoni), but they really don't like it. They act really drunk and lethargic and I had about 20 or 30 that jumped clean out the tank overnight when I dosed. I think I may have overdosed though after reading some conflicting dosage...

Lovely. As long as the tank is reasonably mature with a bit of biofilm I'd guess feeding shouldn't be an issue. I think predation is likely to be the major problem if there's anything else in the tank.

Who's going to send me some eels then? :) Can swap some microworms...

Those rosies really are very slim. Tried some in a breeding setup recently with a mesh to protect scattered eggs. Mesh hole diameter can't be more than 4-5mm and the little buggers just dived right through it.

Oh yeah, obviously juvenile Channa now you guys mention it. Duh! The micropeltes pictures on the web seem to show pretty distinct stripes, but perhaps they just need to colour up. Not sure the distribution fits either, but they could be introduced.

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Nice fish! No idea what they are. Can ask for you over on SeriouslyFish if you like?

Pic broken Martin.

You might try over on the British Cichlid Association forums, more likely to find some there.

Just had the first rat-tailed maggot of the year from the half oak barrel 'pond' in my garden today. Almost nothing more entertaining than watching a 2cm bumblebee goby trying to eat a maggot of equal length.

Even if your neighbour only popped in and fed them some live foods once a week they'd OK for a while. The Hyallela aren't terribly pretty, but then you don't see them much; any that break cover during the day promptly get eaten :)

You're right in that they will almost certainly only ever take live foods. I've got a group of bumblebees which used to be in a 25 litre nano with some shrimp.... they instantly munched on all the juveniles, and then would gang up and kill the adults when they were vulnerable after moulting...

Nice fish; think I'll agree on B. pyema although I'm no expert. You might get them on to dried foods eventually, my D. hysginon happily took everything including flake after a while. Keep an eye on the female, male Badids can be real sex pests.

Dario and Badis should be very obviously different from each other, the size difference is considerable. Don't think I've ever seen P. gelius before, nice find. The rosy loaches (now reclassified to Petruichthys from Yunnanilus, Tuberoschistura arakensis was never a valid name) are awesome wee...

Annoyingly I'm in a very similar situation. Just lost my second and last female without getting them to breed successfully, so now also have two bachelor males left. Bit of a sore point to be honest.

Yeah 16 is a good number, should be lovely to watch.

Very nice, these are still quite near the top of my 'one day' list. Where did you get them from in the end?

They need very soft and clean water, low pH and exclusively live foods. Wonderful fish, but best suited to a species only setup where the focus should be on breeding them (they're increasingly threatened in the wild from habitat destruction). Also, almost all Paros are sold as P. deissneri, but...

A trio (1M, 2F) or small group of any of the Dario species would probably do well in a tank that size. Finding/correctly sexing females is very difficult though. Elasoma evergladei would be another good shout. If you can provide a good blackwater environment and extremely soft water then...

They are pretty shy. Once they settle in the males will probably start establishing little territories and showing off to each other and the females, then you'll see them more.

Male sparkling gourami can get pretty aggressive when defending a bubble nest, I doubt a female would be able to hide in a tank that small. 19 degrees is getting a bit low as well, although I have had them breed for me at 22 degrees so I don't believe the need to keep them too warm.

I wouldn't bother with them, horrible messy things. Your fish and shrimp will be fine without food for 5 days.

Colin Dunlop (The Fish Hut) up here in Scotland has just got back into action after a winter hibernation and had some in his last shipment I believe. Probably gone by now but they'll be on his lists if you can't find them elsewhere (he posts).

Afraid I'm with Darrell on this one. Just no reason to buy deformed fish like this when hobby bred wild types are available, better looking and likely to be easier to keep.

Celestial Pearl Danio - SWEET KNOWLE AQUATICS ONLINE SHOP Tropical Fish Finder.co.uk - The ultimate UK fish keeping resource for all types of tropical and marine fish, including fish books, articles, fish shops, fish clubs and more. Had fish from both of them before, good quality. £4.95...

Yeah 90% of the time its trilineatus. Corydoras trilineatus

Just be glad they'll take prepared food, half my fish won't even look at it unless its wriggling.

Kesgrave do mail order.

Yeah Kesgrave pretty much always have these guys listed.

I'm jealous, mine won't eat anything that isn't alive... wiggling frozen bloodworm will trick them into taking a bite but they always spit it back out again. They'll take microworm with disdain but go absolutely mad chasing Hyallela and enjoy mosquito larvae and rat-tailed maggots from the pond...

Mine were incredibly secretive for at least the first six months. Spent 90% of their time in the dark under the emergent plants. I see them all the time now, whether that's down to them getting used to their surroundings or feeling more secure now that the plants have grown in I couldn't say.

Mine love them :p They're not terribly good hunters though so don't seem to pick too many off, but they certainly try.

I would give puffers twice that space. Used to have 5 in a 90l and thought they were a bit cramped. Keeping them with shrimp and otos is always a gamble as well and seems to depend on individual personalities.

Rosy loaches are really active. I wouldn't keep them in anything less than a 2 footer, preferably a bit more.

While I do agree that constant water testing is often unnecessary and inaccurate, I'm also a strong believer in keeping fish in roughly the right sort of water conditions. Obviously there are plenty of very adaptable species, but a lot of the cichlid species mentioned will do much better in...

Tank size and water params? Apistogramma, Dicrossus, Kribensis or Pelvicachromis are the obvious shout, but I think keyholes are greatly underrated. Hemichromis are very good lookign fish but a bit trickier due to aggression while breeding. Actually I think hemichromis tend to dig so ignore...

Can you at least let the water sit for a bit until it gets up to room temperature? Not sure I'd be too confident about doing 50% water changes with very cold water.

Yeah they're pretty active little fish, I'd want a tank at least 45cm long I think, if not more. Something like Elassoma evergladei or Dario dario or D. hysginon would work well if you can find them (will probably need live foods though), and only 1 male in a tank that size.

Sounds good. They should be able to find plenty to eat in there.

Well done finding females! Excellent sex ratio there. Where did you get them from? Get them in a well planted tank with lots of nook and crannies and not too strong a flow. Males will want at least a square foot each to set up territories in. I'd recommend a species only tank, or with other...

Some good suggestions so far, I'd second looking at the many Betta species. Also a few further suggestions - Parosphromenus Parasphaerichthys Indostomus Brachygobius Biotecus Dario Any number of killifish (Terranatos doplichopterus are top my list)

Aye. I'm struggling to think of anything that'll eat snails but leave your shrimp alone. Could try assassin snails as an alternative?

I'm sure the doctor could have given you something on prescription Darrel. On a semi-related note, I successfully cleared up what I suspect was a gill fluke outbreak using flubendazole, which was all I had on hand.

Not closely related at all, no. They're basically rasboras (cyprinids) rather than tetras (characins).

Paedocypris progenetica is the smallest fish in the world, and I think was the smallest known vertebrate for a while, but has now been edged out by some sort of frog. Probably unlikely to find any for sale though... There are various Danionella species which are incredibly small and sometimes...

Dario dario - scarlet badis

I've kept a pair in a 25l tank with a few adult cherries without issue. However, when I had Caridinia simoni simoni in with them, they would predate the eggs while the females were still carrying them, and I never had a single shrimplet survive.

ADA Amazonia - just because I had some left over.

The water params are just using tap water and an active substrate. The fish themselves are pretty adaptable - http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/in ... paradoxus/

There's a little Dennerle corner filter in there, turned down to lowest flow.

Fun times in the toothpick tank – saw some vigorous courtship displays a couple of days ago, and today spotted a fry about 6mm, so presumably from an earlier mating. For the record; pH 6ish, 30ppm, 23 degrees. Tank shared with a trio of Parosphromenus and fed almost exclusively on micro/banana...

CPDs won't really school much. I've seen Trigonostigma espei schooling quite tightly in my friend's tank, they're a very pretty fish in a decent sized group.

Re: Anything smaller than Cichlasoma Festae but just as Stun Yup. http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/he ... -lifalili/

Re: Anything smaller than Cichlasoma Festae but just as Stun They're not a fish I've kept myself. Your best bet is asking over on the British Cichlid Association forum, and maybe Seriously Fish as well. Darrel's Hemichromis suggestion is also well worth looking into, I'd forgotten about them.

Re: Anything smaller than Cichlasoma Festae but just as Stun Well the obvious suggestion here is Apistogramma. You could probably get a trio/small group in a tank that size, and have dithers as well. Lots of personality, the odd bit of aggression and parental care of fry means they're always up...

Wildwoods are very good - expensive but excellent service and attention to fish health. Have also heard good things about Trimar and Kesgrave but haven't used them myself.

Have you checked there isn't a bubble nest somewhere? The males tend to be most aggressive when defending eggs/fry. T. pumila bubble nests tend to be very small, often just a few bubbles under a leaf somewhere so easy to miss. If so then you may need to remove the female for a while as 12l...

Wildwoods have 4 in stock according to TFF - £22 each though! http://www.tropicalfishfinder.co.uk/sto ... &prod=2688

Danio erythronmicron should do well in your water - http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/Da ... hromicron/ Also if you're into gouramis then Parasphaerichthys lineatus (http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/pa ... -lineatus/) stay very small and are from fairly hard waters. Colin over on SF...

Flubenazole (anti-helmintic worming medication) is extremely effective. I used it to kill planaria and hydra in several of my tanks; fish, shrimp and other microfauna all seemed completely fine.

Nice panchax there Matt. Wish I could get excited about the more unusual livebearers, but all I see when I look at them is fish soup full of sunken treasure chests and guppies :p

Heh, no kidding. They get to 3 feet long, weigh 40kg and live for 20 years. http://www.seriouslyfish.com/profile.ph ... cus&id=221

DPs like to rest on the bottom when they're sleeping, I think they might be in some danger then. Not something I'd like to try, personally.

Tropical Fish Finder shows Aquatic Design Centre as having them in stock.

Think this is one of those species that when people say 'live food only', they really mean it. They tend to lurk under branches and vegetation and just snap at things that move past them.

Really small things :lol: Live foods only, but they have really tiny mouths... they're mainly eating the cyclops living in the tank at the moment, along with whatever other 'invisible' stuff is in there. Even daphnia/ostracods are too big for them. Have got some micro/banana/walter worm...

Video of my Indostomus in this thread, they're bloody brilliant - http://ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20102