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Yes, although to be fair that applies to all meds as most of us don't establish a control group when we treat our fish! That may explain my bias - you just listed most of the fish I ever kept (as a kid my tank was a sort of generation ship full of livebearers)! It does annoy me however when...

Would you dose salt with that approach? I’m one of those “always tries salt before reaching for other meds” people. Great posts BTW, especially on catching fish - took me years to figure all that out on my own!

Off topic but the tank is looking lovely and will be really beautiful when it grows in. Good luck with the ESHA treatment and let us know how it goes. If they are brand new fish it may be worth letting your LFS know so if the treatment doesn’t work you can take them back. Sent from my...

Sorry, this is rude, but are you quite sure they were Amano’s, I thought that was impossible!? When I added Angelfish to the tank in my profile photo my Amano’s somehow relocated themselves to live inside my Eheim filter. The numbers slowly dwindled, I always wondered if that was the angelfish...

Would that work on a ONF FLAT NANO LED light? That’s 15W, the dumb one with 3 pre-set dimming levels not the smart one with an app.

Interesting. I may be imagining this but I seem to recall reading that Amano himself recommended raising your filter return at night to provide surface agitation and so better aeration. So this is certainly a thing. As an alternative to an airstone, if you still wanted to automate this you...

Thanks beeky, this is how it seems to be with me too. The angels are now oblivious to the neons, and the neons are not schooling so tight anymore (although I did see the whole school perform a sudden about face when confronted with an angel in a narrow space yesterday, which was funny) which...

Well, today thank goodness, the angels have stopped overtly chasing the neons all over the tank and are going about their normal business. I am suspicious they might be either covertly or opportunistically hunting them, but they are studiously ignoring the neons as far as I can tell. The neons...

:oops: Yes, yes, I was warned about this - I am a subborn headed fool :oops: It is more likely yours truly who is guilty of wishful thinking than the angels... But when I saw RedStevo was keeping ember tetras with full grown angels I went into a sort of denial... His angels must lack the...

Finally found some false/green/blue neon tetra's (Paracheirodon simulans) and added a dozen this evening. They are quite small - 2cm, but I figured they can grow before my two angels get big enough to eat them (the angels are about 4.5 cm). However, within two minutes of me adding them the...

That's very helpful thank you. I've not got them yet, I bought 12 Rummy nose tetra's which came down with whitespot scotching my plan to add a dozen false neons and then Xmas hols came & I want to be around the first 2 weeks after I add new fish. My LFS gets the Czech rams and they seem feisty...

Well, I've been at 30 degrees and 1 teaspoon of salt/40 litres for 10 days now. Its 6 days since I last saw a spot, so it looks like this was a good approach. My LFS sold me some JBL Malachite Green medicine but reading about it on Wikipedia its really nasty stuff for fish, so I'm glad not to...

Is Jeremy Gay the journalist really more famous than George Farmer - well known planted tank aquarium blogger, aquascaper and photographer, AGA judge, podcast star, PFK contributor, UKAPS founder, Tropica, JBL and Easlife publicist and author?

It is ich. Friday night they had cleared but I kept increasing the temp, and good job, because today they re back, half a dozen per fish. I'm at 30 degrees on the thermostat, 29 on the thermometer. Will tweak it up another degree. I've moved my filter outlet up to the surface to help the...

Indeed, don't overreact, but better chance of success if you strike sooner rather than later... Ho hum.

Frantastic link, thank you Scott. I knew the Rummies like heat, and Amano shrimp like salt, and Ottos don't like salt. Combining that article with Dusko's experience I'm going to replicate the Dusko treatment above. All the chemical treatments seem to either kill filter bacteria, inverts, or...

Should probably post on another forum altogether but no idea where... I added 12 rummy nose tetra's last Saturday and they seem to be doing well - coloured up, eating fine, schooling up and down - but I notice some of them have a single pinhead white spot in either dorsal region or actually on...

If you want to try to breed them John Rundle at PFK has advice: http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/show_article.php?article_id=504

Hi Jay, Hi Ed, thanks for your answers! I can imagine your Apisto rounding up the discus like sheep...! But they are complex, VM is right, I need a book. Now I'm confused - I can only have one male, but you suggest two trios - which I take to mean 1 male, 2 females which would mean 2 males 4...

Yes, 90x45x50H, its full of crypts and ferns so it will eventually be a jungle. Could I keep 2 pairs of Apistos instead of rams? This is all very helpful Mark, thank you. Just checked this lunchtime, my LFS has some very small and cute yellow rams from Czech ("buy me", they whisper), plus...

How many Blue German Rams (Mikrogeophagus ramirezi) should I get for my planted 200L tank? I'm thinking 2 pairs - will there be enough space? Tank mates will be Ottos, various shrimp and a school of rummy nose and false neon tetras. Also, I've little knowledge of Apistogramma but is there a...

The best school I saw was Barracuda this summer - we were scuba diving and a school of maybe 1000 went right around us in a vortex - a wall of fish only 2 or 3 metres away, each a metre long. They were so tightly packed it was incredible. Nothing I've seen in freshwater comes close. But...

In a really nice Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphessobrycon_pulchripinnis) on Lemon Tetra's it explains why a some tetra's break up and even become terratorial: So in this case you do need the threat fish to get them back in a group. However, I wonder if the level of threat...

As George says, congrats on breeding the wonderful CGs. What water parameters and diet did you use to get them to breed?

Where are they from apart from "Asia"? I'm planning a Malaysian theme tank with Gouramis (chocolate if I'm feeling brave) and Rasbora of some kind. Not seen these cuties before but I'm not 100% convinced by your identiication either, Beaky... :wink: EDIT - OK, looks conclusive...

Iwagumi tank so presumably you have them spawning in some dwarf hairgrass or ricca or something? Can we see pictures? They sound much more charismatic and less prolific than my guppies. The baby males have these delta fins, can't swim very well, so they get eaten. I have 20 fry of various...