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Hi everyone, My bristlenose hatched fine at the start of the month and are developing fine. They're just over a 1cm long and really cute. I think there are about 10 that survived and they are constantly munching on anything edible. They've done a better a job of removing algae than a group of...

Hi everyone, Just an update on my BN fry. All the eggs have hatched now and can just see their tiny white tales fanning about but Dad is keeping them covered and is constantly fanning. The fry still have their yolk sac with them, guess it will take a few days for them to digest that up. What...

The eggs have hatched and the fry are with the dad under the bogwood. WICKED!!!. He's constantly fanning them now. There's still one that hasn't hatched. I fry have got good flow of water aswell as the dad has decided to have his cave near to the filter inlet. I've had my water tested and...

The male is guarding the eggs from time to time. I think there may be anothe clutch of eggs as he disappear for periods of time. i have seen him cleaning and fanning the eggs aswell. I have made a small network with three caves. I haven't disturbed other caves. this is the first time they have...

I found a clutch of eggs while I was messing with the tank the other day. They are strong orange and can already see small white catfish around the yolk sac with their black eyes, so they are not far from hatching. Here's the best pic I could get of them with my crappy camera. Tried to use a...

Plecs are very good magicans for making dead fish disappear very quickly

The flow is pretty strong as I am using the spray bar that came with the tank. The fish don't seem to mind the strong flow but don't like to be in it all the time as majority of the time I find them where the flow doesn't dictate their movement. The shoaling is interesting as the movement of the...

Once they are bigger you should be able to remove the spnoges covering the inlets. I have a 54l tank and am planning to have a total of 31 boraras brigittae with 5 shrimps and 2 bristlenoses. I only have 16 at the moment but shoal real nice. I would say about 15 in your 35l tank depending on...

AdAndrews I have ordered some at Aquajardin in GLoucester that are coming in a couple of weeks as I have had no luck nearby with the LFS. You may have better chance online and won't have top wait a couple of weeks for them to arrive. I have had a batch off them before and are doing really...

Got rid of the loaches after labouring hour. Tried trapping them in pipes with bloodworms to entice them but no luck at all. Got impatient and removed all plants and decor in the tank. Chased them with the NET!!!. One hid in the pipe, just got him before he scuttled out. The older one (much...

Don't know why I didn't think of that method as they do love their piping. I took most of the tank apart last night and spent nearly an hour catching with a net and a small cup but they always have a planned escape route. One dug himself under the cup. Gonna try the pipe idea today which I got...

Don't know why I didn't think of that method as they do love their piping. I took most of the tank apart last night and spent nearly an hour catching with a net and a small cup but they always have a planned escape route. One dug himself under the cup. Gonna try the pipe idea today which I got...

I have been trying to get rid of the 2 pakistani loaches I have in my planted tank but with no luck. I don't want to move the wood and plants about to catch them till last resort. I have tried trapping them in bottle with some algae wafers at the end of the bottle but do not go in the bottle at...

Cheers for everyone's advice. The rasbora are doing really well now and shoal amazingly well. I have got them feeding off fine flaked food but are still too small for cyclops, I think, as they spit it back out straight away. The loaches tried to get at the rasboras for a few days but no longer...

Cheers for the advice. I tried to crush the Tetra Pro Colour crisps up into finer pieces which worked well on some of them. I also added some cyclops and brine shrimp to the mix and found that some wanted cyclops, some on the pro colour and couple trying the brine shrimp. They must have been...

I'm little trouble feeding these critters at the moment. I've tried Tetra Pro Color, flake food and frozen cyclops but only some are taking to them. Any ideas welcomed.

I bought 18 for my 60l tank for £24 and are they are doing amazing. they won't stop wandering about as group, following each other in a line. They are hard to see at first but at a closer look there is so much detail to these little critter. They really do look like tiny mosquitos. Would...

Hi, I'm from Worcester. I rang Aquajardin in Gloucester and said they would have some in two weeks. So i'm going to get them from there as its an amazing shop and I don't have to hassle with ringing other shops Andyh, Your 60l tank is out of this world. I can't believe you we're able to fit...

I work in an off license so I've had a good read of the newest PFK mag, its just some LFS I have called have said that they are very active and curious fish and are not shy at all but I trust more of what is said in PFK more than LFS. I am planning to house them in my 2ft tank with a couple of...

Experiences with Boraras Brigittae ( Mosquito Rasbora) I would like to know if anyone has kept Boraras Brigittae in their tank and their experiences of them as there are mixed opinons on how these fish behave.

Cheers for the replies guys. I am planning to just have them and 2 bristlenose plecs and some amano shrimps so they should be confident enough to behave normal. Seems I may have to travel a bit to get these fish as none of the LFS stock these wicked fish at all. Cheers again for the help.

I am planning to replace my Dwarf Neon Rainbows with a shoal of 15-20 Boraras brigittae. Does anyone know any fish store that stocks them in the midlands? Also would they survive with bengal loaches? They are very active and curious but have yet to eat any of my amano shrimps. Any advice would...

Loaches are the best in removal of snails naturally but the baby cherry shrimps will more than like be eaten but the adults will have a greater chance of surviving. I have amano shrimps in my 60lt with bengal loaches and they are fine but get the loaches get the urge to try their luck on the...

I think it is just a build of ammonia or nitrate levels out of their tolerence. Possibly do some water changes over the next few days.

Why doesn't my LFS do any of these amazing fish. Would DEFINITELY have had shoaling fish like those!!

My first fish were cardinal tetras and black phantom tetras. I found that the cardinal tetras were prone to a motor neurone disease which meant them losing control of muscular motion, if I'm thinking about the right fish of course.

I thought as much. Cheers

Hey, I have 3 bengal loaches in my 60l tank and with them are 5 amano shrimps. I would like to get some red crystals (RC) shrimps aswell but feel that they may get eaten or chased to death by the loaches. The loaches have come accustomed to the amano shrimps in the tank but the addition of more...

Cheers for the reply.a a The scales only seem to fall off at the latter stages of bloating. I did not observe any pineing effect of the scales, just some flaking off by the digestive system just to the bloating of the stomach. I have re checked the water quality and all seems to be fine. I...

Hi, I had 5 neon blue rainbowfish and lost one yesterday. It had been gasping for about a week and was being to bloat up. Yesterday some scales could be seen protruding off and died later that evening. The water parameters are all within the suitable requirements. What I have now seen this...

I've been putting more algae wafers in the tank since I started this topic and I can't seem to find any more deteoriation of any of the plants. So I can clearly assume its either the shrimps or the ancistrus, more likely the ancistrus as the shrimps would have chewed all the plants away and not...

I have just finished trimming my plants and doing a water change. I found something had been munching on my L. Aromatica. I know the Ancistrus will destroy leaves of plants as it tries to collect algae of it but will it actually tear apart stems. It has happened to 2 out the 3 stems. There are...