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Ooo mort with the habrosus avatar. I best listen :) Problem is I like the clean look. I do it because it keeps my maintenance low. But, I duly have taken your advice and have now added a little rock cave under the bigger driftwood cave. My habrosus are all about it. Let's see if it makes them...

It's true. I just like this sparse look showcasing that wood however. The cories clean my fine sand substrate so I never have to vacuum and my snails clean the glass. All I have to do is a monthly water change and filter rinse, and feed it. The moss grows too slowly to need to trim. I would get...

I feed my embers grindal worms once a day - easy to culture any time of year.

Yeah my LFS 'The Goldfish Bowl' has a consistent source of embers that get FIRE red. They're awesome. The water here is ph 7.5 and medium hard even. It seems to me there are different 'varieties' of embers. Some get red, others not so much. Thanks!

So I thought I would give my experiences of keeping different numbers of embers, as I have tried keeping different school sizes. I will also back up what I am saying with photos. With 5 fish in both a 35l and a 60l tank they hide constantly in an invisible back corner at the bottom of the tank...

Here is the 35l tank before the relocation And here is the 60l tank after. One change that I do notice, now that you mention is, is most of the floating plant surface cover has died off (because I started growing some plants out the back of the tank, and the competition for nutrients kills my...

I have 11 dwarf cory habrosus in a 60l tank on sand. I initially got 8 of them in 2016, but they regularly breed for me and some young survive naturally. They used to be real brave, out and about wriggling all the time, but in the last year they have gotten shier and shier. Six weeks ago I had...

It's kind of annoying. My ember tetras are spoiled and seem to just eat the live grindal worms I feed them. They also don't eat my frozen food. This has gone on for almost four years. Any experience here on the dry and frozen food products they will actually eat?

This is so true. Mine have been hiding for years. Just threw an Endler in there and viola. Out and about. Love them bold endlers!

Because time is of the essence. And when you need it there's no time to post it and your LFS wont have it. So buy it now! What do you all consider essential in your fish emergency medicine cabinet?

I keep one extra tank going that is minimally stocked. It has been crucial if I want to quarantine and in saving lives. In particular shrimp, if I mess up with a water change and they curl up like dead roaches I plonk them in the quarantine tank and 'poof' they revive. Disaster averted. I also...

I find that the risk of catastrophe is too great to allow house-sitters to do anything to tanks. Even 'fishkeepers' are too risky and I would only trust tried and true experts. Everyone else should be instructed not to do anything to the tank and feed nothing. Healthy fish can survive 2-3 weeks...

Great battle.

Just read about Channa sp. "Assam" or Channa Bleheri, that could be viable too, as apparently it has a lot of personality and doesnt grow as big as other snakeheads.

This is the fish you want. Sundadanio axelrodi.

captive-bred angelfish become quite tame and would work with the plecs. Like steve said, puffers have the most personality of any fish I am aware of, but would like pick at your plecs---damaging and eventually killing them...

FYI assassin snails can also kill shrimp. So when the carnage is over it's best to remove them.

I have to warn you that Leopoldi's grow BIGGER than regular scalare angels---I would say 15-20% bigger. Have a look for yourself. http://www.uk-angelfishforum.org.uk/t19 ... n-scalares Whoever started that myth that they don't grow as big doesnt know what they are talking about, though they...

How high CO2? Dont go over 30ppm and you should be fine with most fish. If you want to be sure, start off with low CO2 and gradually increase until you see them hovering near the surface (this is dangerous though so you must be there to monitor/ do an immediate water change b/c you can kill your...

Got me 2 nannostomus unifasciatus. Trying to get more as when there are only two they fight constantly, but do no damage. Here are some photos;

I use a pipette to harvest copepods, but if you want eradication you need to keep fish in the tank.

Darrel, could you elaborate on 'cleaning' eggs? You mean eat the fungused ones and leave the rest alone? Why dont MTS eat the good eggs too? Would they eat smaller eggs of say tetras? Many thanks for your input.

thanks for sharing.

epic! Thanks for sharing matt.

You say 5 zebra snail (very new inhabitant) If these are asolene spixi, they are the cause of your problem. Cheers.

Ok. For the record. I just want everyone to know that mlgt is lying. I was over at his house at the weekend and his rummys were shoaling tight and beautifully, sans discus or any other 'big' fish. If he really wants a group of tighter packed fish in his tank, might I suggest adding a few sardine...

Yeah were eating great. I had lots of live food in the tank too-tons of scuds (gammarus sp.) swimming around...

I kept several in a 55gal 100% freshwater with excellent filtration and adequately cycled, and they only lasted a few weeks for me, gradually dying off. Dont know why. Really cool to watch, but were sensitive little buggers for me...

Epic Rik! BTW, Though you might like to think one day they will take after you and start driving suped-up corollas and open a take-away shark-fin soup kitchen, those are not 'Asian' rummynoses. Don't feel bad, south american ones do have other benefits though, namely drug connections and...

Sorry mate, to hold my interest you gotta keep escalating.

Hell yeah. Rik, you are my idol. I can't wait to see this beast (350L) of yours with that HUGE shoal. Epic

Go for an invert tank :P The other thing you could do are endlers, a pair of badis, the Dwarf Pencilfish (Nannostomus marginatus), or a few killies (I like clown killies)

I have 3l of ADA Aquasoil Amazonia 1 that is 9 months olds in a 20l tank and it lowers my Kh of 13 from the tap to 2, and Ph from 8.3 to 6.5.

good to know thanks.

Are Garras relatively shrimp safe like otos?

I had severums eat my hygrophilas before. So yes, they are herbivorous. In fact, I took the back the LFS because of it.

Hmmm, I know Rummy noses are one of the best schoolers. I have read that Asian rummy noses however are not. Black neons are poor schoolers as they are some what territorial. In fact, any territorial tetra like the bleeding hearts, serpaes, Black Phantom etc will not school very well (unless they...