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Your fish will have travelled thousands and thousands of miles, often from South America or the far east. Providing the fish are suitably packed (which they should be, if coming from any semi-decent LFS) they'll be absolutely fine with no special care! All this extra attention to try and...

My bristlenose plecs do that :shock: If I put my hand in the tank, particularly the male, will swim over and happily sit rasping at my hand, and is now tame enough for me to pick him up and move him round the tank :lol:

Good 20+ Asian Rummynose in a 500L tank showed no shoaling characteristics at all, quite all over the place. Sometimes they stayed together in a lose general group, but nowhere near the tight shoaling you get with standard Rummynoses.

Depends on the individual store. These sort of decisions are at the managers discretion. The shop buys them in for peanuts in the first place, from a trusted supplier. So it makes no sense to pay more than peanuts considering the source they're coming from can't be verified/100% trusted.

I've seen first hand a not quite fully grown Oscar eat a blue "lobster"(actually a crayfish). Took well over an hour to fully swallow it, with the antennae sticking out his mouth the whole time. So I've no doubt other similarly large cichlids could give it a good shot.

Markups are a helluva lot more than that over here :lol: Wild otos cost pennies a piece, bred otos cost many times more, so the majority available are still wild caught. I don't doubt some shops sell tank bred ones, but you pay a premium for it!

The majority of "ordinary" otos available are still wild caught. Captively bred 'ordinary' otos are much more expensive than those that are wild caught, hence why they are not commonly seen.

It's nothing to do with a decrease in wild populations hiking prices up, it's simply poor management with shops not knowing where to order their fish from and so paying silly money for them.

Re: Help me sex my Ram's :) With males the black spot is pure solid black, whereas the females have the blue spangles, as Ed said. That can range from just one small blue dot to the whole of the black spot being covered in blue dots. Pick up another female, and try choosing yourself :D...

Not sure when that was written, but they have been bred in captivity and have been bred commercially. Though lets just say they're a tad more expensive.. :lol: :lol:

They're not impossible to breed. Captive bred sources are available.

Nannostomus mortenthaleri! :P

From a shop, for a full size mature adult, maybe about £10 or so per fish. From a breeder, less. Getting them from different sources would be good, but that doesn't guarantee you a mix of genes - they could still be related!

Whoops, but of an old thread, sorry! Glad things have settled down :)

Ammonia (and nitrite) readings are enough to stop a fish from eating. I doubt you'd be too hungry if you were being poisoned! :o Daily water changes and any squeezings of filter sponges from another tank would help if you have one.

I don't really understand where this 'otos are fragile' idea has come from? We had a delivery of them last week at work, probably a few hundred in total. To date we have lost just one, which I think is the probably the lowest loss rate out of all the fish. I'd go with about 10 otos and some...

Really strange that! They managed to kill my apple snails which were a good 4cm. Would've thought the nerites would be even more vulnerable. Maybe I'll try some then :)

My couple of bristlenose don't damage any of my plants. But they don't do much else either :roll:

The striata are brilliant - probably one of my favourite fish :D The only snail I've had survive with them is MTS, all others they've picked out fast! Get some otos to replace the nerites..another of my favourite fish! :lol:

While I've never kept the 2 together, my Botia striata managed to harass and eventually kill 3 adult apple snails, which are more beefy than nerite snails, so I wouldn't advise it.

Boesemani aren't overly endangered any more I don't think. Most stock you see in shops will be captive bred rather than wild caught. Your tank size is fine for a group - I now have 3 adults in my 96L and they're doing great - spawning regularly and always showing off. Managed to save some of the...

How bizarre! :( I put mine in at a smaller size and all they got was a quick chase around the tank :?

Any more progress? :)

I don't see how removing and then reintroducing them later on will solve anything? As has been pointed out, the angels will grow quicker, so the only way that could work is if you put the angels in a very small tank to stunt their growth, which is of course ridiculous! Just take the neons back...

You should find both species get on well together. Not as natural as a group of just striata, but there shouldn't be aggression or anything, and they will tend to stay in a group together. I think most loaches are partial to snails. Not sure how effective the darios are first hand, but even if...

Well done on the fry mate :) I moved mine into the main tank when they were 1.5-2cm and apart from the odd chase the adults didn't bother them, and they're now growing nicely!

In the wild puffers identify food simply by taking chunks out of things to assess it. I'd think putting puffers in a 'community' tank is a bit risky, I know of other people that have done this and, as is their nature, the puffers have torn/bitten fins even on fish a hell of a lot bigger than...

Eds, I hope you don't mind me asking, but which school do you work at? :P