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Link one:female link two: male link three: female

Try to minimise disruption as much as possible, sometimes it is better to do two water changes over a few days than one big one in a day, also try not to agitate the water too much when refilling, ie: straight from a hose. The more water changes you do when you have fry the faster they grow due...

I have half a dozen bristlenose, might be skittish at first but soon settle in, also have a boatload of trumpet snails to move things about..

All look like females to me, need a better pic of top fish.

Lokks like you have a pair, make sure you have some breeding caves so they do not harass your other fish.

Have looked and the top pic is a male, the bottom fish by the pic you posted looks to be a female by the roundness of the anal fin, can you take a better pic?

I took them out and put them in a couple of tubs, they were fine in the kitchen, covered the tubs over as well so we had no jumpers.. (ps. I am now logged in as my wife and not as bigbadbaz)

Maidenhead aquatics is at strikes, they are good, fish alive are excellent, Peter Barrats are ok for run of the mill fish. There are also two fish shops in billingham on Mill Lane that are good as well.

I have the same unit, leave it switched off, use the manual pump to prime the body, make sure the little ball is in the intake or it will not work, when you see the water comping out of the outflow when you are pumping the handle it is primed, then switch back on and away it will go.

They do not sell fish if you look at the shops stock.

Take a ty wrap or piece of wire, kink the airline coming from the pump to the airstone and fold it over, by experimenting you can regulate the amount of air going through till you can get a proper valve. Once you have what you want use ty wrap or wire to hold it, it will not cause any damage to...

We bought a male krib last month got "him" home with in 24 hours we knew he was a she in the end we had to go and buy a adult pair, its very hard with kribs and I googled lots of images using the Pelvicachromis pulcher proper name.

I make mine a slightly different way, I use a 25mm and 38mm hole cutter and a drill, Drill some holes in it where ever you want, use a blunt knife to scoop the meat out from inside via the holes you have drilled, give it a rinse and it is done, Whole coconuts look good in large tanks, and if you...

I run my airstones a few hours a day when I am home I'd never leave them running 27/7 but I love watching the fish playing in the flow.