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Personal opinions... The angelfish, which you say are large, the shark and probably the cichlid could possibly make a fast meal of cherry barbs. Maybe consider a larger type, like the Rosy Barb, with similar colours too. More corys, definitely. Awesome fish! :good: Guppies and zebra danios...

So my baby guppies are starting to show some flecks of black, and getting a little bit bigger. At the moment they're inside a net keep, where they seem happy enough (around 15 of them), my original plan was to keep them together until they're sexable, then put all the females in a seperate net...

So all this time I've been trying to figure out what they are, and it says on the fish all along? :lol: I love these fish. They even swim upside down under the fry-net for my guppies, trying to get the baby brine shrimp through the net. Most sources say that three is a good number for these...

http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=loachiessb9.jpg Sorry for the poor image quality (as usual, mobile phone camera). They're about an inch and a half, very active loaches with a long face. I have three of the little guys, which I thought were chain loaches. There was no label for them on...

Thanks very much. :D Today they all seem happy, been giving them a small amount of baby shrimps and crushed a small flake up (figured it's best to get them used to it now!) The angel isn't so big (it's the black one this video I made of them some months ago, and he hasn't grown much since), and...

That looks like the bugger. Thanks. :)

Some years ago, I had a couple of small sucker-catfish. One was definitely an oto, but the other one was the same sort of size, only it looked like a plec, with a varigated design. Think of a plec that's about an inch long. Both were very elusive and never grew more than an inch and a half or...

Thank you! :) One of the babies was sitting at the bottom of the plastic hatchery thing when he was put in there, but now all of them are swimming about quite happily it seems! I've no idea which one was the "sick" one. I've also got a spare net floating thingy to seperate the sexes when...

I've always had guppies in my tanks, both males and females, and while my females always got fat then suddenly became "deflated", I never saw any baby fish. About 2-3 months ago, the last of my male guppies died, leaving two females widowed. They were both really huge though, so I thought maybe...

Crabs can eat fish, it's usually recommended not to keep them together. Some crabs will even kill other crabs and have to be kept solitary.

Yep, had my larger angel nipping and chasing my smaller one. Had to move it to a different tank.

EDIT: Misread, thought the italic bit was your own comment. Heh... Personally I'd stick with little shoaling tetras/rasboras/barbs etc, and get a pair of small cichlids for character (rams, keyholes, kribs etc).

It's all about what you like. They're quite a few small shoaling fish that can be kept together that it's simply a case of what you think looks nice. Nothing with long fins, though - those serpaes are nasty little buggers, from what I've heard (never kept them myself - the reputation preceded...

I suppose it depends on what life they're used to from the LFS. I find a fish can change drastically from the one you bought, once it's set up a territorial hierarchy, made a domain and gotten used to things.

Cannister! You can fit a hell of a lot more filter media in there, it looks like it does the business, and it doesn't blemish your tank with an ugly black box of fish-sucking death! The only downside is having to suck the tubes to get the damn thing working... >_>