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Thanks, i like the sprengerae. So pseudotropheus saulosi x 4 Cynotilapia afra x 4 iodotropheus spegerae x 4 or 5? My filter only does 800 litres an hour, so i'm going to need to invest in another. You said when they are fully grown i'd need more filtration, but would you recommend i get it...

Hi, i'm interested in the 2217, whereabouts in nottingham are you?

Thanks guys. Going to leave the plec and just get the cichlids. Don't fancy the interbreeding so may drop the labs and go with cobalt cichlids instead. Just wanted to have some bright colours in there. Also need to check the filter, it came with the tank, and i'm not sure what it is.

Hi, We have a 180 litre tank that we are going to keep cichlids in. After researching a bit i think we have chosen the fish we'd like, but just want to confirm that they'll be ok together. Ideas so far - 3 x pseudotropheus saulosi 3 x cynotilapia afra 3 x labidochromis caeruleus. Will that...

I have bogwood in the tank, so that gives me a couple of options, but i wont be hurrying into it. Thank you again for all your replies. I don't know where i'd be without this forum. Thanks

I'll leave it a couple of weeks anyway, just don't want to take the advise of the pet shops anymore. Guppies and mollys are all fine. The 3 fry are going strong too. I'll keep monitoring them-had done a 30% change this morning already. Tank is 60 litres, think thats around 15 gallons?

Will do-thanks for all your help. Feel awful for asking this, and so soon after his death, but can you recommend a new bottom feeder/plec for this tank. It only holds guppies and mollys as its our smaller 2nd tank.

Guys, thanks for all your replies. Unfortunately, he has gone to the big fish playground in the sky. Whilst attempting to isolate him, i noticed he wasn't moving at all(which wasn't like him-he was a fast little blighter). He's been hiding for a couple of days now, but came out just before...

It was bought from pets @ home and was in the coldwater tanks. They said he could be coldwater or tropical and butterfly plec is what it said on the label. They said he wouldn't grow any bigger than what he is now. I just took their word for it all Wilder-his spine looks ok. Feel so sorry for...

Really struggling to figure out how to get the pic on. It says to add this link http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r236/mi...honepics032.jpg does that work? Can't tell if he's looking any thinner than normal, as he's only small. Is there any treatment for columnaris?

Heres a pic http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r236/mi...honepics032.jpg Sorry it took me so long to reply, laptop is short on memory and it took an age to upload the pic

Hi I'm getting a little worried, our little (2") butterfly plec has started to lose his colour, is this normal? I've only noticed as we changed our gravel substrate to sand last week. We've had him for aabout 6 months now, and i've not noticed this before. Its starts from behind his eyes and...

Hey rooster do you have any crypts and cabomba left?

Ah Minx i would have loved to have had this in my front room, but due to the location of the gas meter it just won't fit.I've been trying so hard to find a way of making this work, but its clearly not meant to be.

We live near nottingham city centre, and i got MY (its my sons tank, but i had to have these) 2 endlers from timmermans garden centre near Lowdham(6 for £10-you can mix n match). We discovered wharf aquatics last weekend and i was gobsmacked, the place is amazing. I have to return this weekend...

Right, did a 50% water change yesterday and today, but also removed the carbon/polyster combined cartridge from the filter in order to add some meds as i noticed a white spot on 1 of the fish. I have added a piece of polyester (the one that removes discolouration) that i did keep from the old...

Have you tried checking out your local freecycle.co.uk. You'd be surprised at what people are getting rid of. If there's no recent ads, you could place a wanted ad for a tank, as long as you don't mind it being second hand.

The water temp is 24 degrees and the ph is 7.6, i'd better go do another change. I'll have a look and see if anyone near me has any mature media, thanks for the tip.

Thanks Andy, whilst you were writing that, i actually did a 25% change and retested ammonia and it was at 0.25, so i'll check again in the morning and do a 50% change then. Is it best to do it really early, pets @ home said something about water being best before people start getting up for...

Thank you. The readings i have just done are : ammonia 0.25-0.5 (can't really tell the difference between the colours) nitrate 10 nitrite 0 Should i do another change now? or wait til tomorrow?

Firstly thank you both for your replies. I'm using the api master test kit. The filter media had to go back with the filter, the only thing i have left over is the carbon filter and the other additional white one, but these don't fit in the new filter as its a combined cartridge. I'll keep...

Ok, heres the story. Last october my 9 year old son started his tropical fish hobby, unfortunately we had no idea about cycling etc, and just went under the instruction of the guys in pets at home, he started out with 5 neon tetra's which soon went down to 3. We went back to pats at home weekly...

She definately looks pregnant to me, aren't they the fry's eyes that i can see? As for when she's due to drop....not a clue. I always think my fish have ages to go before they're ready to drop, then i get up next morning and they've given birth-missed it for the last 3 times.

Any sign of the babies yet?

They're cute, they're kind of a clear colour with orange specs, which is what makes me think that this is the mum, as there's only 1 other female molly who could be, and i'm 95% sure she's not pregnant. So any idea if she's likey to have any more or is that it for now, and when (if she does)...

I'm not being rediculously stupid, this is a balloon molly isn't it and not just a pregnant molly? We've only had her a week.

Lol, you've cheered me up with that! Thanks for both your replies.

Hi, i have been keeping an eye on my sons (he's only 9) tank. We have been monitoring a balloon molly who has been chasing the other female mollies and acting quite aggressively. This morning we woke up to find that there was a baby in the tank, none of the other mollys look pregnant and to be...