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Aw thanks guys I feel all choked. Its nice to hear you are behind me!! I'm not going to add fish yet the rock is coming along lovely. It has so much colour in it already but it is getting more colourful. There are some lovely red raised plaques coming up. They are about 3 mm in size and have...

hee hee. :rolleyes:

This may be a daft idea... If when I did water changes I put the water in the fry tank would that keep the bacteria fed? I suppose I could always put a couple of danios in the breeding net (in the fry tank) to keep them away from the babies...

My experience is that LFS take anything except guppies! I got rid of all my guppies to a friend (bar one yellow male) because I couldn't handle having to leave all the fry in to get eaten.

I can understand both sides of this debate (apart from calling people nazis which is argumentative and downright rude - I thought there was a policy against trolling on these forums...). OK I agree that captive breeding of fish with orignal genotype isn't going to help out the wild population...

If it is too big its usually because its a bitmap. If you open it then go on "save as" and change the file type from "bitmap" to "jpeg" it reduces the file size. You could also try resizing it (just click on your help button for instructions) HTH

What do gravid spots look like. I have 2 swordtail fry in a breeding net that are about 4 weeks old. One is a lot fatter than the other. One is all orange the other is orange with a black spot at the base of its tail - is this a gravid spot? If so, is it the boys or the girls that have one...?

Thanks Alaska. May add a single layer of gravel though cause its going to be in my living room so needs "prettying up" a bit. By stabilise I mean check that the bacteria are functioning properly. Just for my own piece of mind I like to have at least 3 days of 0 nitrate/negligable nitrate...

I have been given a 5 gal tank that I thought would be brilliant for putting fry in. It is a cold water tank but I have bought a mini heater today. It has a filter (which I am going to put in my 10 gal) and I am going to put my "extra" filter from my 10 gal into this one - cheat maturing. I'll...

Well I bought a new tank. Its 20 Gal with a trickle wet/dry and machanical filter (with carbon too), a heater and tropical lights (2 of - on fish one plant). I am going to try my hardest to set up a successful marine tank. People say I will struggle but hey I did 5 years at uni, worked full...

lalaland - I love pakistani loaches - they have such lovely markings. My frogs are characters - they hog the tablet food and wont let the fish near it...

I took my kit to the LFS along with some water for testing. He said the nitrite reading is 0 by his kit. He said the fluoresnce may just be due to the fact that it is 0. It was fluorescent yellow at first and went green after 30 secs to 1 min. Anyway I have binned Tetratest just in case and...

Go on search as there is another thread about seahorses active at the moment - it has far more advice and less critiscism. Best of luck if you do get them but the warning is it wont be easy - and they may die...

Thanks again for all your advice (those of you that offered advice instead of critiscism...). I am still fishless and critterless (apart from what came with the live rock). I am on my way to another LFS to "have a look" and will come back empty handed (bar some salt). Going to cycles for at...

Moray eels do grow huge - think feet not inches (or metres not centimetres)...

I'd heard crabs are pains to keep in the tank. They can get out of the tiniest space. Also you need to have your water level lowered enought to allow there to be some "dry land".

They have some in stock at the moment at wings and fins in reddish, stockport (near manchester). Not sure of the price but theyre about 3-4 inches in size.

Its a tetratest one.

Erm I'm at work at the mo and can't remember. It was in a blue colourful box... Girlie answer I know!

That's great EMdina. I wish I had the space for a larger tank. I have the money (just about) but its the space that is limited. I also have to fit in two house bunnies and a parrot (cage and perch) so there are limited places left where the fish can go (and be happy). I have tons of room...

Tested morning and night for the first 48 hours now I'm testing every 24 hours. Everything seems fine and dandy so far... Fingers crossed and all that. Thanks for all your advice :D

It is a kit that is for both fresh and saltwater -at least that's what it says on the packet...

I am in the same boat. I am determined that it is going to work. I am not going to rush things. I am not going to cut corners. I am going to be diligent with everything. I don't accept people saying don't do it because its hard - I enjoy a challenge and the world is a better place through...

I had a sky blue female one but she went to another home as my guppies were getting terrorised... I have one left who is ok and a tough nut (and who tries to mate with my swordtail?.?.?.?.) and he is a really vivid pale yellow. Hes gorge!

No joke it does. It works for the freshwater tank just fine. Pour water in the (empty) vial and over 30 secs or so it turns fluorescent green! If I use a new vial it works but the next time I use it it glows green again! Ps i do rinse them thouroughly afterwards... Help? I'm confused

Its was about an hour. Was stored in a bag of water - just like fishies... and I acclimitised it like fish too (not sure if I needed to or not but thought better safe than sorry). It seems OK - plenty of little crawly things on and theres some sort of ?cockle? that keeps sticking its feelers...

That would solve the danio problem... Sorry :unsure: -_- :sad: My danios are pains too but I've had them the longest and can't bear to part from them...

They put that in cat food too - mine have tuna and cheap chicken mince...

I understood that it was better to leave them (for up to 2 weeks) than risk someone overfeeding and poisoning the tank. If you do get someone to feed them measure it out and HIDE THE REST. The right amount of food never looks enough and I wouldn't risk them wanting to top them up...

I love it when they nibble your arm when your messing about in the tank. I usually have my hand in to see if my loazy pleco is still alive... It always is its just VERY lazy. I love it when you find surprise fry... I hate it when fry get eaten as your trying to get them out - race against...

So here is my plan. I have a 20gal tank - a bargain of Feline on these forums... It has tropical lights at the mo but I'm not planning on keeping coral so its not a problem for the minute. It has a BioLife combi filter which is a wet/dry trickle filter and also had a cartridge filter and...

I'm new to this forum so hi all!! I am also new to fish keeping. I have had a freshwater tank now for 6 months and have got my tank just how i want it but now I have another tank where I'm going to go salt... The freshwater is only a 10g (28litre) but I am careful and have only had on fish...

I have baby sword tails. Only managed to rescue two though because the other fish had gone into a feeding frenzy.... They were hiding in the gravel too. I also had 4 ghost catfish fry that were a bit of a surprise... (thought they were egg layers and didn't think my tank was big enough for...

This thread is hilarious. I'm new to this and even i can thell theyre trolling... Why do people even respond to the comments?

:kana: do like this

Don't worry my fish are staying where they are. Just got a filter that is ripe. Gonna use it start a larger tank for my fresh water but wondered if i could use it to start a salt water tank. Think it would be better to do it from the book -especially since i have a deioniser at work i can use...

Thanks for all your replies. I am getting a 20 gal tank on sat (off one of the members off here :D) and am going to "have a go". I am diligent with my water changes and do plan to get plenty of live rock and sand. Hopefully I can start setting it up in 4 weeks or so and adding fish a few...

Thankyou. I am beginning to think that I may have too much trouble with a 10 gal (38l) marine tank after reading some posts in here. Only problem is I can't really afford to setup a larger tank and by the sounds of it the 125l (is this 50 gal) is going to be too small anyway - even though...

Thankyou. I am beginning to think that I may have too much trouble with a 10 gal (38l) marine tank after reading some posts in here. Only problem is I can't really afford to setup a larger tank and by the sounds of it the 125l (is this 50 gal) is going to be too small anyway - even though...

Hi I'm new (as you may have gathered already). Just thought I'd introduce myself. I'm 26 and from Macclesfield, Cheshire (England). I've been keeping tropical fish for about 8 months. I have a 38l (10 gallon) tank with 12 neons, 4 leopard danios, a ghost cat fish (and about 6 fry - was...