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They will try to eat fish up to around 2/3rds their own size if they are hungry. They shouldn't need weening off live foods, snakeheads will usually take frozen foods straight away but dont expect them to eat pellets at all, feed them small market shrimp and pieces of fish or other sea foods...

Where to start? Right, Hepsetus odoe are very aggressive to other fish that swim in the upper and middle reaches of the tank so mixing them with needle nose or any other gar, pike or baracuda like fish is a bad idea, they have big teeth and they really do know how to use them. Gulper cats dont...

You can't get anti biotic aquarium treatments in the UK without a prescription from vet, which in all honesty is far more expensive than it is worth in 99% of cases, sorry if that sounds harsh but there is little point in spending around £100 on vets fees to treat a replaceable fish that costs...

To be honest the fish you have would be far better off on a diet of quality flake and pellet food with some frozen or live food like bloodworm and daphnia a couple of times a week. While there is no doubt they would eat pieces of whitebait the fish you keep are not really built for processing...

I think it was simply that the ray was just about small enough to be eaten, so it was, nothing but a really stupid error of judgement on my part. I did a fairly big water change on the 180 yesterday afternoon and this morning all the fish look fine, i havent done any more water tests yet as...

Silver dollars have been known to eat very small fish so as they grow they might start to see the ottos as snacks.

Its fins look pretty chewed up so i would guess that the marks are scarring from attacks by another fish, some clean water and good food should have it cleared up in no time. Remember that its a cold water fish so it wont handle tropical temperatures and needs a lot of water movement to keep...

:lol: the catfish is worth more than the ray was so cutting it open would just make the mistake even more costly. The thing i really can't understand it that there are 8 red hook silver dollars in the tank that are around the same size as the ray was and the cat never even looks at them, i...

Catfish can digest pretty much anything so as long as the spines dont get stuck on the way down it wont do any harm, in the wild big catfish mainly prey on cichlids and smaller catfish so they are well adapted to dealing with spiney pectoral and dorsal fins so i presume stingrays are dealt with...

I cant believe what a stupendous mistake i made today :angry: When i got in from work today and checked the tanks i saw that there was some uneaten food in the 180g so i tested the water and found it had a nitrite spike, as precaution i thought i'd better get the new little ray out of the...

The funniest thing i have ever heard in a fish store is still the employee who told me that the reason in had high nitrates in my tank was because i do TOO MANY water changes and that i should only be doing them every 6 months to allow the tank to settle and mature. At the time i was asking if...

Dwarf snakeheads tend to not be aggressive to other fish provided they are too large to be eaten and are not of a similar shape to the snakehead.

The rainbow wolf fish is Erythrinus erythrinus, a much smaller species than Hoplias malabaricus and usually doesnt grow much more than 8 inches in captivity, you could keep one as a solitary specimin in a 100 litre tank but like all wolf fish they can be very aggressive and will kill tankmates...

Yes, stingrays are in the Elasmobranch group (sharks and rays) but are in their own sub division known as Rajiformes (skates and rays).

Oh we're playing the long list game now are we, ok my turn 2x Liearius pictus Lithodoras dorsalis Brachyplatystoma platynemum Hemisorubim platyrynchos 2x Sorubim lima Ageneiosus polysticus Asterophysus batrachus Micronema bleekeri 2x Hemibagrus punctatus 2x Anaspidoglanis macrostoma...

I used efi fix in my canisters (and still do in the eheim running on my brackish tank) and i have no complaints about it, seems to do its job and it lasts forever.

I'd put money on it that this time next year snakeheads are banned in the UK.

If you are intending on keeping the garage door then you are going to be losing masses of heat through it, personally unless absolutely nessesary id board it up from the inside with a stud wall. The crack in the floor is a bad sign, it means the concrete probably isnt re enforced and most...

The post office description of fry and ours are very different, by the term "fry" they mean fish in their larval stage which are barely more than eggs with tails, by the time "fry" are ready for sale they are already juvinile fish and minature versions of the adults. It is against the post...

The signature rules are pinned in every main forum in plain sight so if people cant be bothered to read them or just ignore them then why should we bother to take the time to send a PM. The rules also state that signatures that are too large will be edited without notice.

I had a pair of butti's years ago, they were just insanely aggressive, i've never seen a fish so angry at everything around it.

They might look gorgeous now but when they are 20" long murderous tyrants they arent so nice :lol: , jardini and buttikofferi are MEAN fish which take pleasure in tearing lumps out of other fish, unless you've got an empty 180 gallon tank sitting about they are best left in the store.

Its just applying common sense, take a look at the size of the bichirs mouth and then look at the fish you want to keep with it, if there is even the chance the bichir can fit the other fish into its mouth then it probably will and if it doesnt fit the bichir wont even look at it twice.

Should try coming down this end of the country, £3.10 for a pint of Fosters!

I'd be amazed to see a bichir that only grows to about 12" long and 2" wide manage to eat an angel fish that is 4" high, it would look like a dog trying to swallow a frisbe sideways :lol:

US gallons are the standard unit used on international internet forums.

The only bad attitude i see here is from the ignoramus who has bought a sensitive large growing fish without even bothering to look into its most basic care requirements and then throwing a tantrum and complaining to the moderators when people with a genuine interest in the species tell them...

My eventual goal is to have a tank that is in the thousands of gallons to get a really natural looking tank going, something along the lines of 20 feet long and 8 feet wide by 4 feet tall. The idea is that when our son has grown up and moved out we will sell our fairly large house in the...

A double base is used when the base of the tank sits on a frame so only the edges are supported, if you have a sheet of ply or another solid material as a base for the tank to sit on you only need a single base as the glass is fully supported across the whole area. None of my large tanks were...

To be honest concrete block is a bit over the top for a 5x2x2 and adding a lot of unnessesary weight to the floor, for a tank of that size a stand built from 3x2" timber and faced with some 12mm plywood is more than ample.

Personally i think the people who do keep bettas are the abnormal ones, they're all a bunch of fruit cakes giving their fish names and talking about them as if they are people not fish. I dont have a betta and i wouldnt have one even if it were gold plated and free.

In these situations it is always best to let nature take its course and leave the net to come off on its own, trying to remove the net usually does more damage than good and you don't really want to be poking and prodding an expensive delicate fish. If it hasn't come away within a few weeks...

The eel needs a much higher amount of salt than the Cichlids can tolerate, to keep the eel you need to have an SG of at least 1.010 which is about half the strength of sea water and i doubt the Cichlids will be happy with an SG above 1.003 , and really they shouldn't be kept in salt water at...

:lol: i doubt he has ever seen a goslinea otherwise he would know they dont have vertical stripes, what an idiot.

Thats exactly it, the juwel stands are built to take the weight of the juwel tank and not the extra weight of the heavier tank. Without structurely reinforcing ALL the vertical supports i wouldnt recomend putting 450 litres of water on a stand built for 400 litres with no solid timber in the...

Having seen their phenomenal growth rate and the size that these fish can achieve in a short time first hand, and from keeping mine in a 30" wide 200g tank to begin with and now a 6 foot wide 900g tank i would personally say that the minimum width would be 3 feet, while it is true that they are...

The two newer ones eat like pigs, as soon as i add food they come hopping out from the rocks devouring anything near to them, the older original one was a pain to feed when we first got it and had to be hand fed with tongs but it now finds its own food, though its nowhere near as brazen as the...

I wouldnt trust a juwel stand to hold that kind of weight, they are just laminated chip board and it only takes a side on knock and the side panel will fold in half and whole thing would collapse. If you are buying timber and ply then you might as well just build a stand completely from scratch...

Well i've had a few people say its a "peru flower" ray (note, nothing to do with true flower rays P.shroderi), which would fit as it looks very similar to pictures of Marks P40 "chocolate flower" ray when it was the same sort of size. Some people seem to think is a motoro varient though i'm not...

Its not a red hook silver dollar, red hooks have a long hook shaped anal fin which is bright red, the fish in the picture is a large mature male silver dollar.