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As already touched on the main problem from not doing water changes is pH crash. All tap water has a certain ammount of calcium carbonate in it and it is this calcium carbonate (KH) that keeps the pH of the water stable. Dissolved organic solids (thats the end result of the food your fish have...

You will need to rear them all together as a group in order to get a pair, snakeheads are extreemly unsociable and trying to introduce adult fish to each other will almost certainly end in disaster. As for size these aren't a dwarf species in the same sense as gachua or bleheri, they don't...

The trouble is with this law being passed in Europe it wont be long before it is forced upon us in England too, after August this year we will no longer be able to buy imported snakeheads, spiny eel species, some species of gourami and several species of Cyprinid because the findings of some...

If it was set up on a timer the start up surge could have jammed on when the timer kicked in causing the unit to over heat. Flourescent tubes draw a huge ammount of power at the start but once they are warmed up and glowing the power level drops off. The electronic gear inside the unit is...

You will need a large tank with loads of plants (plastic or real) and decore to keep them in a group and at least 6 individuals to spread aggression between the group. I havent read any details on breeding this species but i would imagine that like with other snakehead species the hard part is...

Things like this end up becoming a "who's more popular" meter rather than who is more knowledgeable.

Yes, just refill the tank slowly keeping an eye on the temperature of the tank as you refill and don't let it drop by more than 4c within an hour.

For the frailest i'd say the Paradise threadfin, Polynemus paradiseus, ive tried to keep them twice and lost them both times for pretty much no reason, seems even if you fart near the tank they die :(

No they really don't like to be in groups unless you like fish with missing tails and fins, the 29 will be fine for life as they have to be kept alone and only grow to 6 inches.

Very nice, i've been waiting for a reasonably priced teugelsi to become available here but they are still going for silly money. More pictures of the Dragon knife please, thats one thats been on the wanted list for a loooooong time but i've yet to even here of one in the UK.

and if you don't like it go and join an Australian forum and call fish silly names to your hearts content :P

I'd be pleased if my son got B's, it would certainly be more than i ever acheived at school.

From cutting open many copper cylinders i usually find that the insides are coated in a slimy white paste with patches of green eating their way back through the white. To be honest its quite disgusting

The point about differing water heating system is a good one. Most pre mid 90's heating systems in the UK have a copper water cylinder which has a coil of copper piping through the middle of it, water heated by the boiler is pushed through the coil on a loop which heats up the water in the...

I spent £300 on a male/female pair of Hemibagrus punctatus that were happily co habbiting the same tank, after 6 months they started taking lumps out of each other so i had to seperate them and now i never even see them as they have become so nocturnal that they wont even feed when the fish...

Oh lol, isn't the first time someone has copied my posts and put them somewhere else as their own.

At 5/6" they have a retail cost of around £50, large adults are virtually worthless and difficult to even give away.

I thought my silver had managed to avoid drop eye as it reached 27 inches with no signs of it but then within a matter of weeks it developed it badly in the left eye, i think as others have said the condition is pretty much unavoidable in silver arowana's.

But they are all in the Osteoglossidae family, Aussies just call the saratoga for same reason as they call sleaper gobies gudgeons and thats because they just love to make up strange sounding names for animals :P The Asian name for arowana translates in English to "dragon fish".

Who?

Actually saratoga is just a Australian regional name, the rest of the world call them arrowanas.

Again i wouldn't use the hot tap, i've seen the insides of far too many copper water cylinders and boilers when i cut them up for scrap to even think of letting water that has passed through them into my tanks. Water changes are done by hose, syphon the water out straight to a drain and then...

I have a jardini arowana which is around 20 inches long and appears to be full grown as it has been that size for a few years now. It is a highly aggressive animal that tollerates very few other fish in its tank, the fish i do keep with it are reclusive bottom dwellers (fire eel, hemibagus...

That tank could be a little larger but electric eels are funny creatures and don't actually like having too much room, they seem to require constant contact with objects in the tank to feel really secure and will fade out and lay on the bottom when given too much room. A guy i know who used to...

No this really would just be a drinks and food meeting, but when i get the new 350g the 200 will need moving back into the garage :P

We're used to them now and the cat eats any that she sees.

Yeah crickets are a nuisence, my mrs breeds a few gecko species and i'm always finding crickets loose around the house.

CFC makes a mental note to make sure feeshy doesn't come We can only really fit around 30 people in at the most but if previous meets are to be gone by i'd be suprised if half that ammount actually turned up and i expect some people would come and go fairly quickly which allows a bit of play...

Actually i was thinking of having a TFF BBQ here in the summer provided there wasn't too many people wanting to come.

I've lost 3 G.tile from this over the years and was unable to ever trigger a spawning, good luck with it and let us know what happens.

Yeah i got an email Saturday night about the Brycons and reserved them Sunday morning, i haven't actually seen them yet :lol: so i hope they look as good as the pictures on the internet. If you have wanted a fish for a long time provided the price isn't completely over the top then paying a lot...

Stunning patterns on the new retics and the pearls are looking fantastic.

Very very nice, i only wish i had had the money to buy the other one.

Any pet shop that sells reptiles will have coconut fibre, you buy it in compressed blocks which have to be soaked in a bucket of water for a few hours to break up, its not expensive either.

How about no sand at all, i've found that soaked coconut fibre (used as a substrate in terraniums for tarantulas and the like) makes a great substrate for puddle type biotopes which would naturally have a thick layer of mulm on the bottom, though it would mean having to plants the plants in pots.

The goby is already spoken for :P

The london Aquarium is crap for anything other than marines, to be honest you would have been better off coming to se my fishhouse :lol:

Wolf's got him self a wolf fish!! I'm in shock. now you do realise that it will eat Danios dont you :P

5 men to lift a 6x2x2!! Poor things must get blown over in a strong wind :lol:

The reason for the rainbow fish being under CC&A on the main forum but in the oddballs section for the index is that they were considered to be more similar to tetras and barbs etc in being classic "fish shaped" fish than oddballs so were better being discussed in the same forum but are not a...