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When i get back from Scotland i will definitely try out more complex feeding methods (if the baby shrimp are still alive of course lol) . These are the intructions i've left the neighbours for while i'm away;   Hi there ^_^v . Feeding instructions for the baby shrimp (which are in the net...

Thankyou for the replies so far!   Although i spent hours yesterday scooping up the shrimp fry, i found more of them this morning- here's some pics;   (^ yes that filter in the background is upside down lol)   What i have observed about them so far;   1. They are the tiniest baby-anythings i...

Thanks for the reply!   Concerning no.5, what is the bare minimum amount of salt you would say these shrimp need to survive? Is it possible to have the biofilter survive small brackish conditions? At what salt point would you need to change to a marine set up? I don't have the money (or space)...

Sooooo.......   It has been a pretty manic day today.   About 3pm, i was talking on the phone chatting to my mum while looking at my 9gal shrimp/snail tank, when all of a sudden i see these tiny little things swimming about everywhere!! I thought, "WTF are they?!", so i looked really close. My...

1. I hate small talk. I know what the weather is like, your job is boring so don't even bother telling me and certainly don't ask me what mine is as trust me its not anymore interesting than yours. Why are you even talking when you don't even care less about what i say? Enough with the...

Hmm...About 90% of the food i eat is home cooked and about 95% of that is cooked by me. My guy does cook from time to time (and i do really appreciate it as its nice to get a break from cooking every now & then) but TBH on the whole i am a better cook than he is. Adventerous cook? Very!! When...

Thanks for the thumbs up everyone, glad you like the pics ^_^v !! Here's some pics i took of insects/bugs earlier in my garden :) (all between late April to late May 2012); Damselfly; Bumblebee on my decking; Detail on bumblebee's wings; Aphid on Viola flower :) ;

Ok so not so much close encounters of the furry kind but of the wriggly buzzy kind. Just yesterday i went down to a track day with my guy (rally cars- its more his sort of thing) but in the long waits inbetween the laps i wondered off and took lots of wildlife & wildflower pictures. The race...

^ Cool glad to hear that, wish you the best of luck with the fish- although it certainly doesn't look good right now, with the right meds & care you'll be surprised at what fish can recover from :good: . The main thing though, is if worst comes to worst, not to let it die in the tank if you...

1. Yes the fishes symptoms due suggest stress however i believe this is more likely due to wter quality problems than just the move. So; 2. Test the water for ammonia, nitrites & nitrates. Ammonia & nitrites should be 0 at all times, nitrates between 1-40. If your stats are different to this...

1. Yes medications can stress fish out, however there are many things you can do to improve the fishes comfort (increasing airation, keeping tank v.clean etc) however as long as you do not overdose they will not kill the fish (however if the fish has a life threatening disease, untreated this...

Hiya, lol sorry for the late reply- as you can see, my activity on this forum is very irregular XD

(Continued) Anyways...The things that i learnt over the following months & years that changed my opinion about not telling Jemma; 1. A week or so after the incident, my guy told about how he knew Scot had ruined a previous best friendship he had with a guy some years previously in almost exact...

I've been this situation before many years ago. Back then i would have said no to telling the truth, but these days i would say yes. And it was a complicated situation. Here's the story; Many years ago me & my guy used to live on this street in a small Somerset town. Across the street was...

Well i did a waterchange last night and decided to give the algae a good scrubbing now the Borneo Suckers have fattened up (although i keep on calling them Hillstream loaches lol), took some pics of the fish today (26/03/12 5:00PM)^_^v ; Borneo Suckers; This one was amazingly well...

Thanks :good: ! It was the white gloss cabinet that originally drew me to Aquariums Ltd. Most of the furniture in the sitting room is white gloss so it all goes together quite nicely :) . Thanks :) ! Haha don't hate us! Its a lot of work looking after that tank- really hate water changes &...

Well its been a very long time :lol: ! Many years ago in my early days of the forum i used to post pictures of my tanks all the time. But i regularly thought that other people's tanks looked amazing (and had much better photography skills than me!) and i decided that my tanks were nothing...

Pleco's won't eat every type of algae- its better to identify the type of algae and deal with its root cause than to buy a fish and hope it sorts out the problem. This link is good for ID'ing & sorting out algae problems :) ; http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/algae.htm How long has the pleco...

Tank is now up on Ebay :) ; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Juwel-Rio-400-Fish-Tank-Aquarium-/290641444182?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item43ab947d56

PM'd you :) .

Thankyou for all the help everyone. I've had a long think about the situation and have decided to leave the pond as it is. There are a lot of little holes in the effected area and so i feel that even using a patch kit it would be a bit of a bodge job (not to mention it would be a lot of hassle...

^ Yeah that is a tad far :( . No offers from anyone else though :| ?

Where do you live?

Thanks Tolak :) . I found these patch kits online; http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/by-make/p/pondxpert-pond-equipment.asp The old pond liner is rough & dirty- if i can't clean it to its former state will the pond tape still stick to the liner do you know?

Although i now live in Southampton i still own my old house back in Somerset. I want to put this house on the market ASAP but about 1month ago the pond in the back garden started to leak badly. Luckily there are no goldfish in the pond (though at 3000+ gallons it is a large pond). Due to the...

Reduced price to £200, must go.

Equipment make/model/size: Rio400 tank + cabinet (beech colour), hood & lighting Quantity for sale: 1 Reason for Sale: Do not need it anymore Delivery or Collection: Collection Sales price: £200 Postage & Packaging: N/A Location: Wincanton, Somerset Condition: Good though has a v.thin scratch...

^ You should do some water quality tests for ammonia, nitrites & nitrates after 24hrs to help make sure the filter media transferal has been successful :) .

Most probably Fish TB or Neon Tetra Disease (both diseases can cause spinal curvature by destroying the fishes tissues in places). I would personally put the fish down. I haven't heard of constipation causing spinal curvature in fish before.

Yep sand is not a problem for snails :good: . What is far more likely is that they're starving to death- this is the way a lot of aquarium snails go (particularly apple snails). They don't compete with fish for food well and if there isn't another source of food in the tank (edible algae...

The reason why they are unwell is probably due to the cycling conditions in the tank. You should test the tank for ammonia, nitrites & nitrates daily and do small/medium sized partial water changes with dechlorinator whenever you see any trace of ammonia or nitrites in the aquarium. Only by...

If the fishes scales are sticking out like a pine cone then it does sound like it it has dropsy, which coupled with the bleeding gills & seeping blood through the scales sounds like the fish has a very advanced aggressive internal bacterial infection. By this point its internal organs are...

10/08/11 New fish pics :D One of the new arrivals to the pond, a pearl white female Comet goldfish (she also has one orange streak on one fin and 2 tiny orange scales on one of her sides and navy blue eyes) :) ; Her white scales really do shine like a pearl; Other goldfish (including the new...

Thankyou very much :) ! I'm going to keep an eye out for a black/dark green/grey small plastic outside table as i'd like to make a central island out of one in the pond to put more pond plants on and to give the goldfish some more extra cover :thumbs: . The pond is beginning to get a case of...

Cool your tank is just under 40gallons, yep research is the key to keeping fish successfully- feel free to ask lots of questions :good: .

Hi and welcome to the forum :) . You don't need fish to cycle a tank and in fact cycling a tank with fish has a lot of drawbacks in comparison to fishless cycling. 6 goldfish will produce a lot of waste and is too many to add to a new tank of that size at once- your main problem now is...

New pic of me with my biggest goldfish :) ;

Yeah he's massive :lol: ! Would you believe he was only 3inches long when i first got him and hes done all this growing in the last 5 years :fun: ? He's definitely my favorite goldfish- he is literally the one which started it all :good: . He used to have a partner (orange & white comet...

My biggest goldfish, living proof that bowls are too small for goldfish :lol: ! He reminds me of this Natalie Dee picture :lol: ; Anyhoo by the time i got back home it was dark and so the goldfish have had to acclimatise in the dark - i've released them now but i'll take pictures of them...

:blush: Cool thanks :good: ! In the end i picked up 25 goldfish today as half of them are very small (like 2-3inches big). The problem i came across when catching the fish is that there's a lot of black ones in the pond measuring 2-6inches long as most goldfish are born black (particularly...