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Thanks for he info :)

I got my first tank in September and now I have five... so I think I fit in your category!

I’ve been stalking other people’s fish mix online and haven’t found anyone mixing them with the platys or swordtails - does anyone have experience of this?

Need a location / country to have any chance of finding someone!

I currently have 3 Amano shrimp and 1 ghost shrimp, all fully grown in a shrimp only tank. I was wondering who would eat them out of these possible tank mates? I want to move them into one of my 130L tanks. I have two identical tanks so can move species between them to leave them only with...

Conversely nature is cruel, and lots of us leave fry to get eaten etc to control the population and many shops sell drab fish as feeders for others, live food is the same principle. We only have beautiful fish varieties because most get discarded in the process of selective breeding. Animal...

I would move guppy of concern to quarantine bucket and treat it, not move the lot. I’ve had lots of stress related death which I think was related to moving. Then the shrimps are definitely not at risk.

The more sick harlequin appeared dead yesterday - lying upside down and fins completely rotted away, so I put it down with clove oil. Nobody else in the tank yet has any symptoms so I’ll carry on with water changes and hope that’s it! I’m keen to rehome the Buenos Aires tetra and the two...

Dear All, Thanks for all the advice. Unfortunately a harlequin (the less fin rot one) jumped out the tiny quarantine tank as I was doing the water change :( had left the top off while I changed their old tank and I found it dead on the floor when I counted the fish at the end (or so I thought...

Thank you. Apologies am out so don’t have recorded numbers. It’s a 130L tall tank with fluval 307. Has been running for perhaps 2.5 months. It was seeded with half of the filter media from my other cycled tank (also flu all similar pump is a 306- this had four compartments of ceramic media...

Had a tank disaster last week and tank leaked 50% of its water. One was dead (pineapple sword) at that time unsure if related. Looked normal. Fish had a quick move with their remaining water and filter and then another move the day after into new tank. So that would be very stressful. They had...

Essjay and Jan - thanks very much. Yes should clarify - I do not intend to mix cichlids and mixed tropicals, but only to keep mixed tropicals. The kind of sand / gravel I am looking at now- many of them state "natural pH that will not alter your water chemistry" - does this mean I don't need...

Hello everyone! Thanks for all your advice. I'm viewing a large 250-300L aquarium this weekend, and am planning to keep a mix of tropical fish in it. My goal is to have a well planted tank with several rocks and white sand, similar to how cichlid tanks often are, although with plants too...

Hello everyone! I'm keen in the future to have a fry tank (when I rehome it's occupants), and was wondering on your thoughts on this: 47L AquaVue-like tank with built in filter, gravel, live plants, driftwood. Live in hard water area, no plans to use reverse osmosis. Plans for tank...

Hello all. Thanks so much for all your advice on the previous threads advising me on my fish. I'm essentially going to view a large corner tank (advertised as 250L but I think it is 300L by the measurements) Rena tank with Rena external filter on Sunday, so trying to think ahead about how to...

If I do I can get lots of Corys (hurray!!)

Thanks for info re Chinese algae eaters - I would say that they do actually look a lot like them. They definitely have no barbels if that helps. Sounds like I should try and rehome several of these fish! Chinese algae eaters sound like not good tank mates. Do you think this could contribute to...

I understand all of these solutions are sub optimal, I am in a situation where I have inherited all these fish and the 135L tank so trying to work out the best arrangement with the situation, and have got the smaller one to have more options. The Cory and clown loach are my favourites so...

Thanks for all the advice Byron. I have a bit of an issue as I bought the 135L second hand and the Buenos Aires were eating the plants a lot and would be incompatible with other fish I’d like to put there. Have been thinking of getting rid of them but no fish keeping friends are keen as they...

It was falsely advertised as sixty litre but I calculate it as 47L, it’s 26cm width x 48cm length x 38cm height, water only, not including the lid

I have two tanks, so can move some fish out if t seems over stocked. I have 47L double filtered (one tiny internal stand alone and one build in drop style filter) tank with many plants and wood hiding places. Currently it has: 3 Harlequins fully grown 4 7cm fully grown Buenos Aires terras 1...

Wondering if I could get some advice about how to speed up cycling my new empty 47L tank when I have a fully established healthy 135L tank. I have: AquaOne 620T 135L with Fluval 305 external filter + built in filter. The fluval filter has two canisters of ceramic beads, been going for years...

Hello! I am new to fishkeeping, although I have bought a 135L second hand tank with all the wood / gravel / filtration and fish so it's all well established to start off with! Hopefully I've managed to put a photo below