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I have kept Rams and TB's together before, with no problems (just for the record, they were in a 4ft, 210L tank).. the rams generally swin around a slightly lower level in the tank than barbs, which helps. As long as you have sufficient space, and plenty of features to break the tank up, caves...

you need a big Oscar, and good eyesight..check THIS out. using the method on there, i came to the conclusion i have a female, but obviously, it should not be taken as 100%, but its the most helpful page on sexing O's that i've found.

Have they settled down? :unsure:

are you getting any natural sunlight on the tank? either that or your lights could be on for too long in a day. i suggest you check nitrates, and phosphates, the lower these 2 are in your water (phosphate is better being 0 really) then the less there is for algae to eat of. Either that, or use...

Extremely easy to be honest.. as long as you have water, and bushy plants, just add fish and in the morning, away they go! You have to remove the adults tho, becuase they will eat eggs as soon as they get bored of laying them.

i thought all 7 of mine had disapeared once...i'd moved the tank, checked back, front under and around anything possible, and in the end gave up, and came to the conclusion that the tiger barbs had bullied, and ate them. 2 days later, when the weather was back the usual rain.. i came home from...

a few pics of my baby tiger barbs :D no particular reason for breeding them, just haven't bred anything for a while, and was itching to raise fry of some description! Might try cories, or oto's next.. or then again, might try green, or albino barbs.. hmm, choices!

My green barbs seem the more relaxed of the bunch, and don't shoal to the extent that the regulars, or the albino's do. To me tho, it just sounds like the male barbs are sorting out who's the alpha.. can you see if it is the males doing the harassing? That is generally the case in my tank...

Mothers day in the UK is the 26th of March generally... so to us, it was ages ago.

If algae is that prolific, there must be something that it is feeding of, i suggest you check your nitrate level, and phosphate level, nitrates should be as low as you can get.. anything less that 40ppm is 'ok' for most fish, but 20ppm or less is ideal really. Plants or algae will use any that...

another reason why im not that fussy about nitrate readings that float around 10-15 ppm, good plant food :D On the flip side of course, the plants could be using quite an considerable amount of nitrate, and thus i never notice how much is actually produced, and am only able to record what is...

interesting reading, with some interesting thoughts! One thing which can build up in a fish tank, and is rarely considered, is phosphate. Perhaps, the water changes that affected behaviour, affected phosphate, and thus water quality, significantly more that nitrates did/would. However, it...

:good: Wahay! legendary stuff! :good: you can see the differences very clearly in your pictures! That has to be it, the behavoural information provided of that link is spot on with the fish's traits. Thanks very much Nina :D

Hi, I got given this fish, along with some others, as the owner ran out of space for them, he had no idea what it was and i was a little stumped myself! i googled various descriptive phrases until eventually, i stumbled across a fish called "pink tailed chalceus". This fish is (or is at least...

i kept both these together for a spell, with no problems at all. Dandanuk's sugestion of sand is a very good one, cories love burrowing and digging, and the smaller the substrate grains, the more benfical bacteria you have, which is always good news! Have you though about a shark for a bigger...

perfectly normal in my experience.. just before, and during lights out, all my barbs do this. Their way of sleeping i guess.

yeah fair point :good:, might make plant trimming easier too :lol: but Like i said, it rarely reaches 20, usually in the hotter periods i have to watch it. Guess there more active, and get more excited! The loaches were last fish to be added (3 in December, 3 in January, 1 in March (only one...

yes i agree, it is currently over stocked, but some fish are moving, as i said in the 1st post. The bnoses and dora are moving soon, the loach will be moved when they get too big for the tank (and not to small for the Oscars mouth), and the khuli's are going to be moved when a friend has the...

i doubt anyone, except the loaches know the difference to be honest! If you hunt around for breeding reports on the www, you will find a few places that give supposed hints, or tips to tell the difference, but i would be suprised if any of them are accurate. They are also virtually unknown to...

leopard-guppy, from what i remember the plants are called "water weed", or ergania Densa. Something along them lines; don't quote me on the latin spelling! I do like the barbs yeah, but more importantly, they like there own company, more the merrier as they say! I started of with 8 regular...

is it the choice of fish, plants, or decor, or a combo of all that you don't like sam? lol :lol: just curious.

I'd second that, the hierachy in a barb tank is forever changing, and it's usually the smaller, younger ones doing the heckling, as millym said. If you have the tank space, 2 more barbs (or maybe more) might help smooth things out; the more you have, the less victimisation of one barb there...

it does in.. um... places lol. Everything generally avoids the places where light does penetrate, so i guess they prefer the dark under the jungle canopy! they seem to like chasing each other round the tree that i "aquired" whilst visiting my native countryside. :hey: Most people walk dogs...

i'll bear that in mind, thanks :D Probably wont have much problem when i get round to trying.. our water supply up these parts helps greatly there. Luckily (unless you want a rift tank), it's virtually pure and neutral, with only the slightest of traces of chlorine. Can't find any trace of...

Theres a view of my 4ft tank! never a dull moment in here. For the record, there is :- 6 Albino tiger barbs, 5 Green tiger barbs, "About" 20 regular Tiger barbs, 7 Clown Loach, "about" 8 khuli loach, 6 Zebra Danios, 2 Bristlenose cats, 1 Red tail black shark, 1 Stripey Dora cat (only till it is...

There is 2 public aquariums with an hourof where i live fortunately, so s/he will probably have to live there eventually :-( either that or i seal the doors and windows and flood the ground floor :lol: I've thought of getting more SD and tinfoils.. but i figured space would be an issue in the...

The red tail was one of them "i must have" compulsive buys that we all do from time to time! The tank is 6ft x 2ft x 2ft, i try to keep the caves and plants low so there is more swimming space available. The Oscar is just under 10" nose to tail, and the red tail is still small (for a redtail...

My Oscar called Rosie. She's just about 1 year old now, and has chilled out totally, most laid back fish in the tank now, apart from feeding time, likes to make sure she's 1st, and always takes from my fingers!

Are they generally male barbs that are doing such? mine frequently go through colour changes when they are "disputing" their position in the pecking order, they also do something very similar before spawning. When the males go dark too show off, their red noses stick out massively, and they push...

I started out with 4 blue acaras, and an oscar to keep them in line.. the Acaras are tougher than they seem! they keep the Oscar (which is 3 times the size of the acara) in line, and i now have to many acara to count, even after i've twice traded some in for supplies. Anyways.. i would say...

Thats definately possible.. i bought them simply, as a pair of juveniles (not knowing sexes, and being to small to tell), so theres a 90% chance they are effectively, brother and sister. Either way, its pretty nasty stuff for sure!

I think it's their nature to hide in really small, and unluxurious places (probably due to a natural instinct.. they love to munch on fry, and fry are going to try and find small holes and caves to hide from bigger fish, so in they go.. and lunch is delivered do the syno's door!) Mine hides in...

Ditto on daylight hiding! Mine, (syno. robbianus) is never seen during daylight hours, he hides in the mass of stones along with the cories, and usually makes an appearance at about 11.30-12pm, but he usually shows himself at morning feeding also, at about 6.30am... loves his prawns! I have a...

The Acara are nearly 6 months in my tank, so i think the shop is innocent enough. As for the food.. i can't find any kind of brand marking on it :no: Its a simple clear plastic tubish thing (quite like a cooked wafer ham packet), with a foil sheet pressed into the edges of the tub. the only...

The easiest way to confirm one way or the other, are you other loach are mature enough to breed? From anything recorded (autopsies, fish farm breeding accounts) that i have seen.. they are not mature for breeding until around 6" (which could take a long time since they have a reported average...

I've been wondering myself how the infection got there? The chances of it being in the fresh water do seem possible. Our tap water here (the lakes, uk) is basically pure. Every test kit i have used, i can't detect anything other than a SLIGHT trace of chlorine (to be precise, ph= 6.6, Ammonia =...

just to update.. Fred is still in the 30L in the shed, but he is looking a lot better! the waterlife Paragon seems to be helping a lot.. his tail deformation seems to have straightened out.. and his scales and fins are looking a lot tidier. Im going to leave him in there for a while longer to...

With any fish i've kept, them all seem to reach breeding maturity at about 1/2 their full adult size.. which in the case of zebra's... is going to be about 1", so your probably witnessing "the change" right in front of your eyes!

I have 6 Zebra's in one of my tanks.. along with 18 tiger barbs(various sizes), and 7 clown loach (only 2" as yet) in a 210L tank (about 46Gal) anyways, the wolf is spot on, danios are very easy to sex.. my females are much, much plumper than the males.. my males also seem a couple of shades...

I have 2 30 litre tanks in the shed i use for various fry.. but i shuffled all the tiger barb fry into one (not the easiest task i've undertaken :/), instead of both.. and put Fred in the other. He's rather miffed at being isolated from his buddies tho lol, doing that cichlid sulking...