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My newest betta, Sigmund, is cream with metallic blue/green and raspberry-coloured fins. He's very special. I'll see if I can get a good photo, if you like. He's got such a personality.

Luckily for my finances, the betta I had my eye on had been bought the night before when I dropped in at that LFS. I'm having no luck at all with my pandas. Two have gone this week. All parameters are perfect (though my pH is always high), but these two pandas just got lethargic and gave up. I...

I'm sure it depends on the temperaments on the fish, but I've read it can be good to understock a community tank with a betta. Gives everyone more space to move and to hide. When I had too many fish in my 10G, the normally peaceful harlequins nearly destroyed my betta's tail.

Now I just have to try and try and try to resist buying the gorgeous betta I found last week. (I'll be back near that LFS on Tuesday.) Try and try and try.

I can probably manage a 2 or 3-ft tank in the space I have. Would it be better all round to find a new home for the harleys?

Anyone?

Any suggestions on what size tank I'd need (as a minimum) for this lot?

Well, I'm renting in a share house, so space is the biggest issue--don't want to eat everyone else's space. Currently the small sits atop an old writing desk of mine, and the bigger I go the more likely it is I'll need to put the desk in storage and buy a stand. But I can use that whole space...

I saw a gorgeous betta yesterday, and actually can't stop thinking about him. I think I have a problem.

Hi guys, I've caught the bug! I want to upgrade. I have a whole bunch of ideas; perhaps you could help me refine them. I won't be making any purchases for a while--got to save up! I still have my planted 10G with betta and a shoal of panda cories, which is going fine. My other planted tank is...

Just to prove that stereotypes don't stand up in the animal kingdom either, when I added five panda cories to my 10 gallon the other day (with betta, Delirium), he started following them around like he was shoaling with them. There's no aggression or nipping--he's just curious. I just caught him...

I ordered the meds yesterday and then today the lesions are gone! Gosh, that Myxazin works quickly...it hasn't even arrived yet! I guess it will come in handy in the future. :P

Thanks! I've ordered some.

Thanks--I'll check that one out. Would it kill the bacterial filter?

Any thoughts?

On the upside, you take great photographs.

Hi there, I could use some help! One of my glowlights is looking very strange--it looks like there are white marks or lumps inside the fish. Tank size: 30 L pH: 7.4 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate: <5ppm (using API liquid test kit) tank temp: 26 degrees C Fish Symptoms (include full description...

Would a tank like that be big enough?

This. This thread is insufferable, but I keep coming back for more!

And now you've created a new hard phase in their lives. Nice one.

What about the fishless cycle that's been recommended by pretty much everybody? Now that I know what I know I couldn't possibly subject my fish to another fish-in cycle. It's cruel.

I'm impolite? You're having a laugh.

I'm sorry, but no, we're not friends. We're just strangers talking on a forum. Time to get the impulses under control. And, well, you haven't given us a reason to put much faith in you. It's been one incident after another. You have disregarded advice--heaps of it. As all of us have pointed...

But you have already disregarded a lot of advice and, by the looks of it, dishearted the friends you made here, like Laura. You're behaving like a child, Crunch. But you have lives on your hands. Look after them.

As in the kind that can reach three feet? O.o

You're kidding. This is the same user? Crunch, what on earth are you doing? If I wasn't so sure trolls wouldn't bother with hobbyist forums like this...

Unlikely in a tank where cycling is occurring and there may be aggression between species.

It's not uncommon to make mistakes out of passion when you're starting out. I did the same. But when you've got the information here already, you're lucky--you can guide your heart with logic, rather than end up killing all your fish accidentally. Well, the basil isn't dry anymore, is it? It's...

Basil stems? Definitely not an aquatic plant--they'll just rot, contributing to poisonous ammonia in the water and helping to kill your fish. Take them out. Refer to the beginner's resource on this forum regarding water changes for a fish-in cycle. Get your hands on a liquid testing kit. You...

Perhaps foash is asking how to post a photo of his fishtank? Foash, sign up to Photobucket (a website) and upload your photo there; then you can post it into the thread.

Not to mention those guppies will shred the fighting fish to bits.

You might want to give a link; I imagine there are a number of tutorials for making filters on YouTube. Certainly sounds like yours isn't working right, but I wouldn't know how to help, sorry. Not so good with the DIY. I think you're better ordering one online from an aquarium supply shop. \...

None of them should be in a space that small, especially without filter and heater. To my knowledge, they're also not fish that will ever get along particularly well. Go back to the shop. Yell at the idiot who told you everything you listed in the first post. Return the fish, give them to a...

It takes weeks, not days, for a tank to cycle. (I learned the hard way.) If you've been cycling three days, the tank isn't cycled yet.

You can't reach the tap?

Guppies don't live long (only around a year), so in that respect a healthy betta might be the betta option.

Can anyone else help me with the questions in the first post, particularly the filter baffle query?

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I can't change the position of the outlet--it's the kind of filter that's built into the lid. From the first post (to clarify):

What about a betta? Not huge, but lots of personality.

Any suggestions regarding lessening the current? Will the stocking over the intake interfere with filtration too much?