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Today I'm both happy, and a bit frazzled wanting to have everything prepped and ready! Getting a replacement washing machine we badly need 10am tomorrow morning, so want to be ready for that. House still in reorganising/redecorating/de-cluttering chaos. But also found out today that my bestie...

Like Klee Kai's? 😍 Would love to see pic(s) of them! Urgh, it's horrifying! I would feel compelled to watch the video to try to process what happened, try to figure out a way to stop it. But at the same time, it's horrible to see any dog being attacked, and worse when it's your own baby...

Agreed! Thanks for the additional info, @Pennyangus ! Since you've had the tank set up for so long, and been through the LIVEBEARER EXPERIENCE where they pop out tons of babies until you're like "my tank is gonna pop, we need to sellrehome some of these fish! They can barely move!" :lol...

Oh man, I'm so sorry! You sound like me with wanting a pack of dogs, and cats too... my folks always had loads and I grew up with having lots of both, and I always felt bad for people with allergies to animals they really love and want to have! Must be awful, and I know if I was allergic I'd be...

Mostly swimming! ;) Plecos are pooping everywhere. Why did I buy FOUR plecos at once?? Three of them are so tiny, plus one big'un, and the surprise hoplo is lovely but a big boy, so I'm constantly amazed at the amount of poop they're producing! They're making themselves at home and settling...

I also smiled when I saw your name, @Back in the fold , and some of your comments! Always make me smile. Agree with Gwand that it's good to see you back, and agree with you that people like Gwand help restore some faith in humanity!

:lol: I was just trying to get photos of my fish too, and went through the same process! Now have to do the scroll through my camera roll to delete all the ones that are just a blur of a tail, massively out of focus, or ruined by water spots on the glass (I didn't wash and dry the outer glass...

When did you first set up the tank? Yes, I agree it's highly likely the female bettas fought and the loser couldn't escape the more dominant one - pet stores often give awful advice, then sell you more products and fish to "fix" and replace the disasters their bad advice caused. Now I...

Well please don't feel bad that I feel bad, or we'll be in a weird, badness loop we can't escape from! Ah.. yikes! Completely understandable why you'd move to RO with that! What a nightmare. Another example of how you were going above and beyond to take care of your tanks. And you had a good...

I've used way more (brand name) root tabs than that at a time in my 60L tanks without problems... I stick with brand names now like Seachem, Tetra, API - and I'm the one who also experienced a tank crisis from root tabs before, although mine were also cheap, unbranded tabs bought on Amazon and...

Gutted to hear you lost that tank and your fish! I'm so sorry :(

Aaww!! The kitten is so precious! Thank you for taking him in to safety 'til his owners hopefully track him down. ❤️

I got an adult male L181 recently, he's in QT still before he goes in with my two female L181s... in QT he's the only adult pleco, others are tiny babies still, but he's picked fav pleco cave already. Lately when I go into the room at night, at least one of the girls will be against the tank...

Sorry, have been AWOL again and have a lot of pms to catch up on... I don't want anyone to think I'm ignoring or don't care! And I'm okay... stressed, annoyed, busy, super irritated, trying hard to be patient and not always succeeding... Just stuff coming up and going on that has me frazzled...

I found when I tried aquascaping tweezers, they were even more likely to just crush in between the tongs and made things worse! If you have a fine enough fish net, I'd lower it into the tank, manually scoop as many into the net as you can to remove them, even if it means sacrifying some...

Ouch, I'm really sorry! Not fun timing :( Might be worth hiring a local to help you shift buckets, or investing in a bin with wheels/a dolly since you'll likely have to do a lot of water changes as it stablishes again. Hoping for your sake that it isn't as bad as mine was! Depends what's in...

Could be a few reasons why now and not last time - if you didn't bury one as deep this time, or have a fish that digs like many cories and plecos do, could have unearthed one and not had that happened before, but did this time? Also depends what substrate you have - I was able to dig through...

Yes, I had that nightmare when I used cheap, unbranded root tabs from Amazon once - NEVER AGAIN!! It took two weeks of huge daily and 2x daily water changes, using Prime in between changes to save fish from Nitrite poisoning, and constant combing through the sand to remove as many of the tiny...

Thank you! I think so too ❤️

Suppose shrimp baby could have been moved over with the bolbitius and dragonstone from my main tank, which has my previous shrimp colony it in. But those have been mixed colours for years and throw mostly wild types now, which is why I wanted a tank of just blues, so the fact it's a blue makes...

:eek: I've just spotted the stowaway tiny blue shrimp in this tank after I added the photos here!! Can't be from the ones I added to cube, different sellers and those went straight into ciano cube... so this is a freebie that must have came with one of the other fish!! Also seems to a...

Haven't snapped pics yet, but the six blue dream shrimp are in a 15L Ciano cube I'd snapped up for a fiver planning to scrape and maybe use for shrimp, but had been sitting in the fish cupboard since. Have seen at least two moults already, so please keep fingers crossed for those guys too! 🥰

Please don't hate on me for getting long-fins! He showed photos of the adults, and they were just too beautiful to resist. In a lot of fish species, I don't love long fins, but doesn't seem like such a big deal with ancistrus, to my mind. I don't know how the hillstream compares to adult size...

More Bowie pics from after acclimating just before adding him to QT - he's from the same seller as the other ancistrus I bought, though bigger, and around the same time, so QT with the others 🙂 And he measures about 11cms. Tiny snowball and ling-fin green dragons are even tinier in comparison...

Wanted it above anyway, since it's for growing plants rather than trying to create mood-lighting, but despite coming with suction cups, I wanted to know it's not going to fry my fish if it falls in, since suction cups aren't always 100% reliable! ;) But putting it outside the tank seems like it...