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I love it! You were inspired by @CassCats tanks, weren't you? 😃 Same girl, same! If it were sand, it would be harder to add a slope since it settles and levels out quickly (darn you, gravity!) gravel will too, but it'll hold for longer, and a basic aquascaping kit (long tweezers and scissors...

Yep, same boat! Lucky it's laminate. I just didn't want to spend the time mopping while I was trying to get these fish into their new set up! But as disasters go, it's a very, very minor one, so not complaining. Much! :lol: I have drenched carpet before as well though, so I feel your pain...

Best advice I can give for sourcing fish, apart from finding the nearest good, privately owned local fish store and making a long drive, is to join as many local fish hobby groups as you can! I joined the Tropical Fish Club for my city (didn't cost anything) which has a FB page. While I loathe...

Have moved and set up the 22g QT with most of my new babies! Thankfully the transfer seemed to go well! Hoplo/not a hoplo boy was inside his pleco cave after I'd dropped the water level, so I just grabbed the cave, tilted it slightly upward and covered the entrance with my hand and transferred...

A belated welcome to the forum to you as well! :D :hi:

Roughly where are you based? I'm UK too, and see a wide range - but I also don't keep platies anymore... I used to breed and loved the blues: My mollies were hybrids, but had a gorgeous blue specking that often came through in the young. Mix of black mollies and sailfins, so young could be...

Most of those are just colour variations of two species of platy usually found in the hobby, Xiphophorus maculatus and Xiphophorus variatus - but there are a lot of colour varities of both species, and those colours get named and so sold as a Sunset Platy, Santa Platy, endless variations of...

Yep, you have a heavily gravid female. :D Anytime you have both male and female livebearers like platies, you're gonna get babies! The red wagtail is a male, and I see another platy behind them in the background - if you can get nice clear photo from the side like the above ones of any others...

Ooohhh! Those are new to me, and lovely! Sort of like a fancy pygmy cory! 🥰

Oh wow, I didn't know that! :D I'm gonna take that as a sign that my instincts are good, lol. Makes sense now that they're more of a mid-water swimmer too! I knew certain sub-species of otos are often found near specific species of cories (or whatever those species are named now) seemingly as...

Awesome, thank you! :D I'm really excited to get the main tanks set up, scaped and with the fish added! I know I won't be able to make anything nearly as stunning as you do yet, but we've all got to start somewhere, and hopefully it'll come with practice! 🥰

Bluey Betta Boy seems to like Bug Bites! It's new for me to feed an individual fish rather than a group or a tank as a whole, so target feeding this little fella and watching him eat is a new pleasure. 🥰 22G QT tank - the hoplo that isn't really technically a hoplo is a wizzard! He hid away on...

They're a little stunner in the sunshine! Nice. How many do you have? Also, I disagree with your siggy! Not giving yourself enough credit there, I think!

Nope, I'm too old and grey to know it! :eek: Oh well! Found my first grey hair at 18, so have been dying my hair most of the time since then! Still only a few, but man, they make you feel ancient!

Aaaww!! They're so wee! Are they rice fish?

I like your new profile pic! What's it from?

Update on new fish! I'll be getting a male L181 Ancistrus at the weekend! I have two adult females I raised from juveniles, and have a load of pleco caves. :D He'll join the fish currently in the 22g QT tank, plenty of room for him. He wouldn't pose a threat to the teeny green dragon and...

I think because I'm about to join the Corydoras World site/forum, I'm a bit intimidated, and don't want to make a fool of myself! But to be fair, I'll likely just be lurking and reading for a long time. Perhaps seeing the Latin names often will help them sink in. (psst, it's learning *curve*...

Please please link the sheet here! I need a cheat sheet! 🙏 Unless you mean one you made yourself for your own species? I have another tab where I'm editing my signature to include the Latin names of the fish I have. With the new ones as well, finding it a challenge to find the new Latin names...

True! :lol: My school wasn't nearly posh enough for that! Although I remember in I think our GCSE year, or the year before, that there was an optional basic Latin class. I only remember having a chat with a friend on mine who had signed up and asked me if I was going to as well, and I...

Think I need memberships to Corydoras World and/or Planet Catfish. But when I don't even know the species names of my own fish, I'd only make a fool of myself there. Too intimidated.

I'm trying to, but really struggling with the new names for the species I know - is there a cheat sheet that's less intimidating for us dunces who are finding it difficult to remember which new group various species are in or list of name changes? For example, I was using this...

Did you manage to get in touch with someone there? I can only see it being a good thing to have you involved in helping there! :D

Hope you're having a wonderful Birthday! Here's to another year on this crazy old planet of ours :drink:

I just managed to start a canister filter and have it work immediately, no priming or fussing needed... I think for the first time ever! Wouldn't normally be worth a mention, but since it's a tank that's on the floor, and it's not usually easy to get all the air out of the hoses without...

I so want to catch up more on this thread (and chat more in pm!) but also have been busy and side-tracked today, I'm sorry love! Will return for more ASAP, but had to do large water changes on all the tanks, check on and do stuff for all the new fish in three QT tanks. :D and I'm now still...