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Well as the thread is over 5 years old when bumped, I doubt the OP really cares any more.

When I see dario in the shops here, they always strike me as hollow or thin. They fatten up quickly enough when well housed however. In some places they are called "Queen Loaches" for reasons that are not readily apparent.

Balas are big fish, 400mm and up, and probably don't spawn until nearing adult size. What you may be seeing is a "test of strength". Dominance behaviours are very common in Cyprinids, and equally varied, some fish relentlessly chase, others flare their fins, the "spiral dance" is well known to...

As a group, the Rasboras are the perfect community fish. There are no aggressive Rasboras. As mentioned above, make sure you keep a number of each species though. Ideally 6 or more.

Alone, it is going to be somewhat unpredictable. Most naturally shoaling fish live in a constant state of stress when kept in a group that is too small. This can cause odd behaviour, ranging from being very shy all the way through to being overly aggresive. Rosy Barbs aren't normally aggresive...

7 is a reasonable group size, but fish like this are always happier in large groups, so it can't do any harm to add more. It is odd though. After 2 months they should have settled, yet the behaviour you describe seems to indicate insecurity. Is there anything else different? Substrate...

When did you move them? Is it just readjustment nerves? Rasboras are picky about being moved.

I noticed you had a CAE in there. Now, these have a reputation for grazing on the sides of other fish to take the slime coat off and they often take some scales as well. That said, I'd be amazed if it did that to a barb, the barbs are just to fast - they tend to go after gouramis and angels...

If the plan is for a simple "H" shape with 2 vertical pieces and one horizontal, then I don't think tha is a good design. I think it will be prone to shearing with rotation around the horizontal/vertical joints.. -------> | | | | |------| | | | | <------- If you plan to put...

I only kept mine for a short while. They destroyed the plants even with copious feeding of "better" vegetable food. They form large shoals in the wild, I recall a former mod, (Ryan), had a picture somewhere, can't find it now of course, with a group of dozens of full size fish feeding on the...

A small number of species from the very large Barb group occasionally nip each other is more accurate. Basically, I am with Milly here. I've kept TB's before and they will nip fins and so forth, but to be taking scales off seems a little excessive. Nitrates will cause barbs to flick against...

Another thing to look for if the flow rate is falling is crud buildup in the hoses. I clean my hoses out a couple of times a year. Tie a nail or similar to a length of string and pull the nail through the hose with an algæ magnet. Then tie a rag to the end of the string, sized to be a good fit...

These are not typical egg scatterers. Rather, the female lays individual eggs on leaves, often the under side of a leaf and the male kind of "wraps himself around her" to fertilise them one at a time. What you are seeing may be precursive courtship, but I have also seen 2 males do this in what...

What are you feeding them and how long has it been like this? Are these new fish? As an immediate attempt to "clean them through", I'd feed peas. Most barbs love peas anyway, but they do have a calming affect on the digestive tract. Varied diet of course always the best. I'd not heard the...

One word - SPAM. Even with a reasonably good spam filter, and a cautious attitude to divulging my e-mail address, I still get hundreds of "Rolex Watches", "Hot share tips", "Viagara direct" etc. etc. per day. If there is an e-mail address on open display in a forum, any forum, even small ones...

Welcome Erised. Good luck with the compy's.

You got that right! That too! :thumbs: Of the available on the poll, I voted for Congo.

The thing to do is to decide a format for the information which is easily workable. As I said above, names are typically constructed from elements. Identifying a list of elements would be a start, colours for example. You will never get a definitive list because nomaclature is constantly...

From a water chemistry point of view, they are quite well suited to a rift tank. In the wild they are found in alkali water with a pH frequently higher then 8. The real question in my mind is the reaction of the cichlids and the stocking level. I know very little about cichlids - you might want...

2-3 coats of blackboard paint is what I use.

Might get very long if the terms are to be explained. Tanichthys albonubes: Tan: Discoverer of the fish. A chinese boy scout leader on a field trip. Icthys: Fish. Albo: White. Nubes: Cloud. White Cloud Mountain is an isolated peak about 15km from Canton in South East China. Tans fish from...

Hampala macrolepidota. A fast, active shoaling fish that grows to over half a meter , hope you have a big tank for them.

As long as you are sourcing your stock locally, yes, they will be "fine". They will have been kept in tap water locally. The species you mention are very adaptable. I had tanks with these fish in them with chalk borehole water so hard you didn't pour it, you sliced it. They will never be in...

Labidesthes sicculus likes clean open water with a little current and high Oxygen levels, stresses easily and tolerates pollution badly. Surface feeders for the most. Keen jumpers. In the wild, they rarely live 2 years. I'm afraid I don't know much more then that really - they don't sound like...

Are they coming from the body of the fish or are they blood streaks in the pelvic fins? Whatever they are, red spikes are not normal, but without knowing what they are, it is not possible to say if they are dangerous.

Pretty much all of the smaller tetras are shoaling fish that should be kept in groups of at least 6 fish. In a 5 gallon, you will be pushed to find a suitable fish that won't hopelessly overstock the tank. Hyphessobrycon amandae would work, and I've seen them around a lot in the trade at the...

A 5 gallon would be spacious for a single Betta, but is not large enough for much else. You mention Black Neons for example. These need to be kept in a group of 6 or more. Even asuming the maximum stocking guideline of 1" per gallon, (which is really pushing it in a tank that small), you don't...

Serpæ need to be kept in groups of 6 or more, and even then, are nippy little sods, miniature piranhas.

Click your name on the post above, it will have "Find members topics" and "Find members posts" options. Always the Search service of course. If you are looking for your own posts and still can't find them, "and they were unlikely to have been deleted" post again. If they were...

In most freshwater etups, UV is not necessary. As Rooster has said, the "problem" has to go through the steriliser, and that is not the case with sedentary algae growths. They can also kill free swimming/floating parasites if you have them.

2 issues here. Air pumps work by causing surface movement. It allows gas exchange at the surface. In most setups, airpumps are totally un-necessary. Unless you have specific reasons for running them, turn them off if you wish to save the cost - that said, they use very little power. Heating a...

If the kit has a correctly sized external, adding another will not help and probably be counter productive. You cannot generate more "filtration" by adding extra filters. Filters work by running Oxygenated polluted water through/over bacterial beds where the bacteria process the pollutants. The...

A bump after just a few hours? ;) Never had one, no nothing about "kits" or "complete systems", have always built my own from scratch. Kits or completes are usually hopeless for planted systems - they simply cannot deliver enough light. Can't help with solutions there though as I always build...

As stated above, the thing that has died is your filter, not an airpump, although I can see how it might be thought of as such. You have to get water circulating through your biological filter bed, (the sponges), although they will start dying off after a few hours as they require Oxygen. From...

The built in "pump" is your filter, it is what is managing your Nitrogen cycle. If that has stopped working, then you need a new filter. The "pump" you have bought, now, is that a filter, because filters don't work through airstones, or is it an air-pump - which do? If you have bought an...

Difficult question for me because I know so little about Betta's. I believe female Bettas to be harmless, so aggression in the Betta->other direction is not really a problem. The vast majority of small CC&A species are also quite harmless so CC&A->Betta aggression is not a problem. As long as...

Well, what do you want? If your shop only sells pairs, you could argue that as they are the same species, a regular and a green are just as much a pair as any other combination. If you prefer greens, get greens, if you prefer regular get regular. You would not be hugely overstocking if you got...

Renowned "tank busters" their biggest problem has already been stated, they grow big and fast, and as you need a group, they require large quarters. In a big enough tank, they are very active but peaceful as long as the other tank occupants are to large to swallow - they are not aggressive, but...