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  1. Sylvan

    Let's discuss about rare fish

    I think the closest I get to rare fish is my Betta Coccina, just because you don't see them for sale round me very often. I think public aquariums are missing out by not focusing on fresh water fish a bit more, I'd love to see more fresh water tanks. The only one round me that does is Bolton...
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    What are you doing today?

    I've done a 7 mile walk as prep for my ongoing charity hikes plus the Yorkshire 3 peaks in September and taught myself to knit on double pointed needles in the round. Tomorrow is a fish day.
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    Coronavirus...post your thoughts here...

    I tested positive for Covid-19 on Boxing day 2021. When I tested I had no symptoms but lived with someone who started showing symptoms. My symptoms started on the 27th. I was a healthy 29 year old when I caught it and lived with someone who was developing stage 4 cancer. She wasn't too bad. Me...
  4. Sylvan

    What can live with Pea Puffers?

    They would if the snails hadn't disappeared into the sand as soon as they went in the tank.
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    What can live with Pea Puffers?

    My pea puffers are housed with shrimp and snails. They don't go after the adult shrimps but they definitely go after the shrimplets. I wouldn't move them into my community tank unless it was my last option, they tried to take a chunk out of my knuckle when I was moving some plants in their tank.
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    How old are yours? Mine were close to a year old, I think, before they even started showing...

    How old are yours? Mine were close to a year old, I think, before they even started showing interest in breeding. The offspring have only started showing interest at around 2 years old, whether it's because they're siblings or not but I suspect betta Coccina may mature slightly later than Splendens.
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    I got lucky with mine, I never really had to do that much with them. I had them as a group so...

    I got lucky with mine, I never really had to do that much with them. I had them as a group so multiple males and females together, the females choose which male they wanted then I moved the pair into a different tank and left them to it. I got the lot I bred from a spawning where I actually left...
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    Mine in the low 6s I think.

    Mine in the low 6s I think.
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    I became a stranger's daddy today...

    I went to a local museum with my sister this year and she had this toddler run up to her and claim her as mum while we were just trying to look at exhibits
  10. Sylvan

    Which betta is better lol

    I do like a big tailed betta but I don't if I'd get one again because I can't keep them alive. My plaket betta and my wild bettas are still going strong so I'll stick with them.
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    Which betta is better lol

    Neither. Wild bettas are the best.
  12. Sylvan

    Betta Coccina Breeding Tank

    It's been nearly 3 years since I bred this lot. I have 4 males and 1 suspected female left from the original breeding. My tank was absolutely annhilated by whitespot when I was away for an extended week. The males are absolutely stunning, deep red bodies with electric blue on the edge of the...
  13. Sylvan

    What everyone else want for Christmas bit late

    I'd like experiences. I have enough stuff, I don't really need anything else but I'd like the memories... Or yarn, I could always have more yarn
  14. Sylvan

    Share Anything Christmas

    The one time I dress my feral chihuahua up
  15. Sylvan

    SNOW!

    I'm jealous. I live in Manchester, England and even when the rest of the country is covered in snow it's usually still raining in Manchester. There was one year where the weather maps showed everywhere else in the UK as covered in snow apart from the green patch that was Manchester because it...
  16. Sylvan

    🐶 POTM Fishfinatic77 - November 2020 Pet of the Month Winner

    Congratulations!
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    Vote Now! - November 2020 Pet of the Month contest

    This is Edie. She's an 8 week old puppy, she is half pug, a quarter wire haired dachshund and a quarter poodle which has all added up to produce a miniature labrador like puppy. We have only just gotten her so she knows no tricks for the moment apart from sounding like an alarm clock in the...
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    Odd Dragonfly Nymph thing found in aquarium

    Keep an eye out for more. I introduced them by accident on a plant into my shrimp tank. Caught one then a month later pulled about 10 more out over a week.
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    Share your bettas

    One of my Betta Coccina fry.
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  22. Sylvan

    Another one bites the dust :(

    You're going to need another tank anyway if you have a clown loach. They get big, far too big for a 65 litre tank.
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    Coronavirus...post your thoughts here...

    Because it's already more widespread in the community than it was originally so it's a larger chunk of the population to spread it. I think I saw an article that said they'd identified around 1500 carriers that started the first wave in Britain. There are now thousands more cases so if the...
  24. Sylvan

    Music with catchy, corny, or strange lyrics

    Pretty much every song by Steam punk Giraffes.
  25. Sylvan

    Damselfly larvae

    Ermmm.... That will be fun to search through.
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    Damselfly larvae

    They are the masters of hiding. There was a month's gap between me finding the first one and the next then I found them all over a couple of weeks.
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    Damselfly larvae

    I found one in my shrimp tank then after a bit I found another 10. Hate the little monsters.
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    Coronavirus...post your thoughts here...

    Manchester is under restrictions. You can't socialise indoors with people from another household but you can go to the pub so long as you don't socialise with people not in your household.
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    Betta Coccina Breeding Tank

    I can't believe that a few months ago they were tiny little dots that I had to squint to see and now they're little adults. Time flies.
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    Betta Coccina Breeding Tank

    Some photos from tonight. I need to get my backside into gear and speak to some shops about taking them now but I'm quite attached so I've been procrastinating over it. The colour is much more vibrant than it appears in the photos but trying to get a clear photo is like herding cats.
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  35. Sylvan

    New 40Gal Tank... Thoughts, Opinions????

    Looks very nice, love the driftwood. Maybe just some floating plants as well.
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    Advice on stocking a new, tiny aquarium

    You can get other species of Betta which could be a potential thought for the future but they will also snack on your shrimp.
  37. Sylvan

    Weird bug in my tank

    Looks like a nymph of some sort, possibly a damselfly nymph. Depends on what you've got in the tank as to whether it's dangerous or not. I had a problem with them in my shrimp tank, they ate all the shrimplets. I removed all of the ones I found.
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    Coronavirus...post your thoughts here...

    You also have caffeine that's addictive but that said I do agree alcohol is worse. I'd much rather deal with my mum who is addicted to diet coke than my dad who has pickled himself over the years.
  39. Sylvan

    Mayfly/damselfly help please

    If you've seen one then there could be more. I had problems when I put a new plant into my shrimp, saw 1 and removed it then a month later found 10 more over the course of 2 weeks. I just use Tropica plants now from pets at home so I don't have to worry about hitchhikers again.
  40. Sylvan

    Funny Things That have happened

    We took the dogs up to the moors today for a walk and while we were there we met a greyhound who wanted to play so my aunts airedale went running round with him and our older dog was crying to join in. Told my sister to let him off the lead and off he ran to join in the chasing through the...
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