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Same reasons why I always said I wouldn't get one but I've changed my tune. She does bark but only to alert which is useful when I'm down at the horses by myself so I know if someone is nearby. You can't trip over her because she's the heaviest footed dog I've ever had. The big staffie x I had...

I always said that, said I'd never have a small dog especially one of those little ratty chihuahuas... Had my chihuahua for just over a year now, one of the best dog decisions I've ever made. My username came from a book in which there's a little water spirit called a Sylvan Riverseed and since...

@Colin_T will hopefully see this and be along to help.

How big is your tank? How long has it been set up for? What are your water parameters I. E ammonia?

Might be worth dropping a message to a few LFS and seeing if they can get them from their wholesalers. The local Maidenhead to me gets various wild Bettas in from time to time.

Look on your water providers website and it should be on there somewhere.

Today I went to feed the fry the last bag of live daphnia I had before a trip to the LFS tomorrow to restock. Held it up to the light to check the contents and discovered no live daphnia and one very full damselfly nymph so that bag went straight in the bin. While the fry are taking dry food...

Probably just a scale that's been scraped loose. Can't really see from the photos.

That sounds a lot more like nest building behaviour. It may take him a few tries to get it right, don't be surprised if he builds one then destroys it and starts again. I would still spend time conditioning them before attempting to breed as Betta mating takes up a lot of energy and the male...

Yep as well as worrying about the growth inhibitor hormones I also worry about remains of food going off so good daily water changes, especially now they can swim away from the suction. Everyone else seems to be growing apart from these 2. That said, however, in my adult group one of the females...

Yeah America is a bit of a long trip for them:lol:

So about 10 weeks now, a lot of them seem to have had a growth spurt so while The Beast is still the largest fry in the tank it does take me a bit longer to definitely identify it. Teeny tiny and Tiny still seem to be stuck, they're eating well, I've watched them eat and they always have full...

Fish can go a few days without food pretty easily so the angel should be fine. Its fine to worry, we all worry and especially when things aren't going the way you want them to.

Fast them for a couple of days to see if their bellies go down which will also help your ammonia problem.

One of my Betta Coccina females gave me a heart attack the other day because I turned on the light to see a fish resting upside down in a curved position on some moss. I thought she was dead until she suddenly realised the light was on and flared into life. The two males take turns in the cave...

I always defrost frozen food first because I worry about shocking the gut with the cold but I have seen things on the Internet of people just dropping them. As I say personally I would always defrost first. To defrost I pull the block out of the freezer, pop it on a dish and just let it thaw...

Leave them in the tank and do roughly 75% changes. Do you know the ammonia levels in your tap water? Some members have problems there as well which is why plants are very useful. It could be or it could be something else. I don't remember seeing the answer but do you defrost the blocks of...

Your tank hasn't cycled so it doesn't have the bacteria to deal with ammonia and nitrite. The ammonia needs to be 0, big water changes with declorinated water until your tank cycles. You may need to do them every day. Plants help a lot, if you can get your hands on some floating plants like...

When you say block, are you defrosting them first? What are your water parameters I. E ammonia etc? What size is the tank and how long has it been set up for?

Sometimes it can take a while for the male to build a nest once he's seen the female. I think it mentions in the link that it can take up to 24 hours for him to build a nest after first seeing the female. I know when my Betta Coccina last spawned it took the male at least a day or so to build a...

Did the male show any interest in her? The link below contains some useful tips for breeding Betta. https://www.fishkeepingworld.com/breeding-betta-fish/

Personally I'd pull the female out and put her back in her tank then spend a couple of weeks conditioning them both. How long have you had them?

Has the male built a nest in the past?

For Splendens it's pretty standard from what I've read, to try to prevent the male from attacking the female. It's easier with most non Splendens species, I have Betta Coccina and have 2 males and 3 females in the same tank where they've spawned in the main tank and bred successfully in my...

https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/sphaerichthys-vaillanti/ My LFS just got some of these in and if I had room for them I'd get some.

I even eat it in full view of my Betta tank, gotta keep these fish in line somehow.

Sushi, I love sushi and one of the benefits to being back north is there's a good sushi restaurant 5 minutes down the road that does delivery.

The UK will find out this week what will happen with the lock down but we now have the highest death toll in Europe.

My dad was the same, I was talking to funeral directors to make arrangements 3 times because we were told he would be dead in 24 hours. He was in hospital for several months and then spent 2 years being fed intravenously before being put back together from the complications. All from a vaccine...

You can still catch it if you're vaccinated but it will generally be a milder version of the disease. It could be a genetic thing in your family that makes you more prone to it. I've had all the vaccines you can have, I still caught mumps and whooping cough as a child but because I was...

For some people it doesn't work as well which is why it's important that everyone who can get vaccinated does so it protects the people who need protecting because then you get here immunity. As it says on the CDC link it is 97% effective but that still leaves you with the 3%.

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html under the section about whether you can still get measles if vaccinated.

From what I've read it's only the older vaccine that can wear off and you may need a booster but for most of the population once you've been vaccinated you're covered for life. You can still spread it if you're vaccinated but it is much less likely that you will spread it hence why rates go down...

Corona viruses are a specific family of viruses not just any virus that makes the jump to humans. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html is the current list of Corona virus that affect humans and of the ones that have made it to humans there are only 2 others that have been serious and...

We create vaccines according to need. We've never needed a coronavirus vaccine before so no one has really looked at developing one until now. Hopefully if we do develop a vaccine the uptake will be enough to make it worth it but I believe the UK lost its measles free status because the uptake...