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When adding females, I've just chucked them straight in. Never had any problem. I got my first lot when they were too young to sex, and I ended up with three males and two females. Wanting to increase my female population, I bought two more, which Iooked female at the time. One of them wasn't...

The barb seems to have been granted a reprieve. The two additional females are keeping him busy, and the corys are quickly learning that if they don't run when he tries to chase them, he swims off pretty quickly. This is good because OH was very reluctant to rehome. The barbs were our first fish...

My experience with cherry barbs has been... not that. They moved out of their first home with me because they were fin nipping the longfin bristlenose. They moved in with otos, pygmy corys, and killis. But the males were harassing the little corys and the killifish, so they moved into a 110L...

My otos won't touch algae wafers but they will eat courgettes and all the algae produced by the tank.

It's still stable, although the lone male killifish looks quite stressed. I don't think he's happy being the only killi in the tank. Not a lot I can do about that until I'm 100% sure the outbreak is eliminated, and then it would be another two weeks because all new fish will be quarantined...

Update: the pandemic seems to be levelling off. Casualties are three plecos, four killifish, one c. habrosus, and one panda cory. The oto that was covered with white spots looks white spot-free, and no further spots are appearing on any other fish.

It looks feasible to order metronidazole from the US, although it wouldn't get here until the end of the month. The tank was sitting at 26.5 degrees before I raised it to 30. I was running one powerhead and have two filters, a Fluval U4 and an Aquael Multikani. My Ph was around 6.5 and my water...

I've added additional powerhead and the temp is at 30. Guessing that's all I can do now. Could ich in the gills have killed those plecos? They need highly oxygenated water. Would the parasites have inhibited their breathing, and raising the temperature did them in? Is that why they were...

Could ich be comorbid with the alleged protozoan? I can see the ich on the several fish. I don't know if my equine vet would prescribe me antibiotics 'off label,' as it were. US Amazon indicates that they will send the Seachem stuff here, but it wouldn't show up until the end of August. What...

Complacency causes a lot of climbing accidents. You've traversed potentially avalanche-prone slopes hundreds of times and nothing has happened, and you stop paying as much attention to slope angles and snowpack layers. Then one day, the slope falls off on you. I haven't been quarantining new...

It took my female bristlenose pleco, acquired as a juvenile, a few weeks to realise cucumbers/courgettes were food. Now she's obsessed with them and waits for you to put it into the tank. It's attached to a magnetic veggie clip. Sometimes you have to nudge her out of the way of the magnet. The...

Probably not. If they're mating, they'll race manically around the tank with the male-female pairs forming a t-position.

Shame about that one cory. My corys (c. schulzeii, CW045, c. carlae, and in the other tank, c. panda, c. habrosus, and c. pygmaeus) only run around in a huddled mass when they're alarmed by something (i.e. water changes) or if there's a scrum over an algae wafer. Otherwise, they're more likely...

If you really want to do a fish-in cycle, I would recommend cherry barbs. They seem pretty indestructible.

My bristlenose is out all the time and isn't spooky. You sometimes have to nudge her out of the way when attaching a courgette to her magnet. .25 ammonia out of the tap seems like a lot. I had issues with otocinclus and pygmy corys in a cycling tank (really poor choice of species for that)...

I've only been fishkeeping for a year, and there are people on this forum who know way more than me and have decades of experience, and I'm sure they will respond with their thoughts. That said.... In my experience, corys are sensitive to water parameters and should only be put in a mature...

Nope. Not even one if you know how to play the system.

It's easier to transport a horse on Transatlantic flights.

It's 125L. Given what you say, I'm surprised Seriously Fish suggested keeping it with Chaestoma Formosae. Mine is an aggressive wee algae eater. It's not afraid of anything, and even though it's a juvenile, it stands up to the adult bristlenose (these are in a 240L tank... not the one I'm...

L260 and L262 are predominantly carniverous. I have some otos in there, though. They're the veggie competition.

I have zero space for a 25g+ tank! I'm running four tanks at the moment, and if I get a fifth, it will be an apistogramma borellii grow-out tank out of necessity. My OH hasn't acknowledged that yet, but he will if there are cute baby apistos who need a place to live. Could they live with the...

Seriously Fish says that they do well in the same conditions as Chaestoma sp. of pleco, which I have. But it's in a tank with a couple Platydoras Armatulus, and in my experience, sensitive, nervous fish are not happy with the raphaels.

Love the farlowellas. Not sure where to put them if I ever got them, though, as there's really no room at the inn anymore. Maybe some day!

My experience is that when they start lying on their sides, they're hopeless cases.

Mine all looked fine. Until they didn't. And it was fast. One minute I was looking at the tank and all fish seemed fine. Then the next, one was lying on the substrate, very DOA. Haven't lost any for a little while, though, knock on wood.

I've had this same issue with c. habrosus. I've had a wee shoal of them since last December, and two have dropped dead suddenly, seemingly for no reason. There were a few months between the first fatality and the second. All water parameters copecetic, as far as I could test. It is frustrating...

That hoplo is beautiful. Been there with the tank swaps. Upgrading a 30g to a 55g ended up taking about eight hours and multiple visits to a hardware store. And as you know, lugging a tank that size up a flight of stairs sucks. The 55g was a Fluval Roma, also an ex-marine tank, with the inbuilt...

Tell them it's an animal welfare issue. If grandma were horribly neglecting a dog, a cat, or a horse, would you keep quiet about it because she might feel bad?

The rubberlip pleco will appreciate more hiding places as well. They also like to sit on rocks. Mine is out and about when grazing on algae, but it likes to disappear when it takes a nap, and prefers the slate over the logs. If there's not much algae in the tank (doesn't look like there is), you...

Bought a 125L tank off Gumtree. When we went to the dude's flat to pick it up, we saw that he had a circa 200L (50ish gallon in American) tank with three large bala sharks -- the biggest a good 12 inches long -- two full grown red tail sharks, a huge oscar, three or four angel fish, a couple...

Yeah, they look great. But no room at the inn for another loricariid that needs a powerhead. I have some space in my 100L that currently houses cherry barbs, a lone Bolivian ram, and a clown plec, but that's my low flow tank. That could take a small loricariid that can cope with still water.

Sorry... I may have misread this post as implying that you were trying to encourage her to publically share her music when she wasn't that keen. Anyway, yes, giving her money and letting her decide is the best way forward. She might even want to upgrade an existing instrument or buy something...

I'm serious about the pipes. But here's my even more serious advice (and I've played the Irish pipes since 2004 -- frequently in public at Irish traditional music sessions and the odd gig -- and faffed around with assorted other things before that). Let her choose her music. Don't get her more...

Uilleann pipes. Takes 21 years to learn so will keep her busy for a long time.

Yeah, that pleco is a cool fish. I love the loricariids too and seem to be aquiring a range of species -- a rubberlip (chaetostoma formosae) in that tank, and a clown pleco in a different one. Recently got an L260 and an L262 but they weren't impressed by being moved, nor me crashing around...

After flapping about my dodgy cory, I did manage to get some reasonable pictures of the tank after setting my camera to your advised settings.