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It's an analogy (as it goes I don't have a cough, nor have I ever smoked).   You advised me to do the same thing as everyone else has been advising you. Treat the problem, not the symptoms.  

Gidge, I'm sorry, I will bring this up with admin.

  5 or 6 male guppies in a 30 litre tank is more of a max that I would be comfortable with.

  I would disagree with you somewhat, there, Byron, I wouldn't worry about nitrate at 30ppm unduly, especially given that my tap water has 40ppm in it (the legal maximum here in the UK is 50ppm)

What did you use to treat the ich? Assuming it's a standard medication, did you use a carbon filter to remove the medication once the course had been completed?   My thoughts are that if you didn't remove the medication, and it wasn't that long ago, the medication may have poisoned the cherry barb.

  Sparrow, I have a really nasty cough that's been going for 6 months, and I smoke 40 a day. I'd like some advice on the best cough medicine to buy at the pharmacy.   What advice do you think people are going to give me?

  Your eyes have a slight green tinge?

  When they're young and still at the LFS, it's quite difficult to tell the gender. They breed readily, so don't bank on not having any breeding going on.

Don't see the image, but hey, no need. If you have a male in the same tank as females, they will be gravid pretty much the whole time.   Yes, it's perfectly OK to let them drop the fry in the main tank. That way, the vast majority of them will be predated upon by the other fish (including by the...

  I would guess that you mean you just ran the tank empty for two weeks - that isn't cycling.   You need to be testing for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate every day, and taking corrective action when the levels get too high. Read this and then read this

  As per the Classified Rules, all negotiations must be done publicly, although swapping addresses and payment details may be done by PM.

First off, welcome to the forum.   When you say "water fine", what do you use to test the water, and what are the actual results you get (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH)? What fish do you have and what are their symptoms? It would also be good to know if you have hard or soft water.

JUst to say that we normally recommend a minimum of 6 for any shoaling species, which includes the corydoras. Other than that, I concur with everything Byron says.   The angelfish are too large for the tank anyway, even without other cichlids in there.   Assuming you have a male and a female...

It's quite a poor photo, but you've got two different species there that I can see.   Down the bottom is what looks to me like a Dwarf Gourami. If you have multiple males, they can and will fight each other, so that tallies up with what you are saying.   You also appear to have tiger barbs - the...

Unfortunately some LFS staff are not particularly knowledgeable - it is just a job to them, they don't necessarily have the passion, and therefore detailed knowledge of compatibility, that the members of this forum have. There is no requirement to pass any sort of test of fish knowledge before...

Keeping male and female fighters together is going to be fraught with danger. Fighters are called fighters because they fight. They live solitary lives, only briefly coming together to breed. Once they have bred, they separate off and go back to living solitary lives. You have 5 housed in a...

Attibones has pretty much hit the nail on the head, there.   There is no such thing as a fish that is easy to breed that no-one else is breeding.   If a fish is easy to breed, then it's done on a commercial scale, and the LFS pay a few cents for each fish. They then sell them for a dollar or...

I don't have one of their tanks, but yeah a heater (100w) and a thermometer is fine.

I have never noticed water cloudiness after feeding veg.

I concur that assassins will eat trumpet snails.   From what I've read (and I have no actual experience of them) clams don't pose a threat to plants or other livestock. They just don't tend to do that well - they are filter feeders, if I remember correctly, so they rely on food coming to them...

Peeps, when Fluttermoth asked you for the actual numbers of your water tests, she did actually want you to post the actual results, the actual level of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, and indeed KH if you have ever tested that. Your idea of "ok" might be very different to hers and mine.   Just...

  FIsh which are naturally from low pH areas can survive quite happily in high pH, but generally not the other way around.     WCMMs and zebra danios both like much cooler tanks, and, as the OP has already said, they need much longer tanks than he has.     Perhaps your water company is using CO2...

What's your water pH and KH like?

  They are genetically modified, not chemically. This isn't cruel, it doesn't shorten their life span, it doesn't hinder their growth. It isn't done to a living thing, it was originally done to a fish egg, and now the modified gene is "locked in", they reproduce normally, and the offspring have...

    Celsius & Fahrenheit ;-)

That's the best place to post such requests - if you have multiple posts, it gets confusing as to who said what, where and why.

When you say water tests are fine, what are the actual levels? My idea of "fine" might be different to yours.   What temperature is your water?   What species of Glofish(R) do you have - Danio, Barb, Tetra?

Having posted that question, you now have enough posts to do so.   We have had spammers joining the board and using their avatar and signature areas to deliver their spam messages. To combat that, we introduced a restriction that members needed 5 useful posts before they could change those parts...

Rosy Red minnows really need cooler water than the rest of your stock, the maximum for them is more 23-24Celsius.

What fish have you got PS?

  The OP has stated where she lives, and please note that this is in the UK classifieds section, not the US classifieds. ;)

  Initials and surname would be fine, surely?

  WRONG WAY ROUND!!!!!   The Salt & Pepper Cories (c.habrosus) are the dwarf variety, whereas Peppered Cories (c.paleatus) is quite a large cory, reaching 7cm, and is way to big for a 12gallon tank.

Yes, do black. It seems to me that most fish stand out better on a dark background and substrate.

If your water is hard, you have to descale your kettle frequently.

  Driving on the, shall we say, unfamiliar side of the road is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy, I have spent the last week driving in France, and it's a doddle. What is difficult is to drive on the unfamilair side of the car - you are so used to being at a certain point in your lane, you automatically...

They could well be mating, it is pretty common.   It will be quite some time before the babies appear - once they hatch, they bury themselves in the substrate for some time befoire emerging. They take around 18 months, sometimes longer to reach full adult size.

Hi Marcel, welcome to the forum.   I think you are right, in that it was almost certainly ammonia poisoning that killed your fish, the problem being made far worse by living in such a tiny tank. You don't mention any form of filtration for the tank, so I would assume that there was none. In such...

Zebra and Leopard Danios are the same species, they have slightly different markings.   The issue that you have is that these fish come from hillside streams, very fast-moving and cool water. Because of that, they are very speedy fish, and can get from one end of your tank to the other in about...

  Vrob, you need to bear in mind that the OP in this thread is a Brit, so going to Petsmart is a tad extreme! I've only ever seen it for sale in 1 LFS in my area (and I've visited probably 12-15).