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What made you think he was suffering from ammonia poisoning? Did you test the water? Just going to the surface isn't a symptom of ammonia poisoning, per se, gasping at the surface is, but it is also a symptom of nitrite poisoning, and a few other things as well.

  I was always taught it was just ammonia but thanks for correcting my mistake   No problem. :D   Ammonia, as you will know, but the OP may not, burns the gills, and makes them far less efficient at drawing oxygen from the water into the bloodstream. Nitrite, on the other hand, enters the...

Nice. You realise the photo-junkies on here will be PMing you constantly for updates? :D

If the females have been anywhere near a male in the last 6 months, then yes, they are gravid. The gravid spot isn't a magnificent indicator of impending fry. If the females are fat beyond belief then fry are imminent, although the fry will be predated upon by all of the tank inhabitants...

It is also a sign of nitrite - both deny the fish oxygen, just in different ways.

The guy at Pets At Home was right about the water being fine. There was nothing wrong with the water - fish poison themselves. They produce the ammonia which then poisons them. Until there are fish in the water, there is nothing to make the water anything other than perfect.   However, he was...

Interesting one. A lot of tanks go cloudy when they are first set up, it's a bacterial bloom, but usually it goes away on its own after a few days. It would be very interesting to see what your ammonia and nitrite readings are like. You have a very high bioload in your tank, mollies and guppies...

What Chad said. Thanks for everything, Rob.

If, at first, you don't succeed, don't take up skydiving.

  Quotes work for me, in Chrome, as do pictures.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonwells/thousands-of-goldfish-are-taking-over-a-lake-in-colorado#.mhMxDrn9g   We keep saying it, but I feel that people don't believe us.

  In fairness, the Dwarf Emerald Rasbora and Celestial Pearl Rasbora aren't nearly as active as other danio species, such as the zebra or pearl. I'd certainly have no qualms about either of those species in a 10gal, and indeed have kept CPDs in a tank slightly larger than 10g. The generally...

Zoom in on your home city   Click the Pacman icon at the bottom left.   Play Pacman around your local streets.   Do no work whatsoever today.

  Evil girl - I'd got this thing all sewn up - I'd have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for that pesky girl. ;)

Peacock Gudgeon will go after the cherries - the whole population got moved out from my 34l when I saw one of them go for an adult shrimp. It took me literally 6 months to move every single shrimp, I kept finding them hiding - there's plenty of plant cover in there.   I'm half-tempted to go for...

Can't fault your acclimitisation at all, I would personally have still netted the shrimp, not necessarily one at a time, but that didn't have any bearing on the deaths, as far as I can see.   Does seem like it's the extinguisher pin that's the culprit, so yeah, a water change when you get home...

Endlers are very closely related to guppies, and like them, the females are much plainer and larger than the males. Males-only is the way to go with them.   My recommendation is peacock gudgeon, also known as peacock goby. I have a threesome in my 34l, very colourful, very peaceful, they can...

You might get away with amano shrimp, which are much bigger than cherries or crystals.

Hi Dave,   Sorry to hear of your problems with the shrimp.   Assuming that your water parameters are 0ppm ammonia and 0ppm nitrite, with nitrate less than around 40ppm (that's the only definition of fine, as far as I'm concerned), then it's either the extinguisher pin, or it's the way you added...

Tank is 2.5feet or thereabouts. Quite wide though.

They not a bit too big, EA?

Yeah, not with the Shrimp. I'm not overrun, but the DG helped there. Never been keen on ram, but maybe. Dwarf Rainbows, again maybe, but kinda wanted a centrepiece single fish.

Just found my Dwarf Gourami the wrong way up, so there is a vacancy in my tank. Can't think what to fill it with. The tank is 110l, currently populated with 6 Cardinal Tetra, 6 Pentazona Barbs, 7 Cherry Barbs and a gazillion Red Cherry Shrimp. Water is hard, Ph of 7.6. Give me some...

First, you got mixed up between his screen-name and his rank. He is "Noobgamers", and his rank is FIsh Crazy, whilst you are New Member.   He means that where LyraGuppi said that the RTBS "can get aggressive", he was highlighting that it is possible that your particular fish will not get...

Male Endlers were my first thoughts, too. They tick all the boxes.

  Just to be absolutely clear, if you have a new tank (ie anything where the full nitrite cycle has been established for less than 6 months or so) washing any filter material under chlorinated water is a bad idea.

  I've seen the start of a tornado quite a few times, out over the English Channel (I'm in Portsmouth), but not one that has actually touched down.

We had 2 earthquakes in 2 days a week or 2 ago. One was about 30 miles away from me (about 3.something on Richter), the other was further into the Midlands.   On the subject of tornadoes, the UK has the greatest concentration of tornadoes (touchdowns per km2) than any other country in the world.

Akasha is so right - we just cannot cope with snow at all, everyone just panics.

I'm very thankful for the Gulf Stream.....

Most usual aquarium heaters can be placed diagonally (or horizontally). The problem with placing one vertically is that the heater warms the water, which rises, and the thermostat just sees the newly-warmed water, and therefore cuts off too early, before the warmed water has had a chance to...

It's not easy, there's a few methods. Using peat in the filter can do it. Using RO water (using a mineral mix to add the other minerals back that you will need for healthy fish) will also do it - or part RO, part tap, depending upon the hardness that you want to achieve.   Something to watch out...

  The OP attached a photo of the tank in the first post, they are neons ;)

I am down about 10lbs since Christmas, and about 25lbs since September.

I'm just wondering whether the the breeding net is the issue. When you say it takes up most of a 4' tank, do you mean just the length or are you talking about width and depth too? If it's quite long but not very wide and/or deep, it may be causing the fish stress, and this may be why she is not...

I wouldn't put meds in right now, see how the fish react with clean water. As Eagles said, clean water is pretty good as a medication anyway!   Test again in another 4 hours or so (or tomorrow morning, if 4 hours time is the middle of the night for you).   Have a read of this   And then, have a...

Glass catfish are very timid fish, I worry more about the hyperactive guppies, to be honest. They may very well out-compete the glass catfish for food, and generally freak them out.   A docile betta would probably be OK, and indeed the water conditions are similar for both (very still, low pH)...

Thanks, Mom.....

Cheers, EA. There is a chap on another forum (not aquatic) who is looking to upgrade his 110l tank to African Cichlids, and wants shot of his remaining stock. I have advised him to join up here. I have only seen S.Lineolatus in my LFSs recently, and I know that this fish is local to me.   This...

No, just you. ;)