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I have one other bristlenose - are they ok to be kept solo?

Will look into it. I'm pretty sure my tank won't hold any more of them. They're easily the biggest fish I've ever had. My tank is 45L - could I get 4 or 5 of them in there, do you think?   It does seem that fish might have died of starvation. It makes me wonder about the LFS I've been using, as...

Came home to a dead fish today :-( very sad. It's one of the unidentified ones. No visible signs of why....photo attached mainly to confirm ID. The loaches are (definitely) botia strata. I did my research on that and it was clear that, whilst 4-5 is ideal, 2-3 is fine - and my tank can't cope...

OK - is that all I should feed them or should they be getting plec wafers, too?

Is that any better? There is only one in the photo although I do have two - the second there is a reflection!

Yeah, well that was the idea, I've always known to keep guppies 2F:1M but it seems the LFS guy has sold me up the garden path!

That was the plan - when she does get pregnant I'm moving her into a smaller tank for the fry!   But isn't it a bit of a problem that there are two males and only one female?   The yellow one was the one the LFS man said was female - i didn't look closely in store because I didn't think he would...

They were just swimming past each other, I was watching for that. But it does seem that I have two males and a female there which is clearly the wrong way round. Grrrr. Bloody store guy! What would you suggest?

Hmmm....having read that, it has cast doubt on the one I was definitely told was female. Is there not a gonopodium here? As I've said before, I have had the shrimp for ages and there is only one so no chance of being overrun! It's just a question of whether I can find some more to help this one...

Hopefully clearer:   I've had the shrimp for ages, it's been around since I got the tank (second hand). The guppy I'm unsure about is the one at the front - I think that is actually a female, it seems that is a normal anal fin???

Its really hard to get a photo of these tiny little fish, but I think he did say bristlenose, yes. The guy at the fish store said the zebras should be fine with most of my fish, apart from the guppies when they (loaches) get bigger. Im planning eventually to move the guppies to a smaller tank...

Hey all.   I've just come back from the fish shop where I have restocked my tank after it was decimated by something (I have totally started again, save for a few fish that have survived for several weeks in a small quarantine tank since I emptied my main tank).    I've come back and I have a...