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Have you thought about shrimp? They're more suited to small tanks than fish and can be more interesting than people initially think, especially if you chose a species that can breed in freshwater.

Also do you know your water stats? Shrimps can be sensative creatures and it would help to find shrimp that will like your water conditions (pH, hardiness etc). Having said that, the red cherry shrimp is pretty adaptable so I would recommend that shrimp as a starter shrimp.

Then you havn't seen 'Marge'. Won't allow me to post a picture due to it being hosted on another site, but just type in 'Marge clown loach' into google images (or go to clown loach profile on loaches.com) and you'll see a monster clown loach.

Its my opinion that a large school of one type of fish is more impressive than 3 or 4 smaller schools. I'd keep to the harlequin and scissortail rasboras like you say, but increase both the harlequin as well as the scissortail numbers.

Those dimensions give 255 litres, or 67 US gallons. I wouldn't keep an oscar, GT and JD in that tank, I can see problems along the line with aggression, and I think you'll have to step up the water changes.

Really, the only shrimplet safe fish are oto's. You can of course get fish that are 'more shrimp safe than others'. The table below gives a guide, taken from ukshrimp Page Here # 100% safe for any shrimp, including shrimplets: Otos. # Generally safe for any shrimp, most shrimplets will be ok...

For substrate I'd go for black sand, it brings out the colour more, especially of red shrimp. I'd say for diversity it isn't much of a problem getting shrimp that will live together, quite the opposite the trouble is avoiding hybridization. A simple rule is to avoid housing caridina with...

You can buy test kits that will tell you your water chemistry, some of these can be rather expensive however so if you want to save on money, most good LFS offer to test your water for free, so I'd look into that. Having said that a good test kit is a useful thing to have.

Is that your home aquarium?! I'd never leave the house if that was mine.

I'd make up the numbers of the existing fish, both prefer life in shoals. I agree with colin_T, gobies can have alot of personality, I'd suggest the peacock goby 'Tateurndina ocellicauda'. Other candidates for small oddballs I can come up with off the top of my head could be khuli loaches, or...

Yep, thats some turn around, glad to see that its looking so much better.

If the food's moving its definately more interesting to them so will hopefully get them eating.

Its a hujeta (Ctenolucius hujeta) also known as a rocket gar fish - though its not a true gar. They like to be in groups (3+ at least) and require a fairly large tank (48"x18" footprint min) as they can be skittish - also cover up any gaps in the lid, they can be jumpers. As you can probably...

They will be fine for 7 days, just do a water change before you go and one when you get back and it will all be hunky-dory.

Definately not a severum, and I doubt a severum hybrid. More like a vieja sp. or vieja cross.

I don't think the OP suggested a POTM, rather a 'fish of the month' system that I've seen on other sites. Eg. TFF's Fish of the Month, March 2009 is: Dwarf puffer fish. You could have a vote where members voted for their favourite, then the winner would be 'fish of the month' or Mods could...

A diet consisting of nothing but feeders ins't healthy. I'm presuming you're on about jaguar cichlids, which are a central american cichlid so you will probably get a better responce in the New World Cichlid section. A better diet for the fish would be a good quality pellet as a staple eg...

Congratulations :clap:

Looks good, I like the japanese style artwork you see on a lot of fish tatoos.

Shrimp do carry their young until they hatch, so I doubt its shrimp eggs (though its not unkown for inexperienced shrimp to drop their eggs - mine did, but they wouldn't be scattered about like you describe). Its also not unkown for african dwarf frogs to spawn in aquariums. I'd look to the...

Going to have to question this, oscars eat anything. If your oscar doesn't like pellet food then they must be ill or something. Don't feed the oscar for a week then watch how he 'doesn't like pellet food'.

I'd say it has little chance of working, and if a pair forms its game over. While a 125 might be a large tank, I don't think its large enough for the aggression involved here.

Yeah photo's would be great. They've been one of my 'wish list fish' for ages, I know I'll never be able to keep them due to their feeding habits but they are still one of the most interesting fish out there.

I think its pretty much a given you have to provide live fish as food for these fish, or you might have luck with shrimp. I havn't personally kept them but have found THIS post from another forum which suggests a large amount is needed - scroll down about half way until 'gabs' post.

Stocking seems too much, go with 1 pair of fish and a smaller plec (bristlenose etc. - not a common or sailfin).

Very good looking tank, love the aquascaping. The mono's look good too.

In short no, most on that list will grow too big for a 100 gallon tank (US or imperial). The clown knife, endi and tire track eel will outgrow the tank for sure. The lima's, siamese tiger fish and ornates have the potential to outgrow the tank - and given the right conditions will. The only...

If you're going for a pair of acaras I'd leave the FM out, there will be increased aggression and it probably wont work out. The cory's may be ok, however as the acaras tend to spawn on the floor or near to it they may come under some punishment. I havn't personally kept corys + blue acaras...

Shrimp might be an option if you wanted something different.

The ones I tried were Wildwoods and Trimar, these seem to be the most popular. There are others but I'm not sure of their reliability, so I'd start with these two first, if that proves unsuccessful then perhaps look further afield.

Congrats on the spawn, according to THIS profile on TFF the young can spend several weeks clinging to the mother. Also they are cannabalistic, so watch out for the mother eating the young, best to remove them to another tank I would have thought when they are free swimming.

When I was thinking about getting them I too ran into the problem of sourcing them. If your LFS cannot order them in for you (ask nicely and some will do this for you - never hurts to ask), then I'd look at mail order companies. I asked wildwoods and trimar, both said they could get them, but...

Be patient, its only been 3 hours since your original post :P, people have work or other things. If you go down the jack dempsey route I'd really only stock it with dithers. You could do a jack dempsey + a smaller growing plec eg. bristlenose and a shoal of giant danio's or similar. Tank...

I would have to disagree, the shape of the tank isn't suited to larger fish. I'd say that frontosa need a 5ft tank to be happy as they are social fish, thats for a group of 1m + 2f.

Sulawesi shrimp are very colourful (I like the blue ones most): Sulawesi shrimp are very expensive and very delicate, so might be better starting off with a more hardy species. Beware of dyed shrimp though, the colour isn't passed on to the young and may even fade in the original shrimp.

Some fish will kill dithers even if they can't eat them. I know of a salvini that just bit off the heads of giant danios but didn't eat them. I'd also be concerned at the stocking levels, an oscar, texas, JD, salvini and festivums might be pushing 105 gallons, there might also be...

Whats the dimensions of the tank? Red devils will work, and you'll probably get a confident personable fish. Other suggestions could be midas cichlid, female red terror, Texas cichlid, Tilapia buttikoferi, haitiensis (black nasty/odo), smaller parachromis (friedrichsthalii, loisellei...

More pictures would certainly help clear things up, though I don't think its got any HRP in it, also out of interest how big is the fish?

The rams, apisto's, redtail shark are definately at risk so I wouldn't include them in your stocklist at all. I would also say the blue acara and rainbow cichlids will probably suffer, not bold enough to stand up to the larger fish. Its hard to say what would work, as each fish is different so...