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Please don't just get one. If you read up on them you'll see they are social animals that need the company of their own species.

I nearly gave you a mention, @Essjay, for those ingredients, but I wasn't sure if it was you that knew them or one of the others on that other forum. They're not strictly for external problems. Sterazin is our go-to med for Capillaria and Camallanus, as previously mentioned. Piperazine works...

Nitrate is unlikely to be zero. What test kit did you use? If it's a liquid one you need to bang the reagent #2 bottle on a hard surface a few times before you shake it. If you don't, one of the ingredients precipitates out as a solid at the bottom of the bottle and you'll get false results...

How high were the nitrates? Have you been doing some big water changes to bring the nitrates down and relieve the stress? This sounds like HITH, which is pretty inevitable with high nitrates.

I only ever use Waterlife treatments. Protozin for fungal and protozoan diseases, Myxazin for bacterial, and Sterazin for 'parasites' like worms and flukes. They all work really well. Even for whitespot (Protozin) and worms such as Camallanus and Capillaria (Sterazin), you only need to pour in...

Agreed. You'll read in a lot of places that catfish can't tolerate a little temporary salt. It's a myth.

I can't help much, but according to Baensch, females are wider from above, ripe females have yellowish sides (the eggs are yellowish), and mature males are a bit more colourful and grow longer dorsal fins. I would guess you have a pair from their behaviour. They prefer to spawn on the...

Have a look at Waterlife, eSHa, Tetra, Interpet, King British, NT Labs, allpondsolutions. They all do the full range of treatments. And there are others.. I'm not calling them bio-friendly, just more bio-friendly than antibiotics. Most will not harm filters or plants...

They exist, they're just not legal in the US (and Canada obviously). Europe is awash with them to the extent that we hardly ever need antibiotics. That doesn't mean we're not still guessing when we treat our fish, and we still only treat for the obvious ailment when most times there are several...

Maracyn is an antibiotic.

Ah, salt, the double-edged sword of fishkeeping. Some people use it all the time as a matter of course, because without it their fish get diseases. It's a terrible substance for beginners because they never really learn how to keep fish properly, and end up needing to use it all the time, thus...

Methylene Blue is very effective against a wide range of bacterial infections. Antibiotics tend to be much stronger, but they're producing an ever-increasing number of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Also regular exposure creates a diminished immunity to bacterial pathogens, so they...

The tiny tank is stressing it, and stress allows disease. At 3.5 years it should be a foot long, or more. Your water change routine also means the nitrates are probably sky high, which will gradually kill fish, usually by making them stop eating. If the nitrates are very high, the internal...

The world (the Europeans, Asians, Africans, central and south Americans) calls it football because the ball is moved mainly with the feet. If anyone can supply a logical reason for calling American "football" football, please do.

Speaking of crows, I watched this YouTube short yesterday.

Is it eating well?

Calcium alone will increase GH. If you're saying it would be even better to increase magnesium aswell, then I would agree. More natural.

I remember that first picture, and thinking it looked decidedly skinny. Maybe it needs dewormed?

I have it on good authority that the German Blue Ram was never bred all over the world. Developed in Germany at a time when the Singapore Rams were very sick and sales were suffering (because the new German Rams were much healthier). The Singapore farms never imported any, they just decided to...

I don't visit fish shops much these days. Are Gold Barbs not "in" anymore?

They can be prone to a few deformities due to 60 years of inbreeding. I think the natural green version of this species is a stunner, and I'm permanently surprised that it's hardly ever available.

That all sounds absolutely delicious. Is anyone coming from the UK that can give me a lift? (I'm ready now).

That's a good looking fish. Well done for keeping them slim. Barbs have a see-food diet. ;)

MTS (Malaysian Trumpet Snails) will live in and on the gravel.

The short answer is those fish don't eat snails.

80UK / 67US, full to the brim. Subtract the decor and the gap at the top. He has Mytankslookrubbish Syndrome. I have it. Whenever I decorate a tank I'm never happy with it. I could take all the decor out and let You just literally dump it all back in, and I would think it looked a lot better.

I know it's a one-way street, but I'm in no rush. :)

I can't keep honeybees, I'm allergic to their penchant for hara-kiri. Love bumblebees though. They can sting you but they never will, unless you're Darwin-award level stupid. At 62, I feel like I'm on the cusp. Some days I feel like an old man, some days I don't. My legs have withered away due...

Quarantine tank.

Forget about pH. The deciding factor in which fish you can keep is GH... hardness. The old books talked about pH because in nature pH and GH tend to be linked. Hard water has a high pH, and soft water has a low pH. This "pH is important" info has persisted, but it's really not. Most soft water...

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Our chemistry teacher didn't turn up for the (double) lesson one day. Someone came to let us into the lab, but the teacher still didn't appear. So, being very responsible 15 year olds, we soon got bored of burning things on the Bunsen burners and putting ink cartridges in jars of acid. The...

The speed of light is not constant. It travels at different speeds depending on what it's traveling through. It's fastest speed is 186,000 miles per second, when it's traveling through a vacuum. It slows down to travel through air, and glass, etc. (Speaking of metals), sodium is a metal with...

It's a Red Tailed Rasbora in the uk (although I've always known it as borapetensis). The Brilliant Rasbora over here is R. eindhoveni. R. pauciperforata is the Glowlight Rasbora. There are some beautiful Rasboras out there that we never see. One of my holy grail fish was Rasbora vaterifloris...

Agamyxis pectinifrons. Make sure it has somewhere dark to hide undisturbed during the day, because they hate the light. You won't see much of it but It'll vacuum the bottom every night of anything edible.

Well they are nocturnal predators so any fish sleeping on the bottom is fair game. Try feeding it at night, after lights out? These attacks might stop if/when you add more. Displacement behaviour due to stress can make fish behave "out of character".

Have you seen it eat the foods you've been giving it? I'm guessing it's very hungry to be catching relatively big fish like that.

Ita best to keep them in a group but if you're only having two then it's probably better to have one of each. Females have 9-12 dorsal fin rays (spines), males have 12-14. They don't usually touch dried foods, and are much better on meaty foods such as frozen foods, and small worms and prawns...

That looks like it's on its way out. Looks like a hernia or prolapse, something like that. Possibly a blockage. What has it's diet been? It has done well to survive for 6 years in such hot water. Why do you keep them so hot? It just shortens their lifespans and keeps them stressed, which makes...

Stress doesn't always have signs that we can see. If it's the only one in the tank, it's stressed. This has been scientifically proven for this species (and kuhlies, dojos and botiine loaches).