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yeah I know they're not as strong as other fish, I'm just worried that I should be treating for something and I might wipe out my tank :( I think I'll steer clear of guppies as a replacement (once I know everything is ok) and go for mollies or platies.

so you've thrown fish into a 2 week old tank? no fishless cycling?

Hi All First off, tank info/background. 48 litres, water changes of 20% weekly with dechlor. Water stats: pH 6.8 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 50 Tempt 28C I treat my tank with a very mild dose for white spot (mild due to snails and shrimp in my tank) a few weeks before christmas, and that...

what is your setup? Water readings etc? Do you have an airstone? and how often do you do water changes?

ok, thanks :) I got some treatment and the lfs said to gravel vac, turn off the lights, turn up the temp, and dose half with the meds due to the copper in it being nasty for the shrimp. it does indeed look like a grain of sugar/salt on the side of the tetra. So I should turn my temp up the 28...

errrm... I'll wait for some other replies before I use that... I don't wanna kill my neons :-(

Hi all one of my tetras has got a white spot on its side. It's a decent size, probably about as big as a pin head, and although it wasn't there this morning, it was there 8 hours later when I got in from work. My Water parameters are stable (same as they have always been) and nothing new has...

sorry to hi-jack the thread, but I just came home from work. My fish were fine this morning, nothing new has been added to the tank for weeks, but one of my tetras has a white spot on its side. It's swimming fine, my water parameters are normal... but I have shrimp AND snails, and no hospital...

I'm going to bring them home. I'm working on tuesday, so I'll bag em up and bring them home. I have a clean storage box ready, so I'll also need to bag up the filter with some tank water. Going to see if the LFS will take the DG off my hands, as he's a big healthy boy, and would do nicely in a...

unless there's a power outage (which would affect the entire area) the electricity stays on all of the holidays (this is due to us having dedicated servers on site, so IT dictates that the electricity stays on). :( I can't watch over them all the time, and I don't want my guppies having tail...

might be interested in the fishbox tbh... Just seeing if I can source a stand. Then my current fishbox can be a dedicated male guppy tank and the new one would be a planted micro community tank :D Will let you know if I can get a stand

Hi all As some of you may know, I had a nightmare of a time with a fishtank at work. It currently has 1 remaining rummy nosed tetra, and my naughty boistrous dwarf gourami. Now, I wont be at work for 13 days over christmas. Now, I know (unless something majorly bad happens with the filter)...

aaiiieeehhhh!!! :wub: Go Go Little Swimmer!!!

I've heard of bettas with shoaling fish without any problems apart from the shoalers fin nipping the betta tbh... BUT I wouldn't recommend it. PLEASE sort out your current stocking. +1 on the danios needing a longer tank. They're fast, agile swimmers, who need to be in shoals of 6 or more in a...

Hmmm, does the bucket you acclimate them in have a heater in? Although you're adding tank water, which will get them used to the water composition of the new tank, the temperature fluctuation, even of a couple of degrees, can shock fish. Guppies especially (as I'm continually told), are not...

where are you? I'm ready for taking cuttings off mine (loads of strands growing all over the place like spaghetti lol), so I could baggy the stuff I cut off and send it to you if you pay P&P?

technically you don't need to get any more fish, but if you would like another to replace the one you lost, then get another female not a male... but be prepared for babies! :P

in which case you need to get more females, or rehome your current female and get solely males. I was warned by my LFS (this is a nice lfs not a crappy one) that with my guppies, I had to have 2 -3 females to every 1 male, otherwise they'd harrass her to death. you need to search online for a...

its true that they all have different personalities. One of my guppies is extremely lazy. I'll tap on the glass and he'll turn and look at me then turn his back on me as if to say "naff off I'm sleeping!" then when I do it again he begrudgingly comes to the front. He's all quick to the front...

oooh breeding them??? AIIIIEH! I never thought about that! I'm getting a bigger tank soon, so seeing as they're a micro species, I could dedicate my 48 litre to them :D How many do you think I could have in my 48litre? I have lots of moss in there at the moment for the shrimp, but more is...

I don't think this is as cool as that, but, every morning when I turn on the tank lights, I like to do a roll call to make sure none of them are dead (Im paranoid), so I gently rap my fingers on the front of the tank and all the guppys swim to where my hand is and all the tetras swim to the...

Hi All Now, I plan on getting a bigger tank and will up my tetras to 7 but I seriously seriously love galaxy rasboras (fireworks danios - they seem to have many names). Here's a pic so people know what I'm talking about... BUT, I keep coming across many conflicting sites when it comes to...

I feed mine dried blood worm (still trying to locally source live food). But I found that when feeding shelled peas to the shrimp, the fish love them too. They also pick at the algae wafers. Haven't tried cucumber yet, but I will, especially as I have snails now :)

my dwarf gourmai had to be rehomed when I got my first 2 guppies. I was told they'd be fine so long as I had plenty of tall plants and hidey holes for the gourami, but he was a nightmare. He even chased the tetras. The last straw was when I saw him fin nip one of the fancy tail guppies and...

heehee you have a leonard too (the lemon one top left :) ) they're gorgeous! and I'm amazed you got a pic of them like that hehe. I really need to work on my photography skills

+1 on the man stick lol :D I started with the 2 fancy tails, then I added the flame with a very small tail. I was panicking because the 2 fancy tails chased the flame around trying to mate with him - I think they thought he was a female because of his tail lol I panicked cos I thought I'd been...

just throwing in my 2 cents... I have 4 tetras and 6 male guppies, along with 16 unknown weirdo shrimp (were sold to me as amano hybrids but no1 can seem to ID them), and 2 apple snails. My guppies are AMAZING!!! I seriously seriously love them!! I have (colours): 1 lemon (small tail) 1 tuxedo...

u soak it to help it sink (depending on the type of wood), but you can also soak it over a long (ish) period of time to help get the tannins out so that it doesn't make your water look like you've dropped a tea bag in the tank. I used wood in my work tank that I didn't have time to soak...

Can I just ask where you got dwarf puffers from in doncaster??

I hated the pest snails I got on some plants from my lfs... luckily I managed to get most of the adults, and the babies/small ones my guppies actually sucked off the glass. My LFS had a serious problem with them, majority of the display tanks were over run with them. They even had to shut the...

I added 2 apple snails on thursday night, and today I can see one tiny (about 3mm in diameter) circle of algae left... these things zoom around (speedy snails, who'd have thought it) and when they are eating, their mouths look like they're saying hello :D hahaha :wub: snails ftw!

I love the look of black sand, and I'd love some pygmy cories, but I can't find it anywhere around here :(

is your moss pest snail free caz? I might have some off you to cover another coconut house :)

I didnt get chance to, but I had a good conversation with them. They have a LOT of choice so I'll be going there for some unusual guppies when I get either a bigger tank or another 10 gallon :) keep me posted on the size of the second tank :)

shrimp and snails my friend, shrimp and snails :hyper: oh, and plants :good:

Assassin snails are your best bet if you cant kill them yourself and you dont have a big enough tank for loaches... What I did with my pest snails were pick them out and I put them in a jug with a piece of java moss. The babies that grew looked like extremely tiny wiggly things on the glass and...

if you're worried about over stocking then get yourself a couple of snails and some shrimp. Amano shrimp are bigger and so less tempting to eat (as they wont fit in the fishes mouth). My shrimp keep the suckers on my filter and heater looking like new, and they clean up my plants without...

wow thanks colleen. It doesnt bother me so much anymore. I'll use vaseline when I upgrade to a bigger tank. The flame guppy seems to have calmed down. there is no fin damage to the lemon one, even though he's constantly being followed o_O but I keep seeing 1 or 2 of the others giving the flame...

buy a couple of assassin snails?

frome what I've heard about corys they love to "snuffle" in the sand to show their natural behaviour. Gravel can damage their barbs but if you're going for nice smooth pebbles then I don't think that will be a problem. Can I ask how you intend to clean the bottom with medium pebbles as a...