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No. I like the sound of that sort of behaviour! It’s a Jack Nicholson line from his Batman film.

I’ve Heterandria Formosa at the moment. The owners of the site probably haven’t the bandwidth to list all their common names.

I like them already.

Microdevario Kubotai?

Just one? My liquid rock and tank size prohibits dozens that I love: Corys, Clown Loaches, Odessa Barbs, Congo Tetras, Lemon Tetras, Microdevario Kubotai, Rosy Loaches, Dario Dario, Scarlet Badis…….awwwwh maaaaaan. RO water or a house move on retirement?

Nice to read. If anywhere can help you get over in tank problems this place can. Have fun.

Awwwwh maaaan it’d be the coolest thing ever. My waters 340ppm so that’s why I followed up on a few of @Wills mentions of it. Weve a bamboo plant in the garden that gets cropped to four feet around this time of year ever year. It’s about 18 feet high atm. Plenty of fisherman’s house poles...

;)As soon as I saw the title I knew you’d be all over this*. You’re dying to set one up aren’t you? It’s eating away at you isn’t it? It’s the last thing you think of at might before nodding off isn’t it? First thing you think about in the morning? It’s waking you up in the middle of the night...

They’re known as Mosquito Fish in the SE states of the USA. So I suppose ANY insects gonna get it. Most websites advise they’ll hunt shrimplets but no mention of full grown shrimps of Armano or even RCS size. I’m not gonna risk it. Well they’d be risking it not me!

I guess I’ll have to ask The Heterandria Formosa Society Of Great Britain. When I get round to forming it.

Welcome to the forum. Hope you stick around.

Love the shark suit.

Too late as usual. I was gonna suggest Robert (Lewandowski) or Ziggy (Boniek). As he looks like he’s wearing the Polish National football teams shirts-shorts-socks and getting ready to play. Theyre their two greatest ever players by the way. I’m aware that this will mean nothing whatsoever to...

Looks great. Keep us posted on its developments. Love it. I’d love a long shallow tank. 6’x12”x12” would be perfect. 180L (ish). MrsLurch isn’t having it though.

Cut a wooden block to slip underneath when fully extended just in case. Love the external heater idea.

I’ve been trying to nave a red n white n black tank for similar reasons. Silver substituting for white though.

As in my above post still use a jug to avoid substrate disturbance. In a new tank with no fish there’s minimal risk but it’d best to get in the swing of it as early as possible. Forgetting the jug I believe cost me all but two of my fish.

There’s demonstrations on you tube if you’re not sure. Always try to avoid as much substrate disturbance as possible. Last year I lost a lot of fish possibly due to forgetting to put a jug beneath my python when refilling at the same time that a rogue guppy was biting any fish it could get...

Simply remove all the water you’re going too then stand a jug almost filled with your new water on your substrate. Then pour your new water slowly into the substrate standing jug taking care to avoid too much spilling violently over the sides and displacing the substrate. A nice gentle spillage...

Is it one of those Gouramis that were recommended as lookalikes for Male dwarves to avoid Dwarf gourami disease? They’re stripy but difficult to find iirc.

Pour slowly into largish plastic jug standing on sand. I use what’s referred to in our house as a “posh yoghurt” pot. They’re invaluable for all sorts of fish related nonsense.

There is/was a poster on here from Bedfordshire who mentioned HFs in his/her signature. They were on here regularly but I’ve not noticed them the last few months. Can anyone remember their forum ID please? thanks

I suppose being known in the US locally as Mosquito Fish should’ve given me some sort of clue.

When I had the HFs in the community tank with guppies, medaka, WCMMs, RCS and Amanos there seemed no problem but that was probably because the activity of the other bigger fish kept them in line. In a species tank I think they’re a lot more confident and aggressive.

Thing is tinternet reckons if there’s a decent number of HFs they hunt shrimplets. No mention of full grown shrimp. Last time there were more fully grown RCS than HFs and they killed all but one. Now Ive at least 18 HFs of various sizes….. The RCS that got away was perched on the top of the...

I can smell auld Tyrion slapping on the aftershave from down here.

I semi asked this question in someone else’s Amano thread a few months back and got no answers……so here goes. My 7 HFs (mosquito fish/least killifish/etc etc) ripped nine full size RCS to shreds overnight months ago so I’ll not be trying that again. I’d read they’d hunt shrimplets but had read...

Beautiful tank.

Can I borrow the thread title for my autobiography?

When you come downstairs tomorrow morning it’ll be heading up them looking for you.

The Outlaws is a new U.K. two week old minor sitcom set in Bristol. Rather bizarrely it features Christopher Walken as a Vietnam draft dodger who never got round to going back home. Possibly cos he keeps getting put in prison! I was hoping he’d do a bit of dancing at the house party in the...

Third jab scheduled for Wednesday morning. Hopefully I’ll be able to get out and about indoors and on buses, trains, tubes etc two weeks after that then back to work. 20 months shielding due to severe asthma hasnt been the fun I’ve made it out to be. Had the flu jab yesterday morning. First...

I know. I wasn’t talking about bleaching in the aquarium either.

If getting a helper to feed simply buy one of those mon-tues-wed-thurs pill holder thingys and put a days worth of food in each compartment.

I’d rather use snail traps in the future than bleach in the present myself.

Had the standards on and off since the 80s, love em. Love the LFs as well. Gold? Naaaah.

A poster found a Midlands U.K. firm selling genuine US pythons here at less less than half price about 15 months back. Maaaan I was on it in moments having priced up the separate bits too make my own and found it was almost as expensive taking p&p into account. I now realise I don’t need the...

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Everyone should. It was International Black Cats Day yesterday. We spend more time on average in cat charity places before being rehomed than other colour cats. It’s a disgrace. I’d post more but I’m resting up until Sunday. It’s us black cats busiest day of the year. We earn as much in one...

Sort your algae problem out first. Then decide which living creatures you really really really WANT to keep.