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Well that sounds promising, i prefer the ruby sharks anyway! If i see one i like i might talk it over with the person at the lfs to see what they think, and ask what kind of temperment the shark has :)

Ahh ok will do. Do i need to take the tetras out too or only the bettas?

I went to the lfs today and saw that they just got in a bunch of stunning female bettas, aswell as males! Some all ruby red, some with white bodies and ruby red fins and tails, and a couple of pearly teal ones. So i reserved 2 of them until saturday (when their able to be sold) and i already...

Ahh ok, im getting a 50g tank in a few months so i might wait until i get that, just to be on the safe side :)!!

Hi, i have a 26 gallon with guppies and platys, is it possible i could get a shark? Something like a ruby or red tail? Will there be enough room for a shark? There is plenty of hiding spaces And also can they live with guppies and platys?? Thanks

You should have a ratio of 1 male to every 3 females, to stop the males harassing the females. The female is most probably pregnant, but it depends on how far or long she is as when you will have fry, they are pregnant for around 4 or 5 weeks. The more females you have the more fry you will...

I agree with this..and the rest in the 640l

Ok thank you. What about the instant cylcling stuff you can get at petshops? Are they good for anything?

I just bought 6 lemon tetras for the tank today to go with my betta. But theres one that doesnt look like the rest, much thinner, a bit more yellowy, and its tail is different, the white and black marks are in different places and they dont have the same dorsal fin. What can it be?? Its seemed...

Yes exactly what I thought when I saw them.. I can just imagine them in the baby biorb not being able to even swim. I can't imagine how many people have already bought this. And also because they are a well trusted site people would not be likely to question if its ok, I'm glad I did incase I...

hi, i was just looking at an online fish store and they sell 'filler packs', but i am curious about the 'biorb filler packs' they have they have one which is a baby biorb filler pack, and im sure the baby ones are only 15L, anyway the pack includes: 2x Assorted Cory  3x Assorted Male Guppy  4x...

ahh ok :) i doubt they'll have them at the lfs's over here, and its expensive to deliver so ill have to think about it    although anyone feel free to give any other suggestions if they have any :)

noahsfish, i think i'll look into the peacock gudgeons, and where i can find them, they look really nice. are they a type of cichlid? and also what size are they?   meeresstille, you might be right with the bettas getting stressed.. well as long as i can see the other fish in the tank and they...

Noahsfish, all those fish you mentioned look really nice! all im worried about really though is if they would get along with my female betta?! :/ 

my betta was fine with platys too in the community tank, but i have enough of them downstairs lol

my betta was in a community tank at first too but she preyed on the small and slow ones, and i was also given false information by my lfs that they would be ok with guppies - wrong!    i would love a 20 - 30 gallon but i dont have the space at the moment, and i havent had the 10 gallon for too...

how small are the pygmys and the mirco rasboras? because im worried that my betta will be able to stuff them in her mouth! do the boraras brigattae, emerald dwarf or the galaxy count as micro rasboras?  

no i know bettas arent busy fish, but thats why i want busy looking fish around it. there are a few fish that can live happily wit bettas i just want suggestions on which ones could live in a 10 gal

My 10gal tank has a female betta in it at the moment, and im thinking of ideas of what else to put in it? i like the idea of having panda corys, harlequins and a betta - but ive been told a 10gal is too small :( is there any way of having all of these? for example if i only had one or two corys...

Wow all this is confusing haha. How do i get nitrite oxidizers? And i couldnt put the sponge in my filter because they are different shapes so it wouldnt fit

How would i feed the bacteria? How long do you think till i am able to put fish in the tank? The tank also came with ceramic media, and i have put established bacteria from my other filter into the tank, should all this speed the cycling process up?

So i just bought a BiUrb tank, its second hand - but only 3 months old. I dont really understand the filter on it, how does it work? Anyway so i've filled the tank with water, squeezed the sponge from my other filter in the water, and ive added AquaSafe. What do i do now? How long will it take...

Hi im selling 3 beautiful female bettas, due to the 5 of mine fighting all the time so i think they will be better off living alone, and i dont have the space for seperate tanks. I am also rehoming 1 for free as she is injured and i dont have the time to treat her etc.   Livestock: 1 white betta...

Yes i might do that. Its such a shame because she was beautiful! Lovely bright purple. I hope if her fins ever do grow back that they will still have the colour

I have a group of 5 female bettas, ive only had them for about 4 days. They have been setting up a new pecking order and fighting a bit, but i didnt think it was as serious as this. I went to take a look at their tank and couldnt find one of the bettas, i was looking for about 10 minutes when i...

Yes ive seen a lot of nice fish on kesgrave.. Im just thinking that they may not look as good as they do on the pictures

What are the best and most trustworthy sites to buy fishes online in the uk? I dont know if i should trust ebay, although i did buy a bunch of snails off ebay and they were all fine. And would anyone even recommend buying fishes online? Im just worried that they arrive dead or something!

Mine are definately territorial! Thy had set up a territory within a couple of hours in my community tank, they werent very happy when other fish went there either haha. Do you think any kind of rasboras would do or just the harleys? Pictures will be up when ive finished setting everything up :)

I think they were just preying on the slow an vulnerable in my tank, as they went after the most heavily pregnant which werent as fast as the others. Im planning on making the whole base of the new tank just small caves, using stones and slates, and put long silk plants in between so there will...

thanks for the advice guys, but woke up this morning and the guppy was dead :( i have added 2 more bettas to make them a 5 so they can set up a pecking order, they seemed to have worked it out already as the fighting stopped after a few hours. i have checked the females and they have the white...

thanks guys, ended up getting 12 malaysian trumpet snails, they will multiply soon so will have more, and they look pretty good :)

Hi, my 5 female fighters are moving to a bigger tank this weekend and i was thinking of new tank mates for them.. i have tried putting them in the community tank before - they dont do well with guppies! ended up killing 3 of them after the woman at the lfs said they would be ok.. anyway can...

Hi, i went to the lfs yesterday and saw a few female fighting fish, i know they can be kept with other fish unlike the males so i asked the store keeper if they can be kept with platys and guppies and she said yes, so i bought 3 beautiful females. Within an hour of them being in my tank they had...

Hi, ive got a 100l tank with 17 platys and guppies and a couple of fry. Ive got a small algae problem, only affects the silk plants and the gravel. I can clean the algae off the silk plants but i cant clean it off the gravel as the gravel is fine, but not like sand. Ive heard you can get...

yes but why did she appear skinny and without a gravid spot for a while?

My platy was pretty big today, she had a huge black gravid spot, she looked squared off and looked round from the back and top, so i put her in a breeding box and switched the aquarium lights off to calm her down and i left the house for a bit. but when i came back a few hours later she was...

Ahhh maybe your right there :)!! 

I wouldn't say hes tiny, but compared to the other two hes pretty small.  The other one that i referred to as tiny is only a couple of days old i'd say so i don't have any issues with him

Yeah i think maybe he gets bullied away from the food because the other two big ones seem to own the tank, theyre the most confident out of the small group.  And yeah it might also be a runt, the guppy that gave birth to them also had a lot of deformed fry, so maybe its some kind of deformity...

Hi everyone, I have 6 fry, 5 guppy and 1 platy.   i had 5 live guppy fry (the ones i caught) 3 weeks ago,  3 were very healthy, 2 had deformities i keep them in a 2.5gall, i suppose its ok for now as i only have 5 fry in it at the mo, i kept the deformed ones in the tank for two weeks but last...