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  Hopefully the rocks will do them good :) The thing with Oto's is they are what you could call "Too stubborn to learn" and instead of trying the algae wafers they ignore them completely due to natural instinct. It's the same with Rubber Lipped Pleco's, I got lucky in the fact that mine learnt...

He'd pick off any he see's which with red cherries will be a ot of them due to their colour. They are well known for eating Cherry Shrimp :)

Oto's are notoriously hard to feed once they finish off any algae in the tank. I'd recommend culturing your own on a few rocks in a jar or a bowl on a windowsill. I say a few rocks because you need to give time for the algae to re-grow on the first rock while you switch it out for the second or...

  The fish. You said Betta and Coccina in the same paragraph so technically you got it lol.

  It's Betta coccina :)

  Really? The B. persephone look too dark in the body and the fins look darker... OK.   Erm, here :) Scientific Name please.

Betta persephone? It looks similar but not quite right....

I don't know why Derp couldn't see the picture.... It sometimes happens to me and I just refresh and it loads? Did you try that Derp?   Yeah, go ahead.

I can, is it a Betta akarensis?

  Cool, thanks :)

  Don't know my GH unfortunately as my test ran out so I'm having my water tested at my boyfriends shop and he hasn't got time right now as they're busy at the minute so doing any testing for me is out of the question right now :/ I can ask him to next week hopefully though? Won't be getting the...

  I've tried twice but I will try it again when my tank is sorted out :)   My PH is 7 if that helps? And my KH is 30mg/l so I have soft water as far as I'm aware...

My Nitrates were below 10ppm constantly as I had loads of live plants using it up, I checked my pipes in the house and as far as I'm aware, no copper pipes.   I'm thinking of trying them again in my big tank when it's planted out as I don't think it was that they didn't breed as I always had one...

  The Cherries were alone, it was the Amano's that were with the betta's.

  They were housed with 5 female Betta's, Emerald Eye and Red Tail Rasboras and Male Guppies. Even some temporary baby Paradise fish when mine kicked their babies out. They were getting the odd bloodworm but other than that they were on standard Tropical Flake food and Algae Wafers. I know, not...

I was only going off experience, even when one of my female betta's developed dropsy my Amano's didn't attack her despite being weak and unable to swim properly... I can't keep Cherries alive for some unknown reason... They just die in my tanks. They won't breed and then they die.

Ah well lol :)

Snazy, that is once again another understandable situation. If the fish are shocked and therefore weak, even for a second, the shrimp will notice this and take there chances :)

Ever heard the term the glass is half empty?     Yes, I have. The name Glofish comes from the fact that the GM Danio's "Glow"... Hence "Glofish", they are just regular Danio's before they are GM'd :)   It's only Zebra Danio's that are GM'd anyway so it wouldn't be a Glofish at all.

  They are not called Glofish until they are actual Glofish(AKA after they've been genetically modified) so no, it's a Giant Danio :)

I never said they will absolutely never attack, just that the fish in that video was ill and therefore was easy to target and attack by the amano fish...

Mudpuppies are skilled. They will catch your tetra's when the tetra's are resting at night like other nocturnal predators...

  They are different species.   Ambystoma mexicanum - Mexican Axolotl. Necturus sp. - Mudpuppy.   There are also differences in the two species. Mudpuppies are more elongated with flatter, longer head and are all mottled brown(no colour morphs as far as I'm aware) with red gills. Axolotl's are...

  No they are not safe in a community tank as they are carnivorous and would eat any fish small enough to fit in their mouths. So you may think "Well what about fish too big to be eaten?" and this is also a bad idea as fish can pick at the mudpuppies gills and injure them.    The tank size...

  Yep, she is :) I'm lucky to have her to look after them.

Nice, she's going to do it for me :)

  Thanks, will tell my mum to do that now then :)

  So I can put it in a plant pot with some of the soil in the compost bin and let it grow immersed until I can add it back to my tank? I know to expect some melt when I add it back to the tank but it should survive once the tank is set up properly?     Yes, it should survive like that and...

  So I can put it in a plant pot with some of the soil in the compost bin and let it grow immersed until I can add it back to my tank? I know to expect some melt when I add it back to the tank but it should survive once the tank is set up properly?

  I have home made soil? It's in a compost bin on the balcony... The thing is, it has some shop bought stuff that has little white balls of fertilizer in it?

  It was pretty big I've had plantlets off it loads of times and loads of plantlets that I've separated and re-planted and have grown and been sold one but although it's still producing plantlets, the actual mother plant is melting back and dying... I know crypts are hard to kill which is...

  Filter hasn't changed, I've had the Crypt over a year with no added Co2 and it's been in this tank since last year with not problems until last week which was before your plants were added it suddenly started melting. I know it's lack of Co2, I'm not saying it's not. I'm more trying to figure...

  Yes but it started melting before the new plants were added... I'm not saying it's not lack of Co2, more trying to figure out why it's suddenly changed for no reason...

  I've had the Crypt over a year now and never had a problem... It started melting last week before your plants were added... Nothing in the tank has changed Apart from the added plants the you sent me..   Edit: The crypt was bought from someone who didn't inject Co2 into their tank either and...

  Ah, over here I asked and the 1.8kg bags are £6-7 each :/ The 12.5kg looks like it's only just going to cover my tank. It's not fine sand as far as I can tell, it's quite a course sand :)   I know my current substrate would have been fine but I'm planning to get some cory's and my gravel was...

Ah, thank-you for all that Snazy :) I was just wondering as my tank desperately needs something :( My famous Cryptocoryne wendtii that has been through all sorts is even starting to die now and I don't want that. I've had that for ages, when I set my divided betta tank up it was in one of the...

1. Male Honey Gourami - Colisa chuna 2. Either a Male Royal Blue Dwarf Gourami or a Female Dwarf Gourami - Colisa lalia 3. Giant Danio - Devario aequipinnatus.   Honey Gourami's are peaceful and that male is showing breeding colouration as is indicated by the black chin and breast. Dwarf...

  It is :) Your go :lol:

  I have the clay powder lol and I have all low-tech plants. Not getting any high tech ones.

  You hadn't edited when I posted that lol.