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Going by the worming on the gills, I’d say the first one is female and the other two male. That method’s worked for me in the past but isn’t always reliable.

One of the tanks I’ve been too lazy to sell has similar dimensions to this - will send you a PM.

@JohnH This is definitely a good option. I’ve managed to get tonnes of secondhand equipment and fish cheaply from this site. You can sometimes get some bargains from eBay too if you’re willing to travel. What size tank are you looking for? I’m looking to get rid of some of my tanks

Caribsea make a couple of aragonite based sands that will buffer your tank and come in varying colours. Their site is: https://caribsea.com/freshwater-substrates/ These were recommended to me by a user on this site, and I chose the eco complete African cichlid sand - it’s a mix of black and...

Personally, I would make life easy for myself and just keep using Malawi buffer. It’s the only thing you’ve tried that works and it is consistent. I have low kh water too so pH swings were a concern for me. Seachem Malawi buffer keeps both my ph and kh stable and it’s pretty easy to dose. I add...

I’m in this exact position. Since moving to Scotland, I have neutral ph, but very low KH and GH. It’s easier to to handle than you’d think. I use an aragonite based substrate (Caribsea African cichlid sand) and use both seachem Malawi buffer and cichlid lake salt with every water change. I...

I’ve been using this brand for a little while. The food looked a bit cheap to me, but my fish love it - more so than some of the more expensive brands I’ve tried. They’re really good value for money when you need to buy in bulk

Not enough live plants in there

Steve

Star

Substrate

It depends on how comfortable you are with replacing the silicone and where the leak is. It’s fairly easy to replace silicone on a tank as long as you’re patient and methodical. It’s easier to do a quick repair on the side panels than the base, but if you’re not comfortable doing it yourself...

They’re really nice looking fish. I was thinking about including them in the Malawi tank I set up, but I think they’re too aggressive for my peacock cichlids. You might need to overcrowd them in your other tank and provide lots of hiding spaces

They look like pseudomugil forcatus to me - forktail rainbow

That’s a nice setup. The you can’t identify look like kenyi cichlids. If so, they’ll probably cause compatibility issues with your other fish

Even if the brand he buys is repacked cheap tap water, it’ll probably softer than his tap water. It doesn’t need to be mineral water, just softer than what comes out of his tap (or soft enough to keep the species he has). If there aren’t sufficient minerals in the Tesco water, then combining it...

Depends on where you live. I was in London at the time, which had very hard water so there was a massive difference

I think this is a good shout. Tesco and ASDA sell bottled water for 17p for 2 litres. When I used to breed geophagus I seriously considered this, but settled on mixing rainwater and tap water. I think either of these options will be cheaper than and less wasteful than RO

Muscles

Creativity

From memory, you’re a fairly new fishkeeper, and your current setup is the first you’ve had. If that’s the case, I’d say get some more experience keeping less sensitive fish before you move onto discus. They’re really beautiful fish, but bear in mind that they’re more expensive and more delicate...

Yellow

I’d say the fluval filters would be fine for your tank. I have a fluval 205 (that’s an earlier version of the 207) on my 3ft tank. It has sometimes had to handle heavy bioloads over the years and I’ve never had an issue with its performance (it’s about 10 years old now), but maintenance is...

Tough to tell, but looks like either mcmasteri or viejita

Ken

Yummy

Manure

Paving

Viscous

Chicken

Celtic

Extinction

Transpiration

Birds

Quark

Neuron

Alligator gar?

Geez. There are easier ways to get a vasectomy!

In the UK paracetamol is generally recommended over ibuprofen as a first line remedy because of the side effects of ibuprofen. There were some suggestions that ibuprofen could make symptoms of covid worse earlier in the pandemic, but I don’t think any strong evidence of this was ever presented

Also, I was wondering why people think that masks do more harm than good. I can understand why people are sceptical of masks stopping transmission of covid, but I struggle to see why people conclude that masks are actually harmful