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Yeah good luck to you too. How much grilling on tropical fish knowledge do you think we'll get at an interview :blink: I'm feeling nervous already and don't even know if I'll get an interview!

No, different location. Near Lincoln.

I've just applied for a job there. Any advice or would you recommend it as a place to work? tia.

I have no idea, but I hope someone can help you soon.. I have a danio with a very similar sounding eye problem and don't know what to do..

Noticed yesterday that one of my zebra danio's lef eyeball has gone silver, its almost blened in with his background colour. I actually thought his eye was missing at first, but on closer inspection it still seems to be there. He's eating fine, his other eye is fine, no other symptoms. All...

If you look at www.thinkfish.co.uk They have stocking level calculators that are very useful.

Are there any snails you can get that aren't eaten by yoyo loaches?

On the other hand I might be getting rid of the one zebra I have - I think its eaten a tetra and am not very happy with it. Its a grumpy little thing. :)

As I just found my new little zebra loach swimming about with one in its mouth. Now I suppose its possible that the neon dies a natural death and was just been eaten, but it looked OK this morning. The loach is small, the size of a platy. It does seem a bit aggressive though, it was nipping...

I'm thinking of getting a bigger tank, but the only place I could put a new tank is where the current one is. Obviously the tank is too heavy to lift off the cupboard when full of fish and water. So do I empty most of the water out of the old tank, put some in the new tank so both tanks only...

I've had 3 yoyo/pakistani loaches for ages and got a zebra loach yesterday. Now I just read on a different site that zebra loaches need to be kept 3 or more together. Do I need to get 2 more or will it be happy with the yoyos? Thanks

I like the sound of java fern rather than moss, so will try that thanks. I have gravel thats only about 2cm deep - I'm sure it was deeper when I first put it in but the fish push it about, so I have deep patches and shallow patches. I have no nutrient rich substrate and haven't used any...

A couple of years ago I bought an amazing plant which was wired onto a small bit of bogwood. Well the plant is no more and just have a bit of bogwood withthe wire around it. Actually there are a couple of green stalks on the bogwood, but no leaves and I have given up all hope of reserructing...

ok, only got it this afternoon and haven't seen it interested in any food yet. I've just stuck the usual flakes, tiny pellets (tetras), small pellets (for my loaches) and algae flakes in. I've got some dried blood worm so can try it on those tomorrow. Do I need proper catfish pellets...

Ok thanks. Guess I will have to keep an eye on it and hope it doesn't grow to big for my tank - if it does I'll pass it on to a better home. Also keep finegrs crossed it's not aggressive when bigger. It just swam upside down just under the surface! Its very nice whatever it is.

Ok, had a closer look after checking the planetcatfish website. Don't think its a decorus as there's no long filament on the dorsal fin. Mine actually has 2 pairs of barbels not one as I first thought. The main pair is short, other pair very short.

OK, I did something really daft today that I've never done before. Fell in love with a fish, no idea what it is - fish shop said it was a "leopard catfish". Was in a tank with other catfish which were different even though shop man was trying to insist they were all the same. Pics aren't the...

Thanks for the answers. I have some pakistani loaches in the tank and am most concerned about them. Think I might leave him in the trap another week - its quite a large trap and he has enough room. Will put a plant in for him!

Hi, I have one molly fry and went out and got one of those plastic traps to put him in to keep him safe - he's nearly 1cm long now. But I feel sad for him been in the plastic box, he has plenty of room but I'm worried that he'll either be bored or stressed 'cos he has no plant to hide in...

thanks for the replies. Dad is a black molly, but mum is either white or dalmation. Btw do mollies and platys interbreed?

Just wondering how big molly fry and platy fry are when they're born? I've found a molly fry in my tank which is about 7mm long - so how old would it be? Seems to be the only one, the others must have been eaten. I've got it in a floating hatchery now. First fish baby I've had :) When do...

I've just been reading on some other posts about nets for baby fish - do you put these nets in your main tank then, 'cos I only have one tank? I won't be able to get one till Tuesday now with it being the Bank Holiday - hope he lasts till then :/ thanks for your replies

Fed my fish yesterday and thought hmmm tha's a big bit of poo or something floating along, and it just changed direction -_- On closer inspection its a baby fish :cool: Its only about 7mm, 8mm long and brown. So questions - why can I just see one - is it likely that the rest have been...

I got a female BN catfish at the beginning of May - the first few weeks she was eating algea really well, but has now stopped. I'm having to clean the tank sides again now. I was giving her 1/2 algea flake every evening, so I dropped this to every other evening. Sometimes I have even only put...

MMMMmmmm.........not sure its the same one. That link says max size is 2.3cm - the ones I saw were a good 3". I've been looking on loaches.com and think that they might have been zipper loaches. Markings are very similar anyway.

Saw a loach in my lfs today and can't for the life of me remember what it said it was - something eyed loach, or an eye loach - any ideas?? Looked a bit like a yo-yo loach, but markings were different - maybe slightly broader/rounder as well. It wasn't a zebra laoch either. Wanted to get some...

Hi, I'll be in Barnsley at the weekend and wondered if there any shops that anyone would recommend visiting in the vicinity? thanks

Thanks Andy for the info and link. Think I'll leave the pictus for now, maybe when the corys are fully grown I'll get one. Some of them are only an inch now and I don't want to risk them.

Hi, I have quite a bit of room in my tank and was thinking of getting a pictus. Firstly I have some sterbai cory, 3 of which are small - are they likely to get eaten by a pictus. Secondly I was also thinking of getting 6 tiger barbs in a while - I know they're fin nippers, but would they nip...

Thanks Ferris for that - are they just called Fluval 3+ sponges? I wouldn't have had a clue that it had the wrong stuff in, thats what came with it. Probably explains the fish problems I've been having then.....

Hi, I've got a Fluval internal filter - think its a Fluval 3 :huh: Anyway, had the tank and filter since Jan and once a month am rinsing the filter spongers in tank water. Though last time I did this (the other day) I got an ammonia spike, someone o nthe Emergencies Board said if I scrubbed...

He seems to be swimming ok. I didn't realise that you shouldn't scrub your filter - I thought as long as you kept it in tank water it was ok - oops.

Did a check on water levels last week and everything was fine. I normally clean my filter every 6 weeks, but on Thursday noticed filter didn't seem to be working very effectively - lack of bubbles. So I checked it and was chocked up so I cleaned it - in tank water. I never use tap water...

I bought 3 sterbai cory yesterday and 2 yo-yo loaches. Already had one yo-yo loach and 2 sterbai corys. And now my original corys and loach seem so much happier now they have friends. They're not hiding under the bog wood all the time. Came back from the shop with them and my filter didn't...

no - but one of the other danios was flicking this morning. Only for about a minute then it stopped. He seems fine now. All my danios have pink gills, is that normal? I'm sure they were like that when I got them.

Hi Wilder, Thanks for the reply. I've just put him out of his misery :-( He was going downhill fast, very quick respiration and swimming funny with tail down and nose up, red gills. Looked to be going like the other one. It was the other of my first 2 fish which I cycled the tank with...

Whatever the brown stuff was has come away now. He's perked up a bit, but still doesn't look 100% His tummy's a bit bloated, I've put a pea in the tank with him as well. I did notice that he was getting chased by my molly a lot today - the molly had nis nose right up against the danio's...

Hi, Just noticed another danio looking off colour, swimming in small circles near bottom of the tank. Took him out and put him in hospital tank where I treated him with internal bacterical meds and a bit of salt. Then I noticed something brown stuck under him in 2 little clumps. At first I...

yo-yo loach

Thanks for all the advice - I've been and got a load of different meds and a quarantine tank for next time. Would it be silly of me to get another you-yo loach tomorrow - should I wait a bit and see what happens? Water parameters are fine and fish look fine. My yo-yo loach is hiding and I...