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simpler solution: use 2 nets! works everytime, even for awkward fish like kuhli loaches and spiny eels. the beauty of two nets is you can catch them in the middle, rather than having to corner them. hope this helps all you people who find fish hard to net. ps i learnt this working in my lfs

i want some new catfish to put in my tank but im totally confused there are so many! ive already got a common plec and a gold spot anchistrus and its a juwel rekord 120, any suggestions? im looking at a tenner each but might stretch to 20 if theyre real nice.

RO - Reverse Osmosis Osmosis - The diffusion of water along the concentration gradient through a semi permeable membrane. Basically, reverse osmosis is putting impure water under pressure, causing it to pass through a semi-permeable membrane against the concentration gradient, causing the...

actually, its green and grows in very long thin strands (its grown to over a foot long before, one strand, no joke) and its like its sucking onto the glass, it just wont come off. its also very good at attaching itself to plants. i already have a load of plants, maybe around 40. i dont know the...

i need help! my aquarium is covered in goddamn algae and the fish cant eat it! i have got a big plec an anchistrus and 2 mollies and they cant get it off the glass. ive tried everymethod of scraping but its on to well for me to get it off. i think its hair algae. if i treat it its just gona grow...

thanks everyone. ill try when im certain i have a male and a female and i get a spare tank set up. did you know you can buy culture from ebay? i recently got some white worms from there, not bad service. thought it was kinda steep at four quid tho :/ cheers for the links!

around my area all the clown loaches are about a tenner EACH. the cheapest ive seen was £7.99 each and that was an offer/promo kinda thing. i feel cheated!

no lol it turns there are actually yellow labs, they were just a different shade to the photo loafybones showed me, and the fins were much more yellow. im guessin its because they arent it water specially for them, with the correct pH and trace elements and minerals that are found in the rift...

jst one point dolly_daydream, have you thought about food yet? at a guess i would suggest live microworms and possible newly hatched brine shrimp. i doubt very much if the eels would have such a coating that smb7676 mentions, as this is usually the case with large cichlids (Discus, Uaru). If...

thanks for all the info. just a few quick questions however. you mention microworms and infusoria as foods

i got 3 pearl gouramis (or lace gouramis, whichever you prefer) recently, and was thinking about breeding them. Ive read that pH 6.8-7.2 is the best, and the male builds a bubble nest which the eggs are laid in and afterwards i should remove the female because the the male will defend his nest...

just a suggestion here but maybe another 2 angels, because i thought angels were happier with more in the "shoal". also maybe some cories? just 3 together would be a little lonely. what type are they? maybe even two female guppies for mr. guppy in there... ;) lol apart from that, if you have...

yea, Tokis-Phoenix is 100% correct, you gotta take all those measurements and write this stuff down. If scientists dont know how to breed them it could be very important. Hope it goes well, do keep us updated :fun: ! One of my ideal careers would be fish research so i am very interested in your...

hi jezah. Ive had leopard danios in my tank for 4 months or thereabouts and they havent schooled or shoaled or whatever you want to call it once. Its annoying! Im going to sell them if any one will ever buy them lol. They seem to shoal in the dealers tanks, but they never do it for me :no...

the ones in the dealers were a paler yellow, and there anal, ventral and tail fins were pure yellow, so i dont think they are, unless stress or incorrect water conditions can cause color loss in this species. or maybe its an age thing. hopefully ill go back soon because i really did like them...

$14.99 would be very roughly 8-9 pounds depending on the current rate. i put him in a 120l jewel with a few danios, a gourami, a couple mollies, some cories, a kuhli loach, a spiny eel and a beautiful gold spot anchistrus.

i went into a newly set up lfs the other day and saw some of the coolest fish ever! they were yellow, and some had a dorsal tipped with a browny colour. does anyone have information on these fish (i think they were haplochromis or labidochromis). i want to get into cichlids because they seem...

hi everyone. a few days ago i got a 12" plec from an lfs. it was a good fish, it really caught my eye. the only problem was he had a few "battle scars" where he had come from a large tank with aggressive species. i know injured fish arent a good idea, but i just couldnt resist at ten pounds...

anyone been watching that amazon abyss program? prety intresting fish, i wish i lived there. if you havent seen it i definitely recommend it. its on at seven o clock every night this week bbc1. they found a new species last night, cool discovery methinks... :D

the attacked fish died a few days ago :-( he got a bacterial infection from the ripped fins and tail. poor guy, he was such a nice fish too. i was told that gouramis were prone to bacterial infections yesterday. is that true? i had two pink kissing gouramis die a while back, suddenly without...

hes started taking frozen bloodworm now, i guess he just needed time to get settled in. ive read that they can be tamed to be hand fed, is this true? also, is there any way of sexing them?i am not sure of "his" age but he is around 6-7 inches long and around maybe an inch tall.

thats a shame buddy, corys are prety fish. my danios used to do that all the time but neva made it to the impeller. i think they just did it to get the thrill of swimming with the flow afterwards. they used to fly out twice as fast as they ever could swim naturally! and all this in a meter long...

ps sorry but i dont know the sex, because i dont know the latin name i cant find out much info and im not experienced with gouramis yet. if any one knows how to tell the difference it wud b greatly appreciated info. thanx

i both rearranged my tank, and in doing so bunched all my large plants togther to provide an area of shade. its a 120l juwel rekord tank, with around 50 plants, 2 peices of bogwood and some rocks. the left quater of the tank is quite dark due to the large plants, and the other area is bright. it...

hes far too small to take earthworms at the moment. i have a rock in the back corner of the tank and he just sits there with his head poking out from about nine at night. but when i put the bloodworm in he doesnt come out to get it. i will try feeding him at night and alternative foods, but...

hi everyone. got a little trouble with some gouramis and some ripped (read shredded) fins. i got two large gouramis on tuesday, from an lfs. they are about 3.5-4 inches long and altho i dont know the latin name, the woman in the shop refered to them as gold gouramis. they are a dark yellow...

hi everyone. im new here so sorry if this is in the wrong place... i finally got a spiny eel tuesday! yay but i have a problem and that problem is i cant get him to eat. ive tried frozen bloodworm, but to no avail. i know they like mostly protein and any advice here would be useful. im starting...