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Thanks for your reply! I too had been thinking it was a common plec but had never had anyone else confirm it. Like you say, the lighting isn't the best, but the colours in the photo are pretty accurate actually, It is dark brown with tan markings. I think I remember paying about £7 or £8 but as...

Hi all, Couple of quick queries about my Plec that I was hoping someone could give me some advice on. 1. I've had my Plec for almost 5 years now. When I bought it, it was real small, maybe 5cm or so and now it's up around 20-21cm long. I have a Juwel Rio 180 (101cm long x 50cm high x 41cm...

Thanks for your replies, I think i get what you mean too. I only put a couple of the twisty plants in (Vallis i think it is) but it seems to have spread pretty quick. I was hoping to keep it in the mid-ground but it's worked its way forward. A bit of sub aqua gardening around the corner methinks!

Hi all, Just thought i'd share with you some pics of how my tank has changed and developed over the 8 months i've had it so far. First pic is when i first had it, third pic is now and second pic is somewhere in between. Any comments or always welcome, good or bad. Check my profile for my...

Thanks for all your replies :D Looks like i'll be off to get an API test kit this weekend then. Cheers, Sloth

Hey all, At the moment I have a variety of seperate test kits by different manufacturers (eg. one for ammonia by one company, another for nitrates by a different compnay and so on) and they are all getting a bit low so I was going to get new test kits. Now for the questions. 1. Is it better to...

Most i've ever spent is £5.90 per fish on my red line torpedo bards (i have 3 and they're great :D ) I have seen a marine (saltwater) large puffer fish, can't remember the exact name, in my lfs that was on sale for £230 :S

Hi Wit, I have the same tank as you so here is my experience with your questions. 1. Yes i take the pump out and give it a quick clean in some water that i'm changing (then you don't lose any beneficial bacteria and also get rid of any gunk). 2. For the angle of the pipe thing on the water...

Thanks Luke_e, the danios are great, very active. The longish fish with the red hint is a Red Line Torpedo Barb and yes they are very nice fish :D Thanks also for your comments modernhamlet :D

Thanks for your replies :D I have thought about getting a couple more corys scot to keep the first two company, great minds think alike :P CFC, by variegated you mean the white and green ones behind the wood right? Thanks for your advice i'll go find myself a nice tall aquatic plant when I...

Hello, Just thought i'd post a few pics of my current fish for you to enjoy, any comments are always welcome. If you want to see my tank as well please check out this topic. http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=115413 Picture 1 Picture 2 and lastly my plec Enjoy!

Hello all, Below is a picture of my lovely fishy tank (my fish are in my sig or profile i think). At the moment I'm really pleased with it but I still want to try and make it better, i'm sure most of you know the feeling i'm talking about :D Anyway, to cut a long story short i just...

Hey, don't know if you've made your decision yet or not but just thought i'd add that i've got a 180litre tank in my bedroom upstairs. It rests on a piece of wood which is just wider than the tank (to spread the weight), which in turn rests on top of my chest of drawers. As most people on here...

Yeah thats what I thought bloozoo and none of my other fish have any fin rot at all. Just have to put it down to natural causes I guess. Thanks for replying anyway bloozoo and wilder, it's much appreciated.

Here is more info. I do a 25% water change once a week, this always keeps my tank clean and have never had any problems. Unfortunately I don't have a phosphate test kit so can't say on phosphate levels. My lighting was on for 17 hours straight (I know that this probably hasn't helped and could...

Thanks for your quick replies, muchly appreciated. My last water change was Tuesday night and I haven't added anything new to the tank in over a month which is why I was a bit puzzled. I kinda reckon he just died as well as there were no symptons that I could see, I just thought i'd ask incase...

thanks for your quick reply :D No I don't inject any CO2 into the tank and i don't have any other algae. I had read Zigs thread and found it very useful but I was hoping that I might be able to catch it early enough (as the growth is minimal at the moment) to sort it out without having to...

Hey all, Came home from work today to find my 'Leopard' Plec dead (i'm almost certain it aint a leopard plec but thats what they were sold as in the lfs :S ). I have included some pics below (hope they aint too big for people to see, apologies if they are) as i was wondering if anyone had any...

Hello Hello, I have this algae which has started growing (see beautiful pics below). It only appears to be growing on the plants and has been there for just over a week. I've looked through a lot of algae posts on here and reckon it's either Black Beard Algae or Bottle Brush Algae, would i...

Hi Gavilb, I've got exactly the same tank as you and have had it up and running for nearly a year now and I have a similar selection of fish to you so i thought i'd share my experiences. Of the types of fish that you asked about I have 7 x Zebra Danio, 8 x Glowlight Tetra, 8 x Black Neon Tetra...

Thanks for all the replies :D Now you mention it they do seem to come and go slightly and as you say it is often when he's not hiding so must be some sort of camouflage thing. Thanks again for the help, it puts my mind at rest, cheers!

My plec was sitting still enough and near enough to the end of my tank for me to be able to take this picture. I was wondering if anyone knew what the lighter markings on his body were? I'm talking about the whiter parts just below his eye and on the main part of his body behind his eye...

Thanks for your comments bunji :D I did give the wood a good soaking and rinseing before putting it in the tank (another thing learnt off of the forum) but i know what you mean. I've been doing 20% water changes once a week at the moment as I reckon it'll clear in the end if I keep doing that...

Thankyou, I shall take it as a compliment then :D Knowledge is Power Dwarf_Dude

Hello to anyone who's reading this. I started off with a really small tropical fish tank with a few neons in it (sounding like a newbie here). Of course as you would expect problems started to develop and in my search for answers I found this here forum website thingy. I've read many of the...