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God help anyone keeping birds in aviaries then 😉

Avel never the less happy they are and as said breeding well, I prefer 20-25c but every year I have to spend my days in the cold weather and yet I survive ok.

Yes pretty close 😜, we’re back off to states for a fortnight next year staying with friends in Pittsburgh. Everyone has their own ideas on how a tank should be kept and ok some things as a basic rule need to be adhered to. We don’t overstock so tank is never on a knife edge and needs all...

Yes I agree if taking them from the wild, however they are bred in captivity and as such have adapted to differing water conditions. If they were not happy and content then they wouldn’t be breeding so prolifically lol.

Hi Jenny, We keep both tanks 25-26c

Hi Jenny ok large tank is 200ltr and fish as I can recall (wife’s tank) 4 black mollies 1-2” 1 large bristlenose cat 1 old rainbow schiclid (mr grumpy) 4 pentazona barbs 8 neon tetras 4 olgae corys (the masons) 2 Pakistani loaches (the chuckle brothers) My tank upstairs 40ltr 3 pearl gourami...

Hi BLK and welcome back to the lovely life of aquarium life. My wife and I do a diff approach to most here and have purely natural tanks, no chemicals used plenty of plants and no water changes EVER. We feed the fish max twice a week and not too much I must add, so we force the fish to be fish...

LOL, I hear that!!!! I have spare filter and heater tucked away in the drawer that all manuals warranties are stored. I do the same with the business I have a new spare 4.5” grinder and chop saw in case one breaks I can continue. Old saying is if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!! And it is true in...

Very tidy and well laid out tanks........peaceful to the enth degree for sure. I assume you prefer order in life hence the plastic plants? Imho the more natural look of real plants that grow and move in the flow not only enhances any tank but is also beneficial to the tank and fish in general. I...

Horses for courses I guess we have fluval in both tanks no issues

Heck you didn’t have much luck with Fluval it seems, had ours six months now and yes you have to pull it forward to get to filters and that is fine for me. Mrs said was hard to clean so showed her easy way and no more moaning lol

Doing some research most carnivorous fish including bettas will hunt for the green hydra if you cut down on their food.

We only feed every third day as it is so thanks for info, didn’t know they could last a fortnight. Ok and sorry for posting in wrong section

Hi all, ok the wife and I are planning on maybe two weeks away in the motorhome in October and it has dawned on me heck the fishes!!!! So I know such items as automatic fish feeders and holiday blocks exist, what do you guys gals do for a fortnight with no one popping in to feed them for you...

The problem as I see it with the smaller tanks is that due to the size any changes of water quality is virtually instant and as Kribensis said......I have never bred Or kept Bettas. So if they are dropping like flies then something in the tank is killing them or they are so stressed they are...

We personally prefer the fluval (u) range of filters as we can swap water flow from aeration to blasting onto the bottom for half a day prior to filter change day (Sunday’s) then any crud building up gets sucked into the filters and cleaned out when swapped over. It all depends upon your setup I...

What size tank and what setup have you got? A pic would help for a start. I am a firm believer in don’t change too many things at once or you stress the fish out.

Been a while since I have been on, work and family related reasons but hey ho....thought I’d let all know how it is going with the two tanks. Tank1 main tank see pic, is going well and now onto our third load of baby mollies (Randy little sods). Still not changed water from day one and as...

Well any decent make of heater would be ok in reality, I’d go for 100w myself or a 150w as then if you do get another tank it would suffice a larger tank

Tiberius welcome sir, you do know that just one small tank is how it starts? That little tank magically grows in a month or so to a much larger and the original tank will be a brooding or quarantine tank....ahh ok but now I need a tank for yadda yadda yadda. ?

Congrats WB I have Millions of tech questions to fire at you in coming months.....get your fish of the world encyclopaedias out and no cheating on GOOGLE ??

Thanks bud, I have a small snail infest but nothing major that can’t wait for a cpl weeks till I get a cpl loaches to cure it.....or I might move the ones from other tank upto top one for a few weeks lol.

Got three pearls today from acres male and two females that the main guy breeds himself along with his fave Julius cory’s. Tho I went for something smaller yellow fin tetras.....cute looking little things I had never considered before.

Hi bud, can you recommend an online shop that sells frogbit as I can’t find anything local and swell don’t have it either ugh.

Hi Calbrown, it may be down to how fish were transported or bags they were in, who knows. Mrs bought 8 mollies 4 black 4 white....2 white died within 2 days no rhyme or reason.....other six breeding and happy as hell. It may have been something as simple as ammonia spikes due to so many fish...

Hi Colin, I was chatting with the main guy at acres my local aquarium place and he suggested pearls as they are very hardy and being bred mostly in captivity they are mostly used to harder water now than their natural cousins in the wild. So will it make a diff if they seem happy enough to breed...

I’m having other prob my tank upstairs I used a calcium based medium with some fine sand mixed in for the plants then I cycled it using some fish food tabs to start the ammonia off and checking water of course the water is hard but all else is good....but plants barely grow and I’m using iron...

Talking of plants I was very disappointed in my local aquarium shop on plants.......not very good at all. So I tried swell uk and OMG how fantastic I was gob smacked on how well they are packed and just the quality of the Amazon swords in general. I went onto there complaints site and praised...

Hi Mizz go girl go.....I just feel like breaking into song (under the sea under the sea) ? very impressive setups you have laid out. Well you and your partner I mean. The rocks are a key feature and yet look so natural that you almost forget it’s a fish tank and not a glass bottomed boat staring...

Your plants are amazing I just started a new 20gal tank upstairs and have started the liquid iron weekly to see how they like it. I do feel a well planted tank is the key to it looking great

I very much doubt that if you have rinsed well that any concentration of hand sanitizer or soap would or could effect the fish, however in this modern day trending of hand creams and moisturisers that may create a problem.

Having read back I did like the UGF’s and must admit that when we got this tank for £20 all in we looked but could not find any large enough due to them being phased out I guess. Like anything if you do not run it properly it will fail in one way or another. So we keep the filters unclogged but...

They were great in their time but had dead spots as I remember and had to clean gravel on a regular basis. I found plants very easy to grow.....tho back then there was not as many types of plant available as now

This was many years ago, it was just a funny story I thought I’d share here

My brother bless him decided to buy one of these talllllll octagon tanks and as he lives many hours away from me all I saw on fb was stories about the tank of death killing all of his expensive fish each time. After several holidays and his boys being blamed for killing the fish or some strange...

My brother couldn’t wait to up to win 10 and had nothing but problems, so he loaded his original op says back on and heck done it again and had problems......so he went route of buying a full copy not upgrade from web and still had buggy issues with his software and hardware.....he still moans...

Slaphppy7: heck I’m too old to start messing about with diff browsers etc I’m stuck in my ways lol. I mostly use safari now as I’m an apple user and that is much faster for here and in general....go figue

Natural process of the plants and biological filtration, also small water changes every couple of weeks (water left over night to naturally dechlorinate) neither the wife or myself have ever gone the chemical route and it works if you do it properly. Minimum changes and allow tank to settle back...

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