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Hello Glad your move went well :D . Know how you feel, my boyfriend and I moved about a month ago and it took 2 days just to move the fish and the tanks and all their stuff, we were only going 100m down the road, but we did have a 4ft (216 litre) tank 3.5ft (160 litre) tank, 2ft (54 litre)...

Southampton, England

Thanks for your help Sam, will try and get some pics once its set up :D

Thanks Sam I was at a pet store today and they suggested a dwalf south american cichlid but im not sure what one but it was not the Rams, they said Rams would not get on with the Neon's and Cardinals. What do you think? C

Mandi Before you get your Siamese fighter have a look on the Betta section of this forum they have a list of compatible tank mates which should help. Claire

Welcome :hi:

Siamese fighters do much better on their own than with tank mates, especially Tetras they tend to pick on them.

Hi All I want to set up a small South American tank in the 56ltr 12.5 uk gallon 2ft tank. At the moment my betta has it to himself (apart from some apple snails), but I have decided that it is time to move him to a smaller tank and make a feature out of this one. I want to put Cory's and a...

My boyfriend is the reason i got into fish, he had a 4ft tank when i met him and I loved it that was last May now we have the 4ft, a 3ft (mine) a 2ft (mine) and various little tanks used for hospital or fry and today I went and got a 23ltr that my betta is being moved into when we move in a...

Ive got silk plants near the filter but i also have real ones at the other side of the tank so im not sure they would do to well with the lights off for 2 weeks.

I do clean the tank and ornaments but it is also on the plants, and it keeps coming back. Hi My lights are on for about 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the evening, this tank was a community tank before and I never had the problem then it is only since it has been used for Bertie and...

I like the sound of Otto's will see if the local store has any. Did consider a Plec but thought better of it, think something that moves quickly is a better idea :)

Hello I need some advice, I have a 15 US gallon tank with 4 peppered cory's and 1 male VT Betta Bertie, they seem to get on ok although he does chase them sometimes. Anyway that’s not the problem, the problem is that I am get a lot of algae in the tank, I can cope with the green algae that I...

Cheers my dear, will go and have a look.

I’m afraid that have seen Aquajardin's tanks in a bad way a few times before as well, sick and dead fish in their tanks, I don’t think any fish shop is immune to things like this if the get a bad batch of fish in then it will spread, at least with Maidenhead I have never seen them try to sell...

Ive got a friend who had two goldfish with 6 minnows, all 6 died, 4 she never found but is fairly sure they were eaten, she has now come to the conclusion that goldfish are best with other goldfish nothing else and only if you have a big enough tank

Hi Have you decided what you will go for yet? If it was me I would go for the biggest I could afford, when I started out I got a small tank (jewel rekord 60) and wish I had got something bigger, that was in August and in December I bought a second hand 160 litre tank which is a lot better...

Hello As you may have seen in my other topic we now have about 60 Platy fry :wub: they are about a day old and at the moment I am feeding them Liquifry No2 for livebearers, I have read that it is good to also give them baby brine shrimp does anybody know now easy they are to hatch and where I...

Hello I would at the very least put some of the media from your other tank in the fry tank. There is a very good artical in the pinned topics at the top of the page about setting up a fry tank and how to maintain it. Good luck C

Not 100% what we will do with all of them I guess we will have to wait and see how many survive its early days, I don’t think they are much more than a day old. Their mum is a gold comet and I think she was in the family way when we got her so I am hoping the dad was a gold comet as well, and...

I do know what you mean, we normally let the Platy's give birth in the main tanks so we never really know how many they have as there are a lot of mouth happy to snap up a quick snack :( We have never had more than 6 survive before.

Just wanted to share our babies with you. We had one of our Platy's ina hospital tank but she was better and had been for a week or so, so it was time to move her back to the main tank, but when we looked late last night we saw she had given birth, we managed to count about 10 fry, so cute...

They are so cute :wub: Congrats on your 1st grandson as well

So sorry to hear what happened, I know how it feels i've had to do it myself. Don’t beat yourself up over it at least you cared enough to put it out of its pain rather than leave it to suffer. I personally think you did the only option open to you I couldn't cut the head of one of my fish...

:rip: little guppy I really feel for you, I know where your coming from, the same thing happened to me when I first got Guppies, had fry within a couple of days and had the first adult death a couple of days later. Its hard when it happens and I don’t think it get easier, just keep your...

I know that feeling, i decided to let nature take its cause and let my females give birth in the main tank and if any fry survive they survive and if they dont they dont, i know it sounds hard (and it is) but otherwise i would of been over run, but it does work we both have babies in our tanks...

Our's is about 3-4 inches and 3 or more years old. I think the problem comes when fish are sold under so many names ive seen at least 5 different shops with CAE's for sale and of course ever shop had them called something else and never CAE. Sorry to hear about your Platy :rip: Hope you...

Thanks for that I just wanted some reassurance that im doing everything in my power to help her, don’t have any live food at the moment but i do have frozen so i will give them that tonight. Thanks I think it was probably the Sucking loach but not sure This sucker loach is it one of the...

It is a community 220 litre tank with the following fish: 1 x Common Sucker Loach 1 x Common Plec 1 x Red Tail Black Shark 1 x Pakistani Loach (Stripy). 5 x Adult Platy 3 babies 18 x Neon & Cardinal Tetra’s (not sure what ratio’s they don’t stay still long enough) 6 x Blue Tetra’s 3 x Cory’s...

I came home yesterday to a bit of carnage in my boyfriends tank, two of his Platy’s (one adult female and one baby female) were missing eyes, they were fine in the morning cause I checked but by evening it had happened, think they were attacked by another fish. We got them out straight away and...

I agree with both of you, it is what my research more or less said but i just wanted conformation from others before we decide what to do.

Hello I recently got a larger tank, so my smaller 12 Uk gallon tank is now home to my veil tail Betta Bertie :wub: and 4 Peppered Cory's, and i have to say it is the happiest i have ever seen him, he use to live in a 5 UK gallon tank on his own, but he seems much happier now, think its...

I’ve just come home to find two Platy’s in my boyfriends tank missing an eye, and I haven’t got a clue what has happened. We have got both out and into the hospital tank which was already set up, but it looks like the stress was too much for the bigger one and she has now gone, the little one...

Which of the fish in the tank do you count as agressive? Is is the RTBS and the Sucking Loach or are others in there aggressive as well? Just trying to work out what to do fo the best, Chris is saying if it is them then he could always see if he could rehome them?

Hi Wilder Do you have any suggestions as to what sort of fish would work well? I can always take the other Platy's and put them in my large tank. Do you think any of the other breeds of fish are at risk? Thanks in advance Claire

We dont really have anywhere to put him, the hospital tank is only 5 UK gallons and it has the sick fish in it and my larger tank also has platy's in it and my small one has my Betta and im not willing to risk him. Does anybody else agree with it probably being the RTBS, i wouldnt want to get...

Ive just come home to find two Platy’s (one female adult and one female baby) in my boyfriends tank missing an eye each, and I haven’t got a clue what has happened, they were both fine when i left for work this morning. We have got both out and into the hospital tank which was already set up...

Thanks to you both :)

Its a Platy with a badly ripped/bitten tail. Its in a separate tank to the main tanks so that it will not affect any of the catfish that we have.

Hi Could somebody tell me what dose of salt per gallon when using it as a medication? I have searched on here but can't find the topic i was looking for and i know i have seen it before. Thanks in advance. Claire