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Other folk have said this earlier, but I will say it again anyway. Serpae can be problematic. They are notorious fin nippers. In an appropriate tank they are great, good colour, (if you can get decent stock - there are a lot of poor quality fish around), active etc. but I would not keep them again.

We have many plants in pots, (etc. some of them are quite large), they have to be portable though. In the late spring to early autumn, ie. when the risk of frost is past, we move them outside. Conversly, they come back in as frost risk starts to appear. Today was the day this year and we have...

I've clipped two thirds of our hedges today. I can't finish the third third until I can borrow the ladder from the estate office. Nice weather today, dry. Rain forecast for tomorrow though.

The only Atherin, (rainbow fish), I had in my big tank was Iriatherina werneri. They were breeding ALL THE TIME!!! But, alone, there was no possibility of hybridsation. Interesting species and group of fish generally.

From what I said... >>> The radiation kills off anything that might become a problem. ... that is the benefit.

I used Gamma irradiated frozen foods frequently. The radiation kills off anything that might become a problem. A quick search shows they are still very much available, here. for example Good stuff.

Are there any efforts in place to get the US to metricate?

There are only VERY few places on the planet that do not use modern, metric measures.

If someone says "a 48x15x12 tank" that is something I can picture, (okay - cheating, I had these in my house in England...), but there is a tendency to say "a 140 litre tank", which is more or less the capacity of a 48x15x12. The volume size alone, though, really is useless. What is the surface...

I had five in my last big tank before quitting. Great looking, but a bit skittish. Perfectly peaceful. Lived with a few callipterus and everetti barbs. I really liked them

The gold barb is a sport of the green, (now Barbodes semifasciolatus). When I started, (1960's), the green was a regular, but they drifted out of fashion compared to the gold, ("Schuberti"), which largely replaced them. A good quality green is a great looking fish. Another fish, Pethia gelius...

My last two strip down and rebuild from scratch projects had me change from gravel to swimming pool filter sand. It is, perhaps, a little coarser than building sand for example, but a lot finer than the gravel I had been using for decades. It was cheap, and I had a pool specialist company just a...

Cyprinids.

It is a popular outing, I have been many times. (This link takes you to the English version of the website, I don't know why it is showing the Dansk version here). https://denblaaplanet.dk/en/

As requested, a comment. Many of the common species in the trade have never been in their native waters, but have been produced in breeding stations perhaps on a different continent.

The last two tanks I set up before I left England used swimming pool filter sand. Slightly coarser than builders sand or beach sand, and more rounded edges to the grains, so good for diggers. The plants seemed to like it.

>>> metemorfic, granite, or basaltic. Metamorphic rocks, as the name suggests, are rocks that have been changed, usually by heat, (pressure alone can metamorphose rocks, but it is a lot less common). from a base rock type. Typically, the original structure of the rock is destroyed and minerals...

Not US.

Space is usually the issue. The basics, keeping males and females separately, and a tank in which to do the spawning already requires three. The fry are invariably very small but grow, they soon require extra tanks. Then you have some fish of a desirable species, at a reasonable size, that you...

Good video that. When I was in the Congo, (called Zaire at the time), there were no bad shippers simply because there were no shippers. The country was a mess, a wreck. Was mid '90's. It still has some catching up too do.

Okay. The stamps don't look like they are part of the pictorial/definitive but I don't really care. They will stay.

Borg are programmed not to react to provocations, they simply note the event and pass it on upwards.

I always put frozen food in an egg cup, (any convenient suitably sized container to hand), filled with tank water to melt. I can imagine a situation where a fish swallows frozen food which then damages the throat/intestine of the animal by frost bite or similar. It is not a natural thing for a...

My first thought was algae, it looks a bit pale though. Are the pipes in a brightly lit position?

A number of Christmas cards from England arrived at our house, (in Denmark), there were both pictorials and definitives. My question: they have a two dimensional barcode type thing on the right side, is that part of the stamp or should it be removed?

It is a mood thing for me. Normally, I'm calm and relaxed and have Pink Floyd, Yes, Curved Air, bands like that on. I like good music, lyrics aren't terribly important to me, often just get in the way. I like keyboards, used to play a bit. When something, or more likely, someone, has annoyed me...

I used to use swimming pool filter sand. It is coarser than some other types, and less likely to pack down. I was lucky though, there was a pool shop about 10km away in the North of Farnborough, I could easily get hold of the media, I don't know how readily available this stuff is. Good stuff, I...

That stuff sounds very similar to the filter sand I used, coarser, rounder "stones", but it was not dark, regular sand coloured. Cheap, I got mine from a pool suppliers in Aldershot, but I expect you can get it anywhere.

Not right now, just had the warmest September since records began, and tee shirt weather again today. Normally, it is colder certainly, there are people here who will say global warming is a disaster for everyone, but, they quietly believe things being a bit warmer here is not all bad. Last...

I am English, but have lived in Denmark since 1998, met a Danish girl in Chile, things worked out.

I am male, always have been.

In common with some other countries, the small town where I live has now lost all its bank branches. Today I have visited the branch in Helsingør, the nearest city, (its a small city - but hey...), to visit the branch of my bank which still exists there. I needed some papers completed and signed...

I always had barbs and rasboras, classic, fish shaped fish. A bit of a fan.

I think if I was going to build new tanks now, I'd go for what I used in the last couple of tanks I set up in England, this was swimming pool filter sand. It is, obviously, finer than regular gravel, but a little coarser than building sand, or the stuff you can get from most beaches. It does not...

They grew, so yes.

I used swimming pool filter sand in my two planted tanks in the living room, worked like a charm.

I like progress - usually. Our phone and net provider, TeleNor, replaced our house router in December. It connects to the co-ax jack, they provided the necessary sharing units and paraphernalia.. After that, our various phones and attached gear in various rooms do not work at all, and the...

H. ulreyi would be my offer also.

Yea, I'm afraid the red eye gets my vote also.

It has been said several times in the thread, but flushing has a small risk of introducing disease or parasites into a local water system, to populations of local fish with little or no immunity. Hole in the garden, best idea.