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Cheers any info is good info, I have now at least found the Latin name (Microphis deocata) but not much more than that but I will endeavour.

Hi, iHi, I’m quite chuffed with myself today I showed great restraint in not buying loads of fish while up Crews hill which if your not familiar with is a place in north London where there is several large fish shops all pretty close to one another. I have however identified a couple of fish I...

For the last few days my X-ray Tetras have been pairing up & swimming in sync then kinda doing a little dance, am I right in thinking they are feeling a bit fruity & spawning will be imminent. If I am right where in a tank do X-rays prefer to lay their eggs?

Hi, I saw another post where you mentioned treating your fish for white spot, I didn’t answer then because I didn’t want to put the knockers on you. The first two clown loaches I brought both got white spot & like you I treated with protozin which seemed to have cured them & all seemed fine, but...

Cheers once again, i bow to your infinate wisdom :D

If that’s the case, the only thing I could think of is that it picked up damage when they where being netted for transfer (no easy task) to a bigger tank, they where fine at the time I was asking you about breeding a couple of weeks back though, which was a week after their move. Do you have any...

Below are three pictures of the same Zebra Danio, they’re not great pics I’m afraid but the best I could do. In the circled area there is what is best described as a pox marks they appear in exactly the same place on both sides of the fish roughly 1 – 2mm away from the gills. Originally these...

Excuse me butting in, I have a related question, is it normal for Zebra Danios to come down for algae wafers & tablets? As a couple of mine do it was an occasional thing at first but now it is pretty routine. I feed them flake food twice daily, which they gulp down & live, or frozen food a...

I remember the other day there was a post with a couple of links to sites spesializing little or dwarf fish could someone please remind which post it was or better still, could you please give me the links as i'm having trouble finding them in a search.

The fact that I’ve gone from a unwilling participant to being completely obsessed, the fact I would need to make major structural changes to my house to keep the tanks I want & the fact I seem to be spending all my spare time on sites like this :hyper:

33 years young & still going

Cheers peeps, Tokis Phoenix i've gone for your option, i had a couple of large plastic cave's with multiple entrances & a few plants already. So yesterday i brought some slate & more plants. I've used the slate to make three more cave's at the cory's level surrounded by the plants to provide...

My red tailed black shark was fine in it’s 20 uk gallon tank unless someone went into it’s adopted cave, I’ve now put it in a bigger 40 uk gallon tank along with some bronze corydoras, clown loaches, a sail fin plec. He Is fine with most but has major issues with my corydoras & this time it’s...

Cheers again Bloozoo2 , your help & advice is greatly appreciated

Cheers folks one again you've put my at ease. Would I be right in assuming external filters are a better option for larger tanks? As I intend to set up a six-foot tank with this being the eventual home for my sail-fin Plec & clown loaches. How easy would it be for pipes or tubing to be knocked...

What is it about juwel filters that people don’t like? I’ve read a number of threads where people mention they have or want to remove their juwel filter, I read in one post where it was considered a blessing in disguise when someone’s filter detached from the glass. So being pretty new to fish...

Hey just to let you know they have spawned today & my cories yesterday. So I know what to look out for now, how soon roughly will they spawn again? + Do males show any signs that love is in the air? cheers for your help

The lid can stay up some of the time, as you can see from my signature picture there are cats on the prowl so it couldn’t be left while I was away. Would a small air block do the trick? There isn’t a problem with spray as it’s directed down via the spray bar. The tank is a Via-aqua 620

My 1st tank came with a filter system built into the hood, which basically has 2 reservoirs with a power head attached to a spray bar circulating the water into the hood then back to the tank. Could I use this as a hatchery & for fry? If I was to remove all the filter media & replace the solid...

What Fuss? Simple question about something I was told at an lfs, I thought it was strange that’s why I’ve asked, as inchworms answer shows it’s not complete rubbish just applies to a particular brand question answered the world moves on & me sail fin’s will have their favourite wafers for dinner.

Hi all, I brought a Juwel air diffuser attachment it narrows the whole to half plus oxygenates the water. It's stop my Danios trying to get in.

Phew what a relief, what a busy tank it is, me Bronze Cory's are showing signs they'll be spawning as well. I will investigate breeding but may be a little soon for me still getting to grips with it all

Cheers The-Wolf I was kinda sure they where ok from I’ve read on here & other sites, it's just they blew up so quickly after I moved them into a new bigger tank it was worrying. I am still worried about one though, it has redish colour around the area I will non-expertly call the anal area will...

Cheers for that will be having a look for them today i'm going to a place i've read sale mostly Cats & L-number fish so they should be able to help

Hi all, in the picture below is the Zebra Danio on the right showing signs of feeling in the family way so to speak or is there something wrong with it

Yeah I know what you mean I’ve searched for any related stories on the web, can’t find anything & they are still readily available on to buy except the brand my lot like. May be he it only applies to a particular brands. Which is not good because finding a brand my cories, plecs & sailfins liked...

Apparently due to one of the ingredients use to make them

I was told by my lfs that algae wafers have now been banned due to a ruling by the EU, is this right? Does this ruling also apply to foods such as Tetra plecomin tablets as well? He sold me Tetra variety wafers but these haven’t gone down well at all.

Hi I currently have a 91 litres (20 UK gallons) tank it has a filter built into the hood. A Tetratec 600 plus internal filter backs this up. I have now brought a Juwel Rio 180 tank 180 (40 UK gallons give or take a bit), it has it’s own filter built in & I will back this up with a Tetratec...

I used to think the paler of my Khullies was being shunned because I never saw him out with the others even at feed time. So I tried to observe him in the conditions they say Khullies prefer, so one early morning with no light on in the tank & just one table lamp on the other side of the room...

Cheers Mikey & The-Wolf I can only imagine the short fatness is down to distortion when resizing the photo, as there is no real difference in size or shape to the others. It definitely seems healthy my worry was that it was being singled out because of his difference but I’ve since observed that...

Hi, all Thanks for your help I’ve finally managed to get a photo of the pale Khullie I was on about, it was a long wait because as I’ve mentioned he doesn't explore out much. As you can see he? It who knows is much paler than those in the upper half of the pic. It’s clearly nothing like mikev’s...

Hi, all Thanks for your help I’ve finally managed to get a photo of the pale Khullie I was on about, it was a long wait because as I’ve mentioned he doesn't explore out much. As you can see he? It who knows is much paler than those in the upper half of the pic. It’s clearly nothing like mikev’s...

Sorry no pictures ready to go for now, but my Khullies are just like those in your picture except one who has the same markings just a lot paler bordering on the albino so i'm putting this down to a lack of light so to speak being that it spends all of it's time hidden.

Cheers, thank goodness for that. Were your khullies of a similar colour? I ask this because the one who is always hiding is a great deal paler than the others, it seems healthy enough but I was wondering whether his colouring is the reason he doesn’t join in with the others.

Hi, I have five Khullie Loaches in a 91 litre peaceful community tank, four of which have not read the khullie descriptions I’ve read, rather than being the shy retiring types only breaking cover for a nibble at meal time they’re charging about over, around or through anyone or any thing that...