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Tank make/model/size: Juwel Trigon 190 & Matching Stand (Includes 2 light tubes) Equipment: Juwel Built-In Filter, Heater, Eheim Wet/Dry External Filter Colour: Beech Quantity for sale: One Reason for Sale: Downsizing Delivery or Collection: Collection only Sales price: £220 Postage & Packaging...

I like the layout Keith, it looks cool. I'm guessing that tank's a Juwel Rekord 60? I had a pair of BRs in that same tank way back, they ended up both being males. After a few weeks they started to lock lips and generally beat the crap out of each other 24/7, so I had to move one. Every...

He's cool, will look amazing when he's settled in. Is it just me or does he have massive eyes?

Jumped out maybe? I lost a Zebra Danio a few years ago, he had managed to jump out of a feeding hole a few cms across and I found him behind the cabinet a few weeks later. Also, again a few years ago, I had a female platy that like to completely bury herself under the sand. I had to rescue her...

Well like I say I've got 3 tanks with NW cichlids in and they are going OK, it's more that this subject fascinates me rather than me being worried about setting up my new tank. Basically I'm a big geek, and I wasn't sure if it interested anyone else. I wondered what would happen if you divided...

I've got 3 tanks setup with cichlids in at the moment (from 20g, to 75g), and when watching them I always start to wonder exactly how they see the tank in terms of territories. I'm assuming there is an element of simple line of sight; if I can't see a rival fish then it's not a threat. But I...

I think T-Bar cichlids are nice (Cryptoheros sajica), they are about the same size as convicts and a single fish would be way less aggressive. http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=178562

I hear someone is getting a Rotkeil tomorrow. I'll be checking back here for pictures. (There had better be pictures :angry: )

Well I'm moving soon and getting a new 4ft x 18" tank to put my new world cichlids into, which means, I will have a 75gal and a 45gal Trigon to fill. I was thinking senegal bichir in one of them, but maybe an ornatipinnis would be the way forward. Hmmmm.

Just want to add my congratulations Nelly, they are some beautiful snakeheads. If they start becoming common in my LFS I know who to thank

Discus? Bah! Severums are where it's at. I'd like to join the club please. We have 1 Green Sev in a 75gal with Rainbow Shark & Rainbow Cichlid, had him for about a year now and he's around the 4" mark. I bought 2 and gave 1 to my father-in-law, but if we can figure out the sexes and we have a...

Guys I think 5teady was making a joke there, those ammonia figures are mega

I think this thread will be a good read, just seeing the vast range of advice offered to newbies will be interesting. It always winds me up that places say you can't add any fish to a new tank for 2 weeks; surely the filter in an empty tank is just as uncycled after 2 weeks as it is after 2...

I got exactly the same response from old Gilbert as you did Esfa, with the addition of: "May we also advise you that Channel 4 do not make the programmes we transmit but commission or purchase them from independent production companies and distributors. " This is probably because I asked them...

I know it's already been said but I used Trimar and was pretty astonished by how good they were. Definitely recommended

Imagine if we miss out on being the top Olympic country by 1 Gold Medal, there will be outrage. Aquatics shops will be demolished, fishkeepers will be pelted with lava rock and mobs of disgruntled Olympians will burn Guppies in the street! :lol: Seriously though I don't think we have to worry...

You guys may have heard about this, but one of our Olympic swimmers can't take part this year because she caught a nasty disease from her fish tank, a Granuloma infection. I read it in the Loughborough Echo yesterday (that's where she's from). She's a world record holder and was considered one...

Ooooooohhh, I see. Sorry about that. So I guess the only thing to do is keep doing water changes to stop the nitrites hurting your fish, just keeping testing until it's holding at zero. Don't think there's anything else you can do, still think it will take about 7-10 days to get it under...

Really enjoyed reading this topic, this is the kind of thing I plan all day every day, definitely a pipe dream at the moment. Me and my wife have been reading a lot of good things about Singapore and are tempted to give up on the UK, but it's such a scary thought to try and get a job overseas...

Not sure about only half filling the tank, but I guess the idea of a fishless cycle is to mimic the bioload of a full tank. So personally I'd have the tank setup exactly as it would be with fish in it. You also need to add the right amount of ammonia for the tests to be accurate etc. there's...

I think the extra depth would be great for aquascaping. If you start putting in rock piles or 3D backgrounds then that 13" of space will soon get used up. There's a good post somewhere on here about making you own python water changer; it's a lot easier than buckets

If you've only got 5ppm of Nitrate then maybe you've still got a bit of a wait, if you have a lot of plants etc that might account for lower nitrates, but I'm guessing the filter isn't quite cycled yet. I think the only way to do it is just test every day and be patient, but if you're ammonia...

Hey dude, I'm no expert but I've cloned a few tanks and I think it's a generally accepted fact that the nitrite bacteria always takes longer to colonise that the ammonia bacteria. I think the wait depends on how much cycled media you put in. I'd test you nitrAtes as well, if you've got a lot...

Someone at work wants to buy a spare tank from me (10 gallon), and to be fair he has been asking me about the right way to set up a tank etc, but as soon as I mention Ammonia and Nitrites he gets this kind of glazed look in his eyes. Think he goes off to his happy place until my mouth stops...

Thanks for the replies everyone, like I said in the original post only a few of the fish are gasping, most are lying at the bottom or on their sides. Anyway I think we've figured out what has happened. My wife posted this over in the emergencies section, and dthoffsett kindly pointed us...

We have an external filter and the output is breaking the water surface, it's always been fine, lots of ripples. Maybe I'll add something else just in case. I'm baffled. Thanks anyway

The Acei showed no signs of illness at all, nothing. A few of the yellow labs had some dark patches on their face, but nothing on any of the other fish. I'll have to have a look when I get home. I'll be so gutted if my whole tank dies, I love the fish I've got at the moment. Added to the fact...

I've been to all the fish stores in our area and have never seen any tall thin wood, or anything similar to the willow in shape. We have a Juwel Trigon corner tank with small community fish in, with it being 24" high we're looking for something tall & thin to give some visual interest at the...

EDIT: My wife has posted this in the Emergencies section too if that's OK, thanks Hi Guys, I've had a disaster in my Malawi tank and I have no idea why. Yesterday evening I fed the fish as normal around 6:00pm and watched them for a while, everything was fine. Then when I next looked in...

Yes it was Egypt, Sharm El Sheikh on the Sinai peninsula (the bit next to Saudi Arabia with the Suez Canal). The pictures taken from the jetty were on the hotel beach where we stayed, in Sharks Bay. The underwater shots are from the submarine trip round Ras Mohammed, which is like an...

Thanks for the congrats, and the corrections. I think the moray pic is my favorite, there were loads of those guys. In the submarine we saw a giant moray swimming out in the open, they turned the thing around and went back because there was a amateur marine filmmaker on board who was desperate...

Hey guys, We've just got back from our Honeymoon on the Red Sea, so I thought I'd share a few of the fish-related pictures we took. The beach was right on a big reef, you could just wonder out on the jetty and look at the fish, or get in with them. We also went down in a Submarine to get a...

I did test the water a few days after I had moved the fish & filter, but I will do a water change tonight; I'm about due for one now anyway. I think there are more than enough hiding places too, there are 13 fish in the tank at the moment and probably around 30-40 little gaps and holes etc. I'll...

Hey Guys I was wondering if a more experienced Malawi keeper could give me some advice please? I have just moved my Malawi community back to their permanent home in my 75 gallon tank, they were in a Jewel Trigon 190 for a few months while I fixed a leak in the 75 gal and arranged out new flat...

I was enjoying Life in Cold Blood last night and had exactly the same train of thought. I'm always looking for more shows about freshwater fish, I'll definitely support any letters/petitions etc.

Thanks guys, I went and got my 6 Yellow labs today, I will be adding the other fish over the next few days. The Labs are only around an inch long, the guy in the shop said I would have to wait until they are a bit bigger before sexing them, is this right? I would really like to give the Acei a...

Hi Everyone My girlfriend and I have been cycling a tank with the intention of keeping Malawi’s for months now, and after being interrupted by broken equipment, emergency fish moving and rock buying, we have finally got it ready to go. It’s a strange shaped tank, measuring 40†x 18†x...

Just wanted to share this pic I took at xmas of my family's dog, a Brittany called Rosie. She's getting to be quite a character in her old age, she's about 12 or 13 now I think. We had set up a board game on the floor and begun playing when she walks in and plonks herself down in front of the...

He's a really nice looking dog, what breed is he?

Here is picture of me, I haven't posted that much but I've done a high degree of lurking, so thought I should share. I will admit to a little posing for this pic, and for that i can only apologise.