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Hey all, i made a discovery when doing a major clean of my fry tank today, I found some really creepy (my girlfirend refuses to be in the same room as them) insects. They probably came in with some kuhli loaches I added a couple of weeks ago, but I could be wrong. I put the khulis in the fry...

Hi all, I bought myself 6 kuhli loaches the other day and I noticed (without giving it much thought) that two of them were much fatter than the others. So I put them in a 10gal isolation tank on their own with a bit of java moss, a cave and not much else in it. Low and behold after about a week...

I found some eggs on the side of my tank when i noticed a mark some guppies were picking at, theyre in a translucent goop attached to the side of my tank, the weird thing is though I have only neon tetras, guppies, red cherry shrimp, and common snails in the tank and am wondering what on earth...

Hello, I've been keeping guppies for a while now but ive never seen anything like this. It looks like she's got every disease going as well as a nasty skin problem and she's hugely pregnant, can someone give me a possible diagnosis and treatment, all of my other fish look fine, but ive isolated...

Hello all, One of my neighbours children has recently been to the beech and she's collected a whole load of rocks (illegal i know) which she has offered to make into a lovely castle for my fish. So ive boiled the #### out of these rocks and done all the acid-alkali tests i could think of and...

Hi all, I'm desperate to get hold of a type of cuttlefish, specifically elegant cuttlefish (sepia elegans) they are a smaller species of cuttlefish and live in UK costal waters, but I am unable to find anywhere that sells them live. Could anyone advise me where to look? if so it would be greatly...

Around about two weeks now, with no fish only lots of plants. I used spare filter and some substrate as well as plants from one of my other existing tanks and its eliminating the ammonia I add every day within about 6 hours and the nitrite levels are a nice constant zero, so its perfectly ready...

Its about 95 litres, should have mentioned. Thanks for the help.

Right, first things first, hello I thought it was about time I signed up to a tropical fish forum as ive been keeping fish for a while and absolutely love it. So hello everyone! Secondly, ive been looking into keeping red cherry shrimp (about 10) for a while and ive got a tank full of caves and...