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I've kept both together in the past without any problems. :good:

I'll have a look. :good:

If you are looking for rooty wood, then heather would be a good choice. I 'borrowed' some from the Yorkshire moors for my nano tank, and it looks cool. The only problem is it takes hours to de-bark. If you soak it in water for a few days first it's easier to get the bark off. They burn so much...

The leaves and roots are baby plants, which grow on the old leaves of java ferns.

I've found that total wipeout and Takeshi's castle get really boring really quickly. Especially Total wipeout (UK) because Richard Hammond is really annoying on it (he's much better on Top Gear).

Goldfish are by no means low maintenance. Personally I think goldfish should only really be kept in ponds or very large tanks, as they grow very large (common goldfish can exceed a foot by a long way, and fancy goldfish can also grow very large). In a tank that size, a massive amount of...

It's looking good. :good: Are those rocks on top of the sand or directly on the base?

Personally I think the frog wouldn't stand a chance with the malawis. I have BNs with my malawis without problems, but plecs don't seem to be noticed by the malawis as they stay on the rocks. Frogs will probably be attacked as they swim about and I don't suppose they'd be able to take much abuse.

Thanks. I'm quite pleased with how it looks ATM. I've got all of the small rocks for fry to hide in, as my fry tank is full ATM. One of the jalo reef spat this morning, and I can see some tiny fry hiding in the rocks. I'm really pleased, as the jalo reef are my favourite fish in this tank, and...

Hi guys, here is a vid of my 4ft malawi cichlid tank. The stocking is in the description. :good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcVUvlS19jU

Hi guys, here's a vid of the tank. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcVUvlS19jU

rofl :lol:

I wouldn't personally suck the end of the tube to start the syphon as I use a hose pipe to do water changes, and it's been in all sorts of horrible places! I agree though that the chances of catching anything are pretty slim, although there's no need to take the risk if it is convenient to...

Merry Christmas everyone! And happy belated Solstice lol.

I haven't been on this site for ages, so I thought I'd update. I have added 3 Aulonocara orange peacocks to the tank. I have also got about 40-50 mpanga fry growing on in my shrimp tank. The fish are all growing really well, many are reaching the 3" mark. I've had females of all of the fish...

Make sure you empty ALL of the water and substrate from the tank before you try to lift it. If not the bottom could break, and then you would have problems! :good:

It doesn't sound good if there is a gap under the tank in the middle. I'd put it on a proper aquarium stand. A 30g tank is really heavy, and a lot of furniture won't be able to take the weight.

She looks great. I wish I was allowed snakes lol.

They look like snail eggs to me. :good:

Cheers guys, I had a really good day. And to top it all off, when I got home last night I noticed that one of my Cynotilapia afra jalo reef females and one of my Pseudotropheus elongatus mpanga females are holding eggs!!

TBH I wouldn't bother. I've read about people rearing them, but it takes a lot of effort carefully controlling and measuring the salinity of the water.

Amano shrimp can breed in freshwater, but for the shrimp to fully develop they need saltwater. :good:

Have you added any plants recently? The baby snails will probably be pest snails that were on the plants.

Once I've run out of the water conditioner that I'm using I'm going to start using seachem safe, as it's the cheapest one you can get. It comes as a powder though, so you have to mix it with a bit of water before adding to the tank. As long as you add water conditioner and make sure there isn't...

I'm going to add some more fish when I get enough money and once the current fish have grown a bit more. I'm basically going to up the sizes of the groups and then maybe add some line bred Aulonocaras. I've noticed that when I do a lot of water changes that the fishes colours are much more...

+1. Water changes are really important as well if you want your fish to look great. I do at least 1 x 50% WC per week, but often 2. When doing water changes I use a hose as it is so much easier. I normally do school work while I wait for it to empty and fill (I put the water in slowly so the...

On my 210l malawi cichlid tank I am running a 750lph filter and a 2000lph filter. I am also running a 900lph powerhead, but that's just for more flow. How much filtration you need depends on how much you stock your tank. Malawi tanks are usually heavily stocked to reduce aggression, which...

Cool, it's my 16th. :good:

Yeah, I know what you mean. Cats always seem to think they're more important than you lol.

I'm a dog person, although I do like cats as well, but not as much as dogs. :good:

I had my first spawn today. :hyper: The ndumbi red tops have been showing signs of breeding for the past couple of days, and today after a WC i noticed it had eggs in its mouth. I'm really happy, I've only had them for 3 weeks and they are breeding already. :D

my birthday is on the 26th of Oct. :hyper:

yeah, they get too big. Also, £20 for delivery isn't a bad price, as it is expensive to post fish.

The fish seem happy with how the tank is. I've not had any aggression issues and they're all starting to colour up. I got the fish from tony in Brid - tonysafricancichlids.co.uk

Here is how the tank looks now. I was in a hurry, so the pic isn't very good. Cheers, Ben

It might just be me, but I find discus very bland after a while. Maybe another planted tank would be good with a big group of shoaling fish.

How about a mbuna tank? Plenty of interesting behaviour and colours.

Hydrocotyle. Not sure what species though. :good:

I use both excel and TPN+ in my shrimp tank, and they are doing well and breeding well. However, I've read that shrimp don't do particularly well long term in a tank with ferts, but I've had no problems.

I have my shrimp tank set at 24c, but I have a heater in to make sure it doesn't dip below that. I'd get a heater in to be safe. cheers, Ben :good: