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...realized i'd forgotten my wallet so had to come home again. got home, made a cup of coffee then a customer phoned... i'm now meant to be dealing with her enquiry.. looks like the LFS will have to wait til tomorrow

a little tip i found in regards to breeding; cut the foot off a pair of nylon tights (with permission of course) and place it over the inlets of your filter. this stops the fry from being able to swim up into your filter for a certain death. also, if you place the other foot of the stockings...

i'd clean all the tanks out thouroughly and have them all cycling at the same time. that way, when you're buying fish, you're not as limited for the number of fish you can buy... but there'd be quite a lot of organizing when you get them home... i'd suggest very slow set ups though, they're...

my RTBS used to love cucumber! if he wasn't devouring it, he'd be close by guarding it.

has two nice boxes of water :)

would this bleach solution be ok to sterilize algae 'stained' ornaments?

a guy at my LFS has told me that aquarium lighting is "mostly aesthetic" because fish (like all animals) naturally know their day/night cycle.. i can see the logic behind this, but are there any benefits to using the artificial lights to manipulate the natural cycles?

i understand the attraction to books on fish.. i've got one myself, but really... all the info we can possibly dream of is already available online for free... even some conflicting opinions. i'm a fanboy of real peoples experiences more than scientific sounding explainations - but i'm also...

try filmin them on your phone or something? footage might be clearer than stills.

apart from turning lights off, the heater down and opening the hood of the tank, it's been suggested to me that two good ways of reducing the heat slowly are: 1) fill an icecube tray with aquarium water and freeze it.. the cubes can be added from time to time to bring the temperature down. 2)...

lol.. there's always one. it would have been me but you beat me to it. apart from 'fish' i have no idea what it is

i've read that plants are meant to be good for keeping nitrates and phosphates out the water, while putting oxygen into it... but i could be wrong

likin that brackish tank... a lot! i think i'll go down that road, maybe with a couple more grassy plants tho. i've read somewhere that i should have placed a layer of soil (not exactly soil.. but a mineral stuff) down before i put the gravel in if i wanna be using live plants (which i do)...

i've learned a new word - "aquascaping", which is apparently the term given to designing the scene of an aquarium... it's currently my word of the week. "i'm cycling my tank before aquascaping it", makes me sound clever :) i'm lacking a certain amount of inspiration but thinking something...

unfortunately, i didn't diagnose white spot early enough. it killed the last of my fish off on friday night. feel quite bad about it, but we live & learn. i've cleaned the whole tank out and threw away most of my ornaments to start again from scratch. currently cycling both tanks and i'll be...

if the sulphur dioxide reaches the water, then it'll turn into sulphuric acid but in low concentration... it's probably not healthy for the fish, so i'd secure air around your tank in any way possible to be on the safe side

deffo somethin i'll start looking into... are flightless flies called walks? haha

i'll jump on the band wagon with this one!

i remember some time ago coming across a website that stated it's safe to feed tropical fish the odd house fly or spider, as it's what they'd eat in the wild. it's not something i've tried myself - mostly coz it's pretty difficult to catch a house fly and spiders are freaky. i can see the...

i dont think fish do have a small memory.. how would they be territorial if they kept forgetting where they lived? two of my tiger barbs used to gang up on a green tiger barb - maybe evidence of racism?

good thinkin! i'll do that before the 2nd dose on saturday

thanks 4 the advice and the speedy response mate!

the past couple of days, i've had fish dying for "no apparent reason". i noticed one small white spot on a single tiger barb. obviously, my first thought was white spot disease, so i decided to closely watch the general health of the fish. first thing this morning, i looked at the fish and...

Hi all, i'm new to the site, but have been keeping tropical aquariums (or is it aquaria?) for roughly 4 years. i was searching for answers as why my new tiger barbs seem to have odd swimming behaviours, and found a few possible answers on this forum - so decided to join. anyway, that's all...