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we have a 10 gallon tank with 4 leopard cories - 3 Corydoras trilineatus and 1 Julii Corydoras who are great and all get along well. they were mixed from the shop and all seem to enjoy each others company. we have 3 dwarf gouramis and 6 silver tip tetras in the tank and have no problems. we...

our male gourami seems to be a lot more inactive when its not happy about something - sounds good that yours is moving around more.

hi all, sorry for the late response. through continued water changes and most importantly a cleaning of the filter the nitrite level has dropped and the fish seem a lot happier. i havent been able to get hold of an api test kit still but things seem to be better. i will continue doing regular...

what colour is he? the brightly coloured ones are the males and the females are generally silvery/golden. our male dwarf is bright blue and our 2 females are silver with a golden tinge to them.

the tank has been at least paritally cycled and im doing a fish in cycle as advised by wills and some other people. the tank was run for about 3 weeks with no fish in it, with some bio/bac liquid added, some ammonia and some crushed food. i watched the nitrite readings rise as it was converted...

the shrimp were floated in the bags for about 20 minutes and tank water was added to their bag gradually over another 45 minutes - an hour or so. i had trouble getting the dealer water out of the bag which was then introduced into the tank. i will try and find the api master test kit. im sorry...

edit : nitrite spike - not nitrate hi all, i recently asked for advice on my 40litre tank and things have been going well until monday this week when we added some new fish. the tank was in seemingly good condition until we added the last of our stock to it and i made a couple of mistakes...

while i am very fond of our dwarf gourami's now i would get a different type over them again - either the croaking our honey's if you want something of that size. we had to take one male back as he was hyper aggressive towards out two females and his replacement is still a bit grumpy.

hi carl, thanks for the advice and ill have a look at the tetras you suggested kat. i think glowlight tetras or danios would be nice with the strong greens we have in the plants - unfortunately we have a few snails that came in with the last one. will the fish eat them or should i try and get...

ive been to the aquatic design center on great portland street a couple of times and they have a nice amount of fish - its in central london just by oxford circus edit : im planning on having a couple of honey gourami in my tank but the dwarf gourami look really nice as well. they have some...

i think its between the galaxy rasboras, glow light tetras or possibly the black tetras. would a pair of gourami be as happy as 1 male and 2 females? to help accomodate the slightly larger tetras. ive seen some gorgeous emperor tetras online but our tank isnt big enough for them i also like...

hi frida, yes i really enjoyed having a browse around - they have an astonishing pair of giant gourami downstairs at the minute and some great marine fish amongst other things. ill try and get some ammonia this week and drop a little in as wills suggested. i know the general consensus is that...

thanks for the replies... ive just been up to the aquatic design center again and had a chat with them about stocking/cycling etc. ive got a 50watt heater (with a guard), some tablets for my plants, a test kit which i think ill take back and some bio filter stuff (which was cheap) and a sample...

thanks for the replies again guys, i will try posting a thread in the trade forum. i am going to get a heater/thermometer and a test kit today and try dropping in a little ammonia to get things going and see what happens. we are going to resituate the tank slightly and raise the temprature...

i wouldnt want to harm any fish - visible or not. i would much rather have a happy little community of fish to enjoy rather than anything else but is there really no way to have a few fish in there before a month or so without hurting them? a small group of small fish after a couple of weeks...

thanks for the advice wills - as a bit of an odd ball idea, would two small comet goldfish work as a pair of cycling fish who can then be rehomed to the local school pond once things have settled down a bit? i only ask because my partner is only here until december on this trip and i'd love for...

thanks wills, i have read it and it looks good - but i would really love to have some fish in a bit sooner than december... is it not possible to do it by leaving it for a few weeks with a little bit of ammonia or something added and then slowly add fish? (i.e. add the ammonia now and 2/3 weeks...

hi kat and willis, thanks for the advice :) we had been looking at the sparkling gouramis as they are lovely fish - do you think 1 male and 2 females would be a good group to have (the center-piece group if you will) in the tank? having activity in each level is something i was looking for -...

hello, i have recently purchased a fishtank for me and my partner to enjoy - we were hoping to keep fancy goldfish after being told we could keep 4/5 in the 40 litre tank but obviously this isnt enough space for them. therefore i have been looking into a few different fish combinations which i...