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Hi there. Cory's love a sand substrate. They filter the sand out through their bills searching for food. It's what they do in their natural habitat, so it's good to try and recreate that. As already mentioned, the substrate you have will cause food to get trapped and eventually cause water...

This is a great post Bruce, thank you for writing it. I have often wondered about whether you can add our native species to our tanks. You often see specific leaves for sale on various sites. It’s given me a few ideas. Have you added any yet?

Oooh! A hard boiled egg sliced onto toast, mature cheddar melted on top with some Worcestershire Sauce. 🤤

I’ve just realised you quoted PK!

Ive done shooting since I was 16 (43 now 🤣) so costs are really minimal as my rifles don’t need to be changed. The Astro stuff is fairly basic and had that before I got into aquariums. I don’t spend an awful lot on this either now. Tank is established and stable and I have orders from the wife...

My .22 LR target (Anschutz 1984 Olympic) was bought late 90’s for about £650. I still use iron sights on it. My 7.62 is A Swing Mk4 from the mid 80’s. Was owned by the Royal Marines target team and had been used about twice when I bought it 10 years ago. I used iron sights until a couple of...

I do small bore (.22 Cali Rd) and full bore (7.62/.308) target rifle. Very expensive at the start. My fulll bore rifle cost £1500 and the scope the same. Rounds are about £1 a pop. I have to travel to Bisley near Guildford to shoot it. Small bore less expensive and the club is nearer home. This...

I thought the general consensus was to keep more females than males to distribute any dominant behaviour, for example, what may have been shown in this tank. I am no guppy expert, but that is what I have read in other guppy stocking posts. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Thanks both. I will try and find the literature I read to check. I have read elsewhere someone changing the impeller when the filter got noisy which is where I got the idea. I will do some more investigating…..!

I had a Hydor in line heater which was great, as the heated water got distributed really well. It wasn’t too tricky to fit but unfortunately it stopped working. I have never replaced it and just have your normal heating bar in the tank now. Its on my list of things to look at as an upgrade, so...

Evening all I run a Fluval 206 external filter on my tank, and have done for around 4 years. It has recently become quite rattley so decided to buy a maintenance kit that includes new seals, impeller shaft and impeller cover. I also bought an aqua stop valve as that has new seals too. Just out...

I concur with the above and do a couple of changes a week. Water quality can get bad quite quickly with the smaller volumes of water. I don’t think you need to leave the water a couple of days. Put some tetra aqua safe or similar in the water beforehand which will neutralise harmful substances...

Lovely looking fish there Bruce! I thing DG are great fish, but I have bad experiences in the past with the old dwarf gourami disease and it’s put me off them. This was a number of years ago though. I assume you will be updating your excellent journal with their introduction? In which case I...

I think the consensus here is listen to the members here. I agree with Bruce - this "vet" is an ex vet, that gets a great income from you - he is there to make money and probably see's dollar signs in his eyes when you walk in, so will continue to tell you everything is great and sell you more...

Excellent post Myraan and great advice on how to go forward. I was thinking we are at an impasse, so hopefully the advice and knowledge will be used to progress with the hobby. I don’t think much more can be said really, without the OP getting a test kit and water changing each day, but I too...

Also, in your other thread about the Rainbow fish, I think these are more suited to hard water too?

This looks to be the case if swimming in the corner. The fact they have all done this in that particular corner is possibly just coincidence or maybe the most comfortable spot relatively as already posted.

I will put my 2 pence worth in. I am by no means as knowledgeable as some of peers on here, but a couple of things strike me. The main thing is a lack of a testing kit. I know you say they are expensive, but it’s relative and they last a long time, being able to get hundred of tests out of a...

No probs. However, I would take note of what DoubleDutch says as that could be a possibility. It is probably worth researching male/female ratio's, as looking back through your information I missed you had 2 males in the tank, and what he says makes sense - it could be a dominance thing. From...

I’d mirror Bruce on this. I thought that looked an awful lot of food, especially for the Cory. That’s more than one wafer a fish! As others have said, I would reduce your lighting times a bit too. Hopefully reducing those 2 variables will help.

I may pop in the LFS again at the weekend. If they are still there, I’ll take a sneaky photo and post for you!

I saw some of these in my LFS yesterday, although they were called “Black Devils” there! £100 for a pair too!

The fish could have had Dwarf Gourami Disease. Unfortunately no cure for it. Here is a link for more info. https://helpusfish.com/1/17/dwarf-gourami-disease-guide.html Its been a long time since I’ve thought about DGD as I have lost a couple of fish to it and have not bought any since 2013. If...

Mmmmm. Not sure on that. The NT has 3bottles to do the ammonia test, which results in yellow if no ammonia. Api has 2 if I remember correctly. The nitrate/nitrite are clear of non is detected where as AP I are grades of green or blue I think. So maybe! I'm not much of a chemist to know what...

If they just added the O2 test, it would be perfect!

Morning all. I just thought I would offer an alternative to the API Master test kit, in the NT Labs Aquarium multi test kit. I have had an API for years and only noticed the other day it was a few years out of date. My tank is quite mature now and I haven’t had any issues with water quality for...

That's great Colin and makes sense.

Thanks guys. I will carry on with my plans and give the tank a good check over when I get round to re-scaping, hopefully in the next month or so.

I should say, the tank is currently running and stocked, and there is no sign of leaking. I ask out of interest as if I am going to put the effort into re-scaping the tank and the tank has a life span of say 12 years for example, I might reconsider my options. The tank is approaching 10 years.

Morning all, I have a bit of a strange question………. Do aquariums have a life span? I have a Roma 90, glass tank and I assume to the corners and bottom are sealed/glued with some sort of silicone. The tank was bought new in 2012. I ask because I am going to do a bit of a revamp on it and was...

Hi Bruce, I have just come back to this forum after a long hiatus. I have still been running my tank, but my kids have renewed my enthusiasm and I have some big changes planned. reading your journal has been very inspirational and I am reading with great interest! I am a fellow Cumbrian, albeit...

Ps, obviously I will be charging postage and packaging

To be honest, I was looking to just get rid of them free of charge. Just wanted to know how to send them in the post. There are 50 plus of them - essentially 2 batches of eggs.

Hi all, I have about 100 golden apple snails running around my tank since the originals bread. I need to get rid of most of them. A LFS has agreed to take some one they are a bit bigger; currently less than 5mm. I would like to advertise them on here and FB but unsure what the best thing to...

I just started to sort my veg patch out the other day. It sounds simple but think about what veg you actually eat rather than what you would like to grow! It's tempting to grow things that you think you would like but no one actually eats! I tend to grow things for salads such as lettuce...

Hi there It looks like a sandstone to me.....difficult to tell without me testing it (I studied geology at uni). I think it should be OK in your tank. Where did you get it from? A shop, or picked up out doors somewhere? Al

Hi Bmonki I will refer you to this thread I read this morning, as it sounds similar, especially when the fish moves away. http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/409085-clear-poop/ It sounds like some sort of parasite. Alistair

My apologies. It was a minor swear word that you would associate with northerners (as I am one!) and begins with B.

As above, this is very common. I had the same thing not long ago. They look the same as the ones I inherited - some sort of ramshorn snail I think. Try and get them out as you see them as they reproduce with themselves and you will be over run in no time!! One option is to get an assasin snail...