Recent content by DanDamage92

Basically either buy a heater mate or buy lots of bushy plants for your main tank...some may surrive...some may make a tasty treat!

The breeding boxes generally do stress fish out, however it is up to you if you use it, I use them then when the female has done giving birth pop them into a net breeder which is bigger for them, There is other ways of attempting to keep the fry, you can let her have the fry in your main tank...

I currently have 9 platy fry in a little tank of their own, they are a few eeks old now and I have only lost 2 through the process, what happened when I got mine was I saw a baby platy so gather the 3 fat females and popped them in breeding traps over night woke up and there was some fry, was...

Hey so all sorts has happened in the past few hours, I decided to ring around a few fish stores around my area and turned out this place would take my catfish, so off I went to take it and Im happy now it is going to go to a new home they also gave me a 1/3rd of what they would sell it for store...

I have come home my my girlfriends house to find one of my guppies...dead, is there a culprit? Also another with a split tail...Now is it the tetra or the featherfin? I cant see it being the kuhli loach they hide all the time, The featherfin is going to outgrow the tank soon if he keeps growing...

I have kept freshwater fish for ages however everytime I try and keep guppies it never seems to go well lol, the culprit was the black red tailed shark I had which has recently died, so today I have brought my new guppies 9 in all, in the tank is an x ray tetra, 2xkuli loach and a featherfin...

I have used a gravel cleaner before in a tank with sand, basically instead of putting it into the sand hover above it and while it is flowing etc. do small circles which raises all the dirt which then gets sucked up...

I'm not sure if this has been done before however I have a guide for a dead easy and simple air powered sponge filter which I have used for the smallest of fry and costs nothing! Here is the video: Sorry about the sound, youtube got a bit mardy due to copyright or something but the detail is...

Hey everyone, I came across the forum about an hour ago and have found some great advise, tank designs and all sorts so I thought I would become a member to offer advise, experience and to gain some aswell, So a bit about me... I started fishkeeping some years ago now, starting out with a...