Recent content by jac_france

That's sad :( But glad the other's okay :) Good luck with female hunting. If they should turn into males again at least we can both be comforted by the fact that many experience the same problem and difficulties. FYI I think a male's territory is about 3 gals, so at least there could be some...

Sorry, I meant Rachel, not Rachael :facepalm:

Hi there Rachael – your post was a couple of weeks ago but thought I’d pass on some of the things I’ve learned about scarlet badis – I too couldn’t find them at first, until a month after I'd bought other fish instead. I swiftly set up an old tank that I had in the loft, got some filter media...

What about this? Hi there Dennerle do a nano tank sucker-upper thing. Because most gravel cleaners are so big, by the time you've cleaned one small section of gravel in a nano, you've already emptied 50% of the water! And that's if you can get it between the plants in the first place the base...

you might be an aquarium nerd if... - if you read through the whole of this thread ! - if searching for the right second-hand aquarium on ebay you start at “+/- 5 miles”, and 4 hours later it's “anywhere in UK”. By the end of the day you realise something bigger may be better so you start...

I'm with Serena00 on the scarlet badis. Big personalities for such tiny cuties and always hunting for anything - yet come straight to the front if they see you; they hover, just watching you, then up at the water surface, then back at you again. "Well, where is it then? Can't see it." People...

Thank you Aqua_Chem. I think I should definitely add a drop checker to my list of requirements if (perhaps more likely 'when') I go down the pressurised CO2 route. I've invested a lot of time and effort into research for this next, bigger project - and I want to give it as good a shot as...

Thank you both Thank you Schoeplein and Sk3lly for your replies. I can see now that having those readings doesn't by default mean that the given level of CO2 when you cross-check them against the CO2 tables, is actually there. And Sk3lly yes, having now taken some of the pogostemon h. out of...

Hello everyone. I’m hoping for some clarity on CO2 (groan) because I’ve been reading up on it so much as I’m upgrading my tank, and can’t find an answer to the question I have, which is… do I really need it if the water in my aquarium sits naturally at pH6.8 and KH5.5, as it has done for...

Thanks Alyxx - the mountains are beautiful indeed. But you do crave a little city life now and then. Corylover - once you start planting and looking at all the amazing aquascaping videos on youtube then, then your 40g will follow very quickly I imagine! :thanks:

Thanks Corylover - my store is about 40 mins by car so I did the acclimatisation thing, adding a tbsp of water every 10 mins until ph et al were all matching - then scooped them all in. Took a long time but I think that's why I still have 7 neon tetras, so worth it and today they have all really...

Your question about where the fish came from is a very valid one. I have two stores near me and I checked them both out first. Both had displays with dead fish in them, both are not really where I wanted to buy fish from. The problem is, I live in the mountains and I have little choice. I...

Hello there everyone and bonjour. I started off with a comet and a shubunkin, which I moved into my brother's outdoor pond when I came here to the French Alps. That was a long time ago and I've recently started a small nanotank with 7 neon tetras. It seems to have taken an age, but when...