Recent content by Shetland James

I'm in London, just moved. If I can get a FT job I'll definitely be looking to keep fish.

Like a lot of fish, they're not gonna breed instantly. They'll need time to condition for breeding, realise they want to breed with the other krib and pick out a spot. Live foods to condition them. Also give them a cave which has one entrance to defend and a roof (they lay eggs on the roof).

My mollies wound my Betta up, which is ironic because when I bought him from the shop he'd been in a tank with balloon mollies and had munched the tails of a few before being separated.

Probably more likely to grow fungus when unfertilized.

You don't even need to boil them, you can just put them under a hot tap and deshell them.

Where I'm from the water is naturally very soft because the land is just thick with peat.

Need a clearer picture. Honey Gourami's can be tough to sex. Oftentimes one is advised to "buy three and hope there's a pair". Some help otherwise: Females: Usually larger and plumper, honey's have a brown horizontal stripe, short rounded dorsal fin Males: Long pointed dorsal fin, smaller and...

Well, alrighty then! You've probably read a lot about the hardness/softness/acidity/alkalinity etc etc etc and also the preparation (separate the male and female, NEVER add the female after the male etc)... Well I'm here to tell you that the common advice did not work for me. I haven't even...

I can give you a blurb about how I got my dwarf's to breed if you'd like.

My one wasn't great, but in small tanks algae can bloom at an extraordinary rate if you don't keep on top of it. They're only small AND they can get territorial so if the tank is small perhaps they are not the best option. You might consider getting an apple snail, as sometimes they're so...

They're definitely different I'm afraid Cichild. A pair of breedable H. Gourami's are like this: What you have is a Red/Red Neon Dwarf:

Yeah, if it's small white-ish eggs suspended in a jelly... it's snail eggs. I had the same reaction when I thought that I had good eggs, sadly!

Isn't the one of the left a Red Gourami, and the right is a honey gourami? EDIT: yeah, you have two different kinds by the looks of things red gourami - Google Search...

Aglae in itself shouldn't be a huge bother if you keep the water clean. You could: Take it away from direct sunlight or bright lights; cover it with gravel or sand so it dies off; clean it with a toothbrush. Also, you could have a small plec in your tank like a Hong Kong Pleco. They're about...

Feed them more often, and on high protein foods like puttied egg yolk if they're tiny, moving on to daphnia and bloodworm.