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Sims have operated a rescue service for many years. I think it is both sad that they actually need to operate this service but also useful to know that help is out there with places like Sims who are willing to step in and help people out like this...not just due to CoL but for all fish that...

As we are all very much aware, living costs are getting a bit heavy for some people. One of my livestock suppliers emailed me today with this updated information for those who might be struggling financially with their aquatic livestock I have used Sims as my supplier for many years without...

Not the greatest images (not the best cameraphone tbh) but these are my two super shy juvenile Fire Red Apisto

Must be doing something right....all 42 fish are alive, kicking and generally sorting their hierarchy out.... Squabbling Neon Tetras trying to sort who will be boss Tetra....the Cories are still just being the usual aquarium clowns...the pair of Apisto are getting braver but still not...

You shouldn't have white substrate, it stresses the fish with the glare from the lights overhead The UK generally has little need to supply sand for swimming pool filters......and buying actual aquarium sand is not that expensive anyway. I have always used aquarium sand and substrate, no...

The Sicce Shark Pro filters only came onto the market in May/June 2022, they are an improved version of the Sicce Shark ADV filters The ADV had suction cups to hold the filter to the glass and magnets to hold the powerhead to the media boxes. The Shark Pro is entirely magnetic - glass holding...

I have 10 Corydora Rabauti (Rusty Corydoras) All are babies at 1 to 1.5 inches long The sand is aquarium sand...Unipac Kivu Sand...I prefer using substrates made for aquariums since I know it hasn't got any potentially toxic additives etc. It is also much finer than children's play sand.

The Cories might be small but they do tend to make a mess of the sand when playing in it Not only that but the filter needed some finer media in there, it wasn't catching the sand...it lobbed it out instead All sorted now....with a bit of unladylike language thrown in for good measure as is...

Bear in mind that should you decide to use normal furniture to handle an aquarium and that furniture fails as a result of prolonged accidental water spills and/or just the sheer weight of the aquarium, it is very unlikely that the warranty on the aquarium will be honoured if it gets broken and...

As much as I admire the reason for taking the little fella on, I think it might end in tears. First off, what is he living in now...what size aquarium, water chemistry, was the aquarium cycled before you added him? In relation to the fish....it can take time for a new fish to settle into new...

The water was actually lovely and clear before the new hooligans moved in yesterday, its gone a wee bit cloudy this morning but we are all safe and sound The pair of Fire Red Apisto have already decided on their cave and are hiding inside...they are a little over an inch long, about the same...

All new residents have arrived safe and well. They are all getting used to their new home with lighting off til tomorrow. All very healthy and active fish...good colouration on all of them within moments of going into their new home. I shall take a photo or two tomorrow once they are settled...

Nice looking Betta. Personally I would be inclined to move him to at least a 10 gallon aquarium. Reason being is that I feel 5 gallons just doesn't give any fish enough room to get any sort of speed up when swimming or enough incentive to roam and act naturally My Betta is in a 29 gallon...

Fish delivery day today :) Thankfully the new filter from one supplier and the fish from a different supplier are both being delivered by the same courier, so once they arrive I shall be keeping the fish closed up inside their polystyrene box where they will be warm and cosy whilst getting the...

I will be so pleased when everything is completely done with my 53... What with misbehaving filters and a butchered hood needing to be replaced.... Now my first choice Corydora cannot be sent tomorrow due to an issue with them at my supplier. So it will be a batch of Corydora Rabauti...

The filter that refuses to stay in place will be dried and sorted as a spare. The one that died will go back to the retailer. Annoying...absolutely. However I would rather have equipment issues before the fish arrived so that it can be sorted beforehand. The fish are coming with the same...

Fish arrive tomorrow morning for the 53....and one of the filters decided to curl its microchips up overnight. The other one keeps sliding down the glass. I absolutely HATE suction cups! Got another filter coming...also tomorrow....that has magnetic connections instead of suction...

No I only have the one Betta. His tankmate is a BN...Bristlenose, not another Betta

Fred Betta is an adopted hooligan that I took on after his owner became too unwell to keep him 5 months ago (his owner sadly passed away a short time after I received him). Initially he lived in an 8 gallon cube but he now lives in a 29 gallon....I have a homebred BN female living with him...

The filters are now working perfectly and, most importantly, silently Unlike the smaller CF variants, the CF3 is intentionally topless and essentially behaves like a HOB but without being a HOB. Documented flow on the CF3 is said to be 700 lph, more likely to be slightly less in reality, so...

My aquariums are AquaEl (29 gallon) and their subsidiary Diversa (53 gallon) My 53, for example, cost me £289 including stand, hood and lighting with delivery - not to curb but to room of choice. Glass braced, perfectly adequate and very well made. Yes...with Juwel, Fluval etc you get the...

When I saw the state of the brace bars on an aquarium the size of the 450, it was shocking. Especially on an aquarium barely a year old. One alternative at the time was to remove the rim that the braces were attached to (and torn away from) and go to a glazier to have glass bracing made and...

For a while now across a few discussion boards, a problem has been highlighted regarding Juwel brace bars that have come unstuck or torn or twisted. For reasons best known to Juwel the bracing system on the larger aquariums are made of plastic. Basically a plastic bar that is glued from the...

Definitely improving visibility now. Should be all sorted by Thursday when the new residents arrive. Will do a 25% water refreshon Wednesday morning then its just a case of waiting for the residents and a new hood to arrive....I suspect the fish will arrive first.

I am housebound, so they have to come to my home, same as the doctors, groceries etc. No family, so everyone/everything comes to me.