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I am wondering if anyone can help me explain the sudden arrival of something which I can only describe as a 'bubble nest' in my tank. I have a 3ft bow fronted tank which has been up and running for around a year, the water PH, Nitrate, Nitrite and Kh are all perfect and I use living plants...

I am wondering how often do you reccomened I change the strip lighting for my tanks? My show tank is currently a Rio 125, I have had it for a year and a half, none of the lights have gone but I have heard that it is best to change the bulbs every year as the light becomes less bright with time...

Hi everyone. I have not been too happy over the last couple of days, I found my Prize Dragon Goby dead two days ago. :( At feeding times the day before he was not around so I kept 'sneaking into' the fish room (even though he has always charged to the front of the tank to show off when I...

As you may oif read in my other breeding thread my Peppered Corydoras have just had eggs. I went in to the 'fish room' to clean the other tanks this afternoon and found yet more eggs have been layed, this time they have laid some on the heater. I am wondering if the eggs on there will be, well...

Well the last 24 hours have certainly been eventfull in my 3ft tank. I currently have 6 Peppered Corydoras in there, of which three are BIG females (luckily I moved out the other fish only ours before.) Going in the room yesterday I came upon alot of activity, being shy fish they stopped when I...

I recently aquired some Killifish at a local aquarium auction, I knew they were relitivly easy to keep but decided to have a look at what food and living conditions were reccomended online as I do with all new fish I purchase. In my browsing I came across a wonderful site which reccomended a...

My next project for breeding is my killis. I have not had them long but from the second they became accustomend to thier new tank they began to 'flirt.' Chasing each other and swimming side by side amorously, almost like they were one fish. So now I am looking for first hand advice on what is...

I have just bought two Senegal Birchers to go in my large bow fronted tank. I have been looking at these beautiful fish for awhile, not only as show fish but to keep my populations of White Clouds and Cherry Barbs down. Anyone know if they are good at doing this? They are in a tank with my...

I have been away for a couple of weeks and I left my tanks in charge of a friend, I just asked her to come and feed them once a day as I find some of my fish are far too greedy to be left with a 7 day feeder, plus my dragon gobys love thier live food. My problem is I have come back to my main...

Over the last few months my show tank has started getting awful ugly hair algae growing everywhere. I have tried removing it but it keeps coming back. Sometimes sprouting practically overnight. Although I do love fishkeeping I just dont have time to clean the glass everyday, plus I have aglae...

Me and my partner got £50 in vouchers for the local fish shop for christmas... Any ides on what to get? Reccomendations for fish would be appreciated too. We have a rio 125 and three other tropical tanks.

Has anyone here had any experience of breeding Harliquin Rasboras? If so advice and tips would be greatly appreciated as I am hoping to breed my rasboras. They are in the breeding tank, they have been there for over a week now and I have tried my usual routine with them to no avail. They have...

Its nearly christmas! Im 21 now so the festive season has lost most of its appeal, it is so great when you are young but when you get older you realise that xmas has just lost most of its meaning and its all about the presents. The worst thing about it is the expence! Is it me or does it get...

Heya everyone, I have one problem fish he is a sucking loach about 3 1/2 inches long. Basicly he is a bully. He lives in my Rio 125 with quite a few other fish (cardinal tetras, khuli loaches, corydoras, harliquins, white cloud maountain minnows) and he is aggresive towards all the fish, even...

This thread is dedicated to all things that annoy you. Just a place to vent your frustrations in life..... Here are one or two of mine. :P 1. People who push in front of you in the queue. 2. The 'justice' system. 3. My car, its too expensive to run!

I really do love my aqaurium planted. I have worked very hard getting the plants to grow well, and now it is booming, I have to do gardening (taking out plants which have gotten 2 big enabling littler ones to grow, trimming etc) round about every month now. However I also like to keep Dwarf...

I know this is going to sound like I am stupid but what are kudos? What are they used for? :oops:

Today I was just on my usual rounds feeding the fish in the tanks in my 'fish room' as I call it, there being so many tanks in there. I got round to my large bow fronted tank which has my dragon gobys, some of the best white clouds which I have bred and cherry barbs. I was just about to feed...

Well my Dwarf Gouramis must be ready to mate! The male, (whom I have nicknamed 'big yin' as he looks very unhappy all the time :lol: ) is starting to build a bubble nest. He has tried before, rather unsuccesfully, his nest always seems to drift apart and wont stay still. I was just wondering...

Hi I was just wondering if anyone out there has keeps dragon gobys. I keep a few and have not had them for long and recently thier behaviour has changed, they have become far more active swimming all around the tank, taking big gulps of air, quite erraticly. They only do this at night and stay...

Hi my name is kylie, im 21 and a bit of a fishkeeping fanatic. I started out with 1 tank ( a rio 125) just over a year ago and have ammassed another five in the meantime! They dominate my spare room! My other interests include reading Fantasy books, I am an artist (I mainly paint dragons) and...

[/b] Guess what we sold our first fish the other day 40 white cloud mountain minnows! I do think we got kinda screwed though, only 15p a fish... Yet I am still very proud, the first step to ruling the fish breeding market! My personal evil empire! :D We decided to take our profit in fishfood...

What type of music are you into? I admit to having very varied tastes from heavy metal (no nu metal), rock, 80's.... and even a spot of new age music in there!

I have recently bred my Peppered Corydoras and was pleased with a large batch of about 90 eggs spread across the walls of the tank. However a few days later they got covered in fungus and I lost most of the fry except for 12, 11 of which have survived. I am in need of some advice on how to keep...

How do I change my avatar? I just cannot seem to find how to do this anywhere. Thanks. :D