Recent content by dizzy1968

Hi, A bristlenose should be fine, they only grow to about 6", just make sure you have bog wood for it, make sure the algae tablets has sptralina in them, also they like cougette and blanched peas but take shells of peas first:)

Hi All A couple of nights ago I noticed my male cherry barb swimming frantically all around the tank then landed on a leaf and sat there breathing heavy, I went over to look at him and noticed his eyes looked a little bulging, but doesn't look like pop eye? he has done this frantic swimming a...

I don't blanch the courgette either, but yes you need to blanch and skin peas, my babies love them.

newbie from england Hello to all, I have just joined this site,i have been keeping tropical fish for just over a year now, i have a 500lt tank, 200lt tank and a 180lt tank. :)

hi, I have a male and female bristle nose Plecos in my 180lt tank, a male albeano bristle nose in my 500lt tank, and 150 bristle nose babys in my 200lt tank, they all have a varied diet, i give them algae tables with spiralina in them,courgette, peas, peas must be blanched and skin taken off...

Hi, just wanted to say, its a shame you live that far away, i have just brought a tank off a friend which has a bristl-nose and a pleco, anyway about a month ago they gave me approx 60 babies, which iv had to go and get a 30lt tank all eating me out of house and home greedy little buggers lol...

p.s forgot to add, have more babies on the way, iv got to spilt them 2 up its no good ill be running alive with babies, although i have just been to my lfs and they have said they would buy the babies off of me.:fish2: dizzy:)

hi, hope you don't mind but i have a little story id like to share, iv just brought a tank from a friend a couple of months ago, it has 1 bristle-nose and 1 pleco amongst other fish, both lived together in a cave with 2 clown loaches. Anyway we decided to change tank and add bog wood, live...

Total agree with what you have said, i don't scrimp on anything when it comes to my animals, id rather go without myself lol, thanks for chat and advice look forward to the next chat, hopefully with better news, like the arrival of my baby bristlenose/ plecos. dizzy from the uk:fish2:

The white stuff did look like a tuft only in 1 area, and it looked like it was sitting just under a some scales, i also read its coursed by a secondary infection, i.e. it could have been a wound and become infected, there was no red marks just what looked like 1 white tuft of cottony growth its...

ps mumma.of.two forgot to say last night i noticed that she seemed to be moving quicker but staying still if this makes sense, i looked this up and it said that if they move quickly but not going anywhere this is stress, i looked at the temperature and it was 26 but we also made sure she had...

Hi Mumma.of.two Thank you for replying when i was looking up to find out what might be wrong with her, columnaris came up quite a lot, she didn't seem to have the symptoms, which i cant remember what they said they were now, it looked more like fungus???, so i did the complete opposite, oh dear...

Hi A couple of days ago i wrote for advice on treating my molly with aquarium salt, i had researched about it and seemed like the best thing to do, 1, because it wouldn't harm the molly as they quite like slightly salty water, 2, salt can heal. I wasn't quiet sure how often i add salt, how...

thank you red sea :):)

hi kara. i have just brought a fully stoked tank from friend, a couple of days ago i found that one of the fish a large molly looks like it has fungus growing on its back, anyway after doing a lot of reading, i have gone out and brought a 14lt nursing tank to put the molly in, some aquarium...