Recent content by GingerDiva

Exactly Taelen, The tank is a dedicated fry tank and any loach would rapidly de-populate it to the stage it was a dedicated loach tank lol As I said I've tried everything, which does include all automatic suggestions of loaches and lettuce leaves (which the bristlenoses eat before the snails...

Hi there, I have a whole load (at least 40) of surprise bristlenose fry (YAY!!) in a tank which has chronic snail issues. I have tried everything (yes, everything) on the snails and all I can do to temporarily rid the tank of them is poison them with Snail Rid or other copper sulfate based...

OK I finally managed to get (crappy but there) pics of a couple of the lyretail fry and 2 of the 3 possible daddies. First the daddies - the first image is either the daddy or grandaddy - he is the father of the second image.... .... and the two babies which weren't completely camera...

thanks for the welcomes! I'm working on getting a few good pics of the tank right now - the little buggers are tough to get a good shot of, they just want to bubble-surf!. Will post images as soon as I have them :)

Hi thominil, yep I saw that thread too - in fact that's the one which brought me to this forum. Unfortunately it doesn't tell me anything apart from 'yes it is possible', 'no it isn't' and 'it may be but there's no evidence'.... I thought I'd start a new thread to see if anyone had further...

Hi there, Just thought I’d introduce myself! I’m Jenna, I’m in New Zealand (so cold here right now, brrrrr) and I have 2 FW tanks running, with 3mollies, a million platies, 3 plecs, a rainbow shark, 2 chain loaches, 3 kuhli loaches (LOVE them!) a flying fox and 2 moonlight gouramis (about to...

I’ve had my 2 tanks running since Christmas, when I put 2 mollies into my small (22.6L/6Gal) tank and one instantly spawned – hence the large(150L/40Gal) tank LOL. So over the months since the tanks were set up, I have been on the steep n00b learning curve of acidity, ammonia, nitrate/ite...