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I'm thinking of converting my gravel substrate in my 29g to sand. Given that the tank is established now, I'm wondering how to go about this. The easiest thing I can think of would be to add a 1/2" layer of sand on top of the existing gravel. Would I be able to do this without removing the...

Christy, If your Tiger Barbs are anything like mine, they always seem ravenous. Try feeding them twice a day

Pets at Home guarantee them for 7 days, but you have to produce a corpse to claim your replacement fish. Last time I had one die the night I got it I just didn't have the heart to cart the body back to the pet shop!

Pets at Home is my nearest, however I don't use them for fish, just filter spares & food. They have way too many dead fish in the tanks for my liking & the fish never seem that lively. I get my fish from a little place outside Sheffield. It's a place called Mastin Moor, the kind of village...

I have 7 of them. Like I said, it's only a recent thing ... perhaps a passing phase?

I've had my Tiger Barbs for a couple of months now & they have until recently been pretty harmless - chasing each other about a bit, but not really bothering the other fish (2 Corys, 2 Yo Yo loaches and 1 Oto) The last week or so I've caught them bullying my Corys - their fins are quite...

I have 7 Tiger Barbs and have noticed some strange behaviour of an evening. They regularly chase each other round the tank, when this happens, their fins become really erect and red. There's one Barb in particular (I'm pretty sure it's the same one each time) which seems to turn almost...

Mine's a Fluval 2 plus. It has a little canister which you pull out of the main filter casing. When you've got this out, it splits open into 2 halves. The foam inserts should be placed flat on either half (there should be some little tabs which hold them in. You then put the carbon & polyester...

Scares the life out of me when I go to aquatics online & the strange man starts talking to me!!!

Take a look at a few of these threads, they might help. http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=2086&highlight= http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=1606 http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=671 You tend to find everybody has different tastes & there are so many fish...

That's a really terrible thing to do ... shame on the monster who left them there. Good luck to the comet!

Good stuff! As you've probably gathered from the link, he's a Corydoras Aeneus - same as mine, but the colourless version! My advice would be to get him some pals ... besides being good scavengers, they're a really fun and entertaining fish to watch. They're really hardy and dead easy to breed...

Does he look like one of these fellas? http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/cory-aen.htm

Are you talking about an albino Cory cat? When I got my first pair of Bronze Corys, they were manic for the first week or so - they just swam up and down the glass repeatedly. They eventually chilled out ... give him time to settle in. One thing about Corys is they're better in groups. I'm down...

Yeah, Sheffield. It's well worth it ... only £6 to get in. Probably getting on for 4 hours drive from London ... bit far for a day out I guess.