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Well I have had the firemouths for over 2 months now with no aggression to any of the others in the tank. The only one the bigger male chases is the smaller firemouth, but he just chases it into the plants and then goes away. The other one just watches and comes back out as soon as he has gone...

S'ok I know the tank will be too small in future, but I have a biggie in the loft that I can get up and running when they start to out grow the present one. The firemouths are only babies at the moment, about 3-4 inches. My current combination is working well, I was just wondering what else...

I currently have a 20 gallon planted tank (8 plants incl. 2 floating) stocked with a 4 inch silver shark, four cherry barbs and two firemouths. There are also 4 platys which I plan to move to another tank soon. When I do, what else could I get which would stand up to the firemouths (they are...

No, it is definate nibbling, the plants are all very healthy and relatively new. both the barbs and shark are at them, usually overnight is the worst. They are getting a good quality tropical flake food, they are keen to eat but usually dont finish it all at once, I am wary of increasing the...

I've searched the forum for a thread which might give me the info, but so far haven't found any. My plants are getting nibbled big time, especially the wheat grass. Is this because the fish are hungry? They get a small pinch once a day, should I be feeding them more, or or do they just like to...

Ok, thanks for the advice, I will be monitoring the tank closely for a good while to give my little guys the best chance of survival. Weird, but I am quite attached to them already.

I dont know about my customers tank, I assumed she has had it set up for a while, but I might be wrong. All the males from this 'batch' seem to be fine so far. My tank has been set up for about a month, I let it run for 2 1/2 weeks with filter running, a pinch of food and four large plants as...

ok, so I now have three cherry barb males. They are doing great and are very active. They are getting on great with the shark, they follow him quite a bit but he just ignores them. I think they make him feel safe. I plan just to leave it at this for a few weeks until I am sure they are all...

well the shop said they can swap the tigers for cherry barb, would this be better?? I've seen their tanks and they do have some lovely healthy looking ones in stock. They can't get gold barbs (or I think in reality are not convinced gold barbs and golden tigers are different things!) I don't...

Well after carefully setting up my 20 gallon tank, filter, heater (set at 22 deg. ) and plants etc and letting it run for a couple of weeks I decided it was ok to get my first fish. After HOURS of research on the web, I thought I would get a shoal of gold barbs, let them settle in for a couple...

Hello, I am new to all of this, I had the usual short-lived fairly neglected goldfish as a child but we recently aquired a 20 gallon tank so have decided it would be nice to set up an aquarium. I own an animal care business so also thought it would be good to get more knowlage and experience of...