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If your putting sand in an empty tank, put a small plate or bowl on the sand and aim the water at that and you'll get little to no clouding. Did it in all my tanks and it works a treat.

To be fair to the OP, he posted this on page 11 Have to say though, I don't think I'll be giving this a shot anytime soon.

Try rainbowfish.angfaqld.org.au, they have pictures of most species on there. I had a quick look but from the pictures it could have been 2 or 3 different ones. Edit: Seems the problem is solved :D Editing my edit: That looks more like Melanotaenia parkinsoni than fluviatilis to me...

Got my Brevis today yay! Managed to get 1 established pair and the other 2 are possibly already paired. Just waiting for them to come out of hiding so I can try and get a pic :)

Road triiiipppp!!!!! :D

Looks to me like a punk (Neolamprologus caudopunctatus)

Looks like it might be a red tailed tin foil (I'm assuming it's a juvie). Is there a chance you might get a better picture?

To be honest I can't seem to find any hard and fast rule as far as salinity for the shrimplets goes. I've seen reports of some successes at a fairly low level and others who had to go to full marine. I reckon that if I raise the level after each failed attempt, I should hit paydirt at some point...

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw this video was an under-developed swim bladder. My reasoning behind this is oddly the SAE (Crossocheilus siamensis) which has a very under-developed/non existent swim bladder and must be in constant motion otherwise it sinks. To be fair, this is...

Shhhhhhh.......no one else noticed lol I wouldn't mind but I corrected 3 other typos :facepalm:

It sort of like a British version of "Viola!" . The whole "two nations separated by a common language" thing is one of the things I like most about this forum, terminology and my personal favourite is when the same word means two completely different things :D Back to the matter in hand though...

I have 4 in mine, however I bought them because they were fun, not to clean my tank (which has never really had a lot of algae as it goes), but Lynda is right, you shouldn't really buy livestock to fix the problem. If you have algae there is a reason and that should be addressed first. In the...

Well the first attempt (and the second) were a washout :( Now on attempt number 3 and this time I've upped the salinity from 1.005 to 1.007. Fingers crossed.

+1 on the Amano Shrimp. I have some in my 10g and they keep on top of it pretty well. I moved one a few weeks ago (she was carrying eggs) into my empty 5g that had been newly planted and had a pretty impressive bloom of algae and she nommed the lot, the tank was spotless after a couple of days...

Sad times :( I love my DP and would be really sad if he went.

Cools, a handful of water lettuce will certainly find it's way in there. Also it turns out that water lettuce is pretty native to that area (well Nile and Lake Victoria) so I could call it a biotope of sorts :D Going back to the lfs tomorrow to get some more rock, I'm thinking that the look...

Hi and welcome fellow Limey :D You'll find some excellent help and advice from the friendly bods on here.

Oh and one more thing, whilst I don't want to plant this tank (because of the whole digging up thing which I know will annoy me and also this will be my only non-planted tank, the others have loads) would these guys appreciate floating plants or do they prefer just open water? I have a ton of...

Yipes! Scratch that as clearly a bad idea :) I went back to the lfs today to have another look at the Brevis and this time I clocked the price tag, £16 ($25) per fish! So 2 pairs it is, lol. Set up the tank today so just waiting for the ph to stabilise and I should be good to get some of these...

Suddenly realised that I probably should have put this in the cichlid section. Please could a friendly neighbourhood mod move it please?

Ok, I have a 55l (about 15usg measures 24"x 12"x 12") and after much searching and researching decided that I would like to put in some shellies (my water is pretty darned hard so they seemed an ideal choice). So, to date I have: sand for the substrate, some rocks, a truck load of shells (apple...

Booooo. I live not far away either, just outside Oxford. I can concur with Maidenhead Aquatics. I've not been to the Newbury one but I have been to both the ones in Oxford, the one in Wendover and the one near Milton Keynes and they've all been excellent. I can also recommend Coxwell Aquatics...

My kutubus showed what I thought was fungus on their lower lip. After some interwebbing and a chat with the breeder I discovered that it was just from a bit of scrapping. Take care of your water and it should all be fine. As had been said, it is definatly all worth it when you see that amazing...

Boo back to the search for shellies it is then. Well until I can get a green light from the old fart to get another big tank. Thanks for your help, much appreciated

Grr I had a feeling that that might be the case. This makes me a bit sad. Is it possible that a single pair or 1m and 2/3f could be kept in the 105l as long as move the holding female/s into a seperate tank? From what I have read the males only really get narky with unresponsive/holding females...