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No problem :) just keep an eye on the 3rd female when you get the boys. She could get bullied by the two pairs.

Hi. They all look like girls to me. I would personally swap it about so that you have 2 males and 2 females in the tank and let them work out if they are going to pair up or not. You will need to have a lot of plants, ornaments and several caves in the tank so that they can work out their...

They go fine together in my experience. I've had no issues with my discus and angels.

bgk and angels go fine together so no worries :) only thing to keep in mind is the full grown size of a bgk. Anything from 30 to 50 cm.

It is one of the ways to sex angels. I can't see the shape well enough to tell you which sex they are but a female will have a blunt ended projection and a male will have a sharper more pencil shaped one. Females lay their eggs from here and males fertilise from it :) females can show it for a...

Yep. That will do the trick. Some will say the temp that it will hear to on the top with the dial and some will have it on the tube itself. Just set that to the desires temp and watch the thermometer. It may not go to the exact temp so you may need to fine tune it a little but not much.

You could take them off the snail with a sharp knife or razor blade. Just be really careful. They then need to be placed in a tank with plenty of water flow around them to cut down the chance of them going mouldy/getting a fungus. Usually you can put an air stone below to get the flow high.

Angels and rams temperaments are fine together, but their temp needs are different. Gbr's need the tank to be hotter at about 30 degrees c, and at that temp angels will grow rapidly and die a lot younger, and I wouldn't keep angels with neons either. As the angels get bigger they will probably...

Hi. I can't see any pics either I'm afraid

It's actually the surface agitation that you need to get oxygen into the water. Bubbles themselves don't add oxygen. I'd look at your filter outlet first. If you can raise that to create more movement on the surface then that should get the gas exchange up and add more oxygen to the water. If...

Hiya. If you've had no fish in the tank and haven't been adding flakes for the last 2 weeks then I'm afraid your bb is definitely gone and you will need to recycle. The nitrate reading will be what was left in the tank from your last fish. :(

I agree with t1karman that lobsters and fish don't tend to mix well in an aquarium. You tend to come down one morning to shredded fish. And the fancy tail definitely wants to go into a seperate cold water tank or take it back to the lfs, and get a heater in ASAP.

The plant in pic 2 looks like it could be a bacopa. Pic 1 is java fern and pic 4 is an amazon sword and the fish are bronze and pepper Cory's. :)

I agree with rivers personally. I really couldn't decide between new world and dwarf. I love both groups.

Hi. Sorry to go back to the beginning but from reading your original couple of posts it sounds like you thought that all of you filter cartridges were carbon, and you said that you changed all of your carbon filters every month......... If I am reading that right then you have been changing all...

They both look like standard female bristlenoses. If they were male they'd be showing the starts of bristles by now if you've had them a year. Also, commons grow really quickly. They'll get to about 5-6 inches long and can live for about 15 years.

What are your parameters, what other fish are in the tank and how long has it been set up? The more we know the better we can help :)

Even on that small a tank you need a filter of some kind going to keep ammonia down. In fact it's even more important as it doesn't take long in that size tank for ammonia to build up to lethal levels. The cloudiness of the water is a bacterial bloom caused by bacteria consuming the ammonia. In...

A bristlenose would almost certainly eat baby shrimp if it got the chance I'm afraid. And as for when he would start it depends on tank size and how many babies etc. he'd probably try from about an inch or so in length, but it would be possible for him to try sooner.

No problem :)

As long as your filter is creating plenty of surface movement there should be plenty of gas exchange going on, oxygenating the water. It's the surface movement that puts oxygen in the water not bubbles. If your filter isn't creating surface movement and you can't move it so that it is then an...

Rams are great little fish. Personally I prefer the Germans and electric blues over golden and Bolivians. The electric blues at the moment are still a little more expensive here in the uk but the prices are always coming down as they get easier to find.

With regard to angels the neons will be your limiting factor not the cherrys. Cherry barbs are pretty much the most peaceful barbs you can get and don't fin nip at all, but as the angels grow you will find the number of neons will drop literally overnight. You won't see the angels go for the...

Yes ideally you want to add them all together if possible. You could do it in smaller groups but it would mean taking the established fish out and rearranging the tank before adding the old and new groups back in at the same time, and this is not guaranteed to fool them. A bristlenose will...

The average full grown size of an oscar is 12 inches but they can get as large as 15 inches. Bala sharks definately need to be in groups of 5 to keep their nervousness down but even then they are skittish and jump. You need to make sure the lid on their tank is pretty much nailed down as most...