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Beautiful fish. Only ever seen this species once before!

My gibbi. 12" beast of a fish

Gibbicep, loved that fish

Hi all, Recently rescued a bucket full of fish from an infuriating couple that didn't give a s&£t about water quality or feeding or just general care of the poor little buggers. After getting them all back to fighting fitness and rehousing most of them I've decided to keep the pair of...

I'm gonna say pregs, they look pretty boxed. I reckon you got some hybrids on the wat

Hi there, Live the bumblebee cats, they are lovely little fish, but they love hiding and burying themselves in the substrate. I think they'll just be darting to the surface for a lung full of air and overshooting it slightly. Shouldn't be an issue with a lidless tank. I don't think....

Hi, I kept a red eared terrapin for 15 years from approx the same age. While growing they enjoy meaty foods ie mealworms, worms, fish, mine used to eat ham and beef too. As they age they start enjoying their greens more, dandelion, blanched lettuce, courgette, etc. A sun lamp is ideal over the...

Congrats on the babies! Do you have any plants in your tank? Guppy fry will generally grow out on insofuria (think I spelt that wrong), micro algae and biofilm that covers most aquatic plants. They'll take flake and other foods when they are big enough. Hope that helps :p

Don't apologise for that response! The behaviour is fascinating!! I'm going to guess (and I do mean guess, this is purely hyperthetical) that the marble female (shadow was it?) is fighting fit and ready to breed, but in the absence of a partner, is just as happy to brood and protect other pairs...

Merely stating that I'm all for feeder fish if I could get 'em here. Medicated and gut loaded I don't see an issue. And quality community fish is a stretch, you haven't seen some of the stock at my LFS ;)

I've never experienced problems with feeder fish or shrimp, used to feed both to a selection of predators. Even had a pike gourami alive and well for 2+ years on them. Saying that, feeder fish are not really available over here in England. I used to just buy small tetras, mountain minnows...

3-4 silver sharks and a royal panaque plec. Go BIG!!

I was upset tbh, botia loaches have such personality. On a lighter note I popped to my LFS and picked up 2 more yoyo's and they are acclimatised and playing happily with my surviving 2. Happy days! Please no more DFS!!!

+1 dude

Everyone in there would have a nibble at a dead shrimp. Probably the other shrimp the main culprits

It'd be interesting to know if spawning and fry raising behaviours were innate or learned with cichlid species (sorry, including angels, kribs and rams into this) is she still showing this behaviour? Are they a family group? Is the marble related to the mated pair at all?

I'm definitely down to 2 :( I hate disappearing fish syndrome. No show at feeding time over the last 4 days. Absolutely gutted

Aquariums and fish shopping are like tatoos. Once you've got one you gotta get more. I started with brine shrimp in a box when I was 12 and it got heavier, bigger and more expensive from there.

Yeah they do, 3 plus has always been my experience with any subspecies of Cory. Funny little fish when they school too

Possibly be ok, adults are pretty hefty and can defend themselves.

Never seen that before. Viable strain?

Following too, dead curious to know what squirt is!

I always use male guppy to female Molly. Let's just say that male mollies are big lads that do some serious damage to female guppies. I read about this subject many years ago and was generally surprised that so many people hate it so passionately. I personally see it as no different to parrot...

I've always found that a 20-30% water change with cooler water trickled into the tank (as opposed to just poured in) helps to stimulate many different species to spawn. Makes most of the livebearers pop too. As already said though, diet is the key to spawning success. Happy well conditioned fish...

First tank at 16 years old + LFS advice = a hell of a lot of dead, dying and monstrously aggressive fish. Nuff said