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So Nubs (male bristlenose) hadn't come out of his cave in at least 5 days. I've seen his face poking out, but that's it. He lives with Jeff (big fat female) and 3 little young ones. I'm hoping it's because he's guarding a nest. If he is, how long until the babies start coming out of the cave...

My honey gourami seem to be spawning easily, the female is pestering the male until he complies... But nothing's hatching. :-( After spawning the male is great and tends the best well, but by the next day the eggs are scattered everywhere and have turned white. Few if any hatch. The first spawn...

What are their favourites? I mostly give mine courgette (zucchini), but last night I gave them butternut squash or pumpkin. Now my water is all coudy...:-/

How soon after spawning can honey gourami spawn again? Last week they spawned in my breeding tank, but there have only been 3-4 survivors.. The male and female are back in the community tank, but he's still all black in his throat and she keeps trying to get him to spawn, they've even done the...

Hi there, I just got a new tank 15gallons or 56litres. Are there any cichlids that would be ok in a tank this size?

So yesterday there was romance, my gourami spawned. I removed the female last night and then removed the male today. Floating in the best are eggs, but they are looking sort of furry and cloudy... Am I right to assume that they are no good. The last time my other pair spawned I had wrigglers...

Eeeep! There's romance in the Honey gourami tank! They seem to be spawning, but at this stage in not sure he's squeezing her right. Can't see any eggs yet. I'm so excited! I didn't expect things to happen so quick, only got them on Tuesday. Ooooh she's just released eggs!!

Yesterday I went to my LFS to get another make honey gourami. They happened to have a pair that had been returned along with s bunch of other fish as the owner had decided not to keep fish anymore. I thought that being a pair together already, that they would be good together. I've put them in...

Just realised that my new fish is missing fins! There should be fins where those nubs are right?!

My lovely mumma danio is poorly. She's gasping, and looking like a pinecone. I checked the parameters, ammonia was up to 0.25-0.5 so I did a 50% water change and gave it a good gravel vac. Is there anything I can do for her? I have her separated now in a container within the tank, but I...

Soooo, I got me a new Mrs Gourami. I'm told she is a red variant of the honey gourami (Trichogaster chuna) Popped her in the tank yesterday and she seemed fine. Today she is frantically swimming back and forth at the back of the tank. No one is near her, in fact the boys are timid and are hiding...

Not the best picture, but this neon had a strange pale patch, almost a thickening on the base of his tail. It's still eating etc, but a bit quiet. Saveable? Or time for euthanasia?

This is Jeff. He/she is well over a year old, about 4 inches long. Can anyone tell me if he really is a Jeff or is he Jeffalina?

My poor Mrs Gourami has just up and died, no apparent reason, everyone else is happy. she was fine yesterday, so I'm not sure what's happened. Anyway, I'm now left with two males. They've always got on fine with just the one female, but do you think now that there's no women around that they...

I have 2 six week old honey gourami fry left. Last week there were 4, but two have disappeared. One is swimming nose down, tail up and sort of spinning. Then it comes right and swims normally for a bit, but when it stops moving, it's tail seems to tip up again... Tank parameters are great, temp...

5 weeks ago I set up a 15 gallon tank to breed my honey gourami's. It was very successful with loads of babies. I went away when they were 2 weeks old and just asked my neighbour to feed them and nothing else as I know they are sensitive to air temp changes and water etc.. The tank is cling...

So my gourami fry are about 2 weeks old, tank is wrapped in plastic, has a doing filter going and a heater. There's no substrate on the bottom, but I'm wondering if I should clean it, or how to go about water changes without upsetting them or the air temp. I'm worried I will vacuume up the...

He/she is about 4-5 inches long, very fat abdomen and only tiny tiny bristles. Like 1-2mm long. Could it be that Jeff, is actually jeffette? I've tried to get pics, but he/she is shy.

So my cory with the fungal patches seems better, kind of. One of his fins on the bottom went red and is now a bit tatty, the fun on the other side is now red, but he seems happy otherwise. My other cory however has a very hairy white spot on her side, and her tail is really tatty, almost melted...

What's wrong with Bazza? PH 7.2 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 40 He's currently having treatment for a fluffy white fungus on his side, but today I've found him like this! Sorry my photos are rubbish, he's a shy fella...:-(

My dwarf gourami's spawned on Tuesday, fry hatched yesterday and today they are starting to move about. At the moment the male is still collecting them and putting them back at the top, but they just keep on slipping past him. How will I know when to move him out? I'd like to do it before it's...

My two bronze corydoras have suddenly gotten white fluffy patches on their sides. I've had one for nearly a year and the other for about 6mths. Both have been happy in my heavily planted tank, plenty of food etc. is it a fungus? It's nearly impossible to catch them in my tank and it's so...

In my breeding tank I have a male and female honey dwarf gourami. The female seems to be showing aggressive behaviour toward the male. He kindly built a nest and is trying to entice her, but she is bullying him. Chases him, pushes him and lays on him. She has bred before, but because I have...

So after the last of my gourami fry disappeared yesterday at about 7 weeks old, I've emptied the tank, removed everything and started from scratch. Bare bottom, heater, filter (turned off), some potted plants and a cave for Mrs to hide in if she chooses. Put them in last night and Mr has...

have just discovered that my zebra danio fry tank is 94 degrees! Is on the windowsill in the sunshine. This is far too hot isn't it? Think I should move them in with my gourami fry... Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice