It could be argued that wild caught fish are actually better for the hobby. If people are catching fish for the aquarium industry, they will need to take a keen interest in their environment around them in order to maintain their livelyhood. If they are forced to seek employment elsewhere it is ...

Sorry about the time taken to reply, thank you for your advice, it has given me a few different things to think about.
Thanks
Gordon

Hi, I was wondering was wondering if if there were any Icthyologists on this forum who could tell me how they how they trained to do the jobs they do and what thoses jobs actually entail. I have already studied for a degree Ba(hons)Fine Art, Unfortunatly I have no real biology qualifications, The ...

How So? I am just curious not trying to start a flame war, pm if you want.

If feeding you plecs dont used wood from coniferous trees like pine it has a mildley poisonous resin also avoid woods like yew and laburnum they are also poisonous. those palm hearts look like they might be worth a shot though, on a side note any one else noticed that since keeping catfish the ...

when you next go back to your local have a good look at their plecs. Have a look at their eyes do they look sunken? almost if the fish is wearing a helmet that is to large? if so there is a good chance it is undernourished. similarley try and look at the fishes belly and check if its looking hollow ...

I have to agree thant melefix is great stuff, nice antibacterial without being to hard on the fish. Thats an amazing recovery there, Louie is lucky to have such a caring owner.

I dont think that the white stuff on you tank will be Ich, I've never seen it form colonies on the glass surface before. If I had bought the filter from a retailer and the media had mold I would have retured it to them and found a replacement, although I don't know what American returns policies are ...

Its quite normal for many plecs to be shy especially when they have not been in the tank a long time, he may grown used to you in time. I often have trouble keeping my plecs off one of my sword plants, you could try giving your fish lots fresh vegetables for example courgette, cucumber, yams etc. I ...

I've made a few slate caves before. one thing I would recommend is to use roofing slate rather than floor tiles as the thickness of roof tiles seems to be far more consistent. This makes assembling the caves far more straight forward. Oase make a product called "edmp-fix" which you use in a mastic ...

I have used the hagen mini master kit, which has tests for ammonia, nitrate, nitrite and pH. it seems fairly consistent but one thing to make sure of is that the test tubes are well rinsed other wise you can get worrying results pH of 14 for example! I have also used the Tetra test sticks, they test ...

IT might be worth having a read of this, it discusses several forms of Euthanasia and and the various factors involved in each.

http://www.lal.org.uk/pdffiles/LA2.pdf

I don't think you can dim tubes, I was assuming that Kostas was going to have several tubes and switch them off and on in sequence to imitate and dusk, dawn period.

lol Well i thought it was funny.

I have only ever used one once at the MSI building at Dundee University all I can say the results are amazing. This was about two years ago for an art project I was doing at Duncan of Jordanstone. I'm am not trained to use them but they seem very easy to get to grips with. Though from what I can ...

I think ill give this technique a go on a small scale, I've got a pretty large capacity filter on the tanks but I'll keep an eye on the water quality anyway. I 'll keep you updated on how it all turns out. The fish today still seem active and they aren't jumpy at all the whole thing seems very ...

I know these fish grow large, the tanks are not standard proportions though they are approx 2x2x1 feet and there are two catfish in each of these tanks and no other types of fish total volume of system is about 250 litres. At present the fish are roughly 4cm long standard length, and will only be in ...

I have a total of 4 rusty plecs (L-077) split between two 100 litre tanks. the filtration system is common to the two tanks. In one of the tanks the fish are healthy and active, but in the other tank the fish look under nourished. both tanks have been recieving the same quantity and type of feeds ...

Thanks for your advice, My ttanks not exactly massive so I think I'll just stick to my syphon and bucket technique at the moment. I personally feel more comfortable dechlorinating and heating new water before it enters the tank. Though I can see the benifits of the python system in larger setups ...

I've seen these advertised in magazines but I was wondering one thing. If you use the tool to refill your tanks how do you get around the problems of temperature difference and chlorination of the tap water? or am I missing something?

Carnoustie Scotland is where im from

Charley Eons right. Take up motorbike ridding and any problems associated with keeping fish pales into insignificance!

I ve got some uside downs, mine have split in to ywo groups. one group spends its time in and around the power head and the other spends its time it a buch of floating plants. Because of the currents in the tank these plants have formed a ball and are continuley rotating the fish spend all there ...

use the box marked "bb" on the hosting page, like this


strangly its still only putting a thumbnail up im not sure why thats happening

Ive had simililar with snails, I once emptied the tank and gave it a heroic dose of pottasium permagninate and some survived after being in that water for a week! This piece of wood that you have have you tried scubbing it with a wire brush or similar? Ive just had an idea, do you have a spare tank ...

You presumably mean 15-20 ppt

yes I do

I've just noticed another mistake.
My sentence on sexing shrimp isn't very clear. On male shrimp the first pair of walking legs are larger.

I am going to have to learn how to type!

As far as know the singapore shrimp (Atyopsis moluccensis)has not been bred in captivity, all are coaught from the wild.

Many fresh water shrimp will lay eggs even if there are no males present. To sex the shrimp look at the first pair of walking legs are much larger. On the female the carapace ...

Similar thing happened to me, although my main problem was she wanted to eat my fish! my shrimps in particular... obviously I wasnt going to let that happen although I am slighly nervous when she nears the tank. Then she annouced she wanted a dog, I personlly cant stand them, but we discussed it and ...

Cool the banjos are great, I used to have some never ever saw them worse than my khulli loach, still great fish when you do see them

Ive never actually tried photographing glass cats before. What you could try is putting your camera on a tripod or a something like a sturdy chair with a bucket on top often works, if possible use the self timer so your finger movements don't blur the image. Turn the flash off. Your next problem is ...