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I mainly fed them on Hikari first bites and a crushed golden pearl food but I stopped breeding them almost a year ago so I can't remember where I picked that up from, seemed to do them good though. I also used to put in crushed peas now and again.

I used to breed them in a hi-tech planted set-up with lots of Blyxa. I didn't do anything particularly different for them in there I had about 30 in a 180 litre with Amano shrimp. They would constantly be driving each other through the mounds of blyxa and I would just syphon off water after...

Have to admit my wife wants discus too, just in the process of moving to Cumbria where the water (much to my surprise) seems to be much softer than that up in the North of Scotland so HMA filter it will be for me too.

My experience with them so far is that any heavily planted tank sees them very happy indeed. If you get them used to seeing you in front of the tank they will eventually start to come out while you're there. As for breeding, I started with them using minimal CO2 and adding no NO3 or PO4. No3...

I ripped out a load of rocks from my Mbuna tank a few weeks ago and wondered what that was wriggling about on the floor where the rocks were. Turns out I had several fry probably smaller than you are describing which had climbed aboard the rocks. I scooped them up (after they had been out the...

As with above, I've had juveniles in with plants that have left them alone but they were provided with fresh greens daily. I've got a couple in tanks with some "gash" plants and they have been munching away on them. Wide leaf plants can be targets for most plecos too.

Yes, both guppies and WCMM will breed, I have had to introduce a second species of fish to tanks containing WCMMs to keep the numbers down.

It's been a regular subject in PFK magazine over the last couple of years. They just seem to be riddled with defects and parasites (think it's Iridovirus that's the one). Althought they do look great, I'll never buy another dwarf gourami of any variety again. I had the same luck, with the...

My son had 6 of these, they ripped apart his 6 Tiger barbs and his Cories and I had to separate them after a couple of swift deaths. 3 years on and 1 met with a grisly death but the other 5 are constantly harrassing each other around the tank. I have found that Danios are also good in with...

Just come across your post at the CPD forum Clark. Have to say, you are intending on these little guys occupying your 180, yes? If it doesn't work out with the separate spawning tank, then let them into the main tank and watch the areas that they spawn at, then just vac that area and put the...

LOL, they are hard to spot - about 1mm across and clear. They are also not sticky either. Best thing is to watch for them pairing up and starting to shimmy with each other, good chance you'll have some after that. First time I realised I had had some action was when I saw around 20 fry free...

I'm at a loss mate, must admit I have equal numbers, but I just leave them all alone in my main tank and although it is a laborious task I watch out for fry and eggs at water change time. I vac the main spawning areas and am rewarded with fry every week, I can't bear to let a fish die so like...

I pull out about 20-30 fry each week, got 2 dozen adults in a 180l and do nothing special other than keep the tank going. They do love plenty of cover though and when I trim an area of the tank that's where they go to spawn although they also love the PH and the blyxa in there...

Hope it all goes well for you, have to admit I swapped my last batch of fry for 3 x 6" clown loaches - I can't stop mine breeding in the main tank. So yes they are easy to breed.

I have bred these and will probably get back to it in the New year. As said above you can switch a couple of fish to a tank with plant cover and then remove then after you see spawning action - the male will drive a female into a spawn area (I found mine loved Blyxa after I added it to their...

The thing is - there is plenty of food in a filter to keep them going, I know plenty of people that chamge out filter sponges to feed fry on. I've recently opened up a filter and found WCMM fry that are almost fully grown & cherry shrimp that have grown in there too.

Due to having MTS I keep SA Cichlids, African Cichlids and a host of other fish as well as running 2 CO2 injected planted so Dry foods: Tetra ProColour & Veg, Prima, Doromin Hikari Gold & Veg, Algae wafers, sinking cat wafers & pellets, microwafers, microgranules, firstbites New Life Spectrum...

I think my best shoal is a mix of Cardinals with green neons & a pair of Apisto Cactouides to keep them on their toes. As for CPDs (AKA Galaxy) they don't shoal & are highly territorial (males), however, I have a tank set up for them and they are almost as entertaining as dwarf cichlids. They...