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I just JBL's nedol its a broad spectrum wormer using Benzimidazole seems to do the job http://www.jbl.de/en/aquatics-freshwate ... /jbl-nedol

give it a few days to settle down and balance out perhaps do quite a large water change and it'll all be fine again.

you're switching your filter off for 6 hours a night? I'm surprised the tank isn't completely dead! over night with no fresh oxygen flowing through it all the blahblahblahblah in the filter and the bacteria is dying and rotting so when you turn your filter back on the first thing that comes out of it is 99%...

tetras will fin nip guppies so guppies probably hiding for safety could also be low oxygenation

if its only occcasional then its probably just his thing (I have a yoyo loach that does the same occasionally) if its more often/regular then it could be ich/itch (can never decide how to spell it :) )

Re: Are there any Dwarf Cichlids suitable with Cherry shrimp mine too but she usually just ends up eating her own tail

Re: Are there any Dwarf Cichlids suitable with Cherry shrimp in nature everything is food for everything else. humans are the only species (so far :) ) to take themselves out of the natural order of things and artifically put themselves at the top of the food chain

6+ seems to be the magic point

bn's are just fine with tiger barbs as are pretty much any plec. I'm surprised you list otto's as not mixing they should mix fine tiger barbs tend to only nip fins which are brightly coloured though in large groups they also stop bothering with the nipping. I keep mine with redtailed sharks for...

if you're 3 weeks into a fishless cycle and the tank is full of plants already then i'd say it is probably 99% cycled already. add your fish fry or adults either works. start doing your weekly water changes and you're good to go.

they love cucumber too and also get quite large (alot larger than most people realise)

ahh misread was thinking 20" nice size to go with my other 2 :) 20cm is still only a baby

send me a pm with your address and I'll see about getting a plant package sorted for you :) I'll let you know about me coming down closer to the time if you've still got them by then I'll arrange to swing by and get them from you on my way back up north. I got plenty of space in a 1000l tank at...

cuttings won't be a problem I can probably arrange to get some down to you weekend after this one (at a film festival this weekend :) ) Depends where in bucks you are tbh if your the miltonkeynes end its not actually too bad about an hour ish. if your slough/mh end then its abit of an blahblahblahblah...

I'm right on the notts/syorks border but still bucks is a long way down the m1 :( Do you ever come up north at all I could take all the fish off you plenty of space also got a tank full of plants/cuttings you're welcome to in return (would actually do me a favour being able to empty out the...

where are you in the country?

put a heater in goldfish do fine in the warmer water (downside is they grow really really really fast) a friend put one in her 7 foot trop tank last year in 8 months it was well over a foot long :(

indeed i was trying to get 264's not a single reply on pp but got 5 off pc :)

i'd also recommend planetcatfish as well as pleco planet (pp seems very quiet to me most of the time or its full of aussies complaining about their import lists :) )

i have breeding albino bn's and long fin common and albino bn groups also have groups of l333 and l264's and l014 333's are just starting to spawn now the 264's are ready but difficult to get going its not just a case of sticking in tank and leaving them to it (they're hypans too) I fancied a...

at 50 quid i'd take them all off his hands and resell them for £100-150 each :)

£80 is very cheap for zebs even juvs they're hypans so fairly easy to breed once you get fully setup they like lots of oxygen and the water to be warm apart from that they're not massively fussy although harder water can reduce your spawn count as the eggs are harder to crack so you get more egg...

my guppy breeding tanks are all unheated at the moment seem to be holding fine at about 22c just fine. on hot days they go upto about 26 ish. they're only small tanks too 35 litre ish so not a massive volume of water. don't know what they drop to at night as i'm too busy asleep to check. but I...

the thing to remember is that most plecs come from quite fast flowing oxygen rich rivers with very little co2 and almost no plants most plecs for example are veggies so will devour most plants. the carnivore plecs tend to be larger (with a couple of exceptions). However most plecs also prefer...

i was thinking small perch not fully grown ones they're generally no bigger than you're hand (indeed at this time of year you can get ones from this springs spawn which are finger size) once they get above the 8 inch or so mark he can put them back in the river :)

if you don't mind travelling over to south yorkshire there's some guys selling them here http://www.aquarist-classifieds.co.uk/p ... 283222.php there's another guy in castleford who breeds them but i can't for the life of me find his phone number now

take the heater out and put a couple of perch in there :)

any hypan stays small enough however as Jen says co2 + plecs is hard/crazy particularly with the more expensive L's most are also veggies and take great pleasure in eating all your plants. You could possibly get away with an L264 (or another carnivore pleco unfortunately most carni's grow...

at the moment i'm just running 1-2 trays of noodles and a couple of course pads in all the filters thats it. i was thinking of just filling the 3 lower trays with thin layers of carbon to allow high flow through them and hopefully the increased surface area of the carbon compensates for there...

I never normally use carbon in any of my tanks but always keep a bag of it around incase. Though I've recently been considering swapping out the noodles in all the filters for bags of carbon instead with it being active at first and being purely biological after that due to its surface area...

waters almost clear again this morning no fishy casualties. So lesson to anyone else dropping bromo in their tanks :) a few large water changes and a bag of carbon seems to work fine :)

well its really blahblahblahblahed up the water clarity its now like milk instead of being crystal clear. I've done another water change (2nd today :( ) stuck in a big bag of carbon and turned the UV on the filter on don't know if it'll help at all. I'll do another 20 litre water change tomorrow to be...

Ok so I cleaned my tank out this morning then went off shopping came back to see the drop checker laying on its side on the substrate full of water and not bromo blue. Its obviously come unstuck from the side and fallen off but my question is, is bromo blue harmful to the fish/tank its a 60l...

don't suppose you know which type of Farlowella they are since there's about a dozen different types. they're a loricariidae so fairly hardy fortunately for you their primary natural habitat is sand substrate and stones with very few twigs (though they will congregate and favour twigs for hiding...

Re: New centre piece fish don't forget added cost of RO for discus a mid sized l190 would be good since they're nicely patterned and bulky but also grow slowly so while they can get upto 24" they're unlikely

Re: New centre piece fish if the angels are being demons its probably cos they've paired up and ready for breeding. get a cone in for them to breed on sell the fry use the profits to buy new fish for main tank :) what about pearl gourami's ?

dwarf rainbow?

if you're still after some there's a guy selling some here http://www.plecoplanet.com/forum/showpo ... ostcount=1 only males but reputable guy (i've had stuff off him in the past)

don't do zebs myself but I know several breeders you'll pay through the nose though think zeb babies are running at 100-150 atm females even higher as they're less common best bet is to check the pleco groups on facebook(spit) aquarist classifies and the for sale sections on plecoplanet and...

not entirely true. rapid cooling of water for a tropical fish acts as an anasthetic (sp?) the fish simply goes unconcious (quite quickly) and then dies in its sleep. decapitation isn't really a good idea as many fish can live on after decapitation for quite a while so you'd then have to stick a...

not pregnant is it some gourami's are mouthbrooders and would look bloated/mis-shaped around the jaw/chin area if holding a brood.

my ottos are useless they don't touch the algae in the tank and rarely eat the fresh veg that goes in. they do seem to like eating the pellet dust from the plec algae pellets that the plecs blow around the tank since they insist on fanning and eating at the same time so as their food gets water...

Tell me about it I have 3 "snowballs" which I was told were 142's but everyone I've shown them to has said a different spotty :( and I just can't decide at all.

could be you'd have to get a better shot of the mouth and dorsal fin to get an accurate id though

i would guess a l326

more likely snail eggs

yep but fins heals quite slowly. once he stops being bullied it'll heal up just takes time. one of my commons had all its rear fins nipped off 8 months later they're about half teh way back to what they were. more recently as in a week ago one of my silver sharks went full retard and got...

2-3 times a day as george said smaller quantities for the smaller fish especially babies the bigger fish get a handfull or so

mine take flake, tetra prima, bloodworm and even pick on the plec's algae pellets if the plecs aren't quick enough, pretty much anything that goes in the tank they'll have a nibble at. Keep my temps at 25 and they're all happy

cut into slices and weighted down to the bottom with something (anything) I personally use plant weights but you can also use spoons etc.

they're not especially small fish though growing to about 8 inches

tiger or cherry barbs all shoal well.

thats impressive if you've managed to kill neons :) I thought they were the unkillable fish

old age? females being over bullied by males? are the bellies sunken or swolen? are they breathing fast or struggling to breathe? etc we need a few more details if we're even slightly likely to help

the 2 big ones are currently about 5-7 cm tip to tail i think. they did used to be pretty good colours but as they've got older they've lost alot of it I've had them about 3 years now I think i rehomed them from a friend when he was closing down his tank. they're nice active fish I think the 2...

mine started out that colour now as they're getting a little older they're more brown on the body than anything else unless bright light shines on them

The Congo tetra is an insectivorous species, but you can usually train your Congo tetra to accept flake food and frozen food. A Congo tetra kept on nothing but flake food can however loose its coloration, and supplementing the diet with mosquito larvae, daphnia and brine shrimp is highly...

if you do it and are willing to ship i'll have some of the danio's from you

glass cat ? :)

looks like a L010 Loricaria lata

the one that guy is holding? deffo not a pictus looks most like a sailfin "common" pleco with a damaged fin

common sailfin ?

first glance looks like an l52 but I don't think it is. could be an l168 but picture too small to tell properly not sure

non breeding tanks there's 3 in use and 1 sat waiting to be used once i've finished decorating. breeding I have 12 breeding tanks

i love my pleco's and cats got loads and loads :)

L14 - sunshine pleco - Scobinancistrus aureatus very very rare you'll never see one in a shop and only I think about 5 people are attempting to breed them in this country if mine ever get jiggy I'll be very happy not to mention quite in pocket.

you want an L number clue I can limit you to a range if you like ?

no its not but strangely enough the L600 was identified at the same time (very similar) to the L114 which until fairly recently was thought to be the same as the one posted although it isn't there's about 5 or so pleco's that all look very similar though if you know what you're looking for are...

actually horrible picture he's really not showing his tail fin colour that well. the fin is normally bright orange as is the top fin but its always down :(

no looks similar but this is a carnivore if that helps :) also considerably larger.

nope (I've kinda cheated here though pulled a very very rare L-number on you :) )

no easily mistaken though :)

Guess the Fish by hinchles, on Flickr final one from me i'm out of fish that are even vaguely challenging after this one

its a wolf fish (freshwater sometimes called ornamental wolf fish)

stick a thermometer in there if its constantly above 15c then you can get away with some pleco's commons will be quite happy anything above 15 if you're closer to 20 then you get a rather nice selection of trops that'll be fine in there

this is the freshwater version sub adult size. its big brother is the saltwater version which will grow to about 10 foot iirc

horrible pictures I know but should be identifable. not quite so common this one though. i'll give you a clue its not an oto and the one in the picture is about 8 - 9 inches long

Guess the Fish by hinchles, on Flickr Guess the Fish by hinchles, on Flickr

can't remember the common name fully its full name is gymnocorymbus ternetzi

black skirt tetra I believe at least some form of characin at least

yup its a baby pictus :) your turn

Guess the Fish by hinchles, on Flickr

clown barb?

I used to have 9 of them but over time there's only 7 left now

aye I should have perhaps picked a less common one but didn't want to get into silly L-numbers :(

yeah its pretty common I think though the pictures suck ass thanks to a curious bristlenose fry that insisted on getting into the shot every time and the fact the fish hide all the time when the lights are on (they prefer the dark) Guess the fish by hinchles, on Flickr Guess the fish by...

lemmie go down and take a picture then I know just the fish to get you started :)

they're pretty nice tbh pity they're almost impossible to get :(

naah got distracted by the missus I'm fairly good with rainbows got a couple of tanks full of them but never seen those above before, neither has most of the other rainbow specific sites which is why I couldn't find them.

define cold if you maintain water at room temperature between 15-20 there's some pleco's that'll live quite happily as "cold water"

redlist is cheating :(

only 3 known species of Glossolepis have strips all are solid not spotted I'll stick by my first line its a hybrid from the Melanotaenia line

doesn't match any known specific strain I know of it mostly resembles the colouring and shaping of the Melanotaenia lacustris (Lake Kutubu Rainbow etc as above) however the spotting is more similar to the sexlineata strain though usually the stripes are solid (on all rainbow species where...

its a rainbow of some kind looks like "Lake Kutubu Rainbow, Turquoise Rainbow, Blue Rainbow" but crossed with another form of rainbow perhaps Melanotaenia sexlineata + Melanotaenia lacustris

barbs will be swimming around going nom nom nom nom nom

just put a new piece of courgette or cucumber in every day take out the old piece and eventually he'll get the hang of it and start to eat it if they've never been fed it before it takes them a while to realise its food. took my commons ages and now as soon as it hits the water he's got a piece...

if he's not been fed on fresh veg before it may take you a while before he realises its food

they're not that expensive if you get them while little. they can grow over 6inch though so make sure you've got a rather large tank they like to swim around

he's starving then probably fed wrongly by lfs its the usual case. try blanching some large soft leafed lettuice or spinach too put a clump of it in with a plant weight on the stems and the leafs hanging free he'll probably prefer that to courgette to start off with

they're not that common though their keeping requirements are fairly simple unlike others