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  1. LancsRick

    Stable mature tank - Cardinal death, another swim bladder issue

    I love keeping animals, but I hate when they're struggling and I don't know how to help. Just done the usual check I do every few days on my tank, peering around everything to look for anything out of the ordinary. Found a cardinal tetra dead at a filter intake, been gone for a couple of days...
  2. LancsRick

    There are many striking fish....

    There are many fantastic fish that we put in our scapes, some for functional reasons, some for cosmetic. I'm sat here on my sofa, looking at my really basic low tech tank, and to be honest, the 15 or so really healthy cardinal tetras that are shoaling around look utterly stunning, bright blue...
  3. LancsRick

    Will black and brown Oto's group together?

    A little while ago I lost a couple of brown Oto's from one of my tanks, so there is just a pair in there. I know they prefer being in groups of 4/6+, so I was going to add some more, but I can only get hold of Black Oto's at the moment. Will they group with the brown's, or will they stay...
  4. LancsRick

    Slow release/dissolving food blocks any good?

    Later in the year I'm going to be having a holiday for about 5 days, and I was wondering how to deal with the two tanks I have with livestock in. One is a community tank, including shrimp and Oto's. The other is mainly a shrimp tank with a few Oto's in. I was wondering about those dissolving...
  5. LancsRick

    Otocinclus with Tannins?

    My Rio 180 is still a tannin-tank, despite months of water changes and running Purigen, but the water chemistry is now perfect. Last week I added 4 Amano shrimp which are having a great time, and I was going to add a further 4 Amanos plus 4 Oto's. My one question is whether Oto's are bothered by...
  6. LancsRick

    What the heck is up with my Gouramis?!

    Ok, I'm at a loss to explain this so I'm seeking help or reassurance, whichever is required. I've just had to euthanise another of my red honey gouramis due to dropsy, and I think this can only be down to getting a "sickly" batch since I got them all from the same place at the same time, but I...
  7. LancsRick

    Can I give my Oto's a luxury holiday?

    Partly because I like the fellas, but also because I'm giving my nano a damn good clean at the weekend because it's got plenty of algae in there. Given that the Otos have cleaned my main tank so well that they're existing on just cucumber and algae wafers, I was wondering about treating them...
  8. LancsRick

    Sick Gourami - Help!

    Came down this morning to find one of my 4 Honey Gouramis appears ill. The other 3 are absolutely fine in appearance and movement. No other sick fish/inverts in the tank. The "sick" one appears bloated, in a uniform manner (not just a sphere on the lower abdomen), and has developed a "fat...
  9. LancsRick

    How to make fish more "socialable"?

    Ok, so my Trigon 190 has a fair amount of planting now, and a reasonable community in there, but I seem to possess very shy fish! They're not showing any signs of stress, but always hide behind the big piece of bogwood and rarely come out. Any ideas why? 18x Cardinal Tetra 4x Honey Gourami 4x...
  10. LancsRick

    Fish Food - What and from where?

    Time to get myself some more flakes for my community tank, and that got me thinking... Given my introduction to the world of generic fertilisers being just as good as the pre-mixed stuff, what do people do for flake food? Is buying the tubs from Aquarian/Tetramin/King British the only way, or...
  11. LancsRick

    Dead Cory

    Just lost one of my Corydoras Longipinnis, found it floating upside down this morning, but when I went near it it swam off - has been upside down all day, so I added some API Melafix earlier (general bacteria treatment), but have just found it lying dead at the bottom of the tank. It looks fine...
  12. LancsRick

    Honey Gourami as next addition?

    Right, it's time for a new addition to my slowly-building tank, which is currently at 18/19 cardinal tetras, 8 juvenile corydoras, a few plants, and 190litres of space. As well as the (potential) Gouramis, I'm adding in a single Botia Striata ASAP, since I seem to have a neverending supply of...
  13. LancsRick

    Rate of adding fish?

    It's been a week and a half since I stripped a mature tank, and refilled with more substrate and included 10 Cardinal Tetras in there (keeping mulm and filter media). I'm going to look at adding some Corydoras (probably peppers) and Pearl Gourami, and was wondering what the rule of thumb was...
  14. LancsRick

    Fish - Plant Safe Ground Feeder?

    My Cardinal Tetras have an annoying habit of only eating their food when it is sinking in the tak, shunning it when it's on the surface. As a result, despite being careful not to overfeed, there's a fair few flakes accumulating on the gravel. I was intending to get something for the bottom of...
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