Yeh I thought that might be the case. Well like I said I had cut the feeding right down to maybe a few squished peas a week and vacced the sand as thouroughly as I could but as soon as I would put even a single small shrimp pellet in they would apprear out of the woodwork and swarm all over it. I do ...

Ok so my shrimp/micro crab/nerite tank is infested with flatworms. They eat shrimplets and pester adults as they seem to be sticky. I have tried many things including garlic (which seems to make them go into hiding for short periods of time), weak doses of lemaisole and cutting right back on feeding ...

Dont know where to post this since the forum for it is gone but I have baby albino bristlenose to give away in Scotland(Glasgow).They are about an inch long and very healthy.I dont want anything for them although if anyone has piebald or chocolate bristles to swap I would be interested.

Well the ones in the first cave are gone but I notice he is hanging about the second cave a lot so I shone a light in and theres a load of eggs in there too.I didnt realise a female could lay a second clutch within a day of the first one.

My albino bristles have bred(at fn last)but the male has kicked about a quarter of the eggs out and I have removed them to a breeding trap with an airstone.The remaining eggs are still in the breeding cave(bamboo)but they are not stuck and the male keeps leaving them and coming back.Should I just ...

if you were closer, I'd lone you my baby common goldfish.. he inhales my trumpets... he sits and waits till they are crawling up the side and sucks them out of the shell.. very entertaining I have started turning the lights off a bit earlier and after an hour or so grabbing all the trumpet snails ...

No way I was holding a bloodworm cube in the tank and mt SAE's were at the top nibbling away as usual when suddenly the little oil cat appeared and munched into the cube until he was really fat then dissapeared again.This was in the middle of the day with the lights on too

Strange mix of fish you have planned

Ahahahah thats class

Also a small royal(not pitured). I'm not quite sure what happened.I first noticed one of my smaller cichlids swimming a bit funny(nose down)and I had "Interpet Swim Bladder Treatment"anyway so after checking it was safe with all fish I added a dose.about this time I had noticed my royal looking ...

Sounds like the fin rot is being caused by the high ammon/nitrite.What is your ph at?

I'm gonna go in on wed too, look for a guy with spikey brown hair and green jacket with a furry hood :lol: Btw he was out again tonight and I was a bit concerned cos he looked a tad skinny so I got one of my nets that has mesh that bloodworms can fall through and sat it so it dipped in the tank at ...

Leave me a female please

I paid 7.50 for him and there was about another half dozen in the tank.I know the owner quite well cos I used to work there on the weekends when I was like 16 so I can get him to get more in.

I have mine with corys and theres never been any problems.

Hi T Thats a nice tank you've got there. I was jut wondering where abouts you got the Tatia perugiae. I've been trying to get a hold of any kind of Tatia for a while, They are great little catfish. I've already got a couple of Tatia creutzbergi and a couple of Liosomadoras oncinus. Gordon In a shop ...

I actually seen Botia sidtimunki latelty and in great condition but sooo expensive.Nah i'll just leave it, what I do is wait till the lights have been off for an hour or so and go down and harvest the trumpets.They then go into my big tank where my 6 big clowns have a field day :lol: The trumpets ...

Well that settles it I will get him a friend

Whats my chances of breeding them(bearing in mind my bristlenoses in there wont even breed...only thing that does is trumpet snails).

Oh and will they eat trumpet snails, please say yes

Thanks man I hope he will be happy in there.

Ok last night after lights out I sneaked a quick look and he was swimming madly around the surface then when he saw me he swam to the bottom and just sat there, is this normal.I'm sure my corys were giving him funny looks

Here is the little guy, I cant afford to buy a group but I will probably get him a female.

Here is his home.

Thanks for the info my ph is about 6.8 will that be a problem?Its a planted tank but only with java fern and anubius and there is a decent current.I didnt realise it was a surface dweller which explains why it swam about the surface after leaving the bag(had me a bit worried).Oh and its a male going ...

Just picked one of these chubby litte guys up, they were labled as jaguar catfish but they are clearly not(although I will get a pic up just in case).How predatory are they cos he went into my planted tank, theres some neons in there but im not that bothered if he eats them.My rams on the other hand ...

He didnt make it and both tanks seem to have fungus and ich so that might have been what killed him or just finished him off.I'm so gutted cos I have had him 3 years or more

I have never had a problem treating tank with pl*cos in them and I have quite a few reasonably sensitive species.Saying that I have never used this swim bladder stuff so it could easily have been it.The other pl*cos in the tank(vampire,cactus,leopard) dont seem affected thankfully. I have actually ...

Ok I have had my royal for a couple of years now and hes always been a good eater and active.However over the las week or so he has been acting strangely(hanging on the back glass a lot).He was still happy to munch on cucumber and wood so I wasnt really that worried.But last night I got the chance ...

My vampire was a bit iffy about coming out when the lights were on but as hes grown hes become so bold he even shoves my big cichlids away from his prawns and bloodworms.

I have rams and lemon tetras in my planted tank alongside a gold nugget and mango with no probas at all.

Thanks I'll maybe order them then.

I really just dont want to end up with the L182's though.

I hear L183 can be hard to keep, what kinda params should I be aiming for?

Ok I'm looking to get a pair of L183 and I have seen them for sale on http://www.trimar.co.uk but they are labled as L182/L183 so I dont know what I'm getting.I kept a female L182 before and she was a nice fish but nothing compared to the L183 with the white fin rims an all.I emailed trimar and ...

So what do you guys think of my strangly marked bristles, possibly the same as the one in the first post.