This is someone else's photo I've "borrowed". It was at Aquatics Live yesterday in the MA tanks and labelled as a Pinnochio Whiptail but doesn't look like the Whiptails on the profile on here!

mat, I'm going to have to read your answer a few times, physics was never my strong point haha!

and I know about MA, and the fact is I work in central london with Wholesale Tropicals and ADC in easy reach. And Wildwoods isn't a very long drive from home either. It's terrible >_< my poor non-fishy ...

I'm not sure I really trust my sink tap, it likes to go from luke warm to burning boiling hot in an instant, then my boiler goes OMGZZNOOO and locks out, plunging it back to ice cold. and so on. washing up is oh so fun! might have to stick to buckets and spare heaters and the other half's back ...

Thanks, I'll look into this. With regard to the temperature, I have a combi-boiler so no worries about hot water coming from a storage tank, do you just mix at the tap with a thermometer to get the right temperature first?

(I also have my boyfriend whinging about water bills too as we're on a meter)

How do you do dechlorinator with a python system? it would mean trailing a hose right through the living room from the kitchen, I'd need a 10ft hose I think.

I don't have enough buckets or back strength to do 50% water changes at the mo. Done a smaller water change today and just found another cory with a more shredded dorsal fin than yesterday. It's so frustrating! There's still one Cory with immaculate fins, only 3 with tatty ones, and the fins on all ...

here's the tank:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2763/4532131054_cb5027a20f_o.jpg the substrate is very fine dark gravel.

i'll do a full water test in a sec. I added medication as one of the cory's tails last night had a few blood spots, gone now but done a second treatment today. no water change ...

no bugs or anything other than a few hijacking ramshorn snails and there's no fin damage at all on the Kuhli Loaches. The tank's filter media was cloned from another tank, it's got a great hunk of old filter media in the new filter too. The fish had been fine and healthy in the tank up until I ...

So I have a relatively new 130L I've been working on the last 2 months. It currently houses 4 Panda Corys and 4 Kuhli Loaches. That's it. And lots of plants.

I just had a sit down in front of the tank to find one Panda missing almost all his tail, another with nibbles out of his and a third with a ...

Thank you guys! I'll look into all of these, anyone got personal experiences with any of these?

P.s I'm a she not a he!

I've never had a tank big enough for Plecos (had "nano" set ups for about 6-7 years now) and may be getting a 27-30 ish US gallon tank on Saturday (for free, my favourite). Still need to go and examine it though.

What Pleco suggestions would you make for this? I will be basing the set up around ...

noone?

not necessarily overstocked but very very close to it.

bumping up to a 30 gallon i would definately recommend, and get your serpaes a couple more to their group, up to at least 6, they can be 'orrible little fin nippers! and watch the cray, they can turn fish-eaters! especially with tasty little ...

thank you!

i miss real snow. i'd love to see real snow here. but even 1/2 a cm can cause the city to grind to a halt...central london is rubbish.
there were rumours flying around yesterday of it snowing here, everyone got excited, it's not going to though. in fact it's sunny right now. all snow melts by ...

hi, i'm new here and i help update a fish wiki site (linkin my profile, not sure if i'm allowed to post links on here or not?) and am seeking pics of the true Hypostomus plecostomus for it's page, there's so many random plecs that just get labelled this and they're not quite correct, the only ...

my name is cat and i've just joined up here. i'm a self-confessed fishy geek with currently 4 tanks under 10 US gallons, so not much room for catfish, managed to squeeze in 4 corydoras habrosus and a lonely only otocinclus vittatus (once a trio, can i find anymore vittatus? can i poop! and i have no ...