Recent content by Barrydwise

My lfs said that they only get male rams - all the females are kept back in the far east for their own breeding programs. Scrappy - where in the UK are you? Are you planning to sell babies once they've grown a bit - a pair would be nice? What type of rams are they? Cheers Barry

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180l = 40 Imperial Gallons = 48 US Gallons! Sorry, just found a calculator and got curious about capacity as everyone here talks about gallons. I always find this confusing since if you don't specify there's 20% difference between Imperial and US. It's a Juwel Rio 180 with both the original...

Here's a picture - hopefully it helps. http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=105764 Thanks Barry

Trying to find out whether this is Gymnothorax Tile or Echidna Rhodochilus. Anybody help? Thanks Barry

Hi there One of my sons has a brackish tank (1.005) that includes 2 'freshwater' moray eels. I've seen pix of Gymnothorax Tile and Echidna Rhodochilus and it looks like both of them. What are the differences between them? Thanks Barry

Hi there I'm new to this forum. One of my sons has a brackish tank and we spent yesterday driving around visiting 9 fish shops to look for something to buy. It got me thinking how useful it would be to compile a list of fish shops in my area that stock brackish fish. Obviously that would have...

Try ebay for a refractometer - it makes a real difference being able to get an accurate reading. Here is a link to one example which works out about £35 inc postage refractometer on ebay. These are the guys I got mine from. Barry

Where in the UK are you? Some of my LFS sell them - Maidenhead Aquatics in St Albans, Allpets in Stanmore, Wildwoods in Crews Hill. I pay £1 for 20 - sizes seem to vary from small to large. I normally buy 100 at a time and keep them in the garage in a filtered 50l brackish tank. I used to keep...

Hi, my son has a 180l light brackish (1.005) with 2 'freshwater' moray, a large silver scat, a fig8 puffer and a green spot puffer. They settled in quickly although it was a bit worrying for the first couple of weeks before they started to feed. We started off by feeding live river shrimp with...