Recent content by BDC

Tank still cycling with the danios, which are still schooling. Added some fertilizer tabs today, some plants growing well, and some algae developing (already!). Here's a pic. Still a lot of planting to be done - still waiting to see what grows well. :whistle:

Already got some angels, 90 gallon tank... Perhaps keep the angels as the "feature" species with a few (six?) of them. You could have some cory cats (heaps of choices) and a bristle-nose catfish for the bottom, and some "black widow" tetras (as they're called here in Australia - also seen the...

Without question. Then again, it doesn't matter, male or female, if you have an impressive looking tank. Everyone that enters my small apartment spends the first five minutes looking at the tank, and the next five minutes playing with my cat (she's a real cutie). After that they notice the...

I added some spotted (or dwarf) danios today. They're cute, quite active, and school together nicely. They're also pretty tough, so they should help cycle the tank, although it's been set up for a while with plants in it which are already growing. Now it's just a waiting game to see what...

Thanks for all the kind welcomes :cool:

Hello all! New to the forums, and just began setting up a tank again after a few years out of the fish-keeping hobby. I used to have three beautiful tanks going before some bizarre and unfortunate circumstances ruined them all. Be warned, the following is a story of tragedy and despair...

Hey, first post here. Yay! Been into the hobby for a long time, especially planted tanks. Used to have three tanks going (4' planted tank with native australian fish coz I'm an aussie, 3' planted tank with barbs/rasboras/danios, and 2' planted tank with guppies) but some disputes with a...