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Rummy nose tetras vary as there are several seperate species that the hobby collectively call rummy nose, some are easier than others but none would come under the hardy bracket.

In some places the fish collecting actually helps sustain the reef populations as the local people can earn more money collecting fish for the ornamental trade than they can by dynamite fishing. So it can help protect the reefs from destruction, also a lot of collectors know that if they...

any way gotta go so good luck with your angels

a couple of inches i suppose they dont get much bigger than that though.

fry that i have bred spawned themselves at about 9 months old i think, but they may spawn younger as i never really made an effort to intentionally breed from them they just did it in a community tank i put them in.

Ok well i know people will probably slaughter me for this reply but it works for me and ive done it a hundred times so ill have to put up with it. i tend to avoid water changes and vaccuming the gravel in tanks that i breed cichlids in. the reason for this is that i dont like to disturb the...

or if you wanted something more interesting you could try some dwarf cichlids apistos maybe. then you get parental care to watch as well.

exactly that. and smear some filter muck over it from your existing as well.

how about platys they are livebearers so you wont have to worry about fungus on eggs etc and the fry are born big enough to take commercial foods. any thing that can fit them in their mouths will though so no tank mates really not even parent fish. no specially gear needed either.

its more important to have a matured filter

how long has the tank been set up

altum angels are fresh water too but it sounds like you have scalare how big is the tank and are these the only fish youl have in it

it depends what anglefish you are talking about but assuming its a scalare or a closely related hybrid then you shouldnt have too many problems. firstly the tank preferably wants to be deep with stiff upright plants (ive also used slate and bamboo) the eggs will be deposited on these. i use two...

if you were making a big upgrage then maybe a shoal of distichodus sexfasciatus they grow to about 12" in captivity but they are best kept in a group really depends how big you want to go on your next tank, ive never kept them but always wanted to, but a friend told me they have a temper like a...

Thanks for the encouragement really looking forward to it, planned to go this year but work got in the way still a years not so long lol.