Recent content by bigroof

Welcome to the hobby. That is a great start. That is a great effort for a 1st tank.

Thats nice. Do you know how to differentiate males and females?

My local fish store was closing down and i got a bit of a bargain. I set up a new tank with these little things today. Very interesting behaviour.

From what one of the guys told me the owner is a lady and her husband wants to sell the property. I think they are getting old and maybe just want the money and retire i guess.

Sadly its closing down. Any display tanks are 50% off. Everything else is 35%off. Fish and plants are 50%off. 35% off includes any new tanks, filters, heaters, fish food so on and on. Pop your head in. The lads in there told me it closes in 2 weeks exactly. The store is so busy as i think the...

Yes London is very tough on aquarium stores. When one shuts down its sad. The store you are talking about is wholesale tropicals. That closed after nearly 50 years. Same with wildwoods over 40 years. On a plus note went back today spoke to the guys and some of these people have found jobs in...

Their are other stores but its just not the same. You know that LFS that is your go to. Where your hobby grew around. This was it. I guess in going to look around.

I decided to go to my favourite LFS wildwoods water garden in north London. Got a big shock. There was a poster saying the store is closing down. This shop meant so much to me and the hobby that i love so much. I have so many memories in there. This is a big loss to all the fish keepers in north...

I was just wondering what everybody is feeding their tanks. What have you currently got on the shelf? It will be interesting as we have members from all over the world. Based in London. Im feeding my smaller fish Fluval bug bites micro pellets( light blue) NT labs pro biotic tropical pellets...

I agree with leaves being a benefit. When i use to keep betta fish, some body advised me to use a cattapa leaf in it. Luckily my LFS had some. Since then I use them in my tanks and you can just see the fish love it. I only use it in my shrimp and the community tank at the moment. I also like the...

Thats another very informative article. Thanks for sharing. Hikari food is easily accessible. Majority of fish stores seem to have stock it. When i started fish keeping thats what the store employee recommended. Since i haven't had no issues with my fish with me feeding hikari, i just stuck to...

Some good stuff here. Nice article. I know a lot has being said about hikari food but my fish seem to love them. I use a some sort of a hikari brand food on all my fish. My community tanks i feed: Tetra min flakes Hikari micro pallets Bloodworms once a week My Mbuna tank: Hikari cichlid excel...

Looks like im just going to have to deal with it i guess. I wonder what i will call them, maybe salcons 😂