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Dwarf snakeheads are a good suggestion :) I owned some of these before. They are also known as rainbow snakeheads or channa bleheri. Being dwarfs they only get to around 8 inches max. They are SUB TROPICAL fish so they need to be kept at around 18-19 degrees c all year around but will be ok if...

Gd luck man... looking forward to pics :)

Never good losing any stock is it but at least your ready to start back up :) good luck. What you looking to stock this time around?

Not got him or the tank anymore mate. Sold the tank and flowerhorn to 2 separate buyers. I took a change in hobby and now keep lizards instead, leopard geckos to be precise... although i do regret selling up now and a new tank may be on the cards very soon :) I had a 5ft 125 gallon with the...

As above ^^^ iv never heard of a dwarf bichir and iv owned a fair few different ones such as an ornate, delhezi and a Senegal.

Tbh i was excited to have a piranha tank but as said the excitement soon wore off :( I much prefer cichlids. Iv never had african cichlids but i do like the look of them :) im more of a South and central american cichlid fan :)

Iv had a red belly piranha tank before and the main thing you need to know before going ahead is that they are not what you are probably expecting lol most people believe the hype that they are killing machines... not at all true. They are in fact very shy and somewhat boring. I had a group of...

I found that frozen supermarket prawns brought the colour out on my thai silk fh. I fed him like 2 prawns 2-3 times a week. He grew like mad too :) not only in body length and depth but the nuchal hump size as well... not only that but a small bag of cheap prawns lasts ages too. As well as them...

Looks like a green terror to me but they do look very similar to the blue acara so i may be wrong. Green terrors are more aggressive than the blue acara but not as aggressive as alot of other cichlids. Even the jack dempsey is known to be more aggressive than the gt. A friend of mine had a pair...

A pair in a 600 as mentioned above would be ideal :) you'd need something like a 6 x 2 x 2, oscars get BIG so they need sufficient room to turn without difficulty. Not only do they get big but they are also very messy. Get the best filtration you can. 2 fluval fx5's would be ideal. If its only...

Wow thats alot for a 450l (120gal)... I had the exact same volume... I had a juwel rio 400 (new type) so 450l and 5ft long. I had a thai silk flowerhorn in mine.... that wad it lol he was 6-7 inches if i remember when i came to rehome him. As much as id of loved to have had something else in...

Male jags can get to around 14-16 inches in captivity. Maybe a little more. Females are smaller hitting around 12-14 inches. A single male jag should be kept in a tank size of around 6ft x 2 x 2 as a bare minimum. Maybe a 5x2x2 if you were to get a female. I had a male as a juvenile in my 5ft...

Nice fish :) I had a thai silk flowerhorn. I bought him at 2 inches and sold him on when he was around 7 inches. He was in my 125 gallon tank on his own. I did try to add some fish in with him when he was around 4 inches. A larger jack dempsey... the flowerhorn killed it. Then i tried a larger...

Id say 50gal minimum for a single red belly. I had 5 red bellys... 1 got killed by the rest quite early on so obviously i was left with 4... then out of nowhere my biggest RB turned psycho and killed the rest. He was crazy. Mine where in a 125 gal so plenty of room, plenty of hiding places and...

I agree with the above... a 30 gal is too small for 1. Id say 50gal minimum for a single red belly. I had 5 red bellys... 1 got killed by the rest quite early on so obviously i was left with 4... then out of nowhere my biggest RB turned psycho and killed the rest. He was crazy. Mine where in a...