Recent content by Debbie T

Hi I had a 3.5 ft x 2 ft coffee table fish tank & it did look beautiful but my plecs & feather fin catfish became to big for it after about a year & 1 did actually swim that fast he did manage to jump out but luckily i was there & got him back in the water in time. They all now live in a 5 ft x...

No, I've got to say they do both look exactly the same. You can also see 2 little white spur type things underneath them both, is this what male bits look like on catfish? :blush: :blink: The only difference is sometimes the 1 goes quite a bit lighter in colour when they are grappling. Do...

Im in the Birmingham area & there is a maidenhead aquatics near by but i just hate the thought of them going to a bare tank & its not saying they would find a new home because people like to get their fish from small i spose. Where is the classifieds on this site? I wouldnt want any money for...

Ooh Blimey! How sad having to re-home 1. My local aquatic centre offered to take them from me but was just going to put them in a large sump tank out of view with no gravel, plants or hidey holes but i couldnt bare the thought. My tank has got sand which they love to burrow in & throw in the air...

I just dont know what to think? I've actually become quite obsessive about this tank because its only a few months old, i upgraded from a coffee table fish tank because i wanted to give the fish more room. I do water changes twice a week i bought the proper water testing kit & i've got 2...

Hi Thanks for the help & info. I googled columnaris & it did seem to fit with whats happened to my fish. What i dont understand is why has it just wiped out the whole shoal of rainbow fish but not affected anything else? It wasnt as if the rainbows were new fish & stressed out, they've been in...

Hi I have a 5ft long 2ft high & 18inches deep tank.(500 Litres) I've got 2 plecs, 2 upside down fish, 2 silver loaches, 2 corys 1 ghost knife fish 3 small silver sharks 1 angel fish & 2 mental feather fins!!!!!!! The suckies have all lived together for probably 2yrs now & were tiny when we had...

Please, please help. I've got a 5ft tank with various sucky fish IE: plecs, featherfins, upside down fish, silver loaches also 3 small silver sharks & 1 angel fish. I had a beautiful shoal of rainbow fish which have been in the tank for a couple of months now & were a beautiful red & blue. Now...