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The general rule is one male per tank and tank mates are often best avoided.  Mine was fine with the panda cories I had in with him before one day he just turned and decided he would no longer tolerate them.   The females may be ok together in what is known as a sorority tank, as they are more...

I'm still fighting this in my shrimp tank.  I was beating it and then a couple of days with slightly higher light levels and it was back with a vengeance.   I have the stuff Munroco recommended so i'll be giving that a go.  Got it in my Betta tank too, it was crawling across the substrate so...

Blimey.  There is indeed a fair few quids worth in there.  That must be absolutely spectacular.   I'd honestly never considered using a tank that large for CRS as for one I thought they'd get lost in there and two I'd not want to produce that much RO :)

Some of the rarer strains of bee shrimp in the UK will go for around £50 each.   I'd never consider paying that personally.  I'm just happy that I have one SSS grade CRS. :)

I had the same with two Leopard Sailfins I'd had since they were less than half an inch long.  One day they just decided that enough was enough and they'd not tolerate each other any longer (before that they'd been inseparable).  They started circling and fighting just like Akasha said with...

Red Cherries are excellent shrimp.  Can you post your water parameters please so we can properly advise?

Thank you.  She's a cracker.  They're still getting settled in and finding their places in the tank.  The shrimp seem to be the ones taking all the caves I've put together...

Struggling to get a decent picture...I should really take one when they feed as all four seem to meet up   https://flic.kr/p/JZqcNL  Female in breeding colouration.   And the barbs, they're so sedate and just float in the middle of the tank.   https://flic.kr/p/K9AvcH

I don't usually use double-entendres but I do like to slip one in now and again.   And on a more serious note:   Even the greatest swordsman can be beaten by a stroke he's never seen.   To err is human, to forgive is divine. 

Thanks for the link, a guy I work with uses that.

I've not used Osmocote but I have had great results with Seachem root tabs, particularly with swords.  

Lovely Betta you have there Nick.  They're such characters.

I'll see if I can get some later :)

Acclimate using the drip method.  A length of air tube tied off to limit the flow and syphoning from the main tank into the bag the Gobies are in.  Over half an hour, an hour it'll fill up, empty some of the water back out and resume the process.  This will acclimate them slowly.   I do the same...

Ok, so I've gone for four Apistogramma Cockatoo Cichlids with a small shoal of five banded barbs (6) with a view to adding more barbs in a couple of weeks.   So far they've settled in very well indeed.  The barbs and Cichlids are even swimming around together at times.  I've also added some...