Recent content by IanES

I've got pandas. One thing is the substrate. They really prefer fine sand. Rough gravel aggravates the barbels.

As well as my aquarium I've also got ponds, See this bl**dy big heron eyeing up my fish yesterday !! The smaller pond nearest the camera has shubunkins in there. See the bricks around the side. They're holding a net over the pond but the net is too close to the water. The shubunkins are...

and gallons. we (in the UK) have 4.5 litres in a gallon. A US gallon is just 3.8 liters. That can really mess up your calculations

I have aquarium indoors and ponds outside. In my outside pond there's an external filter with a lever on the top. Flipping that lever and the direction of flow is reversed and all the muck from the filter goes into a bucket that I pore on my garden. I still do a proper clean of the filter every...

I have a 125 Ltr aquarium with Loach and Corys. There's a couple of algae eaters in there too. can't remember what they're called. They sucker themselves to the glass. I'm not sure what they eat coz I've never had any visible algae in there but they've been in there since before lockdown so I'm...