Recent content by Irkrts

Thanks for he info :)

I got my first tank in September and now I have five... so I think I fit in your category!

I’ve been stalking other people’s fish mix online and haven’t found anyone mixing them with the platys or swordtails - does anyone have experience of this?

Need a location / country to have any chance of finding someone!

I currently have 3 Amano shrimp and 1 ghost shrimp, all fully grown in a shrimp only tank. I was wondering who would eat them out of these possible tank mates? I want to move them into one of my 130L tanks. I have two identical tanks so can move species between them to leave them only with...

Conversely nature is cruel, and lots of us leave fry to get eaten etc to control the population and many shops sell drab fish as feeders for others, live food is the same principle. We only have beautiful fish varieties because most get discarded in the process of selective breeding. Animal...

I would move guppy of concern to quarantine bucket and treat it, not move the lot. I’ve had lots of stress related death which I think was related to moving. Then the shrimps are definitely not at risk.

The more sick harlequin appeared dead yesterday - lying upside down and fins completely rotted away, so I put it down with clove oil. Nobody else in the tank yet has any symptoms so I’ll carry on with water changes and hope that’s it! I’m keen to rehome the Buenos Aires tetra and the two...

Dear All, Thanks for all the advice. Unfortunately a harlequin (the less fin rot one) jumped out the tiny quarantine tank as I was doing the water change :( had left the top off while I changed their old tank and I found it dead on the floor when I counted the fish at the end (or so I thought...

Thank you. Apologies am out so don’t have recorded numbers. It’s a 130L tall tank with fluval 307. Has been running for perhaps 2.5 months. It was seeded with half of the filter media from my other cycled tank (also flu all similar pump is a 306- this had four compartments of ceramic media...

Had a tank disaster last week and tank leaked 50% of its water. One was dead (pineapple sword) at that time unsure if related. Looked normal. Fish had a quick move with their remaining water and filter and then another move the day after into new tank. So that would be very stressful. They had...

Essjay and Jan - thanks very much. Yes should clarify - I do not intend to mix cichlids and mixed tropicals, but only to keep mixed tropicals. The kind of sand / gravel I am looking at now- many of them state "natural pH that will not alter your water chemistry" - does this mean I don't need...

Hello everyone! Thanks for all your advice. I'm viewing a large 250-300L aquarium this weekend, and am planning to keep a mix of tropical fish in it. My goal is to have a well planted tank with several rocks and white sand, similar to how cichlid tanks often are, although with plants too...