Recent content by Lanzuis

Have you considered Sword tails or Platys yet? They always make a nice addition to a tank! :D

Now that is a very nice tank! I love the choice of fish as well! ;D

I have had an instance - a while ago - with barbs where suddenly all of my barbs stopped and were 'headstanding' - this period went on for about 1-2 weeks and suddenly they got back into the habit of swimming around a lot - I am not quite certain about why they are doing this but I have had a...

Wow! That is a really informative post. Thank you very much! ^_^   What I have gathered here is if the Gourami is even in the same tank as the Tiger barbs, that presence of a semi-aggressive fish can cause the fish stress?   Is this the case when the two species are on different levels, as the...

Phew - talk about a close call! Well no fish died in the end so luck played in your favor. :D

Ok, after some close observation over the day I have found that these barbs rarely make a full on effort to nip the fins of the gouramis, but they will sometimes, when passing, try and nip them. They also make attempts to chase the gouramis but never fast, very often they are slow and only make...

   Thank you very much both of you - I have found that my barbs have calmed down and are keeping all of their aggression to themselves as my gouramis have settled in with the tank they are not getting nipped by any of the barbs although I am still concerned given what you have told me. I shall...

8ft x 3ft x 2ft

I would still recommend rehoming the balas and common, i had a 15" common in my 180 with little decor and it still had trouble getting around the tank.   Balas get 16" and dart alot so i would still recommend  300+ gallon tank for them.     Ok thank you very much for the advice! ^_^   If I...

  That's a bit extensive isn't it? O_O   I've done a fair amount of research on these and all the sources I look at say 50+ gallons :P

  Don't worry - as I have finally decided I am going to be upgrading tanks to a 180 Gallon soon!

Well, mine lives with tiger barbs although I would expect it to be able to live with small aggressive fish (Smaller Cichlids) and I don't know if they work individually or otherwise, mine is alone and I think some research will be fairly important if you want to have them in schools! ^_^

Hello everyone, I have a 90 Gallon bowfront tank - My first tank! Now after encountering various issues like White spot and a massive algae 'infestation' (which my tank is still recovering from) I have developed my tank into this:   Please excuse the camera blur - taken on my phone.        ...

Now that is a pretty cool design I have to say!

That's a shame - I (even though I am a newbie to all this) find it quite upsetting when people don't do research before buying any sort of fish ESPECIALLY when the fish are at extremities like this. It's a shame =/   I'd steal them or at least forcefully persuade them to give the fish to you :D