Recent content by LeeAberdeen

Only read them briefly, admittedly, because I have a life, but none of them seemed to refer to emotion, but rather instinctive behaviour such as fleeing through fear which no-one would ever deny fish possess. You only need to walk up to your tank too quickly with your arms waving about a bit to...

Pain: "Highly unpleasant physical sensation caused by illness or injury". It's a physical reaction caused by nerve sensors, nothing to do with emotions. Yes, you're right, pain does express, er, pain.   Where did I say fish don't feel pain?

  You can't say it's "proven" then not name your scientific source. A quote from your source or sources would be useful.   You say it's proven then go on to draw some sort of parallel with people or dogs in pain, but pain isn't an emotion? It's much more likely that something with a brain the...

That would work. I avoid live foods in my tank, but a strainer and the hot tap sounds easy enough.   I made the mistake of listening to my LFS, who said it was fine to just bang in FBW from the freezer and "watch them fight over it". My fault, though, because this is the same LFS which only...

Yeah, that seems to make sense the more I think of it. How long do you defrost it for? Is that just in a glass of water?

One cube of FBW won't lower the temperature in a 275 litre tank, not even slightly.

I wondered how other people feed this to their fish - do you go straight in with it frozen, or slightly deforst it in some water first, or maybe some other way? Just had one of my eight fish die and am searching around for potential causes. It could be 'just one of those things' and not related...

I think you're tinkering unnecessarily. Substrat Pro, presuming it's the Eheim stuff, is about as good as it gets and you're going to get no improvement from changing, in my opinion. I have Substrat Pro and Seachem Matrix and they're both equally good. You have to wade through the manufacturer's...

Surprising how common that is - LFS staff not having a clue. I take no notice whatever of my LFS after explaining to one of their staff that I was cycling a tank and her looking at me all baffled. They continually try to tell me that I need to lower the pH in my tank for discus, even though it's...

Every time I read this sort of stuff, it gets me quite angry. People who haven't got a clue what they're doing (your mum, not you) just throwing fish in a tank without bothering to do any research and then, as you say, think you're being all unreasonable when you suggest doing what's right for...

Absolutely. I see you've got a 450 litre, and that would take at least three for sure. My last one was only 300 litres, but they threw all the gravel and all the other stuff that came with it in with the aquarium rather than packing it separately, so it was well hefty between two of us. They...

As I said, it's during the day and everyone's working. "Instant notification via email when the delivery is made"? - what's the point of that then, whem I'm already there taking delivery? You can only deliver it if the customer's there, in which case they'll already know?   "Able bodied big...

Can't really arrange help like that, because they only give you an am/pm notification, so you have to have someone waiting around for potentially hours and, as it's during the day anyway, everyone I know is working.   The last time I had one delivered I offered the bloke some money, but he...

I'm in the market for a new aquarium, but every site I check seems to have the "kerbside delivery" thing. As I don't live on a kerbside and have no intention of setting up an aquarium on one, I'm not sure how that actually qualifies as 'delivery'? I'm not aware of delivery companies doing it...

Should be okay with the algae, because there'll be no plants in there so won't need strong lighting on for long, and there'll be no direct sunlight either. Like you, I'm tempted to persevere with white sand, because I think aesthetically it could look stunning in a black tank. Just need to keep...