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I’m not the best at identifying plants, but looks like an Alternanthera to me

Right now, I’m obsessed with red Texas cichlids. Their colours look amazing, even if they do cost an arm and a leg!

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Reading through your post, I suspect there are several assertions that aren’t backed up the scientific literature. It’d actually be quite useful if you could identify what research supports the following points you made: “Each species of fish considers everything in their environment to be...

I guess one thing to bear in mind is that we have very little idea what fish consider to be essential. Assuming fish have the ability to consider anything at all. It’s natural for many of the fish we keep to catch and eat other fish, but that doesn’t mean we must set up our tanks to encourage...

I moved house to get away from the crazy woman next door that thought feeding rats was a good idea. Other than that it was a combination of setting poison, getting any holes sealed and making sure no food was left out. Literally all food was kept either in the fridge or a sealed.

I’ve kept a few different species without sand, and they’ll probably be fine. I’ve used larger pebbles/rocks that were much too big to be swallowed and the fish didn’t seem to care one way or the other. I didn’t get any unusual illnesses or unexpected deaths. I definitely preferred them on sand...

I’ve used these before (my old next door neighbour used to feed rats in her garden). They had absolutely no observable impact on my fish. Unfortunately, they had no observable impact on the rodents either.

Not necessarily, no. Vibrabites will be fine - I feed these to mine and don’t have any issues. The cichlid flakes may or may not be suitable, depending on their content. If they’re for vegetarian cichlids then it’s likely to cause the peacocks issues in the long run. If it’s for...

They both look like peacocks to me. They also look bloated (especially the second one). They’ll probably be fine with your yellow labs as the labs will probably be slightly more aggressive than them. Having two might not be enough to disperse their aggression

It’s tough to tell from the picture, but I’d agree she’s holding eggs

I’ve never really been interested in single species tanks and only ever do them when breeding or quarantining new fish. In the wild, most fish live in communities, so I don’t think species only tanks are more beneficial than a well planned community set up. Personally, I find community tanks...

I can’t believe I thought this was real until someone explained the joke! Good one @GaryE

Lions don’t have the choice of whether or not they kill other animals to eat - we do, especially if we have lab grown meat, so it’s not quite the same. That’s where ethics comes into it. If we have the choice of eating meat without killing other animals then there’s definitely a question of...