Recent content by mdsj

Thanks for all the replies. I've done a bit of research and most of my neighbours believe the floor is concrete in our flats, with a hardboard covering. Now I think about it, we had wood flooring put down about 2 years back, and I'm sure the builder said our floor was concrete. As for tank...

The Red Tail is only red on its tail, and has white tips to its fins, the rest of him is jet black. Have to say when he flares his fins (which I assume is posturing) he looks amazing. I'll have to see if he will stay still long enough for a picture ! We have a solid oak sideboard in our lounge...

I know there are probably a multitude of factors which would influence the answer to this but.... We live in a 2nd floor flat. We're quite lucky as it's pretty large, not far off the size of a small bungalow to be honest, so size of our potential aquarium isn't an issue, however my guess is...

Thank you for all your replies. We just went out and had a look round Urmston Aquatics and are totally bewildered at the different range of aquariums. We got some excellent assistance from one of the guys there, so we're now thinking about what we should do. I've seen a lot of opinions on the...

Thanks for the reply. So just to clarify, the solution would be to get a bigger tank, so both of them could coexist quite happily, or are we going to have to consider splitting them up, regardless of the size of tank ? If my calculations are right (based on 1cm of fish per 2 litres and having...

Hi, Up until fairly recently everything has been fine in our new 30l Biorb and all our fish have been quite happy and very healthy since we set it up in April. However, about a fortnight ago, our Gold Gourami and Red Tail Shark have started to become quite aggressive with each other, both being...

Hi All, My name is Mike and myself and my wife are pretty new to fish keeping, so I'm sure we'll have plenty to ask. We don't have a big setup, only a 30l Biorb set up for tropical fresh water fish which we've had since April. It's currently got 3 Zebra Danios, 1 Gold Gourami and 1 Red Tail...