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    New Gourami Dying

    Hi everyone Sad couple of days as I have purchased fish and lost them. I have a 180L planted tank with rock, bogwood and gravel substrate, containing 10 lemon tetra, 3 clown loach , a clown plec and a rainbow shark. I decided to add a few final splashes of colour to finish and settled on...
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    330L Tank Journal

    Wow, that would be amazing in a big tank.
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    Popeye

    Thanks for the replys guys, I will let you know the outcome. I'm not actually sure it is popeye but I will keep monitoring it.
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    Just How Mych Oxygen Do Fish Really Need?

    I have the same tank and I use a bubble bar buried in the gravel every night for about 30-60 mins and the fish seem to like it, though it may just be breaking up the boredom. :hey: Mine is planted and I read somewhere that too much oxygen isn't beneficial to the plant growth? Didn't really...
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    Eating Plants

    Thanks :)
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    Eating Plants

    The plants in my 180L tank are being chewed! 3 x Clown Loaches 10 x Lemon Tetra 1 x Clown Pleco 1 x Raqinbow Shark Who is eating them and why?:S
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    Popeye

    Hi everyone. I have a beautiful black sailfin molly (male) and think he possibly might be developing popeye. The trouble is he has a few silvery spos on his head, back and what could be one close to his eye. It is very difficult to see when he doesn't sit stil for a moment. I read that it is...
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    Feeding Tips For A Beginner

    I don't want them a little happier, I want them happy! If 180L is too small already, I certainly won't be buying more. If they will be happy for a year when I WILL be getting a 300L (1500 x 450mm) tank, then I wil keep them. If not they will have to go. I won't buy another three for them to...
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    Feeding Tips For A Beginner

    The only thing that stopped me getting 3 more clowns was the size of the tank. With 180L, when will the clowns be getting too big? The LFS are reluctant too advise after they've sold them!
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    Feeding Tips For A Beginner

    I'm not sure about the rummy nose. It looks nice but my lemon tetra are already slightly translucent. I think I'm after something a little more "solidly" coloured, for want of a better description. Thanks for the recommendation though. :nod:
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    Feeding Tips For A Beginner

    Thank you for that reply You are correct and I find it easier to control the feeding now that I have seperated the Mollies back into their original tank. I am feeding the main tank 1 cube of bloodworms late afternoon and one algae wafer late evening when the tank lights go out, every other...
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    Feeding Tips For A Beginner

    Thanks. :) I now have ten Lemon Tetra in there and they seem far happier in that size of shoal. A very calming fish IMO. And what can I say about that shark? He looks great, but man does he act the "big I am".
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    Feeding Tips For A Beginner

    Thanks. I was very lucky and was given it for free by an aquaintance that could not cope with looking after his fish.Some small snails that seem to have arrived with the plants have disappeared thanks to my clowns!
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    Feeding Tips For A Beginner

    "> My Rainbow Shark "> My Lemon Tetra
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