Recent content by Munroco

I recently purchased a dozen Eirmotus Octozona. They have a few common names - (8 stripe barb -8 banded barb - 8 banded false barb and probably more). I'd never seen them before. Lovely wee fish but fairly shy. Four of five of them are regularly out and about now. Most of my tanks are jungles...

Been a while since I entered one of these competitions. For 2 or 3 years I've just been doing the bare minimum on my tanks but I seem to have regained my enthusiasm again. This picture is an "end on" pic of one of six tanks in a rack. I had to put them in length-ways so I could fit them all on...

While it's a shame they aren't clowns, Dennison barbs are a nice box to tick.

What size of tank do you have them in and are they on their own? I have corries in most of my tanks and I see the odd fry that has managed to survive, but most inevitably get eaten. I'm not trying to breed them but I have a couple of spare tanks atm and it might be interesting to try this.

My whiteclouds go outside in the summer. The temperature probably gets as low as 10 at night, but I wouldn't try to keep them above 24.

Guppies and rams are unlikely to both thrive as they have much different requirements. All the other fish you mentioned prefer softer water , except for guppies.

Was all going so well until you mentioned guppies.

Very nice tank

I think the easiest route would be to leave the snails and be careful feeding. Of course if your snails don't get much to eat, your shrimp won't either unless you can think of creative ways of feeding them.

I love beachcombing for wood and other stuff for my tanks. Never thought of taking a jigsaw with me. I often find big logs that are far too big for my needs.

I should have enough to fill up a medium size aircraft in the next week or so. I would dearly like to get rid of all of it.

Maybe start from the top with some water lettuce. The roots will soon stretch at least half way down.

That sounds hopeful.