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It;s very interesting, guppy genetics are not something I've looked into before but I spent ages trying to get my head around it on your site. It's a very useful site!

Thank you! I did check your website first!

As the title says really!

Thank you everyone, it's definitely been a learning curve for me and it's constantly evolving. Trying to fit the principles of a Dutch scape into a 30x20cm tank has been challenging to say the least!

This is my Dutch inspired 12 litre. Water: Rainwater Ferts: Solufeed 2:1:4 CO2 Lighting 2 spare Superfish Day/Night Inhabitants: Water slaters and Blue Velvet shrimp Plant list: Lindernia, Hygrophila siamensis, Ludwigia super red, Myriophyllum Guyana, Lobelia cardinalis, Rotala macranda Mini...

I had a group of neos that took months to breed and that was without tank moves. 10 months it took them to finally decide to do it!

The fish Barn had them in recently, might be worth asking if they can get them again...

The majority of leech species don't suck blood; they feed on molluscs, insect larvae, and worms. Some even feed on algae and detritus :)

My pair of M. spechti have their own 60l tank. They're meant to be slightly milder mannered than M. opercularis, but there's still some harrassment of the female if she goes near the (poorly built attempt at a) nest.

Perhaps I'll stick with the medaka in there then! Or plant spawners... I'll have to make their tank look half reasonable though, so some scaping will be happening!

Thanks, I suspected that might be the case with in situ! Love your description of the tank, do they tend to tear up plants or something or ref to the plastic container!? I won't worry too much about coir/peat in the tank, as you can see - it's quite mulmy! It only has shrimp in at the moment...

Hi, I've just won a pair (plus a spare male who will be separated) of these beautiful fish at auction so whilst I await their delivery I thought I'd pick brains on breeding as I've never done peat divers. Either the pair or the single male will be going into my paludarium (probably the single...

I also keep O. woworae in a biotope setup and they are interesting as well as pretty. The medaka aren't marketed very heavily in the UK, despite the energy price rises, but that may be more to do with DeFRA not wanting to risk them becoming invasive...