Recent content by nigelnorris

If you know in advance that 80% are going to die how can you with any conscience at all sell 600 a month?

I'm keeping a very close eye on cleanliness, there's some mould showing where brown java moss is dying back so I've changed about 25-30% three times in ten days to get at it. Each time I take out the stuff with moss attached and clean / sterilise it thoroughly, the gravel and sand get vacuumed...

Yes Francisco, I wondered about the eye thing too. it looks that way in the picture I put up at the top. He's settling down so fingers crossed. They've been in the tank for close to a fortnight now and he's not starved to death yet so is functioning at at least a basic level. The gravel in...

Too harshly worded so I've edited down to this. All of the trials were done in 10 litre tanks. Amongst other species 10 angel fish in one 10L tank. There must be many stresses caused by the tank size alone that don't apply to our home aquariums. Nothing coming from that could possibly relate...

Thanks for that reference Byron, but the link's broken. If it's "The effect of group size on the behaviour and welfare of four fish species commonly kept in home aquaria", I've found it elsewhere so no worries.

Not so sure now. Every since that last post I've been reading and can't find anything at all in the way of useful research. There is one paper that says, a bit like what you said, that ten are less stressed than five. But that's not applicable here because they only tested 5 or ten. I'd bet that...

Okey, more it is then! Yes, taking the plants and hardscape into account there's certainly more than the bare three square feet. Thanks.

Ok Byron, that's helped a lot, many thanks for your input! It's not a big tank, only 30 gallons with less than a three square foot footprint, not sure if it would stand > 10 corys? I'll get at least a couple more next time I'm in the shop. Maybe increase numbers gradually once I have other fish...

I can't believe what I'm about to say, but it occurred to me that the bit filmed above he was circling in the stream of the filter output. So I turned it off and, like a switch, he just stopped doing it. The front panel I mentioned above also catches the flow from the filter out. 7 days...

Thanks, should be good to go now.

Thanks Colin. Never even recorded a video before let alone uploaded anything to youtube so I've learned something already. Here's hoping. Stopping off at the plants is a red herring I think, he can go for ages round and round across and up and down the front panel of the tank non-stop.

Hi, thanks for coming to look for me. My first ever tank, and a week ago I got my first ever fish, half a dozen panda corys. Five of the six have settled in nicely, a bit timid but they're spending less time hiding and glass surfing and more time just ambling along and rooting about, they don't...

A good read, but all the links are dead now.

In passing, they've long since moved from Shirley, in Wythall now.