Recent content by simonas

When I kept mine until quite recently and in the past I always fed a beefheart mix and dried foods. The beefheart mixes from some discus specialists are fantastic and contain greenery and all kinds in there it looks so much nicer than the mass produced stuff on offer in most LFS freezers I...

cheers for that I will keep my eye out for a starlight eel. I paid for a yellow looking unicolor the other week but before they shipped it it had jumped out the tank and disappeared

Pikes cant be trusted with any fish they're proper predators. Love his face

Thats an outsanding view/set up. Bet its well cosy with the log burner in there

Love it, ace post I love eels Whats the first pic in todays post a large spotted one, its really nice Do you ever get any aggression between themselves? I recall having a 20" ish fire eel and I added a larger tyre track eel to the tank but the fire eel displayed some of the worst aggression I...

Funny enough I have just done the same and got a lid for my 21.5"x21.5" footprint tank I used simplyplastics..com who I cannot recomend highly enough 6mm thickness and 545mm x 545xx was £37 delivered but I was really happy with the quality and the service

My 3 are in the garage which is lovely and warm as a result. I have a leather gaming chair in there which reclines so in the morning when the blues are on I sit with my cuppa and toast and chill watching them. The gars look so peaceful under the blues in the morning theres more calm at that...

Nothing boring about Clown Loach I had forgotten about them. Kept them on and off for over 30 years and love the 12 I currently have. Beautiful and active and look so good in a shoal

My tigerfish will often strike an algae wafer or blueberry that i put in for my turtle. He spits it straight out. Only meaty foods for him

As Gary E said after years of fishkeeping there are multiple choices. Ever since I started fishkeeping in 1991 I have always veered towards oddballs predators and catfish Since I have kept rays I dont think I will ever be without them again , they look cool and are just a great interesting and...

I prefer in general the non man made fish and always thought that wild fish look better than the domestic strains Wild discus are a great example of this as are oscars theres just something simple and stunning about wild examples of both in comparison to domestic strains I'm not a fan...

Sounds like something I said to someone recently I wish I was in my 20's for the physical benefit but I much prefer myself at 50 with experience, compusure some wisdom and no care attitude. It's just a pity that we couldn't couple the advantages of life experience with a young persons body

Very tough decision as a high bar but I went for the one that appealed the most first

This is Frank a 5 year old Staffordshire terrier. Had a few dogs in my life but never a staffie before. He is the most attention seeking, needy, vocal plonker of a dog I have ever had but I love him so much it scares me , he's like another son and I am not sure I would get another breed of dog...