Recent content by sioband

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Just a quick update on the fry. We have a total of 17 (i think) baby golden gourami now. They have been having brine shrimp occasionally over the last couple of weeks. Now i am using a combination of liquifry no 3 powder and crushed flake. There are a couple of larger fish and some still...

Thank you all for your advice. Leaving things alone for tonight. will post again at the weekend, can see we have been lucky to have raised the few we have, and will do our best following the advice given. :)

:unsure: I must have done something wrong along the line. I am down to approx 10 fry now, a couple are very distinctly fish shaped, with head, body and tail, the rest are still very immature. I saw some fry positioned head down and spiralling tails up in the water, the next day loads were dead...

Hi all, I need a little feeding advice please if you can help. ( see, gourami fry post last week!) We have moved approx 100 fry into a new tank. Seeded air driven sponge filter fitted and running well. The fry are getting bigger by the day. We are feeding liquifry no 1 at the mo, but have...

Just a quick update on the fry. We have moved the fry into a larger tank now with sponge air pump driven filter. Heated to 28-30 c, lighted and protected from draughts. There are about 100 or so fry in there. all still growing, feeding on liquifry 1 and sprinkling some liquifry 3 in too. Water...

We use a power head and hose to pump water out into a 20L container. Then we use the same hose to syphon water out of 2 other 20 L containers. No substrate disturbed providing you dont put the hose too far down in tank.

Hi, water changes at the mo- syphoning very carefully from the bottom of bare tank, then carefully pouring fresh in along a side wall. Stirred but not too shaken hopefully!!! Will look into brine shrimp hatching as we have three fish tanks now and this fry tank, can get expensive this hobby...

Having seen how our golden gouramis acted towards a much larger discus i can believe they are capable of this. They do seem quite territorial to me.

Hiya everyone, we had a nice surprise on friday when we saw the golden gouramis we have spawning. The male has been making nests for some time but female unreceptive, but success on friday. On close inspection we saw some free swimming fry also. On saturday we had to move the male and female...

Just a little addition to your article regarding these great little things. We have a male who used to live in the record 96 with fish friends. He managed to escape a few times and so has ended up on his own. He has previously escaped for a couple of hours on two separate occasions. Then being...

Re, missing frog. We have an albino clawed frog who has managed to escape from a rekord 60 tank four times so far! Each time we thought there was no chance for escape with secured wiring gaps etc. First and second time he was found after a couple of hours or so, dusty from under the sofa. So...

Hi All, Great site, found a lot of information we need. :) Thank you. We have recently upgraded our plastic tank for a glass 11 gallon tank. We have shubunkins that have grown and out grown 3 sizes of plastic tank so the time came to take the plunge. We now have 2 shubunkins, 3 goldfish, 1...