Recent content by skoppers

Thanks, I think Egg Crate is exactly what I need. I've been asking for mesh and all I get shown is things like mesh netting for gradens. At least with a different name (and the photo on the thread) I can show what I want. I'll be using it to construct raised platforms for rocks and maybe a...

I need some plastic mesh sheets to help me with a layout but don't know where to buy them. they need to be solid enough to support some rocks and have a small enough guage that crabs can't wiggle through. so far I've tried plastic baskets for pond plants. that kind of thing is good but I need...

Thanks, I think I'd skimmed over that site. :good:

I have a pair of N brevis 'sunspot', my first shell dwellers. They have a 10 gallon tank, about 15 shells of various sizes, and a sandy substrate with some coral chips to buffer the water. I feed them mostly live grindal worm, live daphnia, frozen bloodworm (chopped up) and little bit of...

I love old aquarium books, especially the excited way they talk about 'new' technologies that are way out of date these days. What amazes me is how much of the advice is still valid though. I recently bought a book from 1932 for a measly £5. Yes, 1932. It's American and most of the fish and...

I've got 3 Badis blosyrus in a heavily planted 70 litre tank. They also have 7 coconut caves of various sizes, some covered with java moss. For a month I had some rescued Yoyo loaches with them and the badis were active and bold. since I re-homed the loaches the badis have turned shy, hiding...

I kept some of these in a Rekord 70 tank with cherry shrimp, 3 otos and 5 small corydoras. The shrimp hid all the time as the badis pestered them. I currently feed my B blosyrus on cherry shrimp and I suspect the smaller badis (or dario dario, as I think it's now called) is as aggressive, just...