Recent content by travelling-guppy

Yes, I meant Embers. Autocorrect strikes again! The gravel is Dennerle shrimp gravel and is inert. Do you mean inches or cm?

I have come back to keeping tropical freshwater fish after a 2 year break. I have bought a 50L Dennerle Scaper's tank. I want to grow live plants and keep red cherry shrimp and amber tetras. Can you advise how deep I should make the substrate? I have bought some shrimp gravel but not sure how...

Gravel changed with green neons and red cherry shrimps safely out of the way in a bucket with the heater. It all looks much better with dark gravel. The shrimp are particularly happy and now swim circuits when they are fed. They were always a bit shy before. Thanks for the helpful advice. I...

Thanks.That is v clear and helpful. Cheers. 

Please could I get some advice in changing gravel in my Fluval Edge 23l. I have had it for about 3 years and I want to change from white to black gravel. Should I remove all the fish to change it or leave them in and work around them? I want to do the thing that will stress them least. As I...

Thanks. Both interesting and helpful posts. I will probably go with black fine gravel then. Any idea how much i will need for my little tank? I have a couple of simple moss balls already. I know shrimps like java moss. Is it easy to grow? Do I have to do things with fertiliser and CO2? 

I have a Fluval Edge 23L with 6 green neons, an assassin snail and a male guppy. I would like to keep red cherry shrimps and live plants too. I have white gravel which is quite chunky. This looked stunning when I set up the tank but now has turned green and looks a bit tatty. I was thinking of...

I have just been looking at bigger tanks. I had to come home for a tape measure to see what I could squeeze in to my flat. My MTS seems to be progressing. I guess the biggest tank I can fit in is the best. Does anyone know if it matters if it is tall versus thin or wide and short? Or is it the...

Is there a support group for MTS? Where will it all end? How tanks many is too many?

You know what? I am gonna go with 2 tanks. A shrimp tank and a new big one. The only question now is ....... Is 90 L big enough or should I think bigger? I may need to go back to the tank showroom and rethink.

Thanks. To answer your question, yes my Endlers are all male as I didn't want to be overwhelmed with fry. They whizz around the tank in a little shoal and look beautiful. I had regular guppies before but had a heater failure and lost them. They were beautiful but very wriggly. They moved so...

OK. Thanks. I think I will either go with a bigger tank or scrub the dwarf gourami idea.

OK so I am still not clear if a 90L tank is or isn't too small for a dwarf Gourami. Could someone clarify?

Thanks, I will have a look at those suggestions. Cheers.

Oh. So a 90L tank would be too small for a dwarf Gourami. Isn't 90L about 24 gallons? Perhaps my maths is wrong or is it to do with the length of the tank? Any suggestions for other fish for a 90L tank?