Hello!

[gordz]

Since I've just joined thought I might as well say hello and give you my life story within aquatics...

Last time I had an aquarium was when I was young and we'd always had shubunkins (my mum loved that kind of fish for some reason!). So I'd always had cold water fish. Quite a few years on and now I have my own house I decided to once again start aquariuming (official terminology?!?!), but this time going down the tropical route!

I've had my aquarium set up with my fish in it for nearly a year now and after lots of friends and family saying how hard tropical fish are to look after, I've actually found them more resilient and easy to keep than bog standard goldfish or shubunkins ever where! And i'm definitley enjoying the variety of colours you can get with tropical fish, especially my neon tetras and american flag fish!

You can see from my signature below what I actually do own.

I've only been on this forum for less than half an hour and I've found so much useful info and facts, so I thank you all very much for that!

Cheers,

Gordon.

 

[oscars r ace]

hiya welcome along, you will find lots of good advice from everyone on here, what they don't know isn't worth knowing. have fun

 

[GSD]

Welcome to the forum

 

[chesterscot]

to tff you will find lots of helpfull info here and a good community willing to help ya
regards scot

 

[gordz]

Cheers everyone!

Finding this forum more and more useful by the day!

Had some trouble with my black widow tetra losing it's colour and hiding a lot because it was getting bullied by my american flag fish and gourami! So after reading stuff on here headed down to pets at home to get some more black widows, well, 3 pets at homes to be precise, 1 in wrexham had hardly any fish in because no1 is buying tropical fish at the moment apparently! 1 outside chester had no black widow tetras, but finally found a pets at home inside chester with plenty of them! So got myself two of them to add to my tank and now I have a mini shoal of black widows and everyone is happy again

Also got myself my first catfish too, a little otto! Doing a fantastic job with my algae problem, don't think he'll be getting hungry for a long long time!!!

Although, the lady in shop said I really should keep otto's in a shoal, does anyone know if this is correct? As my single otto seems happy enough!

Gordon.

 

[fatheadminnow]

to TFF!

The members on here are very nice and very willing to help!

-FHM

 

[Davo86]

Although, the lady in shop said I really should keep otto's in a shoal, does anyone know if this is correct? As my single otto seems happy enough!

Hi welcome,
Yes otocinclus is a catfish that does really prefer to be kept in groups

 

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