Hi INXS - I'd be careful about introducing snails to a new tank, loaches or no - maybe I'm being overly apprehensive . . .

I'll third that, plants and undergravel don't mix, I imagine the problem would be exacerbated by the small gravel also. If I'm judging the picture size right, I would think 120 is litres, and the main filter is some sort of built-in thing? I don't have much experience with canister filters, but have...

I have a trick that will keep snails down, works for me in my 10 gal, which routinely has platy fry. I just snipped the top off a little pop bottle and stuffed it full of lettuce. Needs a little stone or something to weigh it down, and the snails will flock to it. If you are careful you can remove i...

make sure you read up on the slime!

To add to the chorus albeit nicely :D have you considered the drop of the falls? That far (10 cm?)will probably cause a good deal of turbulence. If you search for DIY terrarium or paludarium you can find all kinds of step-by-step contributions for all sizes of tanks, including lots of ideas for cool...

yeppers - let me relate the tale of lying abed in my apartment one night thinking "won't someone please crank that **** tap a little more so the pipe doesn't whine" for about twenty minutes before I got up to look . . . this might sound like a dumb question, but was there water in the cham...

Congratulations likewise, I'm sure the 'Peg hasn't seen anything that fancy since the last grey cup win bwahaha sorry I couldn't resist . . . good show! Make sure to get a good price if that's your aim, you've almost certainly cornered the market!

great pic! I really like the blue highlights - looks good!

Hi there - I have 4 otos and a solitary panda in my 10 gal, would not think of putting a pleco in a 10 gal small or not, methinks 10's just too small at all. The otos do a really good job on the algae and the cory does the bottom, and the tank is very heavily planted with rotala, hygro sunset and si...

good to hear! so he's an art-c no-see?

I can speak for that, I have an mono-opto-oto, his eye just went funny one day but he's just fine otherwise

I also vote the freezer, if for no other reason (as if humanity is not enough) to enable a reasonable post-mortem of an intact specimen . . . eewwwwww . . .

doesn't really look like any tetra I've seen before . . . are they blue on the side? If so I would almost certainly say neons, but I wonder about the extent of red in the tail . . .

I like to play around with my guitar (notice I didn't say "play") :D It's autographed by Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, btw . . . I am also very much into bird watching, the highlight of my career a trip up the flank of Mt. Baker in Washington State - one of the group was a man of 60 or so, a...

and Ian agrees with Ian - if your gravel is literally "pea-sized", it's way too big, with particular relevance given your predeliction for cleaning - you're taking their dinner! I have a half-sand substrate in my big tank; that is to say, all the sand is down one end to keep it away from t...

oh go on, just stick your hand in, get over it - what's the worst that could happen??

bang on, xander . . .

looks like a planaria to me too, or maybe some kinda little leech . . .

hi and happy new year! check out this site I found recently, if you haven't - it's got all kinds of excellent biotype info, kinda loosely arranged but just keep poking and you'll be amazed

http://www.mongabay.com/fish/data/ecosystem_index.htm

nothing fancy, just DIY CO2 and Tetra Blackwater Extract in half the recommended dosage once a week . . . I guess regulated CO2 would be an alternative, but for it you would need good lighting and presumably live plants, unless you were introducing it just to lower the pH - keep in mind you will los...

loaches work well for snails, all sorts (of both) - check out loaches.com for specifics, but hey Skyetone, before you use salt why not try lettuce?

Happy New Year All!

I bought some plants recently and got two stowaways, one in each tank. In the big tank we have msytery snails, well under control as they seem to breed slowly - I just squishes 'em when I sees 'em :P In the little tank I had a 'snail bloom' of pesky ramshorns that I have managed to remedy thus far v...

go big! the way I see it it's 250 for 75 or 350 for 125? sounds simple that way, gear be darned . . .

My response is that like so many other things, it's up to everybody to make sure they're doing "the right thing" - but for any higher being, we are on the honour system :) Apart from that, I certainly agree that retailers as the prime contact are completely capable of providing beginner-fr...

All just beautiful!

BIGBlue - I have to agree with Shane about the filter, particularly the charcoal - don't be afraid to mess around with the media, you can get some really good results - try some BioMax or some such, ask at the LFS. I use the TetraMin Blackwater extract in my Amazon-style tank in under the recommende...

Fascinating thread - scientific names must take precedence over common names of course, simply because of the enormous potential and actual confusion over differences. I can think of many situations in which fish have several different common names, alluding to the problem spiny wrote about. An espe...

Did you get them from a store?

Didn't know fish could have a heart attack :twisted: hey funny you should mention that, darndest thing that ever happened in all my years if fishkeeping I had a 10 gal with a little dark blue c*****d maybe 7 cm inherited from a friend, he was right as rain for about 3 weeks , all alone, then (I hap...

Hey, those guys are cool - sorry, no idea what they are, the pictures don't show too clear, but check in the Cat-eLog under Genus thumbnails for Callicthyidae and you can load 150+ little corys, maybe 20 of which have a similar colour pattern to yours. Do you mind if I ask where you got them, ie wha...