HummingBird

You need at least 3 clowns for them to feel secure, in the wild they always live in groups.

I bought my clown loaches for $12 each, they're all at least 6cm. I got them from Goldfish Pagoda. They were the smallest ones he could get in.

How big is Baldrick? he sounds awesome

Awesome pics and congrats on the spawning!

Reading these symptoms, I think a guppy of mine had dropsy a week or two ago (it died). It was all pinecone-like with what appeared to be blood inbetween it's scales. It doesn't appear that any of my other fish have it though, I treated the tank with Melafix and Garlic (immune system booster, couldn't hurt) at the time to be safe. I feed guppies from that tank to my Oscars and Angels so hopefully they won't come down with it. Are there any early warning signs that I should be looking for?

Of course, if they did succeed in actually doing that they'd have you say that anyways.

Yeah the clowns especially, they're incredibly sensitive to bad water parameters. I had the bad experience of losing 3 of them once. They got sick, I seperated them into little ice cream containers (bad move, I know now, but I figured it'd be easier to treat them), they all jumped out and dried up. It was particularly bad because the dehumidifier was on in the room too (siphon accident).

Try checking the impeller. It may need a clean or replacement. It's one of the first things that tend to break in filter motors and new ones aren't usually too expensive.

You could try adding tonic salt and melafix to the water. Unless it was a really nice guppy I wouldn't sweat it though, you're going to have like 20 more next month anyways

You don't need to have something underneath the gravel. You can just have a deep bed of gravel. You don't need to do anything in particular when changing the gravel in regard to the fish. Just scoop the old stuff out, put the new stuff in (rinsed first of course). If you have any fish that burrow it might be best to find them first though (I found an old dried up Khuli loach last week in some gravel that used to be in one of my tanks).

Yeah you turn the valve and it sucks a bit of air in with the water being put back in the tank. You just just have the output breaking up the surface and achieve the same results though.

I don't control their numbers, haven't had to so far. I introduced them into this tank because it was too small to have the traditional type scavengers/algae eaters (bristlenose etc). I quite like them, it's neat to see the way they move about in the aquarium like submarines (using air to float to the top/letting air out to sink). Ramshorns are actually molluscs so they breath air as well Yes they excrete wastes, all organisms do. Snail waste is much more soluble than fish waste and certainly more soluble than algae so it makes it easier to get the stuff out of your tank entirely.

You could try something that plantman on the forums here does, have the bubbles go into a powerhead where they get spewn out as smaller, easily diffusing bubbles.

To support Graeme's point, here's a pic of one of my tanks that has Ramshorns in it: It's heavily planted and there are a lot more snails in there than can be seen in that pic. As you can see they leave the plants alone.

Get cardinals instead. They're bigger and better looking than neons. Angels aren't a problem with them, as exampled by one of my 4ft tanks:

Who knows... awesome that they've bred though. That's a good looking male, quite yellowish.

They'd just fall back down into the water if they got inside wouldn't they...

Yeah my oscar does that too, it's pretty neat to watch. Except it hurts when he misses and gets half a finger :-?

You're describing just about everyone on this forum there too I think you'll find you fit in just fine around here...

I have one male, two female siamese fighters in a 4 foot tank with (amoung other things) 3 clown loaches and 4-5 bristlenose. It's heavily planted too. The answer to your question is yes

I always find that in the middle of the night my Cardinal tetras (similar looking fish to neons) lose their colours. I was pretty worried the first time I saw it too, but I'm fairly sure it's just a natural thing for them.

I keep some bettas in a 4 foot aquarium, they occupy the whole tank and don't tend to stay around any place in particular. In the wild they don't live in a 20L area of water.

They're at it again... http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/auct ... d=27007508

I just got one of these jobbies for one of my 2ft tanks, what does everyone think of them?

I've heard you can put them in the fridge and they can pull through apparently Caryl...