Thanx everybody. No, I'm not going to flush a live (or dead!) fish. @Wyvren, yeah, I cant see myself crushing or cutting a fish :( I'll go get...
I went away for the weekend and came home last night to find my male thick-lipped gourami looking very bloated and swollen. His eyes are...
also if you get a nice big gravel vac it makes it easier to vac fine substrate. just swirl the vac's mouth in a gentle circular motion just above...
an alternative is to cap your silica gravel with round smooth pea gravel. I have flourite as substrate and capped it with the pea gravel for my...
it's aliiiiiivvveeee!!! thought you'd gone missing :) back on topic. I'm an IT specialist for a traffic engineering firm. in my spare time I...
My point exactly. the argument of risk taking and pioneering with living creatures involved smacks too much of animal experimentation to me. It's...
Yes, but then it's our duty as responsible fish keepers to keep these animals in as a natural and humane environments as possible. We dont have...
Look at the mouth and body stripe and fin colours SAE (Crossocheilus oblongus): http://www.aquaticscape.com/articles/algae/SAE_ID.jpg...
Shot, that looks AMAZING!!! how do you anchor the 'sticks'? dammit, now I want to rescape my tank
the SAE also has a 'cory'ish mouth with small barbels where the CAE has a sucker mouth. also usually the black body line on the SAE extends onto...
hard to tell on the fish. would really need a better pic, especially of the tail and mouth. SAE and CAE look very similar
Thanx BBQ, they're a mission to photograph cause they're quite shy and seem to think my camera's lens is a sniper rifle ;) I think these are the...
Some new pics of my male and one of my female thick-lipped gouramis. They're beautiful fish and have matured and coloured up really nicely....
Hallo Mariette! another pta fishkeeper :)
Thanx everybody. How often and likely are they to spawn?
uh-oh.. then maybe not.
awesome! I think they're gorgeous little fish. they're peaceful right? my thick lip gouramis are pretty shy and I dont want anything that will...
Tell me about them :) My community tank is 120liters. 60 x 45 x 55cm running a fluval 104 cannister filter, medium planted and running at about...
love this shape tank, you can really play with layering your fauna. cories at the bottom, something tetra-ish for the middle and gouramis at the...
THAT LPS in atterbury has quite a selection of twisted vine type wood. cheap too cause it's light. just sterilise thoroughly as it lies about open...
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