Mr Gumby

Thanks for the responses, I'll look into it

Hi folks, is garden hose ok to use while doing water changes? I usually use a length of hose I bought from my LFS to pump water from the sink but I've moved tanks further away and it no longer reaches. the hose from the LFS is quite pricey and I was hoping to save a bit of cash

Hi folks, My fish collection consists of danios, rasboras, Cory's and tetras. All of which are nano species plus cherry shrimp. I feed live BBS, daphnia, micro worms and vinegar eels. Various frozen foods, bug bites and vibra bites. I also sprinkle a bit of spirulina for the shrimp Other than ease of use is there any dietary need to feed prepared dry food?

Interesting, I wonder if my cpd's would come out more if they thought the school was bigger?

Thanks @BlueLineAquaticsSC I only keep nano fish so aggression isn't much of an issue

Hi folks, I'm prepping for moving my tanks to a different room. The tanks will be lined up against a wall and I'll be painting the backs black but are there advantages to painting the sides as well? thanks Gareth

@Karen B. Yes just the pad, I put a pad on the bottom with two strips on top of that so I can feed them in the gap. I lay a piece of clear plastic on top which the worms gather on. When feeding the fish I just lift the plastic off and dip it in the tank

As @Comradovich says multiple cultures is the way to go if you're going with smaller ones.

Thanks @Fish Folk that makes sense. I'm currently slowly adding ro to my weekly water changes to reduce the hardness and pH. It was what I do after breeding that had me scratching my head

Hi folks, I've had good success with egg scattering that are happy to breed in my very hard water, CPD's, Emerald dwarf Rasbora, most Corydoras etc. However I watched the recent member talk with Randy Carey and he covered adjusting water for breeding of soft water spawners but he never followed on with the post spawn part. My question is at what point do you start to bring the parameters back to your tap water? Can you start once you've collected the eggs - Once the fry have some size to them and are eating proper foods or at some point in between? Anyone have experience good or bad?

I heard you mention it on the stream, it was nice to meet you at vivarium but maybe I can tempt you over to the UK with Indian food lol

well if you can make the trip it will be good to meet a fellow nerm 🙂

Hi folks, I spotted on one of my news feeds that Aqua 2023 which is usually a trade show is being opened up to the public for two of the three days. IIRC @Cory was going to attend one a while back with extreme but ended up not going (I am 52 now so may be mis-remembering that) From what I can gather it's more for equipment and food etc rather than livestock but it might be a nice little meet up for some uk nerms that fancy a day out and a meet up if you're in the west midlands area. I dare say there will be some aquatic critters in the displays but I'm guessing at this point. The venue is Telford international centre which is literally a ten minute drive from my house so it would be rude not to have a look around. 13th and 14th of October are the public days if you're interested, I'll be the guy in the coop t-shirt so stop me and say hello if you can make it🙂

Google is giving me no help as depending on which site I look at the answer differs wildly Can my bronze Cory's go in my temperate tank? the tank has a heater but it's down at 68/20, they are currently in a tropical tank which I run at 73/23 but the footprint of the temperate tank gives them much more space

Bizarre, so my plan of species only breeding tank has a lower stock level than a community tank....I think whoever built the database may have overlooked something there 🙂