Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

Awww cute 

I've been trying to get my fish to try blanched veg for a while now, started trying once I put ottos in the tank, I've tried spinnach, lettuce, cucumber and courgette with no success. Today I tried peas and my fish went mad for it, all except the ottos.

The panda cories are still laying eggs and I think I've spotted another couple of little ones.
I think I've just worked out how they are surviving in that tank (not heavily planted). I made a tree out of whatever branched piece of wood it is, trimmed pads of filter sponge, and willow moss. It's been under high light to grow the moss, and I was looking at it this evening, wondering if it would be safe to trim the moss to encourage growth. Without shame a couple of pandas swam in front of me and started to lay eggs in the moss. There are even a couple of eggs stuck to the glass by the moss pad. I think this is making it difficult for the other fish to eat the eggs, causing more to hatch.
Taking the "tree" out will cause too much disruption, but I hope they stop soon, before the tank becomes too full.
 

Nerite snail was hanging off filter outlet, with what looked like his entire flesh being sucked out/buffeted by the water output. I was just about to take a photo of him to post on here to ask for advice when he fell off backwards and landed on his shell. I waited to see if he could rectify himself but it looked as though half of his underside was a gaping hole while the other half was flesh. No idea what this means but I've put him upright and will just have to hope he's alive in the morning... 

@fcmf how is your snail this morning?

Found eventually, thanks - alive and sleeping on a piece of bamboo stick.   

Long time no post... but I have been lurking to keep up on any fishy goings on.
A couple of things I would like to raise, brown water from the taps - horrid and smells 'a bit of pond' in large quantities, this has been going on intermittently for several years but over the last two months it became a real issue, see the bath pic. We obviously stopped drinking the water and used a carbon filter once it cleared. The reply from the water company was quite prompt and an inspector was due to come and have a look at the end of the week, didn't turn up but rang and explained that it is deposits in the aging iron pipes getting disturbed, not to worry and promised to start a maintenance program of monthly flushed from the nearest standpipe
So its now six weeks later and the second picture is what I was able to recover from the filter I keep in the water aging (conditioning) wheels bin, its 240 litre and picture is after 1 1/2 fills so say 350litres and I didn't manage to collect all the sediment. So back to the water company and explained that my water coming out of the fish tanks is cleaner than the water going in, not happy. They say they will start a 2 weekly flush and see how it goes. I'm starting to think that I will fit a a three stage mechanical filter to the inlet - the fridge has a carbon filter for drinking water. I have relatives in Tunbridge wells and the water there was a Victorian attraction because it comes from iron rich sandstones it smells and tastes of iron. Maybe i should start bottling this muck as still Iron Bru?
In the tanks... I have a Amazon sword that has put up three 1m spikes they are well above the water level and I thought they might be about to flower but it seems they are runners and little sword-lets (or should it be knives or daggers?) Anybody seen this and do they ever flower?

That water looks nasty. 
It's bad enough when this sort of thing happens and you just have to deal with drinking & general water use, but with the extra stress of keeping your fish tanks in good condition it must be a bit of a nightmare.

As for your plants, I've had amazon swords with similar runners/plantlets. I have made the mistake of cutting the runner before the plants were big enough previously, so the two I have in my plant storage tank are being left alone to grow. I have had something "flower" in the dwarf puffer tank before. I'll have a look through my previous pics to see what it was.

The first picture is the runners on the amazon swords in my plant storage tank at the moment. The runners go up toward the light, and the roots remain submerged even if the leaves break the surface.
The second picture is from the dwarf puffer tank, I think it was last year, but can't remember. I'm fairly certain it was from one of the amazon swords. As you can see, the runner doesn't have any leaves, and was quite long (more than 50cm). I had no idea what it was, but it was nice to see something like that in the tank. 

It's turning into a very long night.
Decided to tackle the bristlenose & tetra tank, mainly to split the BNs to avoid any further babies.
So far I've transferred 57 babies, and I'm not finished yet.
They are cute, but I wish the babies would all just swim into the net now. 

The (possibly) final total is 107 babies moved to another tank.
My back hurts, so I'm going to have a rest for a few minutes, before a final check of the original tank.