Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

Have you tried the fish on live/frozen food? Most fish will eat that when they won't eat anything else. i don't mean to feed bloodworm etc exclusively, just to see if he will eat some then you'll know he can eat.

I would very much advocate buying the garlic-infused frozen food. My LFS advocated it (the brine shrimp in my case given the fish I have), plus some Microbe-Lift Herbtana, when my x-ray tetra was in poorly recently. I only bought the garlic-infused brine shrimp - but what a "hit" it has been among everyone from the outset and causes widespread excitement in a way no other food does. Even the two small harlies, who can be very fussy about what food to take if it's not the right size/shape/texture, and who generally ignore the standard frozen food in the tropical fish quartet or spit it out, zoom off at top speed to capture this and munch away happily on it.

May have found the answer to running out of space for more tanks.
Not sure how the filtration would work, but.....

I think the fish in keyrings sold in the far east a few years ago beat that  http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/04/live-fish-and-reptiles-sold-as.html

I've seen pictures of the wall-mounted half bowls, but luckily I've never seen them for sale in any shop.
I'd never heard of the keyring ones before.
Really wish I hadn't clicked on the link.
Words fail me.

Many congratulations on your exam results @apache6467   

Congrats on the exam results 
What is the next step for you? I know you've mentioned college, but doing what exactly?

With shrimps you meed to make sure that different shrimp species need the same water parameters - pH, harness and temperature - just the same as for fish.
Red cherry shrimps are the easiest. There are different colours (orange, yellow, blue, chocolate) but these are more delicate having been selectively bred from red cherries, which in their turn were selectively bred from the brownish wild ones.
Amanos and ghost/glass shrimps are next easiest.
Crystal reds & blacks are harder, as are things like tiger shrimps.

The best source of info on shrimps is Planet Inverts

The fair is in town. It takes place in the High Street which is closed on Tuesday evening as the fair gets itself into position, then again on Thursday evening, Friday evening and 10.45 am to midnight on Saturday while the fair is open. Most of the small shops close for the week.
We needed to go to the supermarket this morning and were there as the horse flashing took place, and the mayor and his entourage were driven up the High Street in a covered contraption pulled by a steam engine. While this was going on, the fair people were getting ready to open for the day.

And I was sickened to see the stalls that are still giving away goldfish as prizes. So much for all the petitions calling for this to be banned.

I do wonder if this practice will ever be banned 

That's good news about the tetra 



Apparently in England and Wales the Animal Welfare Act 2006 did almost ban goldfish at fairs then at the last minute the very influential fairground industry got it changed from a total ban to a ban on giving fish to under 16 year olds unless there was an adult present. Scotland did manage to ban the giving of animals as prizes "except where it is offered in a family context".
There is more than one stall at our fair. I'd need an army of helpers - assuming the fair people didn't get me removed.

I would love to know what goes on in the mindset of a fish.

I have one harlequin who takes possession of the middle third of the tank for the duration of the afternoon and sends every intruder well out of range. Some of the male tetras appear to tease and seem to try sneaking in to the area when another is being chased, checking for the harlequin's whereabouts before darting into the space, only to be chased out of it seconds later by the harlequin who seems increasingly angry.

This afternoon, the harlequin has taken a dislike to the wound-prone female tetra who normally takes possession of the adjacent third of the tank to the right but who is quite happy to share this area with one of the male tetras and the smallest harlequin (while everyone else is confined to the remaining third of the tank). The harlequin is not only forbidding anyone to enter his usual territory but is terrorising the wound-prone female tetra out of hers. The smallest harlequin is allowed to stay there and the other female tetra (who has uncharacteristically moved from her current usual spot on the extreme left of the tank to be in the wound-prone female tetra's spot) is allowed to stay there. The wound-prone female tetra's male friend and this territorial harlequin are involved in a series of heavy spats - I admire the male tetra's loyalty towards his companion. Oooh, would I love to know what this is all about, though... 

I have several nerite snails of different species. I have two of one type, and I must have a male and female because if they are in the same tank there are soon hundreds of eggs everywhere. So one is in my betta's tank, the other is in my community tank.
I have a slight algae problem in the betta's tank and the nerite is slowly vanishing under a carpet of algae on its shell.
I did my weekly water changes this afternoon and spotted the other one of them in a very convenient position in the big tank, so I swapped them. Within a minute, the algae covered snail had two shrimps climbing all over it. I'm hoping they can clean it up for me as scraping the algae with my finger nail does not remove it.

If I hadn't been in the middle of a water change with wet hands I would have taken a photo but by the time I could take a photo the snail and its cleaners had vanished into the undergrowth