Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

I draw the line at trying to breed with my best friend though    and I'm sure that she would not be offended by that.

My best pal would be a bit surprised of I tried it.

And his wife...

It happens to single females as they get older. 
My carpentry, plumbing, general DIY and gardening skills are good enought to get me by under most circumstances

  indeed it does and I shall be teaching my son how to hang wallpaper this weekend if I can escape for a couple of hours.

What are you doing, they asked, using Mummy's drill?

Awesome. 

I hope that everything is ok with your tetra. Perhaps it's just a minor injury and will heal soon.

All seems well and happy in the tank, though - everyone is coloured up beautifully and I seem to have got the plant arrangements positioned and tilted spot-on correctly this week that's making for a healthy looking, lively yet peaceful tank.

That definitely calls for a piccie! C'mon, you know the rules!

I'm struggling to control the nitrites in the fry tank using seachem prime for some reason. It says on the bottle its safe to use up to 5 times the normal dose if nitrites are high but even with 5 times the dose I'm still getting a positive reading. I'm using it because the sponge filter I bought didnt have anywhere to add mature media.

I'm going to make a sponge filter I've seen on you tube out of a plastic bottle and nick some mature media out of the other tanks so hopefully it shouldn't be a problem after thats up and running but I mystified why seachem prime isn't doing the job...unless I'm doing something wrong

yup I did @fcmf

I'm dosing at x5normal dosage because there's a cycling filter in there, the mature media doesn't seem be having much effect. Ho hum I'd like some way to calculate the dosage as it all seems to be a bit hit and miss. That said it's a bit weird as tests initially showing nitrites, if left a few hours, show zero nitrites,there's always zero ammonia.

The important thing I suppose is that I have 8-11 healthy and growing fry. It's bit hard to tell the exact amount as they're very good at hiding but yesterday I counted 8 and today 11.

Congrats on the fry, @Fiona - you seem to do well on that side of things, so conditions/water must be favourable. Hopefully, even if the nitrites are being made less toxic by the Prime, you'll get their levels reduced very soon.

I positioned the laptop in front of the fishtank, to let the fish see humans swimming (in the Olympics) - there was a little bit of intrigue (probably at the bright colours on the screen) followed by a seemingly unimpressed decision to resume their business.

Sorry to read of this, @ColinB - always sad, irrespective of age or circumstances.

My fish news is somewhat negative.
Mark from the fish shop phoned this afternoon to say that had some of the fish I want but not all of them. Unfortunately the missing ones are those I want large shoals of and the ones they have are those I only want a few of. I can't get the few as I won't be able to dose ammonia and in the two to three weeks it'll take to get the big shoals in I'll lose a lot of bacteria.
Mark has been on holiday and I do wonder if the fish I wanted weren't ordered in his absence. He says he'll order them this week for delivery at the end of the week after.
I've waited 2 months so another couple of weeks won't seem too long. If I can't get the fish I want, I'll have to do a rethink.




I asked for 15 purple harlequin rasboras (a colour morph of standard harlequins), 15 Daisy's ricefish (Oryzias woworae), 4 peacock gobies/gudgeons (1 m 3 f) and half a dozen of whatever stiphodons they can get - they had some red neon stiphs arrive yesterday, whatever species those are.