Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

Having had to remove about 75% of the plants, all of which had died, all I can say is thank goodness my fishkeeping skills are vastly superior to my plantkeeping skills. Not giving up, though!

Interesting. It is a few years since I went there - at least 5 as that's how long since my mother came to live with us. Back 5+ years ago they had a bigger variety of fish than I'd ever seen elsewhere. Either Crews Hill is unusually large or Pier Aq have gone downhill.

I finally gave in. My husband has been nagging me for years about too many tanks. I now no longer have a 50 litre tank 

We are have having some alterations done to the kitchen and I will admit where he can't see it that the tank will be in the way. I have spent this afternoon emptying the tank bucket by bucket and searching for shrimps in every one. I counted everything and I have moved 7 pygmy cories, 5 Boraras brigittae, 2 Boraras maculatus and.....93 red cherry shrimps into the 180 litre tank.
I've also had a plant reshuffle. The bolbitis in the main tank tank was looking very sorry for itself after 3 months with no fish, so the wood with bolbitis from the 50 has gone into the 180. The tatty bolbitis has been removed from its wood and the best bits attached to another piece of wood. The large anubias, which refused to attach to its piece of wood, has now been fastened to the wood the bolbitis was on. And I threw away the bits of hornwort in the betta's tank and moved the wood with some hornwort in from the 50 litre.




I now have rather a lot of unwanted hornwort sitting in a bucket of water. If anyone wants some, send me a message. It is shrimp safe but cannot be guaranteed snail free.

Oh goodness - that is some news but I understand your rationale. Glad you have managed to locate everyone (and 93 red cherry shrimps - wow!) and that they're all safely in the larger tank. Looking forward to seeing some pics once the 180-litre is finally complete.

I had been debating what else I could put in the 180, at least this has solved that dilemma  The Boraras and shrimps fit in with the Asian theme but the south American cories don't.

It can be good when the decision is taken out of your hands sometimes. As for the Asian and South American fish, I'm all "for" the promotion of good international relations, and my tetra and harlies are getting on very well - increasingly, I see them inter-shoaling (eg little harlies and little tetras playing together, while the two female tetras swim laps in synchronised fashion and the bachelor gang of harlies plot or create mischief elsewhere).

I managed to rescue 3 rcs babies at my last water change but I'm not sure they escaped from my pesky rams when they were reintroduced to the tank... I must think more about doing an unfiltered unheated bowl for them, but worry that they might not survive.  It would definitely be me to blame as such if they didn't...

I'm very impressed you gave in Sue but can see the sense in it. My supposed QT ended up with substrate and plants but as soon as I can move my 200l I'm stripping it right down. I don't think I'll have the time for all the maintenance of so many tanks when I start uni next week.

Excellent and very exciting news!   

Let us know what the CC says...

I would wait for a few days after the last spot has gone just in case one 'bug' escaped being poisoned.
How are the fish in the tank she was in doing re spots? There are differing opinions on whitespot. Some say that just one bug getting into a tank will result in all the fish becoming infected; others say there are bugs in the tank at all times and it's only fish that are unable to fight them off that get infected; and a third opinion says the bugs are on the fish where we can't see them - in the gills. I haven't yet read any statement that research has conclusively proved one of these, but it may be I just haven't found it yet.


The CC is a bit awkward as only pygmy cories and peacock gudgeons are in the profiles so I've had to substitute fish. And as I'm running two filters, I've classed it as 'oversized internal'. According to the CC I have:
15 slender harlequins (for 15 hengel's rasboras)
18 glowlight tetras (for 18 ricefish)
5 peacock gudgeons
6 otocinclus (for 6 stiphodons)
9 pygmy cories
5 axelrod's rasboras (for 5 very small Boraras brigitae and 2 slightly larger B maculatus)
80 japonica shrimps (instead of 93 cherry shrimps, and they count zero towards my stocking level, thank goodness)
5 snails (apple snails instead of nerites, but they also count as zero)

This makes me 81% stocked. If I switch to internal instead of oversized, that makes 97%. I'll just do bigger or more frequent water changes 

I'm beginning to think that moving the fish from the 50 litre to the 180 litre wasn't a bad move. I have done a water change on the 180 this afternoon and the fish behaviour was quite interesting.

The hengel's rasboras clustered together in the corner as usual
The ricefish swam all over the tank, including dangerously near the siphon tube, as usual.

In the 50 litre, the cories and Boraras all hid in the hornwort tangle. Today they swam round the tank in their shoals (all Boraras as one shoal) and ignored what I was doing. Their behaviour was totally different in the big tank.
I keep reading that even 60 litres is small to fish, and I'm beginning to think they are right.

And the 100% sure male I got yesterday spent the entire water change displaying to a female, and pushing her into his cave with his body