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It is a risk and not something I'd recommend, buying a very large one could work but even a medium one would likely get eaten at some point when the Oscar outgrows the Ancistrus.

Are you dead set on breeding Betta Splendens? There's plenty of other options a easy to spawn but with less awkward requirements afterwards. Another issue with them is also supplying live food small enough for after they absorb their egg sacks and become able to eat larger food items. Newly...

just a smaller version of what I've been buying for a few months but identical otherwise, I have five day old fry going in and out of one right now in a 2ft. I leave it in for the fry t pick at algae and microfauna.

Both the Convict and Terror have the potential to cause massive drama the Convict in general while not as bad without breeding it would terrorise the geos and perhaps most of the current residents. The Terror on the other hand while doing all the same as the Convict would also take more issue...

Sadly the most sold pieces of decor are those neon castles etc from donkeys years ago, even to this day they sell far better than most things.

The great explosive glofish race?

I've no idea if it's still a thing out in the sticks of some countries, gladly illegal for the most part now but it was a prevalent pastime, gambling hobby many years ago in some places. Reading about it now apparently it's illegal almost everywhere except for some parts of Asia and is largely...

While I find genetics interesting and am guilty to keeping aquarium strains, line bred forms this is a leap too far for me. Anything this unnatural shouldn't exist is my take. Fish that struggle to perform as intended or have their lives seriously hampered and/or shortened are also a no for me...

Depending on what your mains water is you might not need to adjust any water chemistry these are pretty robust and adaptable cichlids even being successful invasives. Duanes has some good pictures of DIY sumps, setups and built many things with what he has to hand. Using a lot of live plants is...

No I was saying that both JDs and Texas are not South American in my previous post. Not sure how I gave you the impression I said the opposite sorry.

I agree the best would be to start off with a used aquarium of a larger size like you stated ideally 180+, you wouldn't really get the full experience in something much smaller and would experience the growing pains of keeping semi/aggressive species in confined quarters maybe even leading to...

With the few I've kept they have been very accepting of tankmates of all varieties except for when something happens to trigger a response such as adding a new fish or what happened once where one of the silver shark shoal got spooked and in the resulting chaos of its throws they started to...

No, they aren't big enough to allow the female to escape the males attention. The ones I use are these 26x15x15cm Fish Breeding Box Isolation Net, Fish Breeding Box Aquarium with 6 Suction Cups for Fish Tank,Incubator Box for Baby Fishes Shrimp to Isolation, Rearing,hatching and Protection of...

Not really with the rainbows other than the odd split fin but lots of interactions ands displays. At the beginning there was some friction with the pleuros especially at feeding time usually with the female being a little too excited and barrelling the male over to get at more food resulting in...

Sorry I'm not able to help the only species I've kept pairs or more of together are pleurophthalma and bleheri. The pleurophthalma for about four years before selling them and the bleheri until I grew bored of the aquarium roughly two years. Both are considered peaceful by Channa standards so...

I don't mean to be rude but guessing with your plastic decoration and backing it was purchased from a chain store (apologies if I'm just coming off as snobby). Impulse purchase or gifted it? I would say it's likely a Midas/devil hybrid looking at the colouring. You will know within a short...

Stunning fish so much so it looks a little off :)

Years and years ago I had a group of blockheads in with a few uaru and severum. You never knew how many were in there until removing the plants etc so prolific but great little characters.

That would be fine what I have right now isn't expensive but disappointingly there's only light in one of the four "fingers" and you need to buy extra led kits for the others which are about £20 each when the tanks were only £70 ish iirc . In the one there's a pair of Black tiger dario and...

I'll check it out cheers, right now I have a Ciano Nexus pure either side of our bed but the lighting isn't sufficient for much plant life.