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Great looking tank matey, love the layout in the first pic.

Cheers, Yeah mine normally do but these have seemed to have survived (so far).

Hi and thank you all for your comments, i'm thinking of adding some java moss to some dirftwood and changing a couple of pieces of wood for large pebble to see how that looks. I'll update the pics when i've done it. i was also thinking of adding some lilly pads to the tank for a bit of a shaded area...

Its the Rio 180 but i've took the box filter out and added a External fluval 205 and internal fluval 2 until i can afford another external filter.

Thanks, thats an old pic the plants have grown wild and really bushy now.

As the titles says, how can i make a natural tank or close to natural as possible. I have bogwood and plants at the mo but i want to go with the natural theme and not as much wood as it turns my water yellow. Any ideas or pics you guys have would be gretaful. :D this is my tank now http://i127.photo...

im impressed by the quality of the pics if they are phone pics

Yeah they were taken off my Sony Ericsson K750i. Its abit old but a good phone.

and it's far too little to be gravid, it looks titchy!

I was thinking that, he/she must of just had a good meal

thanks for all the replies. This fatness has only jsut appeared, when i purchased them they all were slim and the same size but this one has just gone like it is now in the pic.

I now know that this not classed as a loach.

Bi-colour Golden Loach, its a sucking loach

As above, i notice it today when i was doing a water change. it had disappeared for days and i saw it today like this, my other two are normal size. So is it Pregnent or just fat????? http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p148/dave_2133/DSC00632.jpg http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p148/dave_2133/DSC...

The same happened to me. I had treid to boil it several times but it did the same each time i put it back in the tank, so i cut my losses and put it in the bin.

Hey them Pearl Gouramis are quite nice. never really thought about them. My lfs stock these too, i think a trip up there is on the books

Great pics Martin, i've seen alot of your pics on here and all of them are cracking shots.

The tiger barbs are going for sure now, i have just caught two of them attacking my smallest clown. I cant stand for that, if nothing agrees with the clowns then they cant stay. Got the look after my most important fish

Nice fish, what are they?

How big do they grow?

Emma, i'll have to make some time for a trip down your way soon as i have to see your selection of fish.

Lets see a pic of how the tank is now then we can suggest other ways of laying it out. It all depends on how much you want to spend and how much you want to fill it, you need alot of swimming space for the clowns to dig about in. I have a mixture of bogwood, real plants and a few pebbles. So it all ...