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I found out that constant 21 C is too cold. White cloud minnows can stand temps as high as 22, perhaps 24 C - but better not al year long.

There are much better combinations, for instance Trichmopomus heteromorpha, Boraras and so on

The common Ancistrus are rather easy to seks - males develop a mustache, females don't. this starts @ 6 cm, but all males are recognizible @ 8. Not this is partly due to selective breeding, thus a) this does not autyimatically go for other species and b) a large female may develope som bristles. Fem...

What is a parrot fish? If you mean a parrot cichlid, please refrain from supporting thos who created such a miserable creature. It derived from Amphilopus labridens or A citrinellus, a slender, fast swimming fish, into a thing with bend spine, not closing opercula which is not able to even breathe p...

A new tank has much more diatoms than a mature one. My suggesation would be to firstly follow the previous post, than improve this tank by adding sand, and plants. No matter which of both - loaches need sand to play in. Then I would suggest to realize the 1 inch of fish a gallon only goes for small,...

I don't have any experience with them. The only Cobitidae I have experience with is Acantocobitis, which is far different. Cobitis are found in the tropics, but also in Europe, in fact 1 species is found here in NL waters. But it is unlawfull keeping this species here, they are protected. As far as ...

As the UK gallon is some 10 % larger than the US gallon, you might want to change the 150 gallons redshark mentioned into 165 US gallons

Getting the fish to the vet is a very bad idea. But perhaps you can get the vet toi the fish?


Most vets know nothing about fishes, and here I really mean nothing, there are vets who don't even realize water can have influence. But you might be Lucky and know a fish vet.

Honestly, I can't Partly because I did not have any reason to gain experience with fighting deseases in the last 5 years, but also because before that I decided, after a presentation by a vet, never to use antibiotics for fishes. The thing is, after I treat the fish with something, the baceria will ...

As far as I know, a pop eye is mostly bacterial, and as you assumed, this is often due to lack of water quality. Rapid moving water is most often very poor in dissolved organic matter, hence no large amounts of bacteria can exist. Which made the fish need less defence against them. In our tanks the ...

While I have no experience with Yoyo - you could perhaps try with a yoyoish fish. Problem is, I know only 1 yoyoish fish. And any other would grow more or less to the same size.

in most places 10 december is warmer than 10 January. At least it is here in NL. Hope this goes for you too

Assuming you will keep all the windows closed and so on, the temperature will not drop dramatically. However, after bering still for 8 hours, I would not want to restart the filters, I'd want to clean them first. After all, in these 8 hrs everything has been without oxygen. And, therefore, in case y...

Whether a professional or not, what he was doing just does not make any sense from a chemical point of view. no sense at all

Around 2 min is the moment he is filling a measuring tubve with water. shaking it to remouve a bit of escess.

Yes, he is basically wasting his time, and te reagens

To answer your first question, a dopplet test for oxygen may be possible to make, but the result will have no meaning. Imagine standing neat a tank, with the kit. You take some water, and add it carefully into the measuring tube to the required level. That is, you poor water, thought to contain litt...