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I agree with the above: the second fish is definitely under-weight. The colors are good, but it needs fattening up to be healthy. Perhaps try and get some frozen live food into the tank with it, or maybe Repashy's soilent green (as a higher protein algae replacement).

My SoilentGreen order to Australia (Brisbane, Queensland) arrived at my local post office yesterday much to my delight. I have it sitting on my work desk beside me right now. I only went with the 150gram container initially to see if it got through customs, but I will now be ordering larger containe...

Your photos are tiny. Do you have any higher resolution ones?

If you can, maybe drop your water level down a few cms. 5-8 cm lower would be good. Alternatively, I use coarse filter foam that I cut to perfectly match the shape of the corners of tanks with cutouts for the filter pipework. If you make the cutouts for the pipework really small, then the foam shoul...

yeah, Tim... You should have a look and buy him if you agree it is a Kubotai. If it isn't in Aukland, then it might still be worth thinking about buying and having shipped. The weather at the moment should be good over your way for shipping fish.

Larger bags are made with thicker plastic, so they are less prone to being punctured by fish spines. To make extra sure they don't get punctured, the bags could be doubled up, with a layer of newspaper in between the bags. This way, if the inner bag does get punctured, the newspaper will protect the...

I also think you shouldn't. They are really also a social loach. If you wanted him, the best you could do without more oh his own species would be get some sidthimunki loaches (dwarf chain loaches) or zebra loaches or pakistani (yoyo) loaches. Maybe let us know what area of the world you are in. It ...

Nice. Your Repashy gel product looks brillant. I love the fact that it can be heat-coated onto rocks, and then placed into a hillstream tank. Simply brilliant. I continue to wish it was available here in Australia. I think I am going to have to risk purchasing some and hoping it gets through Austral...

I've personally got a wavemaker in my sewellia hillstream tank. It adds a LOT of current. I have it aiming down the front of the tank, and the current then sweeps around to the back and it returns in a clockwise rotation. It does this because I have all the rocks stacked along the middle, and stacke...

I originally started with 4 homaloptera smithi, but now I only have 2. I think the other 2 might have hidden from me in a piece of wood and I didn't realise until the wood had been relocated out of water for a few hours. Anyways, my remaining homaloptera have been with me for well over 12 months now...

To copy text: Move the mouse cursor to the beginning of the square IMG brackets "[IMG']". Click and hold and drag the mouse cursor from here across to the end of the text in the box to the final "[/IMG]". Using your mouse (or the touchpad on your laptop), RIGHT CLICK on the highlighted text. The rig...

If you follow the steps, then at step 4 there is a new page that appears once you finish uploading the image. In that new page you will see your uploaded image. And BELOW that image will be other information about how to use that image in other locations. One of those is titled "BBCode" beside a tex...

o oooo. I can help with simple picture thingy uploading instructions in easy English. 1. Go here: http://img.acianetmedia.com/ (although it doesn't seem to work with my firefox browser, so maybe try Internet Explorer or Chrome or something else) 2. On that site, hit the Select Files option. --> find...

That is an amazing tank, Allen. I really love the idea that there is some shistura specimins in there. I wish your food range was available here in Australia. I would attempt to self-import my own but Iam worried that they would get confiscated at the airport. I believe some of your products have fi...

I also have some pictures somewhere of the fry in a white bowl. They are absolutely miniscule. I'll have to find them and post up some more images.