A friend of mine has suffered a tank crash (someone overfed while he was away) and he's urgently looking for a home for 5 Tanganyikan cichlids: 2...
I'm so sad to hear you're quitting the hobby! Is everything ok?
My preferred wood toxicity test is to keep it in a bucket of water with snails for a while. I figure if the snails are ok it can't be tambotie or...
A big sorry to anyone who's been looking forward to this tank (and to the poor fish)... all 3 of my skippers have died within a couple of weeks,...
Where are you based? Pet Stop in Pretoria gets them in occasionally
Oh how absolutely gorgeous! Congratulations and good luck with breeding them. This will be great for all of us if you get local strains going :D
:D Wow, that's beautiful, I want one too!
I'd suggest bolbitis (treat like Anubias but it likes high flow) and crypts (easiest substrate plant IMO).
Not nearly as much as I'd like! :D Couple of hundred a month, not counting water, because it all goes to the garden afterwards, or power, because...
Happy birthday to two great fish guys!!!
I really think we should set up a fish-sitting network, it would help everyone. Any Centurion fishkeepers reading this?
@Pierré Schoonraad I give you all the credit, if you hadn't intrigued me with the possible ID I might not have bought them and then where would I...
A while back (mid-July) I found some interesting-looking gobies being sold at Pet Stop; they resembled Sicyopus or Stiphodon species, only a bit...
Pretoria Landscaping supplies in Lynwood Road is pebble paradise. I'm very certain I've seen stones just like those there, in three different size...
I think if you have a very heavily planted, lightly stocked natural FW tank you can also get away with "never". I've seen one or two setups of...
It's the protein skimming that makes the difference, and possibly some denitrifying bacteria in the live rock. But mostly protein skimming,...
I have 4 that were sold as B. imbellis, although sadly all seem to be female. What shop did you find these?
Catfish: Hara jerdoni, dwarf corys (do need to be in a group but they're small), bristlenose pleco, otocinclus, South American bumblebee cats....
ooooOOOOooooh thank you!!!
Yes, 1 male and 1 female will be best.
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