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Post by Jenny on Mar 30, 2013 14:19:07 GMT
After years of having an empty fish tank in our garden shed, Wood and I decided to set it up once more. To my surprise both the lights were still working, so we bought a new heater/thermostat and a good filter for the tank. Today we went out and got a few fish for it. We bought 2 Black Lace Angel Fish and 1 White Lace Angel, a male Dwarf Gourami , 2 Corydoras Catfish (one bronze and 1 peppered) and a Marble Loach. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_gourami
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Post by TenebrousNova on Mar 30, 2013 15:06:38 GMT
Relaxing to watch, aren't they? We used to have an angelfish, until it started attacking the biggest Plecostomus and we had to give it away. Our platies and mollies used to breed all the time, but for some reason we're not having much luck with our tropical fish recently- they keep dying. Corydoras and Gouramis are among my favourites, including glass catfish and fire tetras.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 2, 2013 11:41:38 GMT
A large pot of fish flakes came in the post from Amazon.co.uk, a tub of 200g for only £10.98p which is a lot cheaper than sold in the local aquatic store. Managed to get hold of some pearl gouramis too on Easter Monday, which is a beautiful fish that is a firm favourite of mine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_gourami
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Post by Wood~Ant on Apr 2, 2013 16:09:03 GMT
Dwarf and Pearl or Lace Gouramis are among my favourite fish, so I have both of these in my tropical fish tank.
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Post by deansie on Jan 24, 2014 20:53:02 GMT
Very nice, really great pictures Jenant. they a breeding pair of angels? I'd like some altum angels but they need a real big tank.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jan 25, 2014 8:43:58 GMT
Very nice, really great pictures Jenant. they a breeding pair of angels? I'd like some altum angels but they need a real big tank. Sadly all our Angels died within 7 months and did not reached breeding maturity size. Also we lost all our Gouramis very quickly too, yet all the catfish survived, so we may have had a water problem as the filters kept the water clear and clean enough.
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Post by deansie on Jan 25, 2014 21:02:44 GMT
Very nice, really great pictures Jenant. they a breeding pair of angels? I'd like some altum angels but they need a real big tank. Sadly all our Angels died within 7 months and did not reached breeding maturity size. Also we lost all our Gouramis very quickly too, yet all the catfish survived, so we may have had a water problem as the filters kept the water clear and clean enough. That's a shame, weird it should happen with a mature filter. What's your water chemistry like down your way? Did you ever run water tests with water straight from the tap? The fish you had would prefer softer water though with these captive bred fish there usually pretty tolerant to a wide range.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Jan 25, 2014 23:17:42 GMT
As we have a lot of chalk soil the water tends to be hard down here in Sussex.
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Post by deansie on Jan 26, 2014 7:24:37 GMT
Could be a contributing factor perhaps.
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