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#391619 26th Feb 2010 9:55pm
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yup they r the ones mate. another good method is place a plastic cup in the tank on the bottom. put a peice of potatoe in there with some skin still on. just a corner of a potatoe. then leave it in over night. then in the mornin scoop the cup out before turning the light on and do that for a few days till u get urself some assassin snails. that will reduce the number's for when u gat ur snails. also if the assassins manage to clear the tank of the snails they will survive on either algae wafers and blood worm. they do eat other stuff but they r the main 2 foods iv'e seen mine snacking on.


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Nice one bud. happy someone told me about the cup an a peice of potatoe. but i thought they were takin the piss lol!! raftl

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Originally Posted by Danny888
Just been out and bought a Red Betta smile


Nice smile love betta's am gunna set up a small breeding and breed some nice thorough bred betta's off the net. cost like 25 kwid to 40 kwid a fish tho. u can get giant betta's too. exactly the same but can grow like 5 times the size of a normal. just aint as much selection in the colours yet.

but id stick urs in the breeder box for the night. let him out tomoz if any of em go for him or he goes for any of them. catch him again and leav him in the box for longer. then keep doing that till they/him accepts they have gotta be friendly. another REALLY good method (but requires a tank without a hood. is to get a 2 litre empty bottle. burn lotsa holes is in with a solderin iron. cut the top off and dangle it in the water. then stick a stick thru 1 side and straight thru the other side so the stick goes acrosse the tank and suspends the bottle in the water. hard to explain but u probs have a hood so just use the breeder.


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Originally Posted by _jase_
Nice one bud. happy someone told me about the cup an a peice of potatoe. but i thought they were takin the piss lol!! raftl


no probs mate. hope u get abit more snail-less in the next few days lol.


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Yeah WW also advised to turn the light off when I put him in so they all sleep, come morning they'll be friends. I just popped him in and had no problems laugh

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we have a beautiful gold fish called goldie , !

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3 tanks.
i love my tanks.

One 3ft holds
6 red eye tetras.
7 white cloud mountain minnows.
7 neons.
2 black skirt tetras
1 albino shark 3/4 inch long
Never had any trouble with the shark as he went in from tiny and doesnt see the other fish as food.

One 4ft juwel 360.
15 cardinal neons
1 breeding pair of spotted cats
7 bronze cory cats
5 black skirt tetras
4 four inch juvenile silver dollars (argentus myletius).

one 3ft
one ranchu goldie
one fancy goldie
2 four inch shubunkins who let you stroke them ,just like pets.

Also kept gouramis varieties but we never had much luck with them.

Gotta love Andys Aquatics

and maybe the answer to your betta problem might be to get a piece of clear thin perspex the height/width of your tank and carefully slide it in and section off an area you could keep him in without him fighting . That way you could still watch him flare .

Ps Burn small holes in it 1st mind so that your still get water movement/oxygen to him

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Betta is perfect, no problems from him!

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is right. glad for ya danny lad as it can go bad sometimes. shit dat they r so hard to breed like and to keep together woz would be good to have a male and female swimming round ta tank togeva.


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I've not got too many fish at the moment, used to have a nice range in my 3 foot tank but that now belongs to my hubby's rat and she doesn't like sharing lol. My 2 daughters have a small moby dick tank each, one is tropical but only has 2 large tiger barbs and a small plec. Have kept male and female bettas in it but the longest they live in it is about 8 months. If there's only a male they seem to last only a couple of months.
The other daughter's tank contains 5 fancy goldfish and 5 white cloud minnows. We also successfully relocated our one last neon tetra and a solitary gold barb into the same coldwater tank with no problems. She also had two very cute hong kong plecs for about 2 years but now somewhere in the garden after being found belly up a few months apart.

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can anyone tell me why this post has 5 stars on it ???????


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ahh its rating. anyone selling any fish ? or want rid of any ?


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some more fish i got today to add to the list. grin only because 2 fish died (red tail shark & female swordtails.) frown


2 Rainbow Sharks & 2 female 1 Male swordtails added to tank. laugh



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1, red tail shark
1, Male Siamese Fighting fish
1, bristlenose plec's
guppies 2,Males 1,female & 5, babys 2months old
Males & female swordtails. female ready to drop
Mollys 2, Males 2, female both pregnant, did have 3 females but one give birth to about 30 odd yesterday and died. and 19 babys about 3 months old.
Male & female Platy. female ready to drop
5 neons
2 Red eyed tetra
and some kind of Catfish forgot the name of it now.
and to many snails.

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laugh were ya go jase andy's ? wshat them rainbows sharks like ? any good ?


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poulton road wallasey very good ther. they are great the sharks, they are more layed back than the redtails not as territorial. wink

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