My first fish

Great looking plec Jan, love the name as well

Never knew you could get a spotted talking catfish that squeaks, what does it look like

Sounds good Jan, I have booked marked that site, seems useful


I want some driftwood for my tank now, am changing it over to natural, have all live plants now bar 3 which will also be replaced soon, have you seen the price for driftwood :san41: I am not going to pay that sort of money for it, am going down Pembrey, there is loads of interesting bits down there, take the dogs for a nice beach run at the same time.

:2222: I juat have to do some reading now (unless Kenny can help me :whisteling: ) on how to 'cure' the driftwood before I put it in the tank

Yeah sandra,its crazy money they are asking although i am getting
a bit from the same shop as i got the plec,its quite big and its got a
plant growing from it,its £10 which i thought wasnt bad and its been in a
tank for a while so it will be ok.Kenny will know how you 'cure' the driftwood.

:2879: Found it, I need to boil it for several hours then leave it stand in a container of water for 2 days for it to release the tannis, which apparently discolours your tank

That's good Jan, is it a good shop you goto, with lots of different stuff and fish in? We only have a few around here, and I have to travel miles to get to them

Its only a small shop sandra but its only fish they sell and they are
really helpfull.Also they do exchanges on fish so if say you have one
thats outgrown your tank they will take it and give you others.

Thats a big fish!!

good link u posted Jan , if u check out clubs it gives u details of the kircaldy aquarist club i think its the only one left in fife ? not sure if they have had there show yet(held in a high school in kircaldy) great place to get fish as its an auction ,and u will get chance to get many fish that are very difficult to find in shops.
Sandra it will still tan ur tank a little even after curing (i think i put all mine in skip when we moved)

:san41: In the skip :2431:

any more additions Jan

I've got 6 so far Kenny,George the Plec... :2445:
and the spotted talking catfish that wont come out of his cave
and i got a synodontis featherfin and 3 tinfoil barbs.

we have fish in our tank, and theyre still alive :san12: .....

we have 5 mollies and 3 bale sharks which are my faves, therye absolutely gorgeous

were going to get some clown loach at the weekend

were also thinking of taking the fresh plants out, they look lovely, but theyre already looking tatty, we will replace them with real ones first and see how long they last, if it isnt long again, we will get plastic

clarence the clam is going strong, we had to free him from inbetween the rocks yesterday, he had been there two days before we realised he was stuck... gawd knows where he is today :2431:

lets see some pics then , shelley & jan

Woo Hoo..i bought a shark today. :2431: :2431:

did you jan ... oooh what sort :san12:

i fed mine some blood worm today... the sharks loved it ... will get some piccies soon

Just a black shark and he's only about 4 inches but he is
very nice.

did you check he was a peaceful shark lol

Yeah shell,he's fine.

i wouldnt like to think you would wake up in the morning and all your fish are dead :2431:

They said in the shop he would be fine with the others
and i've been watching him and he is swimming around with the others.

the ones we have are shoal fish... so we got 3 and its great to see them all swimming round together... all though they have destroyed a plant... it has to be them, cos it was fine when just the mollies were in the tank :2431:

yea Black sharks are fine although biggest of the common ones.(but dont introduce any other type eg redtail blacks)the black shark can get to 12inches
Jan do u know correct name for the synodontis cat.
U will have to start watching how they fit in Jan as all the fish u have listed grow quite big

I though Synodontis cat was its name :2431:

Better not put many more in then.

:2431: its soooo tempting to put loads of fish in isnt it ... i will have to stop my self doing it too