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Clarice Brough - 2011-09-12
I saw some awesome fancy male guppies yesterday. They are so colorful, I want to buy some, but I have a pretty established tank with Giant Danios. They are fast swimmers and I know they can be pretty aggressive, so not sure I want to risk these beautiful little fish in there, but they sure are pretty!

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kye turnbull - 2013-05-13
im thinking of getting some of these, i love native fish of Australia, its my home country, and boy do i love it here!

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Clarice Brough - 2013-05-14
They are cool fish, they are one of the candidates we've been considering for a 125 gallon tank we have as well. You're in a good place, as Archerfish are bred in captivity in your country too.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-15
It's good because I can catch my own fish from the wild, especially the ones that aren't in the aquarium trade! I wild caught my tandanus when it was about 5 cm long.

kye turnbull - 2013-05-14
please help my bgkf tail has rotted away! i think its to late its rotted rite down to the first white stripe! we are treating it now, my brother will cry if it dies

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kye turnbull - 2013-05-14
this all happend over night
Clarice Brough - 2013-05-14
That is very fast, it might be a tankmate is biting him. I'd suggest you watch the tank closely to see if you have a culprit in there that is being aggressive as well.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-15
Pprobably the tandanus! It's always biting fins when its water is low quality (that is one of the reasons I can tell when I need a water change).

Simon - 2013-05-14
I have a Chocolate Catfish who is roughly 9 years old now. When he was small he liked to live in a coral rock we had and 1 day we realised he'd got stuck in it due to his spines. We tried various methods of getting him free, including carrying the rock outside and banging it on the floor! He must have been out the water for nearly 30 mins as we tried to free him (we kept dipping him back in obviously) and in the end i got a hammer and chisel and chipped away part of the rock. He looked a bit bruised and we weren't sure he'd last the night but he's still going strong

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Clarice Brough - 2013-05-14
Wow, what an interesting experience. I'm glad he's still going strong... they are pretty tough dudes:)

kye turnbull - 2013-05-14
my mum loves these fishes mouths! im going to get her some as present when i get my tetra tank!

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Clarice Brough - 2013-05-14
They are very cool fish, and fairly hardy. Best to make sure you get enough of them though, and have plenty of space so they can get out of each other's way if one decides to be belligerent.

kye turnbull - 2013-05-08
i cant keep these my tandanus catfish kills them for fun D: i put three in all died i wondered why, so i got them out and my tandanus cat went balistic at the one i was getting out!! i feed my tandanus live gambusia affins everyday (they are a pest where i live so i feed it ones from the creek) and it loves them!

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Clarice Brough - 2013-05-09
Well at least your Tandanus Catfish are happy:) Sounds like a great situation, even if you can't keep a Bristlenosed Catfish with them.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-14
tandanus catfish are beautiful fish and are very funny, but they can grow up to 90 cm long! my one is 17 cm long, it is becoming a real pet!

kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
my male looks staved even after being fed blood worms, he is eating fine has no ripped fins no symptoms of being sick and acts fine? anyone know whats wrong? hes been like this for about 5 months

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-12
What else do you feed the fish? How often?
kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
2 blocks of blood worms per day it is with a whole bunch of guppies and some more cherry barbs
Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-13
I would try adding some High quality flake food to their diet.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-13
i feed em some fish eggs, flake and pellets to

Anonymous - 2012-01-25
Hi, my science teacher is giving me her red bellie pacu and I plan on keeping it in a 150 gallon tank with 3 senegal bichirs, 4 fire mouth cichlids, some kind of darter, some mosquito fish, and 4 feeder fish. I will introduce the fish thruogh out the period of 1-3 months. the pacu is presently 8-10 inches and blind in it's left eye. My teacher feeds it flakes and live fish from time to time. Are there any fish I could also put in the tank to keep the pacu away from the other fish and can I change its diet to mostly veggies and some meat, no live fish included. P.S., can you keep a pacu with piranhas?

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Charlie Roche - 2012-01-25
It's great your science teacher is giving you a Pacu but is he giving you a tank to go with him?> A Pacu when an adult is going to go about 3/12 feet and weigh about 60 pounds. You need a thousand gallon tank. If it will fit in his mouth, he will eat it. Pacu with Piranhas - I guess it is whoever gets bigger first. Piranhas will eat anything. Did your science teacher ever read up on what he was doing?
Anonymous - 2012-01-26
The store person said it wouldn't get bigger than its tank, the store person lied.
Charlie Roche - 2012-01-27
I don't know whether he store person 'lied' or just mis informed. Fish not out growing their tank is a myth - an old wives tale used to sell more fish. In any case he is not a good or reliable informtion source.
kye turnbull - 2013-05-13
a fish will grow slower in a small tank but will still get big

kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
is it truly hard to breed fighting fish? im only 11 and i have bred my fighting fish and they are almost 7 weeks old! thanks to all the people that replayed and helped me and thanks to this web site!

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-13
That is an amazing job. They are not the easiest fish to breed. Be very pround of doing this!
David Brough - 2013-05-13
Thats really cool beans Kye. Bettas were the first fish I ever bred too:) The hardest part was keeping them alive, you are doing great at 7 weeks!
kye turnbull - 2013-05-13
there not my first fish ive bred, first i bred gambusia affins when i was 5 years old, then i bred guppy( but they were all midgets) and then these, but they are my first egg laying fish ive bred, and i once got a male and female that hated each other, now i have 2 that were love at first site, its so easy now, just put em in together next day a nest filled with eggs, but i couldn't have done it with out the help of all the replyers and this website. thanks!
kye turnbull - 2013-05-13
i also had many problems with this brood they are still extremely small and hatched 48 hours after being laid, i hope they live
Clarice Brough - 2013-05-14
I hope they do too. I bred Siamese Fighting Fish a number of years ago, and the biggest challenge I had was having a small tank for each of the babies. So many little tanks and they had to have regular water changes done... so took a lot of time...lol. But it was fun and a very rewarding experience.

kye turnbull - 2013-05-12
my corydoras went mental and kept swimming forward 24 7

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Jeremy Roche - 2013-05-13
Water conditions will do that sometimes. I would do an amonia test.

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