Well, the guppy female I was given recently turns out to have fungus. A day after she arrived, she had small spots on her caudal fin. I assumed it was white spot and turned the tank temp up. The spots appeared to clear. Today I came into work to find her with larger spots on [...]

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I am the worst at updating things. Have you noticed?
My office Biorb has been up and running for 4 months now! I haven’t had a single problem with ammonia, nitrites or nitrates so far, fingers crossed it’ll continue that way. I started with two pretty female guppies. Silver except for a light blue scripe stripe [...]

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We got us three black widows today from World of Aquatics. It’s my second time there and will probably become a regular haunt for me’n’my sweetie. They have a fantastic range of fish, birds, scaly and slimy things as well as mice and rats. It’s a really well kept shop, every cage/tank is clean and [...]

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Some more Pleco pictures uploaded, isn’t he cute? I think he’s currently about 7 inches.
He’s amazingly graceful when swimming, you wouldn’t think so bulky a fish could be graceful or fast.

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Say hello to our plecos.

The first is a Sailfin Gibbiceps Plecostomus, affectionately known as ‘Pleco’. Last measured he was 10cms long, with his sailfin out he’s around an inch and a half tall. Possibly more now, he’s grown a lot since last measured.

Second is Pink Plec, sharing a tank with Pleco. When we bought it, [...]

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