another cardinal found dead this morning. I'm not too sure they're compatible with the flame tetra as there has been a lot of aggression. Only one cardinal left now. I get mine from pets at home at the riverside retail park in warrington town centre. They no longer stock cardinals though they have a lot of neons, black neons and flames. The only problem is is that you quite often see dead fish in the tanks...
I am very particular which the shops I buy fishes from. You would find a wider range of healthy fishes and get better advice at a specialist shop. I don't know if there are any good shops in Warrington, but you might find it interesting to visit Maidenhead Aquatics at Bold Heath (it's inside a garden centre) or Pier Aquatics in Wigan. Alan
keeping fish of all kinds is a great hobby I like them all, cold water, tropical and marine fish, the salt water angelfish are unreal with so many species and colours
My suggestions would be Urmston Aquatics and Reptile Centre in Trafford where I worked for 8 years before leaving for Jersey and Oasis Aquatics in Salford which is still my favourite aquatics shop ever, just brilliant. Sadly my ever growing reptile collection is kindof taking the forefront over my fishkeeping hobby, I'm only keeping a green spot puffer, Danio choprai & Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki, aswell as a tank of malawis. Had to get rid of the Discus tank as I simply didn't have the time for them and to be honest, after lusting for them for years, when I finally got some I found them boring!
Discus are great fish I have kept and bred quite a few in resent years, I also have got to a point were I am now cutting back the number of reptiles species in my collection due to lack of time
I'd love to increase the amount of animals I have, not get rid of some! I can't wait to start expanding the reptiles that I keep, but I don't know whether I'd go into tropical or marine fish keeping. I think, at the moment, my job is enough to suffice for that. I sold a blind cave fish for the first time ever, the other day. I smiled a little bit as I was selling it. Also, a woman brought in a Berber's Skink in today. She found it sat on her lawn in the early morning basking in the sun. He's really tame, and tolerates being handled, which in comparison to the skink we had at college, is amazing. Anybody lost a pet skink in the Southern Hampshire area? Lol.
I've got two tropical aquariums at the moment. One in the study by the computer, it's a 4 foot x 1 foot Clearseal tank, with a variety of Corydoras catfish, 10 Black Skirt Teras, and a few remaining Neon and Glowlight Tetras. My other tank is 450 litre 5 foot Juwel tank, which used to house some rainbowfish, a Black Ghost Knifefish, 3 Clown Loaches, 4 Siamase Algae Eaters, Brochis, Pearl Goruamis, and an L14 Sunshine Pleco, and 4 Angelfish. That tank had filter breakdown after christmas and most of them died. Then when I moved the lights broke. Since then I've been a bit demotivated on the fishkeeping. Once I've got a bit more money I'd like to get the tanks restocked, though this time when less species. Before I moved into this flat, which is quite lacking in space, we had up to 4 community aquariums, and another 4 tanks for Bettas (Siamese Fighting Fish). We eventually combined these into less, but bigger, tanks. Far easier to look after.
The remaining cardinal is missing. All the fish I've got from Pets at Home have been healthy. I used to get them from a garden centre, but they kept dying - I'm succesful at the moment, though!
went to pets at home in stockport today, bought five new neon tetra, they're staying very close to the larger neon tetra.
