Thanks for all the kind comments
an update on a few fish, my clown has annihilated pretty much all the snails now, i worked out that his strategy was to allow them to grow a bit to make them a more tasty meal then eat em, lol
all the other fish seem fine the kribs are still fighting/playing a lot but i still can't sex them yet
so it will be another 2 weeks i think before i can reduce them down to 1male 2female and get rid of the rest.
and it looks like i have a new tank, lol for FREE
my dads friend at work has just upgraded his tank to a £900 hand built special tank with 1inch thick glass bottom and a hand made cabinet 5ftX2ftX2ft, so his old 3ft is up for grabs...for free!! so i have my name slapped on it, aparantly his 3ft has a thick glass bottom as well because he keeps chiclids and had a lot of rocks etc so it all sounds good to me!