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Thank you for your reply I’ll check my tap water and get back to you with the results for them.
I vacuum into the middle of the tank when I do water changes so I avoid the plants and I do try to clean my filter weekly is this okay or should I try doing it more often for the time being? And there’s been a selection of fish mostly guppies and platys but never more than 20 (including babies) I’ll make sure I do 50% water changes from now on coz I was originally only doing about 30% is it best to do the water changes all in one go or are gradual water changes throughout the week best? Coz I’ve heard different opinions on water changes.
All I have in the tank is gravel, live plants and 2 aquarium ornaments.
Thank you for all your ideas
Thank you for everyone else’s replies I’ll make sure that I do daily water changes for the time being then.
So far today I have done a 50% water change and cleaned my filter, I noticed both the carbon and other foam were quite slimy and brown, I’ve cleaned them the best I can (using tank water) will they be okay like that as you say don’t change them?
I’ve also done a tap water test for ammonia and nitrate, ammonia came back between 0 and 0.25 and nitrate came back as 10, is this all okay?
And i did have floating plants in my tank but they just kept getting stuck in the filter so I gave up with them.
As I’ve done a water change today when should I do another water check to see how it’s getting on, my fish seem a lot happier in themselves today so hopefully it’s getting better. Thank you again everyone.
That's a good idea. If you are able to get water sprite it will be less of a problem for getting stuck in the filter. What also works well is to tie a few plants together and wrap a weight around them. It makes it look sorth of like a tree but you don't actually have to plant it.Forgot about floating plants. Get a piece of airline and a joiner, and 1 or 2 suction cups.