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There aren't actually that many that can thrive in something that small. The only things that spring to mind are hillstream loaches and bulldog plecs, and even then you're pushing things. None of the shoaling stream-type species (zebra danios, WCMMs) would want to be in something that small.  ...

Because of all the things we said before. And some that we didn't.

Don't see the piccy, best try again. :)

  Doesn't change a thing, IMHO. ;) I wouldn't really recommend platies in a 10G anyway.   Remember that platies are so easy to breed that it is incredibly difficult to find new homes for the fry. Best to avoid getting into difficulties in the first place.

  >.< Not spectacularly good advice. Not all loaches eat snails, and you don't know whether the tank, and proposed tank mates are suitable.       Clown loaches need to be in a group of 6+, and require a VERY large tank, as they grow to over a foot long. If they are kept for any length of time in...

It was a tad frustrating, I must admit......

When you say "fine" for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH, can you tell us what the actual levels are, please?   A 21l tank with a shoal of harlies plus others is rather overstocked, sorry to burst your bubble on that one. The stress of this might be contributing to the problem. Did you add...

  The Tetra 6-in-1 does NOT include an ammonia test. This fact alone means that however cheap they are, they are not worth the money. I have to say that I, along with most experienced aquarists, consider ammonia to be an essential test to have at one's disposal. Ammonia in the water is the first...

A photo would help ;)

Looks like a prolapse to me. Not a huge amount you can do, apart from keep the water pristine clean (ie 20% water changes daily) and hope it sorts itself.

Welcome to the Forum, Tess. I'm liking your choice of screen-name (Terry Wogan would be proud).

I'm with Tunagirll, likely a misread test. The API kit can be a very iffy, especially if you don't hold the tube so it's touching the colour card.

Yep, been there. As it goes I caught 6 in 90 mins. Sounds like either I got lucky or my fish catching skills are awesome.

  I wouldn't necessarily think catastrophic failure, in all honesty. I would probably do the procedure, comparing expected and observed responses at each step, to see where the procedure was failing. That would inform my action steps. But you have clearly done similar.

You haven't given us a lot to go on, unfortunately. Can you post up the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels of the water, and a photo would be really helpful too. What size is the tank? How long has it been established? Do you know what the nitrogen cycle is, and is it established in your...

Yes, it just means that whoever posted the photos has removed them from their Flickr account, so there is no photo in the location.   We always recommend that people attach photos to their posts, rather than linking, so that this problem doesn't occur.

Not really anything that you can do, really. It may sort itself out, but unlikely.

Just to add - she is NOT pregnant.   The female does not have foetuses growing inside her, neither are the eggs fertilised. Ninjy is quite right that she will not lay eggs until there is a male to fertilise them, and the female would not guard them.

Ah..... potentiometers....... capacitors.......  semi-conductor diodes and transistors.......... microprocessor architecture..........   *signs wistfully*

  I've heard of sibling rivalry but that takes the biscuit. ;)

  That's the British equivalent of the "Elvis working in a Walmart in Tennessee" thing in the US.

Well done, Nic!

Certainly shut on Wednesday afternoons (it was always the traditional half-day closing for Portsmouth), but not sure about in the morning.

  Yeah, I assumed it was meant humourously, but others may have taken it at face value.     Who was beating up the US ????

I have a very poor opinion of Emsworth Aquaria - it strikes me that they don't really want the aquatic stuff if they didn't have to, they'd prefer to concentrate on the reptiles. At one point I was in there, and they had 5 or 6 tanks with a dead fish in each - now I know every LFS gets the...

I enjoy it, but sometimes, with 4 active children who need to be in different places at different times, it can slip by.   Certainly not a chore, but I really don't fancy doing it at 10:00 at night.

Except during the World Cup

If you look up Independence Day in Wikipedia, it tells you that this is also known as the Fourth of July. Well, duh......

I say, old chap, steady on.....   Ah, yes, Independence Day. Well done for defeating those aliens.

To our younger members - I suggest you don't quote Hambone in your history lessons, the facts have been a little skewed. In particular, the action at Normandy was nearly 200 years later, when the UK and US were allies.....

Can you post the exact readings, please. You're idea of "OK" might be different to mine ;)   And are you using strips or a liquid test?

Ah, yeah, this is Dale's place, the guy that used to be the manager of The Aquatic Centre, about a mile up the same road. Not been in yet, and sounds like I want to leave it another month or so yet!   I'd guess you also went into Arundel Aviaries and Fisheries, since it's jsut around the corner...

Think about it mathematically.   You have changed 25% everyday for the past 14 days. 0.25ppm of ammonia, reduced by 25% 14 times should mean that you have around 0.005 ppm ammonia. Your test kit is not sophisticated enough to pick up that little amount of ammonia, and yet it is still showing a...

If you have fishless cycled, and it sounds like you have, then you should really add fish all at once. If you add the fish gradually, the bacteria you have built up will kinda die off (they don't actually die) and you run the risk of a minicycle when you add extra fish.

Went there, a good 8 or 9 years, did the Land's End thing (well, you've got to really, haven't you?). If the BLue Reef at Newquay is anything like the one at Southsea, then it's decent enough, but not what you call huge - it used to be a Sea Life, but I guess it was too small for them.  ...

Did you go down to Falmouth?

Obviously having a funny-five-minutes yesterday.

I'm another that remembers you Cezza. Welcome home. ;)

Like Rob, I don't use API (and never have) so I don't know, but I thought there was an expiry date on the box.

  And here comes the science bit. Well, sort of.   It's bottle no.2 on the nitrate test, it contains a powder reagent (the bit that "sense" the nitrate) which has a tendency, as Rob says, to precipitate out. When that happens, there is no reagent in the drops that get added to your water, so...