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But that is for short term care…not permanent, long term living conditions. And I expect that many of those YouTube videos are done for the filming…

It’s recommended that a 50% water change should be done weekly, if you are going to over-stock you’ll need to up that some…

https://aqadvisor.com/ This is a really good site for checking how many fish… put your tank dimensions in the top and select the fish from the drop down list and scroll down a little way and it will say, based on the information your tank will be xx% stocked 🙂

It’s quite important to know that number, it guides (or should do) your choice of fish. If you go to you local water company’s website they usually post the information on there. I now buy RO water for my Betta as I didn’t know he needed much softer water than I have.

A rather handsome, intelligent dustbin..? 😂

This is still one of the areas I still haven’t quite got straight in my own head…so I’m hoping one of the annoying kids 😀 will be along to help me out with this… but I was thinking more about hardness as in calcium in ppm..? Or German Degrees..?

What are your water parameters in terms of hardness..?

Welcome 🙂

https://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/ This is a good website (not necessarily for buying from) but they have very good descriptions of care needs. EDIT: to add correct link

Thank you for you kind offer, I am relatively IT literate, I use it all day at work (I’m a procurement analyst and am a bit whizzy with excel and Power BI) I just don’t understand how (or the fascination) to use Facebook, Twitter and all that social media stuff… I can’t imagine why people would...

I think the activity levels are down, but I have been distracted by other things recently..

That’s only because us oldies don’t understand all the techy stuff 😂…

I was thinking only the other day that a lot of the “grown ups” seem to have stopped posting…

And @Colin_T is about to fall off the end of the ‘most replies’ chart…

You could use black card or that foam board stuff from Hobbycraft thats cut to size…

Yes, every couple of months I think, I’ve got the memory span of the proverbial goldfish, so without looking at the packet I wouldn’t be able to give very accurate instructions 😂

I had soil to start with in my tank, and the mess and ammonia and the explosion from a build up of gasses wasn’t anywhere near worth the effort. I stripped it all out and replaced it with play sand from Argos (about £5 for 25kgs). Root tabs under swords and a liquid fertiliser once a week for...

I don’t have the built in knowledge that lots do on here…but if you go to Seriously Fish they will give you the care details, tank size and water needs etc. makes some interesting reading sometimes and then you can come back here with more specific queries. Sometimes you might have a ‘mix’ that...

I don’t know is the honest answer, my reading makes me think that a Betta is better off totally on it’s own. Others report keeping Betta with other fish, snails and shrimp with varying successes. @Byron has a very scientific explanation.

Always a controversial conversation, but I don’t think Betta should be kept with other fish.

I thought that the tank needed to be able to clear 2ppm of ammonia in 24 hours …

Thank you x He seems a little calmer this afternoon- I’ll keep an eye out for any serious aggression, but he did seem to be targeting everyone equally😢

No advice on this guppy behaviour..?

Context: I’ve had a really rough few months, my mum fell on 19th December and broke her pelvis, she had quite advanced dementia, she’s been in hospital and then moved to a nursing home where she died very unexpectedly 3 weeks ago. My dad is elderly and I’m doing all the paperwork and organising...

It sounds as if your tank has been fully cycled. I’m not sure what you have done to ‘condition’ your tank in a week? When I set up my first tank the LFS said my water was good too, but that was because there had been nothing to add ammonia to start the cycle. What are your readings for...

Hello, you don’t mention your Nitrite reading, is that score as well..? I think that such a big clean has triggered a cycle, and bacterial bloom is often a common part of the cycling process. Reduce the amount you feed the fish, they can go for a few days without food and watch out for them...

Blimey, they do give you the run-around - don’t they..? Have you checked all the places you looked last time..? 🙂

@Essjay has beaten me to the conversion 37.8 (38) ltrs.

They come in a variety of sizes and have increments marked…I would think the 1ml size would have 0.25 and 0.5 marked…

Hello and welcome! As mentioned above, fish stores will often give advice that wins them a sale - always ask here first 🙂

I buy cheap syringes from Amazon, I find them useful for a number of tank related processes.

It’s readily available in my lfs in the Uk, I don’t know about in the States… I’ve just tries to Google and ‘Pet Forums Community’ someone says it’s safe for Corys and shrimp, but to use it at half strength for Bettas…I didn’t know that ☹️. Other sites are saying remove the shrimp for up to 7...

Hello I had similar issues recently, mine was definitely due to poor water conditions (my mum was in hospital) and I used Interpet anti fungus and fin rot. This worked really well. I don’t know a huge amount about the different medications but I do know that you need to be really careful with...

Only buy the smallest packet you can until you know he’ll eat them. Mine won’t eat anything frozen…

Ok….ok…..how does creeper link to Minecraft..?😂

New Zealand is on my ‘one day…’ list

Thank you 🙂 that’s almost what I came up with but not quite…they are so pretty…what’s the spider situation like in NZ… ?

Pieces of eight