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hi thanks for all the help, the smell wont bother me now i know its ok and its normal. its only while feeding or cleaning that you can smell it. plus i do have an algae problem at the mo. i do have a plec, but some algae he has no interest in. ill get there. so far so good on the electric side...

ive noticed a smell every time i open the tank. this might be normal but im unsure. it smells like seaweed so it may be normal ?. i do 25% water changes once a week. also having bad problems with electric, its on now but it was off for 40 hrs. the temp went down to 21 deg. i done my best to...

Hi ive had my tank running for about 4 months now. 1 of my neons developed dropsy (thats what it looked like) and died. what normaly causes it and should i treat my other fish, they seem ok. Also ive had a algae problem for a while. a brown dirty film of algae covers every thing i have to scrub...

hi im new to all this so im no expert, but i always clean the filters in tank water i have taken out during water changes. i think normal tap water kills the bacteria you need in the filter. this is why you need to cycle the newly set up tank to develop this bacteria. if it hasent been used for...

hi ive done some readings today, i think they are all good ? :dunno: ammonia = none ph = 7.5 nitrate = less than 5 mg (only slight trace of colour) nitrite = less than 0.1 mg (again only very slight trace of colour) i think the ammonia would of been high if the fish...

ps jesssa, did you get your quote from the harry potter book. :thumbs: oops put this in twice :*) :lol: :clap:

ps jesssa, did you get your quote from the harry potter book. :thumbs:

Had another look in filter torch not very good, could not see very far down with it ill have another go tomorrow. And yes it is a neon tetra i did have 12. now there is 10 and 1 missing. i was told this was a hardy fish (mabey i shouldent have trusted the lfs but i did). I put 6 in then...

Hi I put this same question in the wrong section before. i put it in the newbie section not knowing the rules oops!. i have had my tank running for about about 2 months now and lost a black widdow about 4 weeks after setting up. i thought this may be down to the nitraite levels of the newly set...

hi Tad im new too. every one seems really nice here i have learned loads already as im sure you have too. see you around. :thumbs:

i have a duwel rio 180 i set the tank up about 2 months ago. i have - 4 male gouramis 4 female gouramis 3 long finned black widdows 11 neons (one been the missing one) 3 dwarf frogs ive been really happy with the lfs they have seemed to be really honest so far. but i will get some testing...

Hi i have just done a water change and i found one dead neon floating around looking very puffed up ???? . i have been away for a couple of days so dont know how long it had been there :/ . but when i counted the remaining neons one was still missing. where could it have gone :dunno: . i dont...

I started my tank about 6 weeks ago, its a dewel 180. I have:- 4 male dwarf gouramies 4 female dwarf gouramies 12 neon tetras 3 long finned black widows 3 little frogs All is going well so far, but i did lose one of my black widows. it dident seem to have any disease, so i dont know what...