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Hi all, a 800 mm wide shallow tank now has 10. Guppy, 7 tetras, and about 15 baby platy plus mum ( no dad as I moved her n all was well even tho I had scared tales of moving pregnant fish )' heavily planted,n2 heaters, a sponge filter and power filter. Gritty sand substrate. Do you think I...

Hi all, Firstly I no that folk will say adjust the light and feed less which is good advise but things have changed !! I never had this before while running a power filter but now down to a sponge all checks out ok but obviously don't have the flow now. 1 mum platy, 6 babies and 8 glow lites...

I see what you mean now better. I suppose you already are reducing the light time ? It's growing well in the light and nutrients so cutting these down must help ? I have a similar problem, my plants didn't do well at all so I bought a new light ( only £18 strip bar off eBay ) but bright as...

Seems ok to me from the blurry pic. Just squeeze them out in tank water and if the still work as filter sponges , then it's ok. I don't like to see them on show anyway, so would hide them if it was me. No problem exists as far as I can see.

Iv had 1 glolight with head up and can swim normal, looks heathy, maybe fatter for weeks now. Thought it had some disorder but minor as looks ok and is thriving it seems ?

Don't fuss over them lol, the good ones will be fine. Flake food is fine and they like plant life and algae . I purposely don't feed that tank with live food so babies may not get considered as food. The other tank gets live food nearly everyday and the results are stunning. But no fry would...

Ok. If it was mine, I'd have something vertical in the rear corners to from your central wood. Probably more wood as I think fake is just trashy lol. Plants at the ends will help in a number of ways also. Still leaving swimming room but framing your fish. Looking good so far and what a bargain !

I have a 1 perfect angel in a 30 gal with lots of other tank mates so don't worry. Your tank is too small right now, but don't heed the doom merchants who say min 50 gal. Regular water changes Good filter Don't over feed Some floating plants will be good. Although I think yr fish is done for...

Don't no. Why don't you just feed them crushed flakes for now ? Mine love it and are so active and growing strong, tho I think I'll return them to the tank soon to weed out the weak ones. They are mostly black or yellow / black. Don't fuss over them... The will be fine if water is ok.

How would you ever get nitrates below the level of tap water ? My tap water is about 20 and my tanks are the same and always are. Can you explain how you can ge lower nitrates in a tank ? Unless you use Ro water.

I sympathise with you. I had 2 old no make heaters and 2 weeks ago bought and replaced both with brand new Hidom ones off eBay. All was well, went away for a few days and came home to see 1 tank heater was on, which I thought odd. Next day I noticed that heater was still on, then saw that the...

Nice, I like the rocks and plant area, not sure I'd like to see so much of the filter though, mine is hidden but more luck than design.

Iv just come home to see 6 platy fry. Mum always seemed pregnant in the main tank but never saw any fry so put her in with the glolights 2 days ago and now this ! Not too hopeful of the colours tho as dad is yellow / black and mum all black. If they make it I'll give them to lfs.

I think it can only be the impeller as that is all that moves, can you get replacement bushes for the impelle or a service kit ?

Jesus !! Iv not seen such a long winded post about a fish that has died so nobody can help or comment. Why do folk ,like , somebody asking a question and they don't respond but feel the need to like them,, bizarre tbh. Don't worry but keep with future maintenance n water changes and you...

Don't even think about making money out of breeding fish. It's wrong, very wrong, unless your a proper breeder.

Oh I can remember stand pipes at the end of street to get water. Power cuts etc. Now nothing aver happens so there is progress !! Except the young think it's ok to throw macdonalds **** out onto the road. As I said before..l is this what my folk fought for ? They would turn in their graves.

I love it too. Tanks are stable at 25 . My advise is to close curtains doors internally also. Iv got a stand alone air con unit which gets rarely used but gets the place nice and chilly for sleeping. I hate going to bed and at top of stairs it's so hot that I sometimes sleep on sofa with door open .

So just let them be ? Or are the vaste amounts a threat to my ecosystem. Which was and is my original question. Iv had no answer so far on this subject apart from eradication.

I do like the life, but was asking if it was a problem to the ecosystem. Thanks for the extra knowledge tho guys.

BUT no will they eat my nerites ???

Hi all, I came home the other morning and turned the lights on, and every log was covered in hundreds of baby Mts . It's not long since I was wondering what had happened to them , so imagine my suprise to see all them ! After my recent troubles the fish are barely fed so this maybe a result of...

Perhaps fill a bucket with tap water and test, then add your sand, leave a while then test. I'm sure that will answer your questions.

Thanks for the advise. The honey one only pushes the 3 spot around. As can be seen my tank is pretty bare after that rampant infection I had after adding some fish , but it didn't quite wipe out my tank so it will slowly come back, hence the lack of plants due to salt treatment, but thank all...

Thanks, it's fine with the other orange gourami as well as other fish, it's just the blue 3 spot it chases about. The question was tho... Can I have more than 1 , I think some call them honey gouramis ?

Hi all, I have a gold gourami who has outgrown the ordinary ones and is a magnificent fish, so after a period of deaths, all now is well. My question is,,, can I have more than one .? It's aggressive to the 3 spot but fine with all others.

I have a small tub outside n it's full of life, in fact my fish can't keep up. Tho it's not a culture, don't bother with grass clippings as that is messy. Just a bit of gravel n the fish love them. In fact I'm off to get a few scoops now.

Ro unit is cheap enough n will solve all your problems. £50 off amazon was last I seen.

Your getting off topic and carried away with the fish shop saga. The member asked a straightforward question and has now developed into something else.

Why do you want to breed fish ? Most don't but if it happens then great,,,,, but you have the problem of housing the offspring.?

Get a couple of fish in there n problem solved imo.

Please don't throw loads of chemicals into your tank. It's a bad practice which has knock on effects so make sure water is good n feed good quality food to boost them. Live food is best. A water tub will generate lots of Mossi larva n bloodworms if you put in some gravel.

Sounds familiar. I added fish to my mint tank n lots of fish died which was devastating. I treated with salt, marine salt, which I got told was bad for my fish, so I bought the correct salt and added that. Then I found out that salt is bad for neons n corys which wasn't ever mentioned here. So...

Freshly hatched brine shrimp are very small so grow your own as it's easy. Actually daphnia can be surprisingly big. Either way try it. Tiny neons will battle with a bloodworm nearly as big as them, it's like clash of the Titans but on a smaller scale lol

Nice ! Let us no the secrets of sucess if any, I don't have much luck with shrimps, they just disappear into thin air.