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Hi there I am fairly new to this site, and I have one of the 30l tanks in the photo.. if im honest, if i had of found this site first i probably would not have got this one, only because I wish now i had of bought a bigger tank as you can only really have 6-8 small fish in it. It does look...

Hi I have 3 guppies at the moment, I have heard the general rule is to have 3 female to 1 male... is this correct? I have had alook and it looks like i have 2 male and 1 female which worries me slightly that she is going to get stressed with the males.. :( I only have a 30l tank and I am...

Hi thanks for replying, its really strange it happend again last night and when i got up in the morning they turned back to thier colour, must be a night time thing. I did read somewhere that guppies can change thier colour with thier mood and also the atmosphere.

Hi Lucy My tetras seem to be doing fine, we did buy 4 of them but over night we lost one, someone has said that its normal to loose one or two. I have not had any problems yet with my tetras nipping at my guppys tails, I did however have our Koi shordtail try and bully one of our guppys but...

Anyone know? Shall i post this onto a different forum?

Hi Lucy I am also New to the hobby and like you I got a 30l biorb, I have had mine since Oct and after getting some really crappy advice from the shop i bought it from, i lost alot of fish in the 3 months of having it. I cannt offer any advice as im as in the dark as you with a little knowledge...

Hi I have 2 cobra tail guppys, and thier body is white. Last night we noticed that one of the guppies body had turned black and the other one looked like he was on the turn, when i had a look this morning both of thier bodies where jet black and a while later they have turned back to thier...

I do have a dechlorinator, which i use when i do water changes, and I use temp match water. I have taken the filter out and rinsed the sponge in the tank water which i have taken out (i think this is the right way?) so i dont think its still there I thought maybe his body had been eaten as i...

Hi there, I have just check and i mean Nitrite not Nitrate.. I dont have a testing kit for Nitrate i was never offered one of these. So what do you think about my Nitrite readings? Thanks

Hi I cant believe after telling you my tank has been running perfect, and i got advice about my plants... the other night I managed to get my plants under my rocks, but in the morning some of my fish didnt look right so i done a water test and my readings were 0.1mg/l nitrate and 0 Amonia, so i...

Thanks so much for your advice, I have never really thought about putting anything other then fish in the tank but i do like the idea of having the amano shrimps, not too sure about the dwarf frog.. If anyone else has any comments please feel free i am open to any advice or ideas you can give...

Hi The reason I didnt answer the question is because my ammonia and nitrate readings are 0 this is something i check quite oftern as I have had plently of problems since having my tank in October, I had the tank running for about a month before i added any fish, when I did add fish i over...

Hi What does dropsy mean? My Danio has black stripes and is silver, I have looked it up and it looks very much like Kyathit danio. Are the mollys, Danio and Neons the only fish that are compatable? Or do you think that not having too many types is better? Thanks

Hi I have a 30L Biorb, and after losing quite a few fish and now having our aquarium perfect we have 5 fish, One is a Danio (stripe) a red Molly with a black tail, and 3 Neons we did put 4 in together but one went missing the day after we put it in, (any ideas?) The neon had a really big belly...

Thanks for your reply and advice I will give this a go. :good:

Hi I have had my Biorb running since Oct, and with many lessons learnt along the way we have finally got it perfect. My questions is about my real plants on one of the plants i have left some of the wool on it as I cannot get the plants to stay under the rock, but after reading posts on here...

Hi I'm new and can i say i am so pleased i found this site, I really need your help, we got out 30L fish tank 4 weeks ago (tropical) we did everything the shop told us to do, we first introduced 4 hardy fish 2 weeks after having the tank empty for 2 weeks.. then the week after we introduced 8...