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Ah see my water is on the harder side of the scale.. I like the sound of almond leaves, I'll give it a Google, thanks.

I've had these six Sterbai in my tank for months, all seemed well until I noticed a couple of them seem to be getting sick.   I have a soft children's play sand substrate, lots of plants, regular water changes and consistent water parameters but my smallest cory has lost his whiskers and some of...

I'm starting to really plan my stock now as I'm a week or two away from introducing fish in. I've noticed this week that a few snails have snuck in and are already breeding, I think they're physia snails. I'm going to leave them for now but probably tempt them out with some lettuce just before I...

I've got some plants and started the cycle! I'm not sure if my thermometer is working though sooo we'll see tomorrow I guess..   Neither of the lightbulbs are working so I need to replace them but I think I will only use one at a time because someone once mentioned that the 55W are quite strong...

Shear perseverance got through the salt.. and a little hot water!   So I'll be starting my fishless cycle with plants in this weekend and now starting to think about what fish to get after..   I want some shrimp for definite and would like guppies/endlers. I want something to snuffle along the...

There's quite a bit of salt that's built up in the back under the circulator pumps, I'm rinsing it with warm water and sponging it out but its taking forever.... quite far down for little arms too >_< Any suggestions on cleaning solid salt or is it ok to just leave it to run through the cycle...

  I assumed trops meant tropical... ?   I've had a dip in the Red Sea forum and have been advised to just run everything in the tank as if it were marine (with a slight addition of a filter rack and obviously no salt)   I've bought a pack of water testing strips and am waiting on things like...

Oh, interesting point about the lights, can you recommend a correct type? It looks quite easy to replace.   It is a bit of a fancy tank (and bloody heavy) but I much prefer a lush tank of plants and tropical fish. Looks like its going to take a bit of cleaning though, so will get all the bits...

I haven't had a proper look at the tank since it got dropped off as I was leaving for work this morning, but I THINK there are different switches for various functions, like the circulator and stuff. As far as I can tell I should be able to just have the heater and filter on? I really need to...

Hey guys,    So I've not had fishies for a few years but now I'm in a new flat and a friend has kindly donated her Red Sea Max C-130. I may have a few n00b questions over this next week or two, so bare with me.. First time setting up on my own!   Will a Red Sea Max C-130 be fine to set up a...

Right.. well how do I follow that epic long message... The betta's a purpley colour and she seems to change pattern, sometimes she has vertical stripes and other times horizontal. Doesn't seem to hide much and I haven't got any evidence of her being nippy and the guppies seem to like swimming...

The bettas and galaxies were impulse buys to be honest and I researched about the puffer and everywhere I look I get contradicting answers that generally point to it depends on the individual =/. I bought the galaxies because I had to spend the money for exchanging the betta and i didn't want to...

How about a dwarf puffer? I have one with guppies, endlers, female fighter, oto, aquatic frog and microrasbora galaxies and he hasn't touched anyone..

He's only a little dwarf puffer (just over a centimetre) and I've got a lot of hidey holes and loads of plants and we've not had any problems yet... We have a very good, small local fish store (not where we bought either fighters) who is good at matching fish to our tank and steering me away...

Yeah I've read a bit about them too and they seem pretty "frisky", I'm not gettting my hopes up about getting too many little ones for now though as I imagine the eggs will get eaten and I have a puffer who would eat any little babies but when I'm more established when I'm over my first year at...

Oh I see, I thought they would be ok together as long as there was only the one male and I'd planned to give breeding a go later on when we have a seperate tank... Gone and swapped him for two microrasbora galaxies now:

Today I bought a beautiful purple betta and I placed him in my tank. He swam around for a couple of minutes and then latched onto one of my guppies tails, the guppy doesn't have a big tail and he's always quite shy and sticks on his own at the top. Could it be because there is a female betta in...