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In Rotherham you'll be with Yorkshire Water. Enter your postcode here https://www.yorkshirewater.com/your-water/water-hardness/ I've just entered the postcode for a high street bank in Rotherham and it gives hardness in the unit mg/l calcium. But there is also a box to 'convert your water...

Many, if not most, 5 or 6 in one strips do not test for ammonia so strips for that need to be purchased as well.

Thread locked as some posts have been of a political nature.

An Imperial gallon is 8 pints. 1 pint is the volume of 20 ounces of water. "A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter"

@Anonyfish As you are in the UK and tanks here are not the same dimensions as American tanks, it would be helpful if you could tell us the dimensions of your tank, please. For example, a 90 litre Fluval Roma is 60 cm/24 inches long x 35 cm/14 inches wide x 50 cm/20 inches tall. And I note that...

Unless they are very young, yes they are female. You can tell by the fan shaped anal fin (the one underneath right in front of the tail). In males, it's rod shaped, called a gonopodium, rather than fan shaped. If they are very young it's more difficult as baby male platies look like females and...

That's our thinking as well.

I have just finished a marathon session deleting spam posts - thank you to those members who reported them :good: The member has now been banned and all his spam posts have been deleted - all 24 of them.

No. That will just make so much nitrite it'll stall the cycle. That's the old way of fishless cycling. TwoTankAmin wrote a method for us which, if followed to the letter, will not make enough nitrite to stall the cycle. With this method ammonia is only added when certain target readings have...

Nitrite in particular is hard to clean after it's been left a while, a blue deposit sticks all over the glass. You could try cleaning them. If you have a small bottle brush that's the best way. If you don't, do have have paper kitchen towels at home? Those can be twisted into a cylindrical...

Yes that would be good. I was lucky, a local shop had them in when I bought them.

Not to mention lots of plants to pull the eggs from a female as she swims through them and to give any fry somewhere to hide :)

I use a different browser and I see just this "imgur.com refused to connect".

I have just finished a water change on my shrimp tank. Bear in mind this tank is a 30 cm/12 inch cube so not exactly large. I have beaten my own record. This afternoon I rescued 35 shrimps from the old water bucket - 3 almost adults and 32 very tiny shrimps I would not have been able to see...

I'll be spending a good part of the day internet searching for the best price on heaters. I noticed yesterday afternoon that there was no light on my heater (red for heating, green for 'standby') and the water temp had dropped. Luckily I kept the old heater from the tank the current one...

The tank in this thread is only slightly larger than the first tank I had; it's just 80 cm/31 inches long. One of the reasons I advised caution, together with buying more than 6. I'd love a 120 gallon tank, there's just no room for one unless we get rid of our furniture.......

Many years ago when I first had tropical fish I bought 6 serpaes - or at least fish that were sold as serpaes. Next morning every other fish in the tank had bits missing. The serpaes swam round the tank in tight V formation. They went back to the shop. I freely admit the tank was overstocked...

No it's not a problem if they stay in your tank. That's why I said ' it's a big if' :)

I know it's a big if, but if either of those species breed, the offspring may not be pure celestial pearl danios (Celestichthys margaritatus) or emerald rasbora (C. erythromicron). From the compatibility section on cpd profile on Seriously Fish

Just to warn you - as anewbie said, if you decide on serpaes you need a good number of them as they are notorious fin nippers if there aren't enough of them.

This information is important. If we suggest soft water fish and you have hard water, or vice versa, the fish will suffer.

Congratulation :hooray:

I kept honey gouramis years ago, both yellow and natural. The naturals were easy to distinguish - except for the very first trio - but I had to learn how to tell the difference with yellows. After having kept them for a while I could usually tell them apart in shop tanks by their behaviour...

Matt posted while I was typing :) With those new photos it is possible the middle one is male. Fins are not as good a way to tell with honeys as they are with other species. Looking at your photos, the middle one has a slightly longer pointier dorsal fin than the other two fish (the fin on...

I think they are all female. They all have a darker stripe from nose to tail which is characteristic of females in this colour variant. Males of this colour also tend to have a more orange tail, extending slightly into the body. But they are new to your tank, so give them a few more days to...

And a further FYI - our test kits use a different scale from the one in TwoTank's post. That 10 ppm on the nitrate-N scale is roughly 45 ppm on the scale our test kits use (which is the nitrate-NO3 scale). Our American members are often horrified that while the US has a maximum of 10 ppm in...

For videos you need to upload it to a video hosting site such as YouTube then post the link on here.

20 litres is a very small tank for these fish. If they don't all die from the disease Gary mentioned, you will need a much bigger tank for them going forward to keep them healthy.

I have a tank around that size with a red cherry shrimp colony. I have no idea how many shrimps are in there now, it's impossible to count them all. I have a plant, Bucephalandra biblis, attached to wood, and Java moss wrapped round another piece of wood, which needs trimming regularly to stop...

Shrimps can't be treated like fish. They can't be kept in a breeding net, they'd simply climb out. Once the eggs are fertilised the female will carry them under her abdomen between her swimmerets until they are ready to hatch. I can't tell from the photo what species the shrimps are. Almost...

I know there are groups concerned about invasive flat worms in the UK. A quick search discovered there are around 14 species of flatworm in the UK of which only 4 are native. This site has an ID guide to them https://www.buglife.org.uk/flatworm-survey/

My son was bitten by a tick earlier this year; when the mark took on the characteristic pattern he went to his doctor and was prescribed an antibiotic as he'd contracted Lyme disease from the tick. It cost him £9.90 for the prescription.

Firstly, have you looked at your water quality report on your water company's website? They will have tested nitrate a number of times and will list the highest, lowest and average levels. If your API results agree with these (hopefully the 'average' number) you'll know your test results are...

No, sewage is treated then discharged into rivers or the sea. There have been instances recently where untreated sewage has been discharged and the water company fined for doing so.

Well, in the sense that the water we use ends up evaporating and falling as rain which then ends up as our drinking water which evaporates after we've used it which then falls as rain and ends up as our drinking water and on and on. From the website of the trade association of water and waste...

This snail was finally in a location where I could take a photo. It was sold as a military helmet snail, Neritina pulligera.

They are usually OK together. In the absence of females they will display to each and try to mate with each other but they don't usually do any harm. When I had a tank of just males, they would all chase one fish across the tank, then suddenly turn and all chase a different fish. However, the...