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How long does a Platy and Guppie live? I've had them a few months now and pretty big when I got them

API master test kit, tetra aqua safe and yes I cycled it for about a month and had lots of growth on plants and 0 ppm of ammonia and still is? I'm feeding my fish every 2 days a small pinch and some sinking pellets you don't think they're starving to death do you I got told not to over feed.

Notes- The lid broke so I've got a bit of wood over the top atm and algae bloom? Would these factor

Hello im relatively new to fish keeping and was doing well for the first month or two, but all of a sudden I've had 6 dead fish 4 guppies and 2 platies. 0ppm of ammonia, but my Nitrates are about 40ppm. I'm doing a 60% water change as I haven't done it in two weeks and hopefully that sorts the...

Nope don't use fertiliser anymore, no chemicals added.

Yeah I was testing the filtered water every 10 buckets and it was 0

Unless of course the plants are converting the ammonia and nitrite into Nitrate? I thought they'd just eat the ammonia before it's converted

Update on fish tests. Ammonia - 0 Nitrite - 0 PH - 8 Nitrate - 20 When I tested Tuesday evening after my 75% water change my Nitrates were down to 0? No ammonia spike? What's causing my Nitrates to rise? Surely if its cycled correctly the plants would eat ammonia before coverted to Nitrate...

The guppies have decimated my vallisneria, bitten two long strands in half? Is this normal behaviour or are they hungry? I've only been giving tiny pinches every morning for obvious reasons. Annoying

Tiny pinch every morning

I've done two ammonia tests today, to keep an eye on the levels now it's stocked, one earlier an hour after feeding and I had a spike in ammonia to 0.25ppm, which isn't ideal but I wasn't panicking. 12 hours later before going to bed it's back down to 0. I presume that's a good sign really? Or...

Don't tempt me, I've been looking at discus a lot lately.

Will these tetra suffer long term then? Because they're one of my favourites in the tank. May have to get another filter to remove hardness after the nitrazorb process

Yeah it's a bit of a nightmare

Your degree is almost double my age 😳 and it's all very interesting, being from the UK how do you manage your water or are you fortunate?

It's all beyond me, I've only just learnt the nitrogen cycle tbh. Us plumbers aren't known for being smart, but I've actually learnt a lot from this forum and the fish seem happy apart from the black tetra mix up that could backfire but apart from that we're sailing full mast

What are killifish requirements? If this tank stays stable for a month or so I'd be interested in getting some. Missing a splash of blues/greens in this tank

I don't think they'd sell a product that replaces Nitrates with Chloride that'll be ridiculous surely? A lot of people have filtered water using these products without an issue?

It's 16 or 268 depending how you read it, but through the nitra zorb filtering process it may of removed some of the hardness?

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I got 6 so hopefully it works, I've monitored and they don't seem that aggressive. I'm more worried about water parameters.

The original guppies keep chasing the platies, almost looks like they're trying to mate

They're already here now, I'm hoping the filter system I done a 75% water change yesterday has taken a lot of the hardness out. They seem content now and I've already noticed they're chasing anything smaller. On the site it said they're a community fish.. I haven't seen them bite yet but they...

Guys I've made a terrible mistake, I thought I read Black widow tetras would be fine in hard water but they're more suited to soft. What should I do?

Abbey, quick question as I didn't see it anywhere on your article, does this nitra zorb filtering process remove some hardness from your water? As my water is very hard and if I can bring it down to around 190 it'll open the window for more species of tetra

Thanks for all the advice guys, fish order day.. Thanks to your help my water test today came back with 0 ammonia, nitrates and nitrites. (Although it took a whole 12 hours to do a 75% water change on my tank due to the nitra zorb filtering process) I have also bought a few floating plants.

Yeah I have one 40 mins away, I'll have a look there! Also I have until Tuesday so I might run out and buy a lot of duck weed and some other floaters

And yeah I got a pets at home around the corner, but I've been told not to purchase fish from places like this? Although I'd did get the guppies from there and they asked for a water sample and the fish seem to be thriving.. but their selection wasn't brilliant

4ft, 300 Gallons. and I got 4, the tropco website said 3 or more, but tbh 6 would be too many considering my tanks not huge. I have family that keeps bostorious community so I'll have to monitor

I made an order online, went a bit mad tbh. Have bought 20 odd fish. Hopefully I don't regret it. They're not coming until Tues, shall I cancel the delivery and half that number? Also yoyo loach was moderate risk to guppies do you think that'll be okay?

Update- Guppies all doing well, more plants added and majority doing well. No ammonia and surprisingly a drop in Nitrates? Not even done a water change since my last test. Also got the nitra zorb and rigged a filter similar to Abbeysdad, being a plumber I rigged up 6mm hose and 3 bags of nitra...

Abbeys dad uses nitra zorb, it's sold by API as a nitrate remover, perhaps that's why he puts the water through the nitra zorb then back through a filter before his 5g bucket? I think I'll have to rig something up like that