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At the moment I have an All Pond Solutions external canister filter, its fully cycled, its a bit wimpy so my wife brought me a Fluval 307 filter, obviously this filter wont be cycled, so what im thinking of doing is leaving my current one in place, however, connect the out from the old filter to...

UV keeps mine clear, im just about to put a new one in, mainly because its in-line rather than a seperate unit that needs to take more room up in the tank, I used to just throw these in which kept it clear, but they can get quite expensive, if you choose to go for these, please dont buy the...

Same as Brian says, oxygen in the water comes from water movement on the surface (the motion of the ocean), not from the bubbles.

Been shopping today, new plants and a power head and some bog wood which is boiling at the moment as the damn stuff is floating.

Thanks, I think i'll just grab thee 300w in that case a pull the other one out, this is what ive got at the moment, the 300w is only £2 more expensive https://www.fishkeeper.co.uk/aqua-range-lcd-smart-heater

Is a 200W heater enough for this tank ? its a 240 litre tank, its in the middle at the moment, but im thinking of ordering another one and putting them each end of the tank.

LOL, not me, she fully supports it, she loves them too.

This is with approx 90% fresh clean water treated with API water conditioner, and 10% from the old tank, everything else has come from the old tank.

I was on the understanding that weather loaches were friendly, he is about 4 inches long now, ive had him about 5 months, never seen him attack any other fish, ive seen him bump into fish when he gets the zoomies, but never nip or anything like that On a plus note, the guppies are always at the...

It's a 105 litre tank, 75cm x 35cm deep, 55cm high, 6 live plants and yes tap water after conditioner nitrate is 7.5ppm

This is my Nitrate levels as per my API master test kit, as I said its hard to tell the difference between 10 and 20, (picture 1), I did a water change yesterday of 30%. My other test kits shows this though (picture 2) So it could be a 10ppm between both of them.

Thanks, im doing 2 x 30% water changes a week.

OK no probs, the KH had dropped to 3 when I added it (panic set in), I didnt really want it dropping to 2, so added that to balance it back out again, and hour after adding it.....it was back upto 4, it maybe a bit higher now, if it gets too low then dont your PH levels start going a bit wild ?

Thank you, I tested my tap water a couple of days ago, after treating with API Water Conditioner, the Nitrates are at 7.5ppm, so keeping it at 10 or below is quite hard, the fish only get fed every 3 days, however the frog gets fed on pellets every 2 days, he's a very slow eater and...

Thanks, ive got: 5 Neon tetra's 5 Glowlight Tetra's 5 Guppies 4 what look like tiger barbs, but are smaller and friendly, can never remember what they are called. 1 Bristlenose catfish, (still a baby) 2 Hill stream loaches (still babies) 2 Dwarf Gourami's 1 weather loach 1 African Black Dwarf...

Could someone please verify my levels in a planted freshwater aquarium, as im still fairly new to this hobby (5 or 6 months in), I think they are OK, but just double checking. Ammonia (NH3) = 0 Nitrite (NO2) = 0 Nitrate (NO3) = 10 or 20 (its hard to decipher between the 2 colours as they look...

Took me about a week for new filter to get established after the old one broke down, I transferred the media from the old filter to the new one, the old media was tiny (small intank filter) compared to the new filter (external filter with 3 stages and 3 large sponge filters), I thought it was...

One of mine is like this, loss of colour, I put it down to a recent nitrite and nitrate problem, have you tested your water ?

Did an NO2 test again this morning, it was reading 0.25ppm kind of violet colour, I can't help but think it's something to do with that very fine white section of the filter which I had to add back into the filter last night as per Dr Tim's bottle instructions, I'll check it again when I get...

Yesterday I picked up some water wisteria, I was so impressed with it I went back and picked up some other plants, got rid of most of the fake plants out of the tank, they didnt have much to choose from, so I chose based on my tank, not sure what they are but the 2 at the front he tells me wont...

All I was saying really is I wouldn't even worry if they were at 20ppm, API instructions state just to keep them below 40ppm in a freshwater tank, the trouble with the API kit is Nitrate is very difficult to read, see my picture beelow, ive just completed this test after a 30% water change, my...

Nitrates are not part of the cycle process, they are the waste product right at the end of the cycle, there is no bacteria to convert them into anything else, the only way to get rid of them is to do water changes or get some live nitrate eating plants, 10ppm on nitrates (NO3) is perfectly fine...

Still in the clear, Ammonia is also zero, PH is 7.4, NO2 is Zero, and NO3 is either 10 or 20ppm, the trouble is the colour checker basically shows the same colour for both of these.

Again, a big thank you, ive just got back from a pet shop and had a look at there water wisteria, I couldnt resist at £2.60 for the bunch, looks way heathier than mine. #Neon tetra photo bomb

Getting there........finally.....phew, thank you guys and gals so much for your help, especially @Essjay @Rocky998