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@essjay You really are a fountain of knowledge! I know this forum is super friendly but thank you for explaining things the way you do - easy to understand and not patronising. Think I'll go with the household ammonia. Do you have recommendations of shops I could pop to (Suffolk, UK based) that...

Good afternoon I have a second tank, both from want and from making rookie mistakes I've read through the cycling guide for adding ammonia but have also read about the silent cycle using plants. I want to add plants to the tank anyway, so am I right in assuming that if I go down the household...

Look like tiger barbs to me?

Thank you both ☺️ Another mistake avoided and more learned along the way

Good evening all A couple years back I went beachcombing in Dorset. It was bloomin' freezing but, what the cold weather and harsh waves does allow is lots of nice fossil to be washed up or suddenly appear. Anyway! I have since had these in the garden as a decoration in a barrel planter. Is it...

Hi What are your water parameters? Was the tank cycled prior to adding them? Does look like ich to me but it could be fungal? I'm no expert but I know what they'll ask! @essjay @Byron

It’s odd you comment on that; I was watching a KG Tropicals video, it was about YouTuber’s mistakes. They had a trader who put fresh plants throughout her aquariums and lost hundreds of shrimp!

Good morning! Happy Sunday all ☺ I purchased my second tank as my plan of action is to soften my water with RO water from my ‘local’ aquatic shop after cycling (fishless cycle, learned the hard way with a fish in cycle) and mix it with my tap water and move my corys (another newbie high street...

Thank you both, I’m glad the slime seems to be nothing to worry about!

Evening all! Please could I have some help in identifying the snail - I replaced my fake plants quite quickly with real ones so I’m thinking it came in on a plant and I didn’t notice it. The first I saw of it was a tiny pin head size thing moving on the tank glass. In a couple weeks it’s grown...

You should try 'Lateralus' by Tool - even if you don't like their music, that song's drum beat is to the Fibonacci sequence #mindblown

How very dare you! :p:band:

I'm a metal/prog rock girl Tool (very long time fan, and was luck enough to see them again at Download last year) A Perfect Circle Puscifer Deftones Trivium Slipknot Idles Foo Fighters Muse to name but a few!

Cory faces are just the cutest :wub::wub::wub:

Thank you so much Byron! This is the Chloramine/Clorine information I've found for the area I live in The average chlorine concentration for this Public Water Supply Zone from January 2020 to March 2020 was 0.4 milligrammes per litre free chlorine and 0.520 milligrammes per litre total...

Ageing

Ooops sorry :teacher::hooray:

Is this in the UK? Pretty sure I saw these at Maidenhead Aquatics and are called Knife Fish? Fascinating creature!

Hello all Apologies for the confusion, I was in a bit of a panic I have a 60L tank, however with sand substrate, decorations and live plants it is more like 50L water I change my water when I return home from work. My pre-change test was: PH 8.2 (trying my best to lower) Ammonia 0.5 Nitrite...

Ah yes, Sorry if there is any confusion. My point was that this is exactly the same water but it’s all tested differently. Essentially I have 1.0ppm or 0 for exactly the same water batch but which do I go by?

Ice blue zebra African cichlid I’m just googling at this point

Hello Currently using the API master kit which, from the outset I genuinely believe is brilliant. However, I’m new to using Seachem prime and these are my ammonia readings for exactly the same water (the water in the tank after doing a WC of 30l and 20l respectively, after ammonia levels were...

Convict cichlid?

Sorry to hijack this thread but, this forum is so supportive, I'm just reading through all this and thinking back to other forums I've been on, not even fish related and the patronising and kick-while-you're-down attitude has been unbearable. Support level is the difference between a newbie...

Billed

Thank you @Byron, very informative. :)

Circuit

@Byron Sorry to hijack the thread, I've been looking at a Betta/Cory tank but from what you've said, am I gathering that's really not a good idea? So Betta on it's own? (I've read in lots of places both options) Thank you

Hello I'm looking please, for a preseeded, old used sponge someone is willing to sell and send me please (I'm guessing it will need to be in water from the same tank?) I've phoned all my local aquatic stores and they all run on gravel systems and I've had no luck requesting on the local facebook...

Baby cories on the way! <3

That is a really beautiful tank, may I ask, could you post the photo again with text labels for each of the plants? Or list them. This really is so pretty <3

Ah it makes so much more sense now. I saw a packet of the little grey stones and thought it seemed a bit limited :fun: Thank you

I've been looking at airstones today but I don't really know what I'm looking for? If someone could kindly post a couple recommendations please? Thank you

Wow, thank you so much for such a detailed and helpful response. You've made a newbie feel welcome and not inadequate. Thank you

I would love to know, I'm happy to have more than one tank in order to keep them happy. What kind of things am I able to do to soften the water please? Kind regards Sarah