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hi there welcome to the forum there are a bunch of very knowledgable people in this forum that can help you with any questions.

all very common mistakes

I have always been attracted to the more unusual fish in the hobby, I can only have nano tank due to the size of my house but would still love an old ball fish tank. I have a spare 16-gallon aquarium and through it would be the perfect old ball tank. i like lots of old ball fish but the more...

no but i like that do you know how to get it

no don't trash them that looks fine, remember plants grow in a different tank for different people just because one person had it die off does mean you will not have success give it a go it can only go well

thanks for your information, does anyone know any other weird old ball fish that I could try in the tank

oh where i like it is crazy my GH is 120 and Kh is about 210

yeah I have been really considering pea puffers but I would worry about fighting in the tank, I am quite stressed and fish tanks are a good relaxing part of my life and I would worry a tank with aggressive puffers fighting each other (also i think 1 pea puffer in a 16 gallon may be a bit small)...

I had a look at those sparkling gouramis and they look nice so thank you I will look in to there care. Does anyone know any small/ nano old ball fish that would be suitable for my tank as I have kept a lot of the more common fish in my time (I don't mind searching around for a rare fish) I have...

the dimensions are 32 by 32 by 60 cm

Hi there I have an old 16-gallon tank (it is 62 litres), I have had the tank for years now and used to keep many different fish species in it, but for the last year and a half, it has been sitting empty in my loft. I have now considered filling it back up and resetting it up. I have kept many...

mine was narrow-leaf val

umm carpets are quite hard without co2 injections and that is quite expensive, but I am trying a spiky java moss carpet as these plants can grow under lower light and with out co2 this is what i am aming for (this is a carpet of spiky java moss). some of the more 'high end' carpets made form...

those fish look amazing in a planted black water tank it would look incredible

I have really struggled to get hair grass to grow properly dwarf sagitruais i have had better luck with or crypt pava

plus some rotal Inca and ludwigia repines would add some nice colour

as you have a taller tank some Vallisneria would look really nice

yeah

very pretty fish?

wow your really in to your fish

yes that is a big issue I was once told by a fish store employee that 2 full-grown angles in a 5 gallon were fine, I have also heard fish 'experts' in fish stores say "what is cycling" and "oh that is where you put the dechlorinate in the tank" as well as "no cycling is only for more hard fish...

hi, there that is what is known as fin rot. this is where a betta has an injury and this leads to rotting, there are a few medicines one is called erythromycin but there are other you can also you aquarium salts, I would recommend putting your betta is a hospital tank and then use the medicine...

yes pheonixKingZ lots of people make the mistake you made so it is great you have now become an excellent fish keeper

hi there just wanted to let you know on the progress, it has sunk now and the cloudiness in the water has gone, there is a molt on the wood but I have srub part of it off and there is no grow back so I am happy

ok that looks interesting abbeysDad I will take a look at this

also I have seen a thing like this I think there are sometimes called micro patio ponds, but don't know much about them

well, thanks for the help I will let everyone know how my use with the filter goes. It has been running now for 5 days and all good so far.

yeah they have quite a range of products some are designed for ponds and some are for nano tanks. weird

well I'm happy with the filter and all is working fine for me

my tip would be don't worry or give up if at first, your plans don't go as planned. by this I means often as fish keepers we have a plan of what we want and what we like and if it does not go perfectly we have the tendency to be sad. in my case, it to 3 attempts before I got plants to grow in my...

don't worry the flow is turned way down, also I got this filter as many of the really small canisters had many bad reviews

Hi there I have created this thread so people can discuss their biggest mistakes with others mine is getting a fish tank to young (got my first tank when I was 4) and having no idea what I was doing, along the road I have put angles in a 10-gallon common plecos in a 15 all overstocked my tank...

ok my unpopular opinion = African and South American cichlids are just boring and besides the coloured have no other interesting personalities or features don't get me wrong I can appreciate a nice cichlid tank but I would never have one just bores me after a while so sorry to any cichlid...

hi there, don't worry I know it is overkill but I have specific requirements for my tank. I am going to keep African dwarf frogs. these animals are poor swimmers so internal filters are too powerful, I don't like sponge filters as they are noisy and take up lots of the tank (not great when I...

thanks for you help everyone, I have placed a few rocks on top of the wood to hold it in places, not the nices looking but does the jobs, the store I bought it from baked the wood to kill microorganisms so I think I will be ok. thanks again ember04

Hi everyone I recently completed an aquascape where the hardscape was azalea root. I joined a few pieces into a large interesting shape, as I was filling up the tank I realised that I had made a rooky mistake by not boiling the wood first, what an idiot. it was ok because I managed to get the...

Ok, thanks for your honesty I will stick to my original plan of an African dwarf frog species tank with 3-4 frogs and maybe a snail but that's it. thanks so much ember04

:fish::hi::fish:hi there welcome to the forum, there are loads of very experiences hobbies here that could answer any of the questions you many have, I personally know lots about aquatic plants, aqua scaping but there are people here with experience with everything. ember04