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Yeah it's in another container ready to be taken to LFS tomorrow. There is a big cold freshwater pond across the road from my house. Would it be happy in there or should I take it to LFS?

Damn it!! What should I do?!?!?!

Sorry thought I attached it, done now

Have a 100L tank, 1 khuli loach (I know I need more, long story!) 2 male guppies, 1 bristlenose pleco. My friend has just got a 24L tank with some neons and a female Siamese fighter, he text me and asked me if I could take another fish off him because it was being aggressive, figured because my...

Sorry i c u added re-test after a week, cheers

Ok thanks. I have been changing the water regularly so that should help. They dnt seem under any stress really so fingers crossed things will level off in the next few weeks. When should i re-test te water?

My tank has been set up for about 8 weeks. Sadly after some bad advice from a LFS I didnt do a fishless cycle. I started with a pair of dwarf gourmis and 8 cardinal tetra. Only the cardinals remain out of what i began with. Can you expand a bit more on the test results? And I was under the...

Hi all! Bought a new test kit earlier today as upto now i have been using test strips which i wasnt confident were very accurate. The test kit I bought is an interpet kit with small tablets that dissolve in the water samples. Theres a test for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. Readings are as...

I was hoping for a more affectionate reply in favour of freshwater, but so far it seems to be the cost barrier :shout:

Thanks for the reply. And thanks for pointing out the title. I know this already of course, title was a mistake, meant to be freshwater vs marine :)

Just interested to know what everybody prefers about freshwater tropicals over marine? EDIT TITLE SHOUL BE FRESHWATER VS MARINE :)

Mate dun sum measurin this evenin and i dont think ive got the space for it right now in all honesty. Good luck selling it mate im sure it'll go on ebay.

Cheers. I need to get home and do a bit of measuring. Im 50/50 on it, mainly because of the scratch. I'll drop a note on here at about 8 pm tonight with my final decision. Obviously if you sell it in the meantime unlucky for me, but maybe if you could hold off putting it on ebay until tonight...

Yeah im sorry if it seems like Im being fussy. I want it but if i take it home and its a bit of a wreck my bird wont be having any of it lol. It looks great when its full but theres one huge scratch thats putting me off. Really not intending to mess you about mate. When its on the stand how tall...

Im sorry for the delay in replying. Are there a lot of scratches in the glass? Basically I need to know if this will look unsightly in my living room? If its in reasonable enough condition to be used as a display tank in a living room and the stand isn't bashed to bits then I will take it if...

Oh man I wish there was an LFS closing round here. I could do with so much. Why are tanks so #41#### expensive?!

where abouts in the country are you? Because if you could get hold of a cheap 180 - 250 litre or so tank on the cheap i would have one. not arsed about branding the cheaper the better as long as it looks presentable! And tesk kits, i could do with a good test kit!

I got some tetra medica general tonic from the store today. Probably not even the right stuff but it does say it treats a wide variety of common diseases etc. Its turned my water green which im pretty pissed about :/

Too late, woke this morning and shes dead :(

Ive had a look again now im home and ithink its columnaris. Where do i get the meds? LFS?

Thanks, looks like it could be the early stages of that. Bad times, where would one pick up anti biotics that you can put in a fish tank? Would it just be a good idea to put her out of her misery?

Thats fair enough, I knew I was being a bit cheeky. But if you dont ask you dont get! Actually regretting spending so much setting up my second hand 120L now. If you'd have put this on here before xmas I would have snatched your hand off. Let me have a think and come back to you in an hour or so.

£60 and you've got a deal

Interested, but wouldnt even know where to start in terms of an offer. Reasonable price in mind, considering I could pick up as early as tomorrow?

I literally saw it for 30 seconds before i left for work this morning. But it looked like something growing on the its back as opposed to just a colouring of the skin. Also as i say, the tail fin looks like being 'eaten'...i dint believe it to be from any other fish as i havent witnessed any...

I need to be breief with this as im at work. Cut a long story short, did a 100% water change at the weekend so I could re-scapre my tank. Added a coupke of new ornaments, a coupkle of fake plants, 3 khuli loaches and 2 angel fish. Up until this point my gouramis had been flourishing (female...

Sorry I mean 'sorry if 'i' seem ignorant'...was using iphone! So you mean take out the 3d background. Thats the bit that you werent clear on!. Thanks

What will the black paint achieve that the background i already have doesnt though? I dont understand, sorry if u seem ignorant.

Paint the ourside if the back with black paint? I dont understand??

The octopus isnt attatched. That ornament is my fave, bought it at the weekend. Does a sterling job of hiding the internal filter. I dont know what you mean by floating in the far right. Theres the ornament which is a little reef like cavern thingy but its not floating. Just behind that are my...

I didn't want the fake reef, or the octopus. But my medelling girlfriend wants it to match the purple 'feature wall' and our accessories in the living room. Sigh, if she had her way it would have purple gravel too :( I compromised on that octopus and the reef to save my ears. I can't have...

Dont get me wrong live plats are great. And they do look better. Right now I just dont have the time to maintain them! Also the guy in the LFS explained most plants need double tubing (lights) which my tankn wont accomodate. I think now ive got my tank, In due time I will get myself a nice...

I know you didn't, i got the posts mixed up. I re-edited to say 'old Spouse'. Thanks to both for your advice though. Old Spouse I've just ditched the live plats idea, fake ones just seem so much lesss hassle and I dont have a lot of time so its perfect for me.

I HATE the 3D background. Sadly I desperately wanted a tropical tank but I wasnt in a position to afford one at the time so i picked up this on ebay in November for £26. Bargain at the end of the day. Ive since gone on to spend £150+ on decorations and plants. And plenty of money on fish! But...

Anybody any ideas on what else I can do with this tank? Started off with live plants but decided its too much effort. So Ive got a couple of fake ones, a few ornaments for the fish to hide in an around aswell as disguise the filter, and also some live floating plants. Tanks been up and running...

Yeah, I went to the LFS to get ornaments and what not. Ending up coming away with 2 dwarf gouramis and 8 cardinal tetra as the guy at the LFS said 'you cant cycle your tank without fish'. He said all this fishless cycling stuff is 'just polluting the tank' I've noticed im getting very bad...

He died this weekend after 10 days in the tank. All of a sudden, propper gutted :(

But there were no signs of any discomfort/abnormal behaviour prior to the death. So I dont understand. Would a fish just perish all of a sudden due to ammonia? Im propper gutted, i really liked that fish and im scared to buy another incase the same things ahppens!

Its a sad day :( I've had my gouramis a week and the male died this morning. Its been doing fine all week, feeding ok, swimming around fine. Chasing the female about a bit. Out of nowhere i came down this morning and started feeding my fish, I couldnt see the male gourami, so i checked next to...