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okies, I'll go get one at the weekend and order my filter off ebay tomorrow :) I've been looking at them online, are the cartridges easy to take apart?

would 4 be fine?

Al, is this the filter you'd recommend for the tiny tank? I'm either getting the nano you linked here, or this one in the 30 litre. I definitely have the bug >.<

the black sponge looks to me like a carbon sponge (my smaller filter has a normal sponge on one side and a carbon one on the other - using the carbon to get rid of the tanins atm). Bioballs are either their version of ceramic rings, or the ceramic rings will be under the sponges. but thats...

phew thank goodness for that!

so, I'm sat reading about fish, and what happens when they breed, and lots of places reccommend feeding fry freshly hatched brine shrimp. What turns up at my lab this morning? A pack to grow your own brine shrimp (for the kids to look at and see life cycles). I found myself thinking this would...

Let me know how the delivery goes and what the fish are like... I'm curious as I want to buy online also.

scotty the moss is fantastic! If you get anymore for sale please let me know :)

just an update on gouramis.. had mine just short of 2 weeks and he has the most wicked personality I've ever seen in a fish. He's cheeky (and a bit of a perv - he can be totally disinterested in what I'm doing bu as soon as I start getting changing he's got his face pressed against the glass...

never had any in my gravel, but had loads on the suction cups of my heater and filter. Was pretty gross. Noticed a little but just after I put in my gourami. I went to clean it off, turned around to get the net to catch a loose bit and when I'd turned around the gourami had eaten it o_O that fat...

well that makes me feel better... I've only recently started looking into corys (had 2 clown corys in a tank at work, they were gorgeous :) whats the minimum number you should keep panda corys in?

well.. I look at my tank and I feel I could get some bottom dwelling fish (although compatibility with amano shrimp worries me), but I'm not sure about type. When I get my bigger tank things will be better, but until then, if I could I would like a couple more in there. Panda corys should be...

argh! I wish I could go and get my nano now and get it cycling! I reeeeeaaalllly want some cherries! But I need to wait until the weekend to go get it :D

Surely gallons is better then? as it prevents overstocking? 2.5cm of fish in 2.5litres vs 2.5cm in 3.6litres... the latter sounds better to me. Ofc I understand tank dimensions play a part.. you could have 2 same litre tanks, one long and one tall and each will house different fish.

but everyone always talks about "X Gallon tank stocking help" and going on 1" of fish per gallon... thats a different thing depending on imperial or usg

I have a plan... I'm going to try and grow some cultures from my filter on a nice ammonia infused agar plate, then freeze that. Also see about freezing ceramic rings with tank water, and also a filter sponge. All with mild thawing... If anyone comes up with a scientific paper beforehand, then...

Lol I watched that program... she takes them on holiday n all sorts... weirdo! I mean, I loves me a bag of beef monster munch as much as the next person, but THATS IT??? Nah! Gimme my foods plx!

its like feeding a human on nothing but rich tea biscuits... sure we'd survive for so long, but our teeth and probably hair would fall out, our nails would be brittle, our skin in poor condition and we wouldn't have the nutrients to survive long term. Also, we'd end up with other painful...

physics lol all to do with angles and pressure lol... but I'd be careful when filling just in case there were some hairline fractures that might go when you fill it. glad everyone walked away from the accident!

I have a dwarf gourami and were told they were sensitive, susceptible to initial shock of introduction... I read up on dwarf gourami disease and upset myself.... but I took the plunge and got one... he's been in my tank a week now and is stronger and faster than my tetras. However, I did add...

it's sickening! it's like, you go back in "my fish has died", and all you get is "you must have dne something wrong"... so they check your water (if they can be bothered), send you off with another fish and await your return when that one dies too :( The thought of a 10 litre tank with a...

Ok, so I was looking for alternative shrimp tanks (I would like one at home in the kitchen as well as one at work... yes yes, I have the bug :P) and I thought I'd look at pets at home as I know they do some cheap basic tanks. I found this... Fish Tank Now... I put the dimensions into the...

hmmm that makes my current tank a 12 gallon, not a 10... means I can get another couple of tetras now without worrying :)

I have the same prob with stocking for a 120 I plan to get. I have 6 neon tetras currently in my smaller tank, so was going to bump them up to 10, add 7 galaxy rasboras, but bigger fish I'm worried about :S I dont want gourami's (keeping my 48litre for my red dwarf and giving him some females to...

oh my word!! bbc sun o_O

Hi all just a quick newbie question... I'm using the calculator to see how many gallons a new tank I'm looking at would be from litres. However, there are 2 choices, Imperial or US. Which one do I use? I know most people give stocking help in relation to gallons rather than litres Thanks Willow

I could stick it in til the end of the summer holidays and/or try at the end of september?

hmmmm want me to try it? I have a tank here at work that is currently shutting down (old fish dying off)... I could take a section of the filter medium, freeze it for a day or 2, then put it in a filter in an elodea tank we have here (no elodea in it currently) and see if it cycles?

Maidenhead SL6 (I texted earlier) too far away for me, and gutted because at £100 it would have been perfect price and size

pm me, I'm in need of moss for my nano shrimp tank :)

Can I just say Thank you Klona for coming on here and getting good advice! If you're after pretty fish (and would like more than 1) we could really do with having the dimensions of your tank (height, width and front to back). That way we could suggest fish that would go in your tank and are...

the LFS should tell you which sex the guppies are, but as a general rule, males are prettier... they have a larger more fan-like tail and amazing colours

I probably seem really stupidd for now knowing this, but it shocked me... just looking at "caviar" farming... without killing the fish.

Hi all.. I was recently channel surfing when I came across an interesting science (ish) program about how stuff is made or works. It showed the renewability of soda cans, and how jelly candy is made using corn starch as the moulds... but then came a disturbing section on fish farming. Now, I...

ahhh a turkey baster... I guess a pipette would work also... might have to train him to eat from a pipette hehe

the ammonia from Boots is good as well

good idea athena. He really is a greedy little thing. He's quite funny though, he'll eat all the food and then swim to the right side of the tank and "kiss" his reflection haha I'll try the mixing the food with water thing.

what about dabbing kitchen roll over the surface?

wow, that actually made me cry :'( RIP little one

Ok, so overfeeding = BAD! But... I have a VERY greedy gourami. I sprinkle the flakes one the water, and he zooms around and hoovers up the food before the tetra know there's even food there... so I sprinkle on another pinch, thinking he'll have had his fill (I'm sure I read somewhere that a...