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Thank you I will certainly take your advice. As for the Bala sharks I will see how big they get then find them a new home, same applies to plec although we are fond of them. You learn as you go in this hobby don't you, unfortunately it does sometimes cause casulaties, lost one fish today, so we...

Yipee my tank this morning is perfect, I will be honest my husband admitted to cleaning the filter under the tapwater which i had asked him not to do but he couldn't resist cos he said it was really dirty, this of course we now know upsets everything that we had established in the tank and it...

Hi, I have two platys one female, one male, I bought two females on advise from my LFS to distract the male platy from bullying my other fish(but one of the females died unfortunately). He seems to dislike my bara sharks and they are quite big and just scoot off from the platy and are very...

Thank you Wills, I appreciate your good advise, we will have to have a re-think and either buy a bigger tank, or find them a new home. At least I have a bit of time to decide. Shame, I love my plec, we haven't room for an extra tank though and the sharks are so docile. Seems the shop we bought...

Hi, I have a platy had it for about a few months it's in good health, but it will not leave certain fish alone, it chases them and butts them for no apparent reason, anybody any ideas apart from having to buy another tank for one fish? The fish it mainly bullies are two orange guppies and...

:blink: I have added 4 live plants to my tank recently and today have noticed several tiny black shell like creatures, I took one out to investigate and it is a small snail. Are these harmful? Should I take them out of the tank? I know these were not there before I added the new plants...

Hiya, we did do a fishless cycle and so far have lost 3 fish in 7 weeks, so not too bad for a beginner and we can't be sure that they were in the best of health when we bought them being learners. We have 1 molly, 2 platys, 4 neons 4 corydoras, 2 danios which all seem quite happy and thriving...

Thank you for your comments, we have fish in the tank already and followed all instructions. Have been told need to change water every two weeks. So this could be the problem? we have 10 fish and it's a 60litre tank, maybe need to change water more often then? thanks. :hyper:

:sad: Hi have had my tank for 6 weeks, but have recently noticed that when we walk into the living room where the tank is there is a distinct smell, similar to stagnant water. We have part cleaned/changed water twice since since we have had the tank. Is there anything I can do to combat the...

Hi thanks for your reply, yes we have a filter and checked we had everything correctly. I just keep reading about part water changes and wanted to know how often is this necessary and how often does the gravel need changing, sorry usual boring beginners questions. I can easily get library...

Hi, I am a beginner to keeping tropical fish, we did stick to all the instructions but we had cloudy water when we first set up the tank but it did clear. We now have added 6 small community fish to start us off and since introducing them 4 days ago, they seem happy but the water obviously is...

:unsure: Hi all , newbie I promise I will be reading up on keeping tropical fish as soon as I can, but can I please ask the following questions. I have just bought a 2ft tank last weekend and we have so far put in gravel, a few decorations pump, thermometer all that came with the starter kit, we...