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Glad it's sorted Sharli. I suffered from a male pearl gourami, and a male firemouth that hounded the females to death, literally. Every time they came out from their sanctuary behind a big lump of bogwood they were seized upon. I think they probably starved to death as they weren't allowed out...

The longer this takes, the larger the plants grow, and in fact they are already above water level now in some places. In fact I can see a couple of small ones floating free on top as well. These may just be offshoots that have been disturbed by the Panda Corys. Anyway, I now doubt that the...

It's bloody disgusting to get a mouthful of dirty soiled water though, ain't it? Then if the bucket you're draining out into isn't big enough for the full job and you have to do it all again.

I did a full topic on this sort of thing. I use water that runs off my kitchen roof though, albeit the area is relatively free of airborne nasty chemical stuff. I made a filter to fit in the rianwater downpipe, including a pouch of activated charcoal to help take ot any microbacteria. The filter...

Ah, it was a TDS reading. My NT Labs KH and GH test bottles are empty. At least 1 of the GH bottles is empty with the screwed up number of unequal drips needed between them. As it was still the same water I was using previously then the GH should have been fine at around 320ppm. CPD's don't like...

Ah. Small enough to microwave. That'll kill algae for sure.

I just love the Halfbeak and your size tank is ideal. You must know that the escapee problem exists for just about every top level fish. The best way to prevent, or at least minimize this is to have a good number of floating plants. I've even lost Zebra Danios, Chili Rasboras and Otos. Oh and...

Things have really moved on with this tank. The plants have grown well and I have just given the grass a haircut today. I am annoyed at the loss of CPD's over the last couple of weeks. I don't know what it is but I seem to lose one every couple of days. The water parameters are perfect, except...

Preventing the tadpoles being eaten is a really envirnment friendly thing to do. However if the fish also eat Cane Toad tadpoles I'd actually encourage it. OOPS - the tadpoles are also poisonous. Forget that.

I take it that the algae is blooming on the glass? I wouldn't use chemicals to treat it. Do it naturally. It does look unsightly but scrub it off and vacuum it out as you go. Then a vacuum of the substrate to removde any that drops to the bottom or grows on the substrate. Then control the...

LIME !!!!!!! AARRGGHHHH. Hope to hell you're wrong about that, and I think you are. What you have is a build up of calcium, the sort of thing you see in electric kettles. See this for the best conditions to keep a Betta. I suggest taking a water sample to your local fish store and they should be...

Tadpoles are a bit weird to be honest. Some grow into canibals in the tadpole stage. That's so they will eat their own if other food supply is depleted. They actually grow into a different shape for it. I'd just drop them into a bag and dump them back into the nursery pond.

It sounds as if you made a purchase decision without giving any real thought as to the needs of the fish since you didn't even know their names. Don't get me wrong. I often buy fish and can't remember their name but I always research them in the store as the tanks are labelled. It's just that...

Hi and welcome. You are really into this, aren't you?Don't know what the chemical makeup of your water supply is like but I believe that guppies are predominently introduced to water systems in some places to control the mozzies. From what we in the cooler parts of the world can see, Australia...

I tried 5 LFS's over the weekend before I found one with stock of them. I managed to get another 4 so I'm getting there. From what I'm told as soon as they come in - they go out.

I never had Electric Blue Acaris but funnily enough I saw some at a LFS today and they look great. Too big for my community tanks though. I had Kribs at first and they ended up with dozens of fry in a community tank. They looked after the fry like sheepdogs with a flock of lambs. No other fish...

It usually does work Amy but normally at the expense of loss of fingerprints so that can't unlock your phone. No matter how hard I try I always end up with glued fingers.

I think that was a mistake. I believe what was meant to be said was that softwater fish can go into hard water but not the other way around.

Bladder snails. They'll always be there. Hate them as much as I do, they are probably the best thing for your situation

I added 6 of them to my tank. That was as soon as I noticed the hair algae and there was still a fair amount of diatoms/biofilm on the wood and some plants. They are doing fine. I wouldn't put them in if there's little obvious food source for them though. They really aren't into algal wafers etc...

Snails - snails and more snails. They are snail eaters and although they do obviously take other food they may not do so until they are starving. It's like feeding barbeque beef to a vegan.

Let's just hope you are insured for the hospital costs. America The Great? Not in my book, they aren't

Well that confirms my suspicions for sure. Thanks for your input guys. Plop and drop. Maybe I should use that as one of my profile quotes.

RO is Pure Water as you say, BUT it is devoid of all elements you need to have present in fishtanks. There are additives to give you those. It may be that the "conditioner" you used was one of them but you'll need to let us know what it was. StartZyme isn't one of them for sure. It's like Prime...

Sorry to hear about your problems Buddy. I can empathise about spending time just watching sick fish as I know that the amount of time spent just waiting for things to happen in most hospitals is incredible. I had a similar day last week with my wife trying to find out about her own immense...

Whatever it is, I had tons of the stuff. It seems to be something planted tanks, especially those with aqua soil, go through as part of the settling down process. I guess you'll feel the slime on the tank glass? If so then the word from the forum about my similar situation was that it was...

I bought one of these in April and it's great. I bought one for another tank after that. Inexpensive compared to some CO2 kits and s[peedy de;ivery

Glue it to slate and stick it back into the substrate

OK then. This plant grows quite quickly. The top turns reddish and it makes a lovely bushy corner-piece or rear tank plant. When the top reaches the water level, just cut it back to half height and plant the top into the tank by itself. The existing plant will continue to grow.

Probably just following the "snails pace" procedure

Here you go. Just follow fishless cycling

The black skirt is a shy fish. I have a group of them in a 120ltr tank along with 5 Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish, half a dozen Silver tip tetras and a pair of Appisto's. The Black Skirts were nearly always sheltering in the large plants and rarely showed any frontal community activity. So, only 2 days...

I was at aquarist centre not too long ago, that also had a reptile section with snakes, frogs, lizards etc. It's an amazing place. However they feed the reptiles these sort of things. I have actually seen escapees wandering around in the fish section like cockroaches in a kitchen. If you've...

Yeah, that's a definite superglue job to the bottom of the stem. The roots will grow from the stem itself as you more than likely know.

Deleted or not, I sometimes wonder about this acclimation business. For instance, every time we do a water change, the new water is always different from that replaced. The temperature is almost never the same. I used to stand 5 ltr bottles of water in a tub with hot water and let the bottled...

I actually glue these sort of plants, as well as baby tears, etc onto pieces of slate that you get in garden centres then bury the slate in the substrate. As long as you have sufficient substrate weight over the slate it'll do the trick. Just make sure the slate is big enough as well of course.