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I suspect it's the bore water. Do you use the bore water for everything including cooking, or cooking and drinking come from a different source? I'd remove a large volume of water, say 75%, and replace it with municipal water. That could mean a (long) trip to your old house to fetch the water.

I think the floor is sloping to one side. You can check by filling a glass with water and place it on the floor. If it looks like this then it's the floor. It's not uncommon for basement floors to slope to one side for drainage purpose.

All will be well, nothing to worry about.

1. The cheapest API liquid test kit I can buy costs $65. Plus between $10 - $15 shipping if you can't do the old fashioned pick up from the store. 2 & 3. I responded to these in your other thread, so I'll leave it at that. 4. I'm not aware of anyone in Australia who uses Dr Tim's (I'm not saying...

If there's a switch position referred to by the instruction leaflet as daylight, I switch it to that position; otherwise all the four colours are on.

From your description, your light switch has 3 positions, Off, On with blue light only, and On with blue + white + red. The blue only is considered by some as Moonlight. But the moon doesn't emit blue light, and the real moonlight is never bright enough to see fish in the water anyway, so it's...

Although the photos aren't clear, photo 1 appears to show the scales are sticking out, that is pine coning or dropsy. Sorry to say the chances of survival is virtually nil.

You can see a white dot under the belly, that's a female.

I don't keep Pseudotropheus saulosi, but 1 male and 4 females sounds good to me. If you have 2 males you need to provide more space as each male needs its own territory. Many people here have male only Malawi tanks, and it's overstocked to spread the aggression. It doesn't reduce the...

I think you have a defective valve.

What happens if you run the pump with a hose, but do not connect it to the cartridge? Does it pump out particles? If not, then the cartridge is the problem.

Just thought I should mention this. For the majority of these lights which have a timer, a problem is that when you have a power outage you’ll lose the time. It doesn’t reset at 0:00 when the power is restored. So if the outage is during the day when the light is normally on, and the power is...

Many people change 50% water once a week, but 10 saulosi in a 36" you may be pushing it. Keep an eye on nitrate, if it’s higher than 20ppm you need to remove more water. I think you need a longer tank if you’re going to keep 10, especially if you have more than one male. I keep Electric Yellow...

Something like this should do. Hope the link works. https://www.nicrew.com/products/nicrew-slimled-aquarium-plants-light/

I have a 48x18x18 and 7 cichlids in it, each one is about 3”. The filter is a Tydal 75 HOB. The cichlids dig and stir up the sand substrate, and the detritus gets collected by the HOB, so I have no need to vacuum it. Over filtering doesn’t reduce the nitrate level, so I don’t know what it’ll...

If you get a Nicrew or a Hygger and set it to daylight colour you don't need to worry about the spectrum. You can vary the light intensity from around 10% to 100%, think of it as sunlight in the early morning, midday or late afternoon. Mine are set to around 70% and 80% maximum. For low light...

It depends on the room temperature, if it’s warm you only need a low wattage heater, if it’s cold a larger one is required. A low wattage in a cold room and is struggling to keep up won’t do much good. Get an electronic that has overheat cut off, there's a much better chance of not overheating.

75F is warm enough for the bettas. Be careful with the stick on thermometers though as they are not always accurate. Have you looked at Eheim heaters? I'd get a 50W or 100W for a 10 gallon.

You don’t want to move the old filter to the new 29 gallon tank because you have a new filter. But are you OK to move the old filter to the new tank for 2 or 3 weeks while placing the new filter in the 10 gallon during that time. You can swap the filters after a few weeks. That way you’ll do...

A photo / video will help us understand the problem, but from your description it seems like he can’t be helped. How long have you had the betta? Despite what you hear that bettas live up to 5 years, you’ll be lucky if you get past 2 years for fancy bettas. Old bettas go downhill very quickly...

These are the basic lights (link below), but there’s no guarantee that they won’t break. You’ll probably need the 120cm, or 90cm if you have glass covers on top of the tank. The light comes in 2 parts, the light itself and the cable with the plug and a black box. The black box is the...

As you have a good water changing routine but the fish are still infected, the next step would be to treat them. That said, I have not been very successful with treatment. Both your fish are in the same tank and they are both infected, so it makes sense to treat them where they are now. I can’t...

It’s difficult to say without a pic of your tank to see how much hardscape you have in it. But I guess your 60L tank is roughly 60cm long x 30cm wide, so is quite a short tank. I’m comfortable leaving sand, small rocks and drift wood in a 60cm, but of course it’s safest to remove all the heavy...

From what I can see, they have fungal infection on the fins and bacterial infection on their bodies, usually caused by poor water conditions. You didn’t say what the water conditions are like, or how often you change the water, but I’d do a large water change now 75% and 50% change every other...

Welcome to TFF :hi:. You may not receive many responses on Black Moor as many members on this forum seem to keep other fish. I only kept goldfish once as a kid, and it was so long ago that I can’t remember the size of my tank, but it couldn't be a large tank. As to the question of what size tank...

I understand the advice against keeping fish in a small tank, but if that’s the only tank I have (35cm x 35 x 35), I’ll have 4 sparkling gouramis in it. I’ll have subdue light and a lot of long stemmed plants like elodea that grow to the water surface, as the sparkling like to hide amongst them...

I’d set up the tank with substrate and plants the way I’d like it to finally look, then add the rocks which will only be there temporarily. The rocks covered with slime and dirt may make the water cloudy, so I’d run the filter for a day or 2 to clear it up before adding a few fish, let them...

Welcome to TFF :hi: :fish:

The tanks are locally made, no brand. The tank in the link below probably suits your stand better, being 1220mm x 355mm base. It’s $129, but you’ll also need to get a polystyrene sheet to support the tank, and cover glasses which will add another $25 - $30. You’ll note that this store doesn’t...

It makes no difference if the patch is rectangular or L-shape. The patch will stop the leak or prevent the leak - if it hasn’t leaked yet, but I don’t think it will restore the structural integrity of the tank to the original un-cracked condition. It might, if the acrylic has similar strength /...

Yes, that's what I do if I need to appply different treatment.

As I understand it, the OP pumps the water from his tank to the sink. Unless the sink is lower than the water level in the tank, head is applicable here and it won't flow at max capacity.

Many pump manufacturers provide several flow rates for their pumps, because how fast they can pump depend on the difference in height between where the water is pumped from (your fish tank, in this case) and the height of the disposal point (the height of your sink ). In the image below, the...

It’s possible that the 2 fish were adversely affected by the treatment. The praziquantel med readily available here is made by Blue Planet, and it’s quite potent. Each tablet contains 100mg of Prazi and the recommended dose is one tablet per 20 litres ! I only used 2/3rd of the recommended dose...

The fish is very blurry so can’t tell what the problem is. By the look of the gunk attached to the heater, the HOB and what looks like a box filter, the water condition could be a contributing factor. You may have zero ammonia, nitrite and nitrate, but these tests do not give any indication of...

If you future tank is 122cmx38cmx45cm, then it's about 200 litres or 45 UK Gal or 55 US Gal - not 40 Gal.

You can run both filters for a few weeks as you mentioned, although that's not really necessary as the tank is well planted and with driftwood pieces. With your Fluval U2, you can run it without the black carbon pads. That will reduce the running cost and the cleaning frequency. I have the U3...