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We already have a few fish in the old tank. 2x clown Loaches 1x ruby shark 2x Neon Tetra 2x Opaline Gourami 1x Platy 1x bristlenose Would these be okay to put it to start?

A few months back i posted that we were having issues with fish being chased and harassed. We were advised to get a bigger tank. So we have now upgraded to a 175 litre Seashell Elite tank. We have a fluval 205 filter, a heater and lights. We have a fine pebble gravel and nothing else. There...

60 litre 15 gallons tank 2 red honey gouramis 2 pearline Gouramis 1 sunset platty 2 blue platty 2 clown loaches 1 ruby shark 4 mollies (2 male 2 female) 2 neon tetra 2 red platty 1 Bristlenose May not be enough places for them to hide....

We have a Ruby shark and two red honey gouramis. The gouramis are being chased by the Ruby. Is there anything we can do?

We have a minor problem with algae. Its the long, black, fine type and its attached to the top of the castle and also to the plants in the tank. I need to know how to get rid of this as my dad had this before and had major problems. He had to change everything in his tank to get rid of it...

Our tank is full of live plants... and we have a bristlenose too...

okay i need to replace my filter foam. the old foam will be full of bacteria.... how do i go about getting the new one ready? do i just bite the bullet and stick it in? Also the stones in my tank are getting covered in algae. is there any way to slow this down? TIA :)

anyone know any good ideas for stopping the pump from slipping down the wall of the tank - ours doesnt seem to want to stay put! :rolleyes: : also we seem to have grown thousands of snails out of nowhere - does anyone know how to get rid of these? any better methods than trying to just pick...

Just came back from holiday to find 6 baby mollies! :) Couldn't believe it :) Prob is now we have snails!

on a brighter note.... We have two blue platys and lucy just noticed that one has a gravid spot!!! :D :D :D :D Does anybody know how long it takes from thew time of appearance of the gravid spot till you get little baby platys appearing? :rolleyes:

i posted a few days ago regarding a platty that i thought was too big. Had thought it was a female but as it turns out... its a male. The anal fin is pointed..

the other thing i noticed is she spends a lot of time on the bottom at the back just sitting there... other fish have done this and died soon after! :(

where do you find the gravid spot?? excuse my ignorance!! :S

We have a black and white platty and have noticed that its getting rather big. Please have a look at the pic and give us your opinion. http://www.conorandlucy.co.uk/platty.htm Not sure if it pregnant, overweight or what!! :)

needing some advice! we bought what we were told was a platty but he seems to have turned into a swordtail (! shop got it wrong) but trouble is he seems to be chasing everything in site - platties , dwarf gouramis and mollies all alike! do we need to get a fellow swordtail for him to play with...

We are off on holiday soon and want to leave a fish feeder in the tank. However i lost the instructions on how to install the auto fish feeder in the tank. We have the Aquarline 28 day auto fish feeder which has a sticky pad on it. Problem is that i dont know how to get it in to the tank...

excuse my ignorance :*) what do you mean by GH and KH? Conor

using a nutrafin test kit with all 4 tests in it. Im from milton keynes. No rocks have been added just 4 plants.

Hey We got our Nitrite and Nitrate levels to nothing and the ammonia levels as well. Problem is that our pH is high - 9.5 too alkaline. Anyone suggest how to bring this down?

Hi all Some of you may remember i posted a while back about the nitrite and nitrate levels in my new tank and the fact we couldnt get the levels down. Well last week my wife Lucy bought four live plants and with in two days the levels had dropped dramatically. and when i checked them to day...

the filter is a Rena Filstar sponge filter

the tank is not a juwel tank but is an equivalent.

the tanks been set up for a month now. We didnt put anything in for the first week.

the other thing that we were advised to add to the tank was a clean water aquarium filter media. we have to keep it on for a fortnight and the get the water retested. will this do any good?

My wife and i have had our 60 litre tank for just over a month now and have been having major problems getting the levels in our tank right. We have currently in our tank: 2x Opaline gourami 2x Pearl Gourami 4x male guppie 4x platys 1x Algae eater (cant remember which one but its black) We...

My wife and i are new to tropical fish and desperately need some help! We have had the tank about a month now and have had the water tested st our local garden centre twice. Both times they said the ammonia and nitrite were very high. I have done a 75% water change to try and bring this down...