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About two years ago, I was on here asking advice about getting a fish tank and early setup. Two years on I still love my white Fluval Edge 46litre and am very fond of my little fishies (tropical).    On a trip to M.A in the New Year for fish seeing all the tanks laid out rather made me have the...

Hi I'm planning New gravel, plants and pebbles in my Edge to replace the current decor. I was planning to put my current three fish in a bucket with the heater running whilst I work on the tank  I was wondering how much of the old water I would need to keep- it will be a good opportunity to do a...

Hello, I have a Fluval Edge 46L been up and running about 2 or 3 months with fish now post fishless cycling. However, I have noticed I have developed little brown spots all over my silk plants. See Picture. At first I thought it might be that sometimes the fish going to the loo and the fish...

I use them. I bought them after suffering an attack of cloudy water straight after starting my tank. I put one or two in the tank itself and it dissolves and stick one or two into the filter.It's an expensive pot but the pot lasts a while - I put them in post water change.

I wasn't sure if I should feed them once a day or twice? I know it's a pinch. I haven't given them anything as yet.   The cardinals come out to play every now and again but seem to like to hide behind the plants when I'm about. One of them refuses to come out at all.   The mollies are just...

  I should think so, they are baby ones I assume as they are so teeny tiny; I can't actually see two of the 4 of them right now. Must be totally hidden in the foliage. Yep busy day.   There were some nice fighters there and I was eyeing up a dark bluey red one and a bluey green one. We'll see...

Well I went to MA Wembley today and I got the first of my fish.   I got 4 cardinals (I assumed 6 together but he said get another two later) and 2 silver mollys which I had no intention of getting but I just loved the silver gleam which i knew would contrast very nicely with my tank.   It's...

  Yes, typo - bloodworm - I heard it's a good treat for the fish - yes freeze dried, well rated on Amazon as was the TPC which I think you can feed to all fish  not just tetra so I could give to my Betta I'm sure. I also have some standard tropical fish flakes.   I'll let you know how I get on...

I decided to give it a miss yesterday. Instead I went Amazon shopping and I bought the Superfish Nano Heater 50W as recommended by RCA and also before I got the E50 Fluval I heard that was good but the heater I have was bundled with tank and was higher value though he did offer me others instead...

Interesting - so you run your tropical fish at 29 - that's only 0.5 of a degree less than mine is set on - and yours are fine?. Once I've finished my housework I'm going to see if I can take my heater apart and do anything to fix it though I doubt it.   So you guys think it will be ok to put the...

Hope people in this forum will have some handy 'fix it tips'.   I have the Fluval E series 50w heater. I hiked up the temp to 29.5C for fishless cycling. Cycle finished so did a big water change yesterday in preparation to go buy fish today. Also needed to drop temp to say 26C.   But the lever...

    Yes, it's been sitting happily on 29.5 since last night  screen is green to show it's keeping a constant termperature.   No I am not having much luck; problem is my weekends for the next few weeks are going to be busy and I don't know that I'd have time to go fish shopping.   I  heard the...

Yup    Thanks but I'm having a bit of a problem at the moment; I did my big water change - about 80%, wiped down the tank, put some Tetra Aqua Safe in there and chucked a few Evolution Pure Balls to get clear water, re-arranged all my decor yesterday and thought I'd best put my heater down as...

  I was under the impression that by doing fishless cycling you should be able to cope with a full stocked fish tank once the cycle is all done, and 6 whole weeks later here I am. (I think it would have been less had I not undershaken my ammonia test tube and overdosed my ammonia as a result) -...

  Yes my PAH in South Ruislip is quite accessible where the MA is a lot further and less convenient. BUT If I am going to buy all my fish at once from one place I thought it might be worth the extra effort if the fish will be healthier than PAH. It also varies as to what fish are in stock too I...

I did test tap water a few days back when you asked me to check nitrate , it was bright red.    Actually I meant to say before but another reason I thought put them all in together was so none of them would be bullied as a newcomer. They'd all be new and thus equal.   There is a m.a in Wembley...

  I've never had fish at all actually but I used to see goldfish being won at the local fair when I was little. I'm going on public transport so was wondering if they put the individual fish/water bags into something else...  I was just imagining clutching a load of empty bags with water and a...

  Well I much more look forward to putting pics of new fish in the tank than pictures of test tubes and questions about this chemical and that chemical and this percent and that percent and so on.   And I wasn't sure but when you go and buy the fish, do they still just give you it in the little...

Hm, well it seems to be a bright red that is brighter than 80ppm but not as deep as 160ppm. Every time I've checked my tank levels it's been that same red this week. What is the usual recommneded amount of water change pre-putting fish in there? Also shall I put heater to 25C or 26C or something...

Yes it is but it was a I'm going to miss the bus kind of moment. But on the plus side as I see it, I know that my tank can handle 4ppm in 36 hours which is good right? Also what I am curious about is how come at the beginnging of fishless cycling one is told do 4ppm ammonia and later on told...

Hi,   To those who are still keeping an eye on this thread, I do belive that I might have finished my fishless cycle but I'd love it if some experienced fish keepers, particuarly oracles on cycling can confirm for me.   As may have been seen above I was having trouble with bright pink tubes of...

And I just do it again and with 1/3 to 1/4 tank and 2/3 or 3/4 tap - altogether 5ml - it's still pink!!!   Crazy,

  Yes, thanks I watched it, I do 50% tank water and 50% tap that is 2.5ml of each and nitrite is still = pink. after 5 mins...

Hm, lots of questions.   It's the API master test kit. I was putting 2-3ppm in recently (before it was 4ppm but then the nitrites went really high so after that point I understand it's ok to keep it at the 2-3ppm level. Not adding anything to the tap water except putting the occasional few Aqua...

Hello,   I'm still working through the fishless cycle process but am confused with the nitrite test. At the moment, it will process the ammonia fairly quickly - always down to 0.25 and my nitrate is about 10ppm but the odd thing is the nitrite - I tested an hour ago and it was pinky purple - so...

I still have very high nitrite levels. I did a water change last night, 60% ish, but yet still the level is so high it goes pink on the API kit. Shall I do more water changes or just wait some more? Eagles and RCA - where you both gone? Have my tales of chemicals and test tubes for weeks on end...

  Yeah, that's why I was saying it's still the same ammonia as at the beginning, save you going through it all :- )   Anyway, so as the ammonica was down to 0.25 yesterday evening, I pushed it up to 3ppm and today evening (24hrs later) it's down to 0.5 ppm. I also checked the nitrItes which I...

Yeah not very clear is it, oops. It's the same ammonia as I put in originally. It's a bit of a long story -  you'd have to trace back through the thread. It seems the only time I can get any change is if I do a water change but it seems the nitrites are going up now. I'm worried about topping up...

  Yes I dechlorine it.   Just to update since I was sick and tired of seeing no changes the other night I did a 1/3ish water change.   Result:   Ammonia : 1ppm Nitrite: not sure it doesn't match any of the blue/lilacs or purple it's kind of purple but with more pink in it Nitrate: about 10ppm  ...

I recently set up a tank and it did exactly the same thing, it got cloudier and clourider after the water went in and the filter started to run and this was before the ammonia went in. I thought it was never going to clear up but suddenly after 2 to 2&1/2 weeks it suddenly cleared up over the...

I don't know. The API test kit I'm using doesn't offer that test... :-( Ah well I'm gonna stick some Pure in there and see if any change tomorrow. Odd that the ammonia's still not dropping despite being able to see some nitrite, which I understand normally leaps up but mine's sitting solid at...

K, so are you flummoxed now too? :-) I ordered some Evolution Aqua Pure Aquarium balls which came today as I heard they might help the cycle.

Sorry I didn't get your question. It's my only tank..?

OK today's readings. Seem the same as yesterday except the nitrate. Ammonia 3ppm Nitrite 0.25ppm Nitrate looks as if they're almost back at 0.   Haven't a clue what's going on.

Ok, I'll try all three tests again tomorrow evening and let's see what they say tomorrow. Yes the digital thermomenter is saying 26 ish. I've pushed hte heater back under the filter flow. No, all silk plants.

    I doubt PH would have changed. I couldn't find baking soda when I went to Tesco, only baking power and that had three ingredients in it so wans't sure that that would do right really.   Temp is 29 according to the heater but sometimes I think it lies...   surface agitation good as tank oly...