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Personally , i have seen what happens to guppies when water quality deteriorates , they are the first to go , in 3 months i lost 6 guppys and am now reluctant to buy any more, the first 3 died from poor water while my tank was cycling up,  to pregnant females died when being separated, from...

I know this is an old post , but here goes ,  1 i use a 15 Litre top bucket , that I stand on top of my hood , i fill that , and dechlorinate that accordingly  2. i start back syphoning this in to the tank directly on top of the filter or pressed against the side wall , so i get a dispersion...

i have an idea, how about , the first time you use an acronym in a topic , you type it out in full , like practical fishkeeping(PFK_) and then in brackets place the acronym beside it ,  after all that is the grammatically correct way of writing , and makes so much more sense.  that way if you...

SOLD < IM HAVING IT :) 

Will take and collect for the agreed price , thanks in advance 

if i understand this correctly , the nitrite bonds to the blood , where as  the cloride , slows down absorbion through the gills , making them less effective , and less able to suck up the poisens,    would i be correct also in thinking that this could effect the bio filter if added directly to...

I know this seems pedantic , but i would like to clarify a small point , reading from a biochem report i read recently    1. Nitrisonmas is a NON MOTILE bacteria , meaning it does not produce spores to move , it simply creeps along el boundary contacts,  ... you will see this on undergravel...

i only did the charts cause i was bored , lol , but it appears that my nitrate readings are false positives , there may not be any nitrates present, this morning a nitrite spike took two fish , so 50 % water change and i went to the local shop and bought , a gel pack of bacteria, actually 2 ,   ...

die back ? of the plants or the efficiency of the filter performance , ammonia , is very low , but present none the less 

ps , if anyone wants their results placing in a chart , i can either tell you how on excell or if u ask nicely i will do it for you lol 

  seem charted results here 

today my new plants arrived and they have been placed in the tank ,    new tank 2 weeks old water chemistry baseline was as you would expect  tank is 100 litres in size  ( 1 us gallon = 3.7litres)    Ph = 7.2  Ammonia, NH3  = 0 toxic Ammonia NH4  = 0  nitrite NO2              0 Nitrate NO3  ...

In the past i have used a variety of driftwoods in my tank , however after soaking in boiling water etc for several days ,    which did reduce tannins and stain considerably , eventually my tanks still went yellow ,      how is this best avoided ,    buy , pricey pre treated wood ? or is there a...

they look fantastic, not just the planting , but also the camera work , how did you take such amazing pictures ?

Recently in Pets@Home , (yuk)   i picked up on them selling Dracena ,    a garden plant for aquatic use , this plant will rott , and destroy itself in ur tank and leave you with a horrible mess to clean up.     what other plants are there that should be avoided,  (by the way , the look on...

Bacoupa, is a nice hardy plant that puts roots down well even in undergravel systems,    watch out for people selling Dracanea its a garden plant , looks  nice in the tank but will rott ,  (black listed ) 

personaly i always have used http://www.java-plants.com UK i have bought their collections a number of times , tho my own tank (undergravel filter didnt help the plants thrive )   Plants are nice quality well packed and they do not sell blacklisted plants at all.    Bacoupa Moneri , great for...

if you are selling fish you are probably better speaking to smaller stores telling them what you have and asking if you can place an advert also try your local selling sites etc , people are bound to want fish locally cheaply ,  for example my local store is selling rosy barbs for £1.50 each ...

(fao shelster , use adblock plus , an extension for your webbrowser opera of chrome, )     i would go with a bubble nest idea , as long as you have bettas, ( Siamese fighting fish as they are called elsewhere) if not , i would scoop them out and see if they return 

there is a book by Interpet called community fish. which lists what u can and cant keep together. main concerns to watch out for that i have personally witnessed , are  shcoaling fish , like danios, and minnows etc , must be kept with at least 5 other wise they will harass other fish looking...

curiously ,  because you replied to this one , and alot of people skip over posts that have an older start date .... and also to place a almond thingy , in the title which is more descriptive then just GRAVEL.    it jsut helps thats all. especially if someone else had the same prob and was only...

please read this topic for further information https://www.fishforums.net/threads/gravel.405485/ gravel was their Premium aquarium gravel , brown natural colour store admit its possibly deadly to your fish.

UPDATE : phoned Pets@Home today and explained to their instore "expert" he said bring it down to the store for them to look , when i got to the store the chap  was astounded by the strength of the smell,  he admitted that when we spoke on the phone he thought i was talking about a light wiff ...

I just bought the Pets at home small brown pea gravel, and as soon as i opened the bag i smelled almonds (marzipan smell )     i have owned fish tanks for over 10 years and am setting up a new one this is the first time out of 4 baggs of gravel that i have ever found one that had such a smell ...