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I can also agree, I have had both cardinals and Neons and the cardinals have survived far longer.

I have some clear blue plastic which makes the tank look pretty cool when I cover the light with it. It is quite transparent so there is still plenty of light, i'm just wondering whether the blue light would mess with the fishes vision or sleep pattern or behavior? I have 4 Platy's in a 40L...

If i crush them up then the neon tetra will just eat them

I have these sinker pellets which are too big for my neon tetra's to eat but my new Lemon Tetra's eat them whole! They never even reach the bottom so the shrimp don't have a chance, Any ideas? Thanks,

Even though you said fish, I just got 4 Amano shrimp in my 30L and they cleaned the whole thing top to bottom in 2days, even the plants (which had a bit a hair algae on them) where cleaned. Great little things They are much more interesting to watch then fish, They look like lawnmovers with 10...

Hi, I was looking at my tank water really closely and noticed tiny green hairs. Like if you look through a sunshaft and you see all the dust, its like that but they are green and like very short hairs. There are ALOT of them and im worried, 1 they'll cause my fish's gills problems 2, they might...

Its pooping way to much and i'm worried its doing more bad than good to my small tank. Will he be ok in an unheated pond? Thanks, Tom

Hi, My tank isn't too heavily planted , an Amazon sword and a small baby dwarf tears (which is meant to be carpeting the tank but is now carpeted by a layer of hair algae -.-) I'll try reducing my light time for 2 weeks by 3hrs and see what happens :D

Hi, I dose liquid CO2 and liquid fertilizer and have my lights on 1pm-10pm. I'm starting to see green hair algae creep over the leaves of my plant and the gravel, Will reducing the light time help get rid of this? How long should I have the light on? Thanks, Tom

Hi, I'm asking so that I make sure I do the right thing, He's been lying on this side at the surface of the tank for about 5/6 days now. His gills are quite red and inflamed and his once electric blue fins are going brown. I have no testing kit but my other fish are great so I don't suspect the...

Thanks, seeing as i've added two new live plants and a snail recently there may have been an ammonia/nitrite/ate spike. I'll stay at once a week but do 50-60% water change. I'll have a look into this IAL,  Thanks for the help :D

:0 woah, looks like I can start my own forest, that's huge!   Thanks for all the help, I'll plant it a little deeper,   Will it stay as one clump or send out shoots to make new plants, I know my java fern reproduced like crazy and I went from one to 6 plants, will this also happen with the sword?

Hi, I recently picked up an Onion Snail (vittina semiconica) I've heard that once they've eaten all the algae in the tank they need feeding, I have a 30L tank so it may run out of algae pretty quickly. How long does it generally take before it needs feeding? How will I know if it is starving...

Hi, I was on another forum and one thread had about 400 replies and it had the option to just show the thread starter's post. This made it a whole load easier to read as I didn't have to sift through 350 'great tank' and other comments (which are great and sometimes the conversations between...

I kinda hooked a few roots around the sinking rock disk that came in the pot, should stay down.

Here he is: The swelling has subsided a little overnight. The picture with no redness is from a few weeks ago, you can see the difference. There's no sign of any problems on his other side though, Thanks Not a great pic, but this is his other side, no redness. Top 2 : just now, left side Bottom...

  Looked the picture up, a Betta owner posted it with the caption she has a deep red ventral fins, red stripes on her gills and a slight red wash to her anal fin. Does she think that the redness is normal coloration?!

Hi, Looks like my betta is sick again,   Last time I was fairly sure it was swim bladder disease and went for the pea method and it cleared up pretty quick,   Now the betta has similar swelling around the belly area and a redness on one of the gills,   I'm starting to suspect its the food as...

Thanks guys, just planted it,  Is this the right idea?

Aha, it's always tricky to judge emotion with just text. My bad :)

Hi, Anyone know the name of this plant, Thanks,

Also make sure the glass or other pieces don't have any particularly sharp edges, could scratch the glass or a fish :)

  As in with it being Bank Holiday Monday, the post service stops running and I was away so I missed the delivery so now they're stuck at the depo till Tuesday. Do I detect sarcasm? Thanks, the light on the substrate all looks pretty even so it should be fine.

Haven't arrived yet, they got caught up in the Bank Holiday post      I see what your saying and completely agree but surely an equally important variable as distance from substrate is the area of the substrate. My substrate is only  a 30cmx30cm square so the substrate is never more than 10cm...

The boiled skinned peas are especially good as Betta's, for example, only have digestive enzymes which break down protein so the pea has almost no nutritional value to them so it passed straight through which kinds of flushes their system out, its a great cure for swim bladder disease as well.

I can agree with everyone here, I also went away a few weeks and the fish didn't eat for 2-3 days. I gave them a good feed the day I left and they were absolutely fine. The weekend feeders are probably too much hassle for as short a period of time at 2 days.

I'm adding liquid carbon and fertilizer to tank so we'll see how it goes, The tank is fairly shallow so lighting may be sufficient as it is, It's good to know that it won't do any bad, it may even be good.   Thanks :D

Hi,   I've bought a Hemianthus callitrichoides and hope it will carpet some of the tank.   Can I still syphon poo and debris off of it?   Will it have an bad effects on tank chemistry by covering up the substrate?   Thanks!

    Thanks for the advice guys, he's is able to swim around absolutely normally now and i will slowly start feeding him regularly again, but much less, I've learned from my overfeeding mistake,   Literally, the Betta is 'betta'

I'm not sure whether to trust internet advice or fish shop employees on tank size and stocking numbers -.- I think we can all agree that internet advice varies wildly, but fish store may be inaccurate.   I ditched the jug, I only put him in it for 5 mins while I feed the other fish to stop him...

Just read through this thread, i'm literally drooling aha, the tanks amazing,   All in all how much do you think this has cost you so far?

Hi, Tank 33L with 6 neon tetra's and 4 norman lampeye Temp 25C Yes its filtered, the tank has been running half a year now, changed water last week, I don't have a water testing kit,   I will starve him another day or two and then try the daphina/pea Thanks   If it turns out this is to do with...