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Just to close this off and give an update on the tank. For years I kept Cichlids in the tank. If I ever added a new fish, after a couple of hours they had settled in and owned the tank. I took the decision to change the tank usage from Cichlids to a school of Tiger barbs. After 2 days of...

thanks for all the replies and updates ... Much appreciated .... Light schedule changed (10 hours on, 14 hours off) I'll invest in some floating plants next time I'm down the local shop. algae isn't much of a problem at the moment, but once the tiger barbs were settled in I was going to invest...

☺ just to clarify what I was trying to say. The lights come of @10am ... Switch off @ midday for a couple of hours, and then are on till 10pm ... Then off again until 10am the next day (so 12 solid hours of "darkness") ... The room the tank is in is in the middle of the house and has no external...

thanks for such a detailed response. Just to clarify around the light cycle. There is a period over night of nearly 11 hours where the tank is dark, so there is (almost) a half and half day to night ratio. The cycle turns the lights off for a couple of hours over lunch time (ish) I take on...

hi there ... Attached is a photo of the tank. I came home this evening and still no sign of any fish I'm the tank I'm pretty sure I put them in there ... so I dropped some food in to see if I could get them out of hiding ... Sure enough the plants explode with a shoal of tiger barbs ... they...

thanks for the response. Sorry, I thought I'd put sizes etc in the original post ... 250lt tank so plenty of space to move around with 20 new tiger barbs. Sorry I don't have a photo to hand to upload but it has plenty if greenery, wood and stone to aquascape the tank. As I say its a well...

Hope someone can help. I had a well established tank with some cichlids in for a number of years. Through time and natural wastage the number of fish dwindled to just a jewel and a rainbow cichlid. Wanting to restock the tank I took the step of rehoming the remaining two fish and changing tack...