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Trucker, I had this problem,and got rid of it easily.. Wrap around your tank window with a cloth,preferably black and turn off your lights 24 hr,so you stop the light,you stop algae photosynthesis, BUT be careful during this 24 hrs keep your airstone running,dying algae consume enourmous...

Hi everyone, I have a 110 lt tank with a mother Cryptocoryne crispatula var. balansae ,the tank is 4 months old and cycled. The mother cryptocoryne has 4 leaves when I first set up the tank,now it has 12 leaves besides it has given 5 baby cryptocorynes with 3-4 leaves.It has grown very fast ,I...

bigfish,suemack, It's been more than 1 month since I put the sharks in the tank.During the day sharks only chase each other,I've never seen they disturb mollies and platies ,even when I feed them,mollies and platies are more dominant than the sharks. If this is the case you suspect,I may...

Hello, I have 4 mollies and their juveniles,3 red fin sharks,4 platies in my 125 tank .I measure water parameters once a week.Yesterday morning, nitrite ammonium readings were almost zero,the nitrate level was too high.So I immeadiately changed 25 lt of water.I use some test strips with color...

Hello, In my 125 lt tank with mollies and platies in,I want to have live plants to reduce nitrate levels.Which plants do you advise? my tank parameters are: ph 7.4 Gh 15-20 26°C Thank you all :rolleyes: portisheader

Good Morning, Unfortunately this morning I found my molly dead on the gravel,so now what to do next to rescue the other,I added 15 teaspoon of salt to the tank and increased my thermostat to 30°C, should I take any other precautions,antibiotics? Waiting for your comments... Thank you all...

Hi, On one of my black mollies ,how to describe,after 3 days after I put him into the 120 lt tank, a whitish and pale film layer,like camouflage on war aircrafts ,developed on the skin.Some parts of the skin is still deep black.There is no white spots on the body.He eats flakes everytime I feed...

Hi, On one of my black mollies ,how to describe,after 3 days after I put him into the 120 lt tank, a whitish and pale film layer,like camouflage on war aircrafts ,developed on the skin.Some parts of the skin is still deep black.There is no white spots on the body.He eats flakes everytime I...

Thank you all for the replies portisheader

Hi all, Although I've washed the gravel and rocks throughly,again and again,I observe ultra tiny particles and dust in my 125 lt tank.My Eheim 2010 internal filter's working 24 hrs ,the fish seem ok in the foggy water but well I guess not cloudy , I am irritated every time I look through the...

Hi, I have a powerful internal filter I do not use and wondered if anyone has replaced sponge filter media with the different layers of media used in external filters ? Is it possible to modify an internal filter so that it can act like an external placed in the tank?Is it a silly question?:-)...

Thank you wetwetwet and dolphin. portisheader

Hi all Last weekend I started to set up my first tank which is 32 lt and cylindrical.There are two plants and two lebistes in the aquarium and it's been 5 days since I switched on my eheim internal filter and heater for cycling . In many forums I read the water is to be cloudy after sometime but...