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Black- less is more with backgrounds, I reckon. Tape a bin liner to the back of it to see how you like it. Nice pics.

And me.

This is for a 500L tank? You're a brave man putting that on a chest of drawers. Pinch to a pound says it collapses before the tank is full.

Thanks for the guidance. Broadly in line with what I had planned. Cheers!

I would put in it the stock list I am getting rid of in the f/s section, sob sob. Nice big BGKF, shoals of clown loach, red line torpedos, tiger barbs, danios and a few other choice species to fill in the gaps in the levels. My personal view is that putting a couple of large fish in is a waste...

I need to dismantle my 700L tank (if you're near Bristol UK check out my ad for fish), but I want to keep it and all the accessories because it won't be forever. It is likely to be dry for at least 9 months though. I am concerned that I seem to recall reading somewhere that the seals could dry...

Nice. I like cars too. Currently running a stage 4 Saab GM900 putting out about 300BHP. A bike hunter that is. Will be driving it at Castle Combe at the weekend for the Eurofest. Excuse the lack of a wash!

Nice. Looks like an interesting mix of cichlids and 'normal' fish. How do they get on?

Zoe, I'm sure you know this already, but I would rather risk telling you something you already know than not saying anything at all! When you move to the 6 footer, either build your rock foundations on the base of the tank and then put the sand in afterwards, or make sure you push the rocks...

I have a big magnetic scraper, and a long scraper with a plastic head insert, plus a long scraper with a razor blade insert. It is very very rare that I need to use any of them on my 150G. I have a suitable water change and light regime, and only a little direct sunlight. The 29G though needs...

I change about 40% on both the 29G fancy goldfish tank and the 150G tropical community, whenever I get round to it. Somewhere between weekly, and fortnightly, occasionally they will go three weeks, depending on how busy I am. Both are fairly heavily stocked (hence me saying yes to the fish...

Or the fish getting ammonia poisoning in the meantime! Why on earth you would want to leave filters dying through having no waste or oxygen to feed the bacteria, and fish sitting right next to them in a bucket getting poisoned because of having no bacteria to remove their waste, I cannot...

I've got two ex1200s on my 700L tank and can confirm they are good powerful filters. They can be a bit leaky if you pick them up/move them about by the tops when they are working, and I did kind of lose a fair bit of water to the laminated (thank god) floor and thought one was properly leaking...

Nah you'll not have a problem with regular garden hose. Only problem (well, consideration shall we say) is the internal diameter. My hose seems to be about 18mm, but it flows pretty damn slowly even with 700L of water 3 feet in the air pushing on it. My other hose (which is only 3 foot long so...

Well fair enough, thank you for clarifying.

B&Q play sand is just as cheap and usable, for anyone whose Argos has run out due to TFF members getting there first.

You put a piece of the porous rock under normal water and see if you get as much bubbling. If not, then it tells you that the bubbles from the acid were due to a chemical reaction and you don't use the rock. The fact that it is porous means nothing- you tested a rock using the acid test and it...

Make sure you wash it thoroughly in a bucket, and you'll be fine.

Absolutely not. You don't have disease in your tank, why would you want to add to the risk of getting one from your LFS? Get a bucket, hold a net over it, and pour the water and fish into the net. Then turn the fish out of the net into the tank. Although, you do not have to look far to find...

I'm not entirely sure I understand the question. Pourous simply refers to the structure of the rock (i.e. it has pores, or holes). The fact that a rock is porous alters the water chemistry in no way at all, any more than a rock being round, square, or carved into the shape of the Venus De Milo...

I've very successfully (i.e. no casualties and fully resolved within 7 days) medicated a tank with clown loaches and a BGKF, using 3/4 dose of Interpet anti whitespot, @ 81 degrees F.

You can get away without hood and lights for a few weeks if you want to. You could get a pair of bits of wood about the same length as the width of the tank, place them over the tank about as far apart as the length of the old tank, and use the old hood and light resting on top of them for a...

Cement is that nasty that you need to wear gloves and a mask when mixing it. It is an irritant and as I understand it, carcinogenic. How that relates to bricks I do not know. Bricks may not even contain cement. My policy is this: Unless is it entirely inert natural rock, it doesn't go in my...

Yes bring it back, nominations to be made by the owner (a photo of the tank/fish including a piece of paper with a random number written on it circumnavigates the plagiarism issue), winners decided by poll. It should be remembered that it is just a bit of fun. Anyone seriously worried about...

Mate your current filter is handling all your bioload. When you add a new filter, what happens is that bacteria start to colonise it. At the same time as this happens, there is a precisely equal die off of bacteria in your old filter. At every stage, and no matter how much bacteria is in either...

Only some water companies add chloramines in addition to Chlorine. As Bristol is not chloraminated, I simply used to evaporate off the chlorine (no airstone required BTW) as fish-rookie suggests. Works a treat. However, now that my water changes are about 200 litres a time, it's not really...

You are pretty much spot on mate, you're not going to have any trouble. The essential point is to always keep the fish and the filtration together. You're missing a trick though with your plan. You have the ideal opportunity to make upgrading tanks and moving house really easy (the two things...

What does it look like if you take the wood that's in the middle and pile it up against the wood on the left hand side? I'm just wondering whether a larger wood pile almost reaching the surface, a bit of open water, then a smaller pile, might make for more of a feature. Just an idea to play...

I've used some stuff like this before. The only negative thing was that it must have taken 8 weeks to sink.

A couple of pointers to reducing the stress (for the fish I mean, you're on your own personally speaking ;)) 1. Make sure the fish can't see out at any time (i.e. don't be carrying them out to the car in clear bags). 2. It is a hell of a lot easier (and less stressful) to catch fish when they...

I'd be just as concerned about what I was going to drink and have baths in! RO will remove the salt, but it'll also remove everything else too- all the trace elements that are required in a balanced ecosystem. Pure RO is not recommended without supplements. Not sure about bottled mineral water...

A-level Chemistry ;) @ evilchild: No, you don't need anything like that. All you need to do (in theory!!) is make sure you've got the right amount of buffer to contain whatever it is that is trying to change the pH. A buffer is just a liquid you add a few drops of. A bit of basics about pH...

You're not being thick, you've just obviously never studied chemistry! Now we'll see whose being thick, when I delve back 15 years to define a buffer for you without any reference material! A buffer is a chemical that will hold a liquid at a certain pH. So say you want your water to be pH 6.8...

What do you mean by "clean your tank out"?

The way that I look at it is that a lack of restriction on their swimming space encourages them to grow at the rate at which they should have been growing in the first place. But yes, almost everyone I know who has upgraded tanks has noticed a jump. Good on you for giving them a new home.

Quite, I missed what was probably the most important piece of info when I read your post! Jennybugs is spot on.

That doesn't look like rock to me, that looks like some sort of man made concrete bonded hardcore type stuff. It looks likely to contain cement. I would not put that in a fish tank, personally speaking. Try and find some slate somewhere- you got any slate merchants/users nearby (roofing or...

Specifically what do you mean by "clean out your tank"? You should be doing regular water changes, you should be gravel vacuuming, you should be scraping off algae from the glass/ornaments (if required- which if you're water changing enough and aren't overfeeding/lighting you shouldn't have to)...

I'd just get on with it and be in the tank for as short a time as possible TBH. If you can, you should work on one side first, then move to the other- the fish will go to whichever end you are not messing about with.

Yep, misread that one, my apologies. Don't know whether this video would encourage or discourage your mate! 2" in 2 years? That doesn't seem to mirror my experiences. Fair enough. What are you feeding them? Also, do they live together? I had two together and one stayed a lot smaller, barely...