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Yeh, good idea I will definately point the spray bar at the back of the tank. Anyone else got any thoughts on this?

Nobody? :(

Hi all, Quick question, I recently bought a Fluval 305 filter off ebay (brand new) so I could remove the internal filter from my juwel rekord 60 (56 litre). When I recieved the filter I had some what of a shock as it was a LOT bigger than I expected. The filter shoves 1000 litres per hour...

Hi all, I was just wondering if you guys squeezed your filters (clean them) during the cycling process like you would do if your tank was already cycled? Cheers

You say that it is very likely that it will cause a problem but then you go on to say that most tropical fish can handle a 4 degree change in a day? I'm confused, are you saying that the temperature fluctuation is acceptable or not? :blink:

Hi all, I am currently 75% through cycling my Rekord 60 (56L) fish tank and I have a question about tank temperature. I have my heater set to 76F (24.4C) but during the day the temperature will rise between 78F - 80F due to the room temperature and tank lighting. Ideally I would like to...

One last question, I am considering adding 1 final fish to the group. Does anyone know if a Threadfin Rainbow Fish would be suitable or should they explicitly be kept in a group? Cheers

Really really stunning setup you have there mate. Very impressed, you should be proud of yourself!

I'm pretty sure that the amount of ammonia I have been putting in doing a fishless cycle is far greater than the amount that will be created by the fish? All of the fishless cycle guides I have read have said that once the cycle is completed you can put your full load of fish in. Obviously if I...

My estimates were done off 1cm per litre rather than 1inch per fish, so hopefully I should have plenty of room in there. I am guessing after my fishless cycle I can just put all of the fish in at once?

Check out the article on fishless cycling: http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=113861 My 56L tank requires around 50 drops of ammonia to take it up to the 5ppm range so I would imagine being that your tank is 100L should take around 90-100 drops to get up to the same reading. My...

Ok final choice hopefully.... 10x Galaxy Rasbora (Max size 2cm = 20L of water needed) 1x Bolivian Red Ram (Max size 7cm = 7L of water needed) 3x Schwartzi Cory's (Max size 7cm = 21L of water needed) Total 14 Fish needing 48L of water which leave 8L of water for bogwood and plants. What do you...

Okay, I have had a bit of a rejig of the fish I *may* get. Tell me your thoughts. 8x Galaxy Rasbora (Max size is 2cm = 16L of water required) 2x Diamond Tetra (Max size 5cm = 10L of water required) 1x Grey Cory (Max size 5cm = 5L of water required) 1x Bolivian Red Ram (Max size 7cm = 7L of...

Yep, that looks fine to me. Good luck with the cycling.

Yep - that should do the trick. Check the ingrediants if it has any to make sure there is no other chemicals in there though.

Hi, thanks for the reply and your good advice. I took the Ram because it grows to 6-7cm in length when fully grown apparantly? Here is the link: http://www.tropicalfish4u.co.uk/acatalog/Red_Ram.html I hear what you are saying with regard to the of the cardinals, I didn't realise they could get...

Hi, I am planning on stocking my tank with: 8-10 cardinal tetra's 3 galaxy rasboras 1/2 other small fish The tank is 2 feet long and will have a variety of plants and bogwood in. What do you guys think? I also have a question about bogwood, I will be putting a selection of bogwood in the tank...

Cool thanks for your help, I have had some otto's before so I will pick another couple of them up to help clean up the tank. I'm not necessarily looking for brightly coloured fish, just nice ones ;) Maybe a bolivian ram or german ram?

I probably will invest in an air pump + air stone, I used to have one but I lost it! With regard to the Juwel refectlor, do you know which one I need and which bits I need to go with it. I am looking on http://www.aquariumsuperstore.co.uk/mall/juwelrefelctors.asp Anyone got any suggestions on...

Hi all, I am just cycling my tank at the moment and I am researching what fish and also what plants that I am going to put into the tank. How many fish do you think is acceptable for this size of tank and what sort of plants do you think I should get bear in mind the lighting will just be a...

I got home and I checked the product I was using and it turns out it is identical to the one I bought just a slightly different label due to it being newer. I am using 'Tetra Aqua - AquaSafe'. I got home and read my levels again ammonia and nitrite both at 0ppm so I got my water that I have had...

Just been down to my lfs and the "safe water" that I was using only took the chloramine out of the water and didn't take the clhlorine out! But it clearly says on the bottle "Makes tap water safe". Pffft. I have bought another bottle of tetra water safe which takes out the chlorine. That means I...

I just cant imagine the test kits being faulty, they are a good brand (cant remember which ones they are). I always test my water the following day so it cant be the amount of time between adding the water and testing the parameters. Mmm this is very confusing. Fish tanks are annoying :( Meh.

Well that's what I thought, what I have done now is left two buckets of water to stand in the garage for the last few days untreated ready to be dechlorinated and used in my tank. I will try a water change tonight and see what happens. Fingers crossed that it will not mess things up again...

Okay, thanks for your input on that. :P If you did a water change on an uncycled tank that had ammonia/nitrite present would it cause the ammonia and nitrite to go to even higher concentrations? I would have thought it would dilute it. The only thing that I can think of is that there must be...

I think I did test it a while back and it read 0ppm in both ammonia and nitrite. I will re-test it tonight to see if I can get a reading off it. I really don't understand why it happens, I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what. I usually float food bags full of water in the tank...

Can anyone give me a possible reason as to why you would get an Ammonia/Nitrite spike in a cycled fish tank after doing a 25% water change? Could using to little or to much Tetra Water Safe be the problem (Im pretty confident im using the right amount but how exact does it need to be)? The...

Might of got the name wrong but all the fish I bought we're rift valley (lake malawi).

Hi all, I just finished my fishless cycle the other day so I added some malawi cichlids yesterday and I just wanted to ask about the behavior of them. I have 4 yellow labs 2x blue acara's and a couple of others that I forgot the name of. The fish seem very skittish, zipping around the tank all...

bump, anyone?

Okay I have a 15G tank which I setup to do a fishless cycle with. I got my ammonia which is 9.5% concentration, also got a filter squeeze from my lfs in some water which i added to my tank. I followed the 2nd method on the fishless cycling routine to get a 5ppm reading on my test kit, this took...

Yeh thats what I thought, i have seen loads of rift tanks with plants in though. I don't want them in it's just my lfs says I should to remove the nitrate... I didn't think it sounded right so I thought I would check with you guys.

Hi, I've just setup a new rift valley tank and am in the process of doing a fishless cycle. I just wanted to ask is it absolutely necessary to have plants to consume nitrate or will regular water changed be okay? I have loads of rocks in the tank at the moment and plants never seem to do well...