Search results

I would get an old toothbrush and gently use it to comb the algae away, wrapping it around the brush. Lower the brightness of the light in your tank, and maybe shorten the amount of time that your light is being left on.

Thanks so much for jumping in here! It's such a nightmare isn't it - every single stockist, store, manufacturer and hobbyist all have different opinions on everything and I never end up knowing what the best thing to do is. Yes you're right about it being a Juwel filter - I've got the Rio 180...

I've changed the white floss a couple of times as it started to get really tatty. Yeah I have live plants in the tank (amazon swords, java fern, acorus and bacopa carolinaiana) there's 4 of each. The shop I got them from said a PH of 6.8 - 8.

No, I rinse them in tank water (outside of the tank) and then put them back in. Okay - will try increasing the water change and see if that helps. Ammonia - 0 Nitrite - 0 Nitrate - 0 PH - 7 GH - 15 dGH

Hey, thanks for your reply! The tank was set up nearly 3 months ago - I left it to cycle with just live plants and only added fish after 2 months and when the nitrate cycle had been completed. This behaviour has only been happening since the danios started nipping at him, is is possible he's...

Here's a photo of the little guy! Oh really? That's strange - every website / forum I was looking at before purchasing them said that zebra danios and platys are compatible.

So around 2 weeks ago I added 4 platys to my 180L tank (which already had 6 zebra danios in). 3 of the 4 platy's are absolutely fine and swim around happily all day long, however one of them literally just sits in the top corner of the tank all day long and very rarely moves, unless when...