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There is 1 main bully and 3 others who get involved. I suppose I could move those 4 temporarily to the new tank and let the yellow guy settle back in?

Yes we’re a firm no on the female guppies. We had him in a hatchery in the tank but some fish still focused on him so we got a new smaller tank and he’s in there. We need to consider which new fish to get to introduce at same time as reintroducing him. We are going to get some plants as...

That would make sense as my water quality tests were coming back fine. We have realised we have had our light on far too much so we adjusted that recently. I am a baker so I had a very small cleaning brush for my piping nozzles that has now been donated to my fish! We used that to get inside...

So we got a new tank....the yellow guppy is in his new tank and loving life. He keeps playing with the current from the filter like he’s at a water park on holiday Although now that means we don’t have a quarantine tank for the new fish we will be getting to help reintroduce the yellow one

So we think the tank is sorted. We removed the spray arm from the filter and it was clogged with algae. I’m not sure why the test kit was reading so good if there was algae in the spray arm, although that’s the only place it was. I wonder if it was getting cloudy because of the lack of action...

Thanks. Yes they seem much more inquisitive and bold now. It is taking a bit of getting to used to them coming up against my hand/arm when I’m cleaning the tank

Yes I think it is Maidenhead Aquatics. I’ll follow the advice about a quarantine tank and try reintroduce him. If that doesn’t work I’ll ask

The guppies came from Dobbies - just because it where we were at the time. The rest came from our local pets at home.

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thanks that’s really helpful I’m just so invested! That’s pretty cute

could this be one of the issues?

just exchanging one bad situation for another

34.42 and 1.82- it says soft

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yes a few of them swim near me but only one or two actually touch me

Too long we found out! We were putting it on in the morning around 8am and off at 10pm but recently was advised to only have it on a few hours during the day and not all day. We’ve been putting it on about 8am and turning it off at lunchtime then on for an hour in evening. Still not sure if...

He said 4 females minimum. The salt is 1 rounded tablespoon for every 20 litres so 5 of them for my tank. It says weekly with water change. We we’re doing water changes twice a week last month as had an algae problem (overfeeding) but have recently got it back to nearly once per week. Every 6...

I put another post on about the tank. It is usually crystal clear but was a bit hazy this week. Last water change was yesterday at 8am. All levels are good but our gravel vacuum suction hasn’t been as good as it was so think this might be the issue. We have a new one being delivered tomorrow...

This sounds like the exact conversation I had with my hubby. I feel like their mother and was so disappointed in them. They‘re not at the hatchery as much but still going up to it. The orange one is there now. I can’t tell if the yellow one is stressed by it or not or if he is happy with his...

yeah the reaction of the guy at the pet shop when he saw a before and after was “his tale has been obliterated” :-( We added aquarium salt on Friday - is that the same thing?

Thanks everyone

I rearranged the tank and created the rock with all the plants (fake) together. We hadn’t realised this was the way to do it until the guy at the pet shop said on Friday night. He suggested some real plants on wood or rock as well. We have too much open space but I’m not very good at design so...

It’s hard to get a clear photo of the scales missing from his head. It looks like there are also some missing from the side but I’m not sure

Yes we think he also had swim bladder but now he’s swimming properly again so think the treatment we used worked. So hard to tell if there’s anything else. I think we are going to get a small tank fir situations like this and emergencies like you say, I didn’t consider filter or heater not...

This looks fantastic! Too skilled for me. We’re considering adding an easy starter plant on some wood or rock to our tank

Hi, I am new to this but the pet shop told me about a points system. They said as my tank is 100 litres I have 50 points. Each fish carries a number of points (e.g.guppies are 2 each). He told me how many points I have left (22) and to check the points numbers on the fish labels on the tanks...

We don’t have the GH tester but I can get it. We have had the guppies for nearly 2 months and only issue is one of them being attacked recently (separate post in the emergency forum/thread). We got 4 mollies and 2 died quickly. Other 2 are doing good and that’s been nearly a month

I have 8 guppies, 2 mollies and 4 penguin tetra. We had an algae problem likely due to us over feeding the fish. Some fish good said 2 or 3 tines a day as much as they’ll eat in a minute or something like that. The woman at pet shop showed me how much to put in the tank which was a small...

Yes ours was end of June for my son’s birthday and me and the hubby are so invested. So much time disappears when watching them. It is very soothing

we have had the tank for over 2 months and last tine we added fish wasabout 3 or 4 weeks ago when we added the mollies we previously had an algae problem (looks like we overfed) but that’s gone and has been for weeks

The KH confused me. There is a CO2 table to use the KH and pH reading to get the range. It looks like it was just outside the optimal range. I checked the water quality report. It looks like it’s 50 but not sure I’m ready in right

I have redone the test and got the same result Also, my tank seems a little hazy. So little I can’t quite tell. It’s definitely not crystal clear but it’s not cloudy either. Last water change was 8am yesterday morning. As you know all my levels are ok except the nitrate being low (although...