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Thanks everyone.....it's good to get a solution to focus on. Seems so obvious now it's pointed out....will follow your guidance on filter media and see how things go. Anything is better than an upset 10 year old after yet another fish has died!

Hi - thanks for getting back. Will get some decent photos posted of fish and tank and post them up. Tank has been running since December 2021 - started with 2 x Platys (1 of which survives) and then in order added 5 small Guppies (4 surviving), 2 Mollies (both dead) and 2 Balloon Guppies (1...

Hi, my daughter has a smallish (70l) aquarium with a mix of guppies, mollies and platy. Total was 9 fish. I change the water once a week approx 70% water change, replace filter media monthly and test weekly using a decent testing kit. Over the past month she’s lost 1 fish per week - both mollies...

When I did the water change at the weekend the water I was pouring down the drain was green - so will tell my daughter to keep curtains drawn when she's away at school and will put the tank lights on a timer, how long is resonable? 6 - 8 hours per day? Feeding every second day at the...

When I say changed media - I've kept the "bio balls" in the filter but switched out the actual filter material.

Thanks for replies....picture attached.....tank has been running since mid-December. Using Seachem Stability water conditioner and a Master Test Kit from API.

My daughter's 70L tank has 5 guppies, 1 Platy and 2 Molys - planted with a mix of artificial and real plants. Water levels are testing healthy for Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate. Over the last week the water has got progressively cloudy to the point that you can't see the back of the tank from...

My daughter and I are new to fishkeeping, she's had her tank running for a couple of months and we're now getting Algae in the gravel in the tank - what's the best method for cleaning this? I was thinking of scooping out some of the gravel and cleaning in some water from the tank at the next...

Hi, my daughter got an 80L aquarium for christmas and is wanting to keep guppies. We did an initial setup of the tank yesterday and it's sitting empty of fish at the moment. We've got a couploe of, probably daft, questions : 1) What sort of environment suits guppies - by that I mean how do...