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Hi, does your country allow pictures to be posted online?

Also make sure they have somewhere to hide, mum will eat them given the chance, you can add marbles etc and moss for them to hide in for the best chance. I used to catch mine every few hours and keep them seperate in a breeding box

A quick 20% water change and you'll have fry in 24hrs time. Yay

Hi all, i popped back after what? Six years? Great to see the forum looking so good. I sold everything in the end and now i dont even have a fish finger at home. I hope alf is still around? He went to a public aquarium in the end. Now then seeing all my old tanks it looks like im going to have...

WTF!!! silver dollars get 8 inches fully grown! ignore that advice

hmm this could be irresponsible advice. rehoming large oscars can be hard to do. dont buy large fish on the assumption that people will be queing up to take them when they outgrow your tank.

i wouldnt even consider using any scaleless fish to cycle with. also they are harder to treat if sick. knife fish are quite delicate and do really need good water conditions. hence why they are not an ideal begginers fish

just use a silicone. no need for glue. also no need for an aquaruim silicone. all silicones are safe to use in a tank just by the very nature of the product and the way that it works. most suppliers wont put "safe for aquarium use" in case you use the product and your tank bursts, no other...

tiger barb... not a tiger crab. im confused as to what your question really is? have you lost fish? my advice would be to research your fish before you buy them and never listen to what the fish shop has told you. (theyve already sold you a solitary tiger barb that will begin to nip...

assuming you have correctly sexed them all (isnt hard to do so will go with that assumption) id wait it out a week and see how things go. you normally see aggression between two males with rams if i didnt know any better id say you may have more than one male. leave it a week and if you still...

id certainly agree with that.

i have kept a trio without any problems. 2 females and one male. zero aggression but my tank was well planted and a good size.

these gouramis can be fickle fish at times. ive seen very placid and rather aggressive gouramis in blue, opaline, three spot and golds. my personal advice would be to try a female on the understanding that if there are aggression probs (i would put the odds as high as 50/50 from what ive seen...

wait for the food to dry out and break it up. it'll fine if a little crispy

EEEK!! if you have ammonia in your water supply i suggest you dont touch it and make a call to the water board immediatly!.... some water may contain nitrates though star, it seems your tank is nearly cycled so dont worry about testing the water too much. its something i do maybe once a...

now we need to save the rest of your fish from the same fate. do you understand the tank cycle? your problem with the betta is typical of an unhealthy tank. these kind of infections never happen in a well kept, looked after tank. they just dont. let me advise a 30% water change every week...

yep thats how i would see it too. it MUST sting at best been an intresting thread this one.

try upping the temp to 76-78 that should make quite a diffrence.

personally i change 30% weekly, this will remove growth inhibiting hormones, keep the fish healthy and illness free. i would do this no matter what stcoking level you are at. its only a good thing for the fish to do a water change, they thrive on it. one bit of advise i would give you is...

well it pretty much will do. the key is that you use 50% of the tank water so your bacteri can keep feeding. dont leave the filter out of the water for more than about 20 mins though. basically just swap it all over in this order 50% water, heater, (get the water up to temp), gravel, fish...

i honestly think you've had bad advice in this thread. melafix wont prevent the problem. none of the suggestions will. they will help heal but wont fix the issue. what is more important is that you find out what the cause is. i can tell you right away that regular water changes will be the...

one important fact missed buy the other posters here and one that all fish keepers should really know is that new sealant wont seal against old sealant. this will be why you fixed the tank and it leaked again. you must remove the whole bead and replace that with new. to be honest if its gone...

shaking of the head is a sure sign of ammonia poisoning. looking at your readings the tank isnt cycled yet. you'll know when it is as the nitrites will be 0. its actually the nitrates that your water changes need to remove not the nitrites. mollys as they grow migrate to brackish water...

that xp3 is plenty enough filtration, dont waste the money. not all algeas need light to grow. it is an algea bloom and id suspect the owner is leaving the light on too much. the water changes are a good thing. just leave the light on for about 5 hrs a day and that will clear it up. id say...

cant be bothered to read about the other replies. so forgive me if i repeat whats already been said. dont worry about the pollutants too much its not like we fill up wild areas via the tap. posters above are guessing on effects wthout having tried it. i have ran tanks for 2-3 years on rain...

i take it you have the skills or info to build a tank. its hard and pretty much impossible to do for less than it would cost to buy one directly. (im guessing you work in a glass shop or something?)

i have a 250 gallon tank sat on two joists without any issues at all. also the length of the room will factor. i think you'll be fine with most tanks. dont forget that when we put down joists they are seperated at 400mm. from this you should be able to put your tank across two of the floor...

what fish do you have? where are they from?

just looked in before i leave for work. the basics are thet you have bacteria in your filter that cleans the water. if you put in a new filter that dont have the bacteria in (which it wont have for about 3 weeks yet) then the fish are being killing by their own waste. if someone else hasnt...

its real. you can do this if you have the know how.. ok ok i just wanted to give a diffrent answer. i guess mollys in a marine tank is about as good as it gets

ahh so you have a new filter on the tank? do you have a grasp of the tank cycle? and how it works? did you seed the old filter in anyway? sounds like ammonia poisoning now. until we chat a little more i cant be sure but as soon as you read this carry out a 30% water change and then 10%...

well yes and no. as far as i know no one can calculate how much ammonia a fish will produce. so depending on the amount of ammonia you've used relates to the amount of fish your tank will now comfortably hold. me? i would air on the side of caution, plus i know from experience that stocking...

while the wording used by the worker is appalling the facts are they they cannot check up on every fish sold. if people dont ask its not for them to preach. as you say its down to the customer to know what they are doing.

yes they can but you will still see a little aggression between them. id advise a well planted tank for hiding areas

why did you change 100% of the water? just a 30% amount once a week is more than enough for any tank. they may be sulking. some fish do this when you first buy them and bring them home. s soon as they are put in new water they stop eating almost as a protest. ive never heard of a fish...

just to add my pennys worth. i breed oscars, and if you do want to pair them up then 6 will be the minimum unless you want to run the risk of getting all males or one female that dont like the pickings. even then they wont pair up till at least 4 inchs and ive never seen them pair before...

the worms are probably going to be planaria. as for the flea's they could be some kind of infusoria maybe daphnia. its caused buy over feeding and is normally seen in oscar tanks. and anyone who has oscars will understand why. perhaps cut down on the feeding they only need what they can eat...

yes it will. what you need to understand about getting oxygen in to the water is this: air bubbles dont put oxygen in to the water. they float to the top and pop. but what they do do is aggitate the waters surface and its this that lets the oxygen in to the tanks water. so all you really...

a 6 gallon tank will be rubbish as a community tank, thats tiny.

how did you clean the filter its quite likely this may be the problem although that is very sudden