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Two days ago I introduced seven rummy nose tetra to my 120L tank. I currently have in there: three rainbowfish, five rosy barbs, two Indian gouramis, and two dwarf golden eye cichlids (nannacara anomala). They seemed absolutely fine, shoaling as normal, feeding normally, interacting with the...

I just bought a Juwel Rekord 120 off ebay (£47 for the tank and stand - not a bad bargain!) but, as so often with Juwel tanks, the original light unit is broken. My question is, would I be better off (both money-wise and in terms of longevity) getting another Juwel unit, or doing my own...

I am in great need of a new home for my long-finned goldfish. He's quite large (about 15cm) and very peaceful. I'd like to turn my tank into a tropical set up and therefore need to find him a good home. He's been with me for about 8 years. My tank is also too small for him now, so I'd like to...

I recently added a Fluval 305 external filter to my Juwel Vision 180, and removed the Juwel internal filter. My tank is heavily planted and I'm using Seachem Flourish liquid fertiliser. However, something I read in PFK magazine made me think - it said that carbon in filters removes fertiliser...

Today I took everything out of my tank and put JBL Florapol substrate in the tank. However, I did this with the water in and just mixed it in with the gravel. It's clay-based, so the entire tank went murky and brown and I couldn't see a thing. Three hours later it's starting to clear with the...

That's great, thanks

I've decided after spending about 3 hours cleaning dead plant mess out of my tank that, when I set it up with new plants soon, I'm only going to go for about 6 different types to save myself the stress of having to rearrange every single plant every time I want to gravel vac. I'm going to use...

Is it safe to use one of the old Arcadia C4 starter units (with the push-on end caps, not the Ultraseal screw-on caps) without a condensation tray? It says the caps are splash-proof, and in the instructions it doesn't mention the need for a tray.

I'm attempting to transform my Vision 180 aquarium into a planted masterpiece (well, something along those lines). So far I have added reflectors to the existing lighting and am going to fix another 25W tube on in the next few days, making 75W of light for 180 litres which I think should be...

I have a feeling that the answer to this will probably be a "no", but I just wanted to check. Would 1 or 2 small angels be OK in my Vision 180 (180 litres, 18" high) tank with its current inhabitants (see signature), or not? I have a feeling that maybe it's nearly fully stocked and that they...

Looks like Greenline it is then, thanks!

I have a Vision 180 aquarium and I've decided to upgrade my lighting to 3 flourescent tubes, add reflectors and add CO2 to attempt to get a low-tech, healthy planted aquarium. Now the only thing left is the plants! I was going to choose them individually but I always seem to underestimate the...

About substrate - what substrate would you recommend that I could put in the tank and just mix in while there is still some water in there? I thought most had to go under the gravel.

Thanks for all your advice! I'll definitely get some reflectors and add another tube asap, and then I'll see about getting CO2 and a good substrate. What about liquid fertilisers, would they be needed as well?

Right. I set up my Juwel Vision 180 about 3 months ago and all is well. Except for my plants. Since I planted them, most have been gradually disintegrating meaning the tank is full of dead leaves and annoying mulch. I also get brown algae quite a lot and black furry algae. I'm using the normal...

My goldfish tank has recently had an outbreak of whitespot thanks to a new Chinese butterfly plec I bought and stupidly didn't quarantine. It's developed quite badly. Question is, how do I treat it? I know that meds are only effective when the whitespot parasite is free-swimming and not on the...

I think part of the problem, if the congo tetras were the culprit, is the fact that you only had two. They are shoaling fish so need a group of at least 6 to feel secure, otherwise they are more likely to be aggressive. Congo tetra do nip fins, often at feeding time - I have a group (so far 4...

My bolivian rams are similar to yours - one has longer red bits on his tail than the other and they have differently-shaped fins, but most of the time they leave each other alone except for the occasional confrontation, displaying of fins and going mouth-to-mouth. It's quite hard to tell, I'm...

Does anyone know anything about these? Would they be suitable in my tank (juwel Vision 180, stocking in my sig)? The label in the LFS said they tend to nip fins - each other's fins, or all fins? I don't have any long-finned fish apart from my bolivian rams which have quite long tails, but I have...

What fish do you have in there? That blue one on the right is beautiful.

pH is 8, I don't know about the hardness but I know the water in my area is fairly hard. I do know not to believe everything the LFS say - I've been told in the past a load of rubbish about bala sharks being able to go in a 10G because "they grow to fit the tank". I guess I just thought because...

Thanks for the advice. I was told that the bolivian rams I bought would be fine in my water because they were kept in water of a similar pH at the LFS. They seem to have calmed down a lot now but if the fighting continues then I will probably take the african butterfly back. I was thinking of...

I got an African butterfly cichlid and a bolivian ram about a week ago. They were fine, the butterfly cichlid chased the ram a bit but then they calmed down. I got a new bolivian ram yesterday thinking mine was lonely, but now both the old ram and the butterfly cichlid pick on the new ram - they...

I hope this is in the right forum. I got an African butterfly cichlid and a bolivian ram about a week ago. They were fine, the butterfly cichlid chased the ram a bit but then they calmed down. I got a new bolivian ram yesterday thinking mine was lonely, but now both the old ram and the...

I've been using the original Warmlite and Daylite light tubes in my Juwel Vision 180 lighting unit. However, 2 things: 1 - Is this enough light for growing plants? Mine are mostly low-light (java fern, amazon sword, crypts, hygrophilia polysperma), but is there another tube I could get to help...

I was wondering about that, it looked a bit like a spider plant to me. But actually it seems to be doing OK. I guess I'll see how it goes. I'd like to hope so but he/she's been like that for months now! I did have two but the other's stomach became really swollen and it died, I fear it was...

Thought I'd post some pictures of my Juwel Vision 180. I got it a few weeks ago second hand for only £80 (though it needed a new light unit), and it's now nicely stocked - I've been running a Fluval filter from an established tank in there as well as the Juwel filter unit to save cycling the...

I really like the way you've got the gravel higher on one side with that rock wall, it looks great. Nice looking tank.

I really like that little tank - do you know what make/model it is?

Hello everyone, thought I'd introduce myself before I start posting. My name is Elly and I've been browsing around the forums - they're fantastic, some of the most informative I've seen. I've been keeping fish for about 5 years. I have: - an 8 gallon coldwater tank with 3 goldfish in (my first...