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I've been changing my water for 12 months putting in 16 drops in a 20l bucket, and none of my fish have died (except for when I had a Nitrate problem) So I must be putting in at least enough of the right product for my town water. Years ago, when I was still living with my parents, and they...

I have a query about nutralizing Chlorine when doing water changes. The bottle of stuff I use to nutralize chlorine states to use 2 drops per 5 litres of water, and in places where there is more chlorine you should double that dosage. How can I tell how much nutralizing stuff to put in, and is...

Hi, Welcome to this forum. I found this place the same way as you. There are plenty of knowledgable people around here. I've already got some great answers for some of my questions. Have fun! Tan DJ

Yay, one of my plec's finaly was still enough to get a good photo: So, anyone able to ID it for me? Cheers, Tan DJ

So you going to move to Brisy? Nice place. We get a month of hot weather, a month of cold weather, a month of wet weather, and the rest of the time it's great (Note: sometimes the "months" of weather overlap) :lol:

Thanks for all your replies. I have been adding water out of the hot tap, then it occured to me that hot water systems usually have copper pipes, etc... and was wondering if water out of the hot tap contained any disolved impurities that would be bad in my tank. I know that I prefer my coffee...

What is the best way to ensure that when changing water, the water that you add does not lower the tank water temperature by a significant amount? At the moment, my water temp is 27 deg C, but my tap water is about 16 deg. Is it safe to put water that is this much colder than the tank water...

that depends on whether they have nitrates naturally ocurring in the tap water surely? Yes, I tested my tap water for nitrates, and got a reading of 5. I have heard that some supplies have higher nitrates than this.

If you go for several mollies, make sure you don't have both males and females, otherwise you will very quickly find that instead of only 1/2 dozen fish in your tank, you now have 50 or 60 fish that you then have to find a responsible way of disposing of. (although I have found that a couple...

It is possible to cycle your tank with fish in the water. When I set up my tank, I got an amonia test kit and a nitrite test kit, and a bottle of some cycle media (it's like yakult for fishtanks) I can't remember the brand, and a couple of Mollies (Don't get a male and female as they breed like...

Ha, I was just browsing one of the other threads about how to keep cucumber down, and there was a link to an ebay auction, which had this photo: My plecs look a lot like the one on the right. Hope this is good enough for an ID. Cheers, Tan DJ

I've been trying to photograph my fish and am having great trouble getting good photo's of my plecs. Anyone got any good ideas about how to photograph fish? :unsure:

I've been around Usenet News groups for a while so I tried the rec.aquaria groups, but those groups are so full of spam that they are unusable, so I did a bit of searching for a better source of knowledge. Looks like I've found it.

nmonks, in his pinned article about Alge eaters mentioned about Newbies being talked into buying an alge eater to control alge. Unfortunately, I'm one of those Newbies :blush: I had a serious alge problem that started a couple of months ago, so I asked at the local pet shop what was the best...

Hi all, Been having a few problems with my tank, and after some searching on the net, I found this forum. Looks like there are some very knowledgable foke around here. I hope to chat/post with some of you soon Cheers, Tan DJ