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yeah I tried to leave a few in there. Using bait is much easier than trying to fish them out with a net individually. Next time I will try your lettuce leaf method though. Thanks.

I didn't really realise how many snails were in my tank until I returned from my holiday last week. I had left a "tetra" feeding block in the tank while I was away and when I returned it was covered with snails! I fished the block out removed all of the snails from it and put it back in the...

I have no idea what type of plants they are, I have one thats like thick weed and grows in long strands that look like christmas tree branches and then one with a central stalk and green and pink long thin leaves. I thought that they were aquatic plants but perhaps the are not, how would I know?

Hi All My plants never seem to last very long in my tank. They tend to just fall apart and die. I currently add nothing to te water that is specifically for plants. Would appreciate any advice on how to keep my aquarium plants alive. Thanks Emma

Thanks, now I know why people get plastic plants!!!!! I like real ones though so have to start doing this!

Can somebody who knows about disgusting little unwanted creatures pin a topic to help us to identify these things when we get them?

Oh my god that is disgusting!!! Thats worse than the leeches I ended up with (although the leeches were harder to get rid of and the treatment also killed all of my fish). I think they came in on plants also!!! How should we be cleaning plants before adding to tank? Just in a bit of tank...

Gosh no I didn't expect it to be instant but I did think that if the bacteria was live then it would have made a significant dent in the reading. (even thought the advice on the fridge it was sold in suggested that it was instant I did not expect it). I'm happy to wait as long as it takes (as...

I can confirm that the bacteria I bought does not work well enough on it's own. I put amonia in last night to 6ppm and it is still at 6ppm (well a tiny bit lower but not down to the next colour yet!) now. To anyone thinking that this is a way of shortening cycle time I would say not to bother...

Thanks I will pop to homebase on the way home tonight. Best Wishes Emma

Hi all I have cleaned out my tank as advised. Got new gravel rather than trying to clean the old stuff. Got it all set up. They don't stock amonia in either of my LFS shops, where else could I get this from. Instead they sold me some fresh bacteria out of the fridge which I have put in the...

Thankyou both for all of this - you are brilliant. Underwurlde - thanks for working out how many fish I am allowed, in the past I have been overstocked (by a fair bit by the sounds of things) it's easy to get over - excited when you see the pretty fish in the shop but this time round I am...

Thanks. I do know a bit about the cycling process (but you can never know too much). I will start by asking: Should I remove and clean everything from the tank? and what with before I start my fishless cycle or should I try to retain some ofthe good bacteria (as the stats have recovered...

I accept that this is not really an emergency anymore as my fish are sadly now all dead. However Advice for the next time round would be great. My tank has been up and running for about a year. I do weekly changes of 25-30%. I test my water 2x per week and until the problems I am about to...

I think it's improving, fish are lookin healthier, except for the one neon, water is much clearer and amonia stats are improving ever so slightly! I think that there is hope for the little fishies yet!!! Looking forward to seeing the tank all healthy aain and replacing the plants and a few of...

Thanks for all of your help. One of my neons looked ropey this morning before work. I will do as many water changes as humanly possible over the next week or so and check the stats daily. will post anything abnormal. cheers Emma

woah - I have sme crazy stats! now bear in mind I did a 50% water change last night! Amonia: 1mg/l (usually 0) Nitrate: 10mg/l (usually 5 but it did fluctuate to 10 when I treated fish before) Nitrite: 0.5mg/l (usually 0) PH: 8.2 (usually 8.4!!) I am going to do another 30% change. I have...

You might remember my postings about leeches just over a week ago. I treated thetank with interpret crustacian killer, it said to remove and store some of thefilter media before treating, I tried to do this but unfortunately my boyfriend accidently threw it down the sink last night while...

I have neon tetras, pentazona barbs, and Rams. Thanks for the advce - will g to the lfs this morning and get treatment and spare filter etc...

location: hertfordshire UK I'm not sure what filter floss is? Also I don't have a spare heater. I think you are telling me to keep my old filter cartridge in some tank water while i treat the tank but then to return it to the tank afterwards?? How long would this take? Would I use a new...

Fish was dead at the bottom. How did they get there and how do I get rid of them? i don't want all of the fish to die!!!

I got home from work today to find a dead dwarf gourami and a lot of little worm things. Have removed him from tank and as many of the worms as I can but there are still some in there. Please can someone tell me if these ar fish worms? Is there a de-worming treatment for the rest of the fish...

yeah thanks - and about 1 more week for me!!! cheers

Easy to sex Rams - females have a pinky colour on their belly (not to be mistaken wit a yelowwy colour that some Rams seem to have!) ! i think I will keep my female gourami on her own (although I am actually wondering now whether she is female at all - maybe I should rename her gerard?! the lfs...

oh and as a side line, I think that most people find that Rams and Guppies mix quite well but I had a different experience (in a small tank!) - my male Ram bullied my guppies terribly and, I believe, killed a couple of them. It might be that I had a particularly crazy Ram I'm not sure, just...

Sorry you had such bad luck! I was a little luckier in tha my fish all got sick and started dying a couple of weeks before my holiday and I had it under control before I went, I was very worried while I was away still and was convinced that I would come back to casualties. I told my fish...

Oh and I forgot to say. The fish that survived are: 1 female dwarf gourami 1 female ram 4 neon tetras (sex unknown!) 2 male and 2 female pentazona barbs They all look quite happy and colourful at the moment.

Hi Recently I had a disease outbreak in my tank which finished off: 1 dwarf gourami 1 male ram 1 guppy and 2 tetras I didn't 100% id the infectetion but the guy in my local fish store suggested shimmies and gave me some medicine to treat with - this seems to...

Ohhh I'm not sure - i will check when I get home. If it does is that a good thing or a bad thing? Guy at the LFS said this morning that it sounds like something called shimmying. I've never heard of this so if anyone has any info I'd be very grateful!!!! He gave me a different medication...

the water change and another top up doseof medicine hasperked the fish up a bit overnight, andI didn't lose anymore. However I am worried that this is going to keep happening if I don't do something about it. Any suggestions?

The same thing has happened again only 2 days later! All of my fish are affected ecept for the gouramis. They were all perfectly fine just a couple of hours ago when I fed them (same food as always) Water stats are all looking normal except for PH which is a little harder than usual (about...

The same thing has happened again only 2 days later! All of my fish are affected ecept for the gouramis. They were all perfectly fine just a couple of hours ago when I fed them (same food as always) Water stats are all looking normal except for PH which is a little harder than usual (about...

Thanks - as all the fish were sick I won't isolate the tetras, as it seem tht whtever the infection is was fast acting and they are all infected anyway, I will coninue to treat with the general tonic, and feed them some peas and then just hope that that helps. If I loose anymore fish I will...

I treated them with some general medicine last night (after the emergency water change) and this morning they are looking a bit more colourful. The tetras all appear to have dropsy though. But at least they are all swimming and not lying in the rocks at the bottom anymore. All too late for...

think that there is nothing I can do tonight but go to bed and hope that they are still alive in the morning. If the water change worked great but if not I guess I will have to come bak on here or go LFS. THANKS for your help. really appreciate it. good night.

also just remembered that when I lost neon in the week I commented to my boyfriend that it looked like his eyes were missing!

not red just sticking out. I have th biube so the filter sends bubbles up the middle pipe to the surface. There is also an air stone which was recently replaced.