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I don't know, it's keeping me pretty entertained - I can't resist seeing people proven wrong with science. But I agree, knowing how to do research and use it to prove your point, rather than asking a nameless friend, is nothing to be ashamed of - as if Google Scholar was less valid because you...

The filter-changing thing is another con by the people who sell them to you to get you buying replacement media. That's where most of the bacteria grow, so if you've changed your filter media, you've chucked out most of the bacteria you'd grown to this point, which will make the cycle take...

Possibly, but I'm honestly not too worried about them seeing each other. They ignore each other for significant portions of the time anyway, and only come up to the divider and flare on occasion now they've had time to get used to their new quarters. Since I've read that it's good for male...

My little 6g has finally got its new occupants: Mohinder and Sylar. (The names, by the way, are not my fault; I did suggest Mohinder, but it was the rest of my flat who then insisted on the other being called Sylar.) Both of them seem to be getting on very well in their new homes - they ate...

I have an undergravel filter on the original tank, so moving the filter media isn't really possible - well, I can put some gravel in, but certainly not half or anything. I live in New Zealand, so that thread is no help whatsoever. :P Since danios are going into the new tank anyway, I'll...

I've heard a lot of talk around here about "cloning" tanks as opposed to cycling, which I presume means running a new filter on an old tank for a while to stock it up with the good bacteria. This is an approach I want to try, as I couldn't find anything remotely resembling pure ammonia for a...

If there is any possibility whatsoever of jumping, I'd check the floor around the tank very carefully. I had a small bristlenose jump, and I've heard from quite a few others who have as well.

I haven't, but I'm on the verge of getting a betta (the filter's cycling in my other tank) and I intend to try putting my rasboras in with it and seeing what happens, with the escape route of the main tank for them if things turn nasty. Fingers crossed, it won't!

I only have one named fish, a neon called "Claude". This is because I have five neons, but every time I look there are four. And I look, and I look, and I'm just about to start searching around the tank for a jumper when, lo and behold, there are five. That fifth neon is Claude, because I swear...

Heh, cool. It can go into storage until such time as I require it - probably sooner, rather than later, now it's sitting there!

While being sucked into buying a second tank at my LFS today (I was only going in to price things up, honest...) I also picked up a cheap hang-on filter, which I've been meaning to get for my 15-gal for a while now. The price was pretty good, too; NZ$20 reduced down from NZ$176. I'm not sure how...

I can't say anything about Biospira, seeing as I don't even know if you can get it in New Zealand, but I had excellent results cycling with Stress Zyme. Admittedly there were a few other factors involved (I'd just realised the local council was lying about the water not being chlorinated and...

Did you add any ammonia sources (pure ammonia, fish food, that sort of thing)? Without ammonia to feed on none of the good bacteria will grow. It's only cycled if you see a rise and fall in ammonia and then nitrite. If the readings stayed at 0 the entire time, it didn't cycle.

Fish grow. Zebra danios, for instance, can reach up to 2" when fully grown, perhaps a little larger - I don't know about gold barbs, but I'd imagine they'd be over an inch, perhaps as much as two. That's up to sixteen inches of fully-grown fish.

Returning home from work tonight, I was confronted by a terrible sight: my newly-purchased bristlenose plec, dead on the floor. It had obviously jumped out of the tank. Our tank is set into an old TV, which gives it a really neat look but means there's a bit of a gap between the lid and the back...

Well, it looks like the solution was fish - the tank finished cycling and today I purchased some glowlight tetras. They took one look at the worms and started gorging themselves. They're too full now to be bothered doing more than eating half a worm now and then, but I reckon they'll have...

Heh, okay then. I guess he's going to have to resign himself to disappointment.

My sixteen-gallon has almost finished cycling. The lone survivors are two neon tetras (yeah, we made a few mistakes) so, obviously, some of the first fish I'm looking to get once it's done are some more neons to keep them company. My partner, on the other hand, thinks neons are ghastly and...

No, I didn't - thoughtless, I know. The worms don't have forked tails as far as I can see; they're just threads.

The description in the article sounds about right, but not the cause - in fact, my ammonia level is currently 0 and has been reasonably low for the last few days (I'm waiting for the nitrites to drop currently.) I'm pretty convinced the worms came in on the bogwood, seeing as I spotted them...

My sixteen gallon tank is in the middle of cycling with fish, after some mishaps and failed starts (two neon tetras in there right now, I'm not risking adding anything until it's cycled properly.) A day or so ago I got some bogwood in preparation for the bristlenose I hope to acquire once the...

We have a 16-gallon tank which is currently home to two danios, two neon tetras, and an algae eater. This is due to the fact that five danios have succumbed in the last week to some very strange behaviour. When any new stimulus is introduced into the tank - like a net to get a dead fish out -...