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Thanks for your help SJ2K. :good:

Thanks for that. I imagine hardy fish such as Zebra Danios going into an over filtered mature tank with good water quality that is currently understocked, would be at the bottom end of the scale then?

Hi all. I've been trying to use the search facility to see if this has already been answered but I can't seem to find anything. Our main tank has been set up now for about 4 months (on top of a 5 week cycle) and we are about to add our first new batch of fish. We have 6 Zebra Danios in our...

Thanks a lot guys, really appreciate it. :thanks:

Hi all. We have had an outbreak of what we believe to be dropsy brought on, quite possibly, by overfeeding. We have just added our second batch of Interpret internal bacteria treatment and have been feeding just pea with daphnia every 3 days (thanks to everyone who gave advice at the time). We...

Thank you. Wish us luck!

Reading through the link Germ provided it mentions just defrosted and chopped up pea, Scooterchick mentioned boiled. What is the best option?

Thanks for the advice. To anyone thinking of not doing a fishless cycle.......don't even consider it. We did ours and that gave our fish the best chance we could but coming home to find one of your fish passed away is a horrible feeling, just awful. They rely on you for absolutely everything...

Looking at that link above, it appears our Neon Tetras and our Pygmy Cory's are showing the early signs of dropsy as well. They are appearing quite bloated although at the moment their fins all appear in good condition. This being the case should I be looking at medication now or still trying...

I did wonder that. We feed them every 12 hours.I've ben told elsewhere that it sounds like a systemac infection and that amongst other things they have dropsy so I should be treating the whole tank. Does this sound right? As I said, every other breed is thriving

We have had our tank stocked now for a fortnight. We had 5 Kuhlii loaches. Last weekend one was showing signs of struggling and just after we'd spotted it he passed away. We put this down to bad luck as they had all had quite a long journey from our LFS. I've just returned from work to find...

Top job. Cheers for that. :good:

Hi all. We have been stocked now for just under a fortnight and everything is going well (thanks to everyone who has given advice) but i've been thinking about our quarantine tank. We have a very small (14l) tank set up as a hospital/emergency tank. I know it is small but we are only looking at...

Sorry to bring an old topic back to the front but i've been doing a search on Bubbles and this is one of the threads that came up. We have quite a large amount of bubbles on the surface of our tank (definately not foam, just bubbles) which I was thought were worth investigating. Reading the...

Hi all. We've got one of the, supposedly, self starting gravel vacs. The tube which by all accounts you pump a few times with it submerged and it starts to syphon. I can't get any bloody pressure at all with the bloody thing and all that keeps hapening is i'm spreading what waste there is...

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. We are thinking, if we add anything, it will probably be a pearl gourami. Will they be ok singularly? 1 male ideally. If not, we will have another think or just leave as is.

Afternoon all. We have a 96l tank with the following: 7 pygmy cory's 6 Neon Tetras 5 Kuhli Loaches 2 Bristlonose Plecs We are looking for something a little larger, ideally mid to upper levels to act as a centrepiece for this tank. (Lightly planted, dark substrate, over filtered.) The most...

Morning all. After a bit of advice on the current state of our fishless cycle. We started 4 weeks ago today. We have a 96l, lighly planted tank with a split gravel and sand substrate. What do you make of these results because we are really scratching our heads about it....... I've put if from...

Does just before count as before leaving for the lfs to purchase fish or after returning with fish? It is about a 3 hour round trip for us to go so i'm assuming we can do the change before leaving?

We, sadly, seem to be suffering from a snail invasion as well. We are coming to the end, hopefully, of our fishless cycle and are looking at Kuhli Loaches. These haven't been mentioned in this thread as of yet but will they have a go at taking on the snails as well? Thanks

Thanks for that, I hoped that was the answer i'd get. I can safely say the drop isn't because my girlfriend has done a water change, there isn't 96l of water on the living room floor. lol!

I know it is yet another question about cycling and for that I apologise but this is one I can't see answered anywhere else. We have been cycling for 3 weeks today. Since Wednesday Ammonia has been dropping from 5ppm to 0ppm in under 12 hours but our Nitrite is, as to be expected, off the chart...

So i've heard, unless I want a tank of Duckweed that is!

How much can you spare?! :lol:

We're based in Worcestershire UK and we are really struggling to find a LFS that stock floating plants. Has anyone got any suggestions? Many thanks. Dave

Ours is completely submerged and makes no sound at all when returning water to the tank. We got ours for £59.99 from our LFS after they dropped their price £20 to match rocket aquatics. If you go for it i'd be stunned if you regretted it. Let us know what you go for and how you get on. :good:

I'm only a newbie myself so chances are much more experienced advice will be along shortly but after doing some research and from advice received here and in our LFS we plumped for a Tetratec EX and i've got to say it has been superb for us. Much MUCH quieter than I was expecting. Check these...

Just following on from masterchris' question, when our tank finishes cycling am I right in thinking the first 'batch' of fish we put in the tank don't need to be quarantined? Will it be apparent if there is a problem with any of them, which fish are the culprits? Many thanks

We are due to complete our fishless cycle soon so we are looking at a big water change (75-90%). DO we need to worry about getting the water up to temp before going in as there will be no fish? Once we are cycled do I need to keep the ammonia levels up before stocking to ensure the bacteria...

We have a 3inch bubble disc attached to a Hena 100 air pump. Will this be sufficient in your opinion?

Thanks for the advice guys. Nice to know I have taken on board what i've been told on this v.helpful forum and i'm now getting a good mix. Couple of questions to the suggestions raised please: Community Begginer: You suggested 2 Bn plec. Will 80cm x 30cm be big enough for 2 when fully grown...

We're a few days into our fishless cycle so we have sometime to amend our 'wishlist' but at the moment we are looking at the following, in a 96ltr tank with external filter. Pygmy Cory x 7 Cardinal Tetra x 5 Kuhli Loach x 3 (maybe 5) Bristlenose Plec x 1 (maybe 2) Pearl (or Sparkling) Gourami x...

Who have you used if you don't mind me asking?

Morning all. We are buying a new filter tomorrow for a second hand tank we picked and we are picking up some mature media in a couple of weeks. Would we do any harm to our new filter if we got it all up and running while the tank is in essense doing nothing? Would you recommend two weeks of...

In a continuation to the original question, has anyone had any good or bad experiences with online ordering (fish, not equipment) in the UK? tropicalfish4u.co.uk for example have a much better range than is offered in my 4 LFS but we're worried about stress on the fish.

Above you say you are getting started with some mature media? Maybe filter fiber or some other piece of the likes I'm sure. If that is the case then you just stuff it into the filter and it will kick start the new media that comes with the new filter. So in a sense you have two seperate...

We haven't bought it as yet. We are still in the research stage. We are looking possibly at an Eheim ecco external

My other half has just thrown a question at me that has got me flummoxed (freely admit i'm a newbie!). We are getting started with some mature media but what happens when this can no longer be cleaned and we need to purchase new? I assume it does deteriorate? If so, will any new we add need to...

Thanks for that. Here is the link to the sand in question. http://www.seapets.co.uk/product-details/s...tegory/651.html It claims it will not affect PH but is that possibly just sales speel? Thanks

Hi We are just setting up a tropical tank and want to use sand as the substrate for the benefit of our Bristlenose plec and Kuhli loaches. Has anyone used the sand named in the title? We really want to go for black and this seems to be the only one option I can find. If this is a no o and there...