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right well the pH seems to have stabalised at 8.46.. its a 300 uk litre system. what are the risks to the coral it touched before i got a chance to turn my power heads on to try and mix it all in?

i was tryin to kill of some aptasia with kalkwrasser via a pipette, and accidentally squeezed it too hard and shot a whole tube full of the stuff into the tank!! the pH has gone from 8.01 to 8.46 within a few minutes!!! what the heck can i do?!?!?!? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!

hey guys.. i know its not a tropical fish, but one of my mums pom pom goldfish is having major problems with his pom poms.. one of them is actually coming off.. he has had a small growth on it for a little while, but from what she has said, he has started trying to eat it, and is literally...

cool thanks. one other thing too.. is the flow thru the sump affected by how wide the gap is in between the 2 or 3 pieces of glass making the different sections and weirs (i think thats what they are called)

its going to be six sided rather than four sided so instead of a 90 degree corner, its going to be a diagonal corner l l l l \______/

Hey guys. I'm going to be getting a custom made reef tank, and have NO idea how to calculate the size of pipes i need to get the flow rate what i want going thru my sump and tank. Can anyone help me please??? The tank dimensions are going to be 39" long, 18" wide, and 20" high of water (22" to...

mhmm.. do you know tropikoi at sixfields? he sometimes has the odd one or two that are really nice.. that;s where i got my Homer from. Also, Fish r us at wellingborough have some nice boys in now and again. but then again, most are just bog VTs. Fish are us had a nice golden CT in a few weeks...

My baby boy Fred now he's all better :)

Hey guys.. I've been on about doing a re vamp on my boys, specially since I lost Homer :( My 3 remaining boys needed a bit more spacer width wise, and some better decor in their homes. So my boyfriend and I went to our LFS and went a little OTT on the spending, but I think it is justified, with...

cool.. ill do a change before i medicate the tank. thanks so much guys i really appreciate it :)

i really hope he is going to be ok.. i have to admit, i have been away and havent had a chance to do a water change for a couple of weeks, but will be doing one as soon as the treatment is done. or should i do one sooner than that? mums starting the treatment tonight, but he didnt come out for...

Fred has what looks like pop eye. mums goin to get him some treatment when she has finished work for me, but i really hope he is ok. whats the survival rate of fish that get pop eye? *cries*

hey guys.. my boyfriend has a TMC v2 600 calcium reactor, and he's not sure what media to put in it. can anyone help out on this one please :) Thanks x

its a 300 litre tank, whith 4 comets or sorts, and 3 moors/fancys. fluval FX5 filter, and not sure of water stats, but i dont think they are fantastic. it just came on all of a sudden, within half an hour he was on his back.

Hey guys, My mum has had her panda moor for about 6 months now, so he's a fair size. She rang me yesterday to say that he had turned completly upside down (on his back). She moved him to another tank, so he is on his own, and has treated with swim bladder, anti-fungus/fin rot (his fins were...

cheers guys :)

hey guys.. my boyfriend is goin to be setting up a new tank soon. He's goin to be doing a brackish puffer tank, goin to be keeping 5 figure 8s in a 100 litre tank. Just to ask, what are good plants to put in brackish water, and is there anythin that can be kept with figure 8s? Cheers guys

your lucky!!! my Homer died from being caught under a bit of driftwood that had fallen on top of him :( i miss him so much *cries*

hey guys.. just a quick question on the topic of sulphur nitrate reductors. ive got a 300 litre system, and was looking into getting a 600l reductor.. is this over kill, and am i putting my livestock and corals in undue risk by having a bigger reductor than i need, or will it still be perfectly...

its doesnt say how long it needs to be, all it says is that is comes with the specific length of pipe, and it comes in replacement lengths of a meter at a time. ill have a look on the TMC website tho.. thanks

hey guys.. just a quick question.. does any one know how long the water supply intake tube is? i have cut it and didnt measrue how long it was supposed to be. Thanks x

hey guys.. im goin to go ahead and use a refugium in my new betta tank.. i was just wondering what sort of plants i should put in the refugium, and then again in the actual tanks with the boys. my other half thinks rice and bamboo what do u guys think?

hey.. i keep amano shrimp in with my boys, and they seem to get on fine.. apart from fred, but he's just grumpy!! edd and miagi both enjoy chasing them around ever now and again, and the shrimp do a good job of cleaning up any uneaten food the boys miss. and cuz the boys chase the shrimp, it...

hey guys. im goin to be building a betta tank, to hold four males in, and want to sump it, so i dont have to use four internal filters. im going to be putting a refugium in the middle section of the sump, and was wondering what sort of plants/algae i should put in there. im goin by the concept...

tis ok lol.. and it should be.. im going to use a return pump from the sump to the first tank, and there will be a hole in the back of each tank, covered so they cant get thru it to the wier along the back. and i only put it in here so i could see how other people had filtered thier split tanks...

come on guys.. no one else has anything to share?!?!?! :(

ohh.. thats not bad.. i was thinking of doin a sump and a wier on it. so it goes into a wier along the back, then drops down to the sump, goes thru there, and then pumps back up thru a spray bar just under the waters surface facing down.

hey guys.. long time no posting, but i have a question for you all.. im going to change my tanks which i house my 3 boys, so that theres only one filter doing all the work.. yes it will be big enough to coupe so dont worry.. ive got it all planned out, just need to iron the creases out, all i...

love the colour.. and he looks like a damaged VT to me.. and most bettas brought from LFS have some sort of fin damage.. my Miagi was in baaad shape fin wise when i got him, but he's fully healed and looks wicked now :D

ooooooooooo....... pretty !!

cheers guys *sniffs* i just couldnt believe that i lost him.. he was jsut starting to get a true character for himself aswell :( i think im goin to leave the space empty for a while tho.. gona wait for a really beauty to come along, and not just pick the first one i see and take him home...

he was fine the night before, was watching all four for about an hour or so, and homer was doin his usual.. playin with the cories, flaring at himself and me.. eating.. no problem. all water stats are fine. the only other things in there with him are the cories, and a couple of shrimp, and he...

he was under neath the wood yeah.. and it did look like it was in a different place to the night before but i can't be 100% sure.

I can't believe that Homer passed away over night *cries* He was perfectly fine before I went to bed, and I woek up, looked in to see how they were doin and to feed, and he was gone :( I don;t know how it happened.. I think it could possibly have been a bit of driftwood that had fallen over...

noo.. bettas flare for different reasons, when they feel threatened by another male, or when they are threatening another male, when they are courting females they flare too.. *i think ^^* and my Fred just tends to cuz he's a moody lil thing!!