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Does your hospital tank have a filter? Check that. I found several live fry 3 days after one of my guppies dropped.

You dont have to prepare water in advance, I was doing this for a while untill people on here explained that the stuff works pretty quick and the levels would not harmt eh fish, as long as its added its good. Id stop buying fish for replacments, get a credit note and sort the problem before...

Cory eggs by the look of it, if they have been there for a few weeks either let the fish eat em or drop em in a net a few more days then bin em. My cory eggs hatched within 5 days

I have a tank of Guppies and have recently added Platys and Now mollies. The thing with Live bearers i like is they are either easy or difficult. You can eithr leave them be and let them eat the young they eat (i did this with the first batch and all got eaten) or you can get a breeder net and...

My local pets@home is awesome. The one in Crayford. The main guys that work there are always friendly give great advice and remember customers. They do get abit patranising with people that insist they know what they are doing and then buy tank/substrate/plants and fish at the same time. but...

The strength of water will not be strong enough to carry teh gravel all the way up the resistance isnt strong enough. Just run the hoover over the gravel disturbing the top few rocks and itll suck up the excess food and poop laying just below the surface. if you find the gravel starts going up...

GOod idea would keep the tank running nicely too. Going to get the cycle going tonight i hope with filter media and water from my other tank.

My first batch of coryeggs got eaten, the second lot i put in a net and the tiny corys got through the netting and were eaten. the third lot I put in a jar but unfortunatly only a couple hatched and didint eat. This time Ive found a shallow tub that Im planning to float in the fry tank and...

Im planning to put cory eggs and guppy fry in there if thats of any help. The pygmy cory might eat the cory dory fry then Will shrimp feast on them at all?

They look cool, and small!

I just converted my old reptile tank it to a fry tank and Im going to get it cycling with main tank water, the filter media is already in my main tank filter getting bacteried up. (Its a fluvel 1 for the fry tank and a fluvel 4 for the main so i put it between the two sponges to populate) Im...

All converted and water tight, got a piece of glass from the glass works and sealented it over the hole.

Awesome. Now i just need to visit BnQ

Right simply put I had some Geckos when I was at uni they have been long dead and I found the old tank in the shed. Its a solid glass tank thats not very big but will work fine as a fry tank with a small filter and heater that I have spare. Problem is the tank has a hole in the side that...

Hows is the water declourinated? (misspelt) I use buckets at the moment, but this would be so much simpler. But im concerned how the tap water will affact the fish? and when and how do you add the magic blue stuff to remove metals etc.

I read the whole thread with the crates and stones looked good in the end. I just dont wanna be drilling holes in the tank. How safe will a live rock filter be? I mean are we just talking more water changes? Or serious problems once fully cycled?

Hey Barney I have been reading loads on here but they are mostly written with ever first hand knowledge or more reading a questions. i did ask at my LFS but the guy kinda waffled like he was repeating what he has heard rather than telling me what he knew. If I go marine I will go for live...

A filter draws water through itself and through sponge or fine matted material to collect the gunk and stuff in the tank. Aswell as providing a breeding ground for good bacteria. A skimmer uses bubbles within the water to draw out gunk to stop as much decomposing in the tank. So putting it...

Whats the main difference of a skimmer and a normal filter? May sound silly to someone who knows but the mechanics of it still completely lose me.

Right to start with Im not buying anything yet or rushing just asking questions and getting a feel for the change! I have running a Juwel Rio 180 tropical tank with many inhabbitants and they are all happy and breeding. In the new year around march time in considering a change over to marine...

i personally do 40% changes whenever i do a water change about once a week unless nitrates get high then twice with no problems. My tanks got lots of inhabitants now including 17 guppy fry and all are getting huge and healthy. Guppies, cory dorys, shrimp, plecs, loaches. All seem fine...

Are you using a breeder net or box? If so just stop, I found I saved one batch and all 17 that i caught survived and are now getting big quick. Now I just leave Darwinism to do its job! If you can find a PetsAtHome near you they take fish.

Today I took alot of time to do a good gravel hoover and filter clean and plant check etc. Well after all that i was a little lazy and left the dirty filter water in the bucket on the side. Just went to pour it down the loo and noticed something moving before i even touched the bucket. I...

Unfortunatly porn is just something that cant be stopped on any forum completely. I work in IT for a law firm and on a normal working day I clear thousands of emails, images, and popups from the system. We have the most up to date software for stopping it. Im afraid even if you stopped pics...

Thanks everyone. I will be getting some sinking pellets this weekend, I need some new fish flakes aswell I love this forum for this reason quick and perfect reponses with excellent advice.

Ive cut down the feeding in my tank to both reduce the bad stats from some bad plants and to better keep the tank in the long term. Im putting very small amounts of food in the top and its all getting eaten by my guppies and glowlites. There just grab it all straight away and then wait for...

Very cool PLastic plants though. I like the look of real ones.

That looks awesome but i see what you mean about the algae. I couldnt cope with that many plants i like to keep things simple.

That is a stand to be very proud of dude! Well done. Im looking forward to the rest of the pics as the tank developes

Got any pics of your tank up?

Hi Ive had some bad luck with live plants, I went to a LFS that has very cheap equipment but noone had brought fish from there so i had no control. I brought 3 plants only to discover that they were infact not supposed to be fully submerged dispite being submerged in the shop and sold as...

Thanks man. I went to petsathome. The guy pointed those ones out as he has them in a few of the shop tanks and says they look nice and the fish dont seem to eat them much. But ill look into it. Thanks again man

Ive just read this and am now wondering what to do with my 2. I have a tank with guppies, glowlites and corydory's and one of the loaches has doubled in size in a month and after reading this thread im very tempted to go speak to my LFS about them taking them back. I wont ask for any money to...

This is the upgrade took me time to get it as i liked it. And more importantly its taken me time to get the high levels out the tank cos of the plants they did more damage than i though to the stats but all seems good now.