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Fish isn't bloated. We feed them fozen larvae and flake Gills look fine. Not sure what you mean by flicking and rubbing but he is swimming ina jerky manner (if that makes sense) but he can swim normally if another fish comes near him. Then goes back to nose up. I couldn't isolate the fish from...

Hi! Thanks for replying! I knew i should've put stats in! Sorry!!! Tank is 125 ltr I've got 6 beacon tetras, 6 glowlights, 2 zebra loaches, 2 bristle nose catfish and 6 platys (who won,t stop breeding) and therefore, , 5 babies ammonia = 0 ph = 7.5-8 nitrate = 20 nitrite = 0 I had natural...

Can anyone please help me with a problem with one of my beacons. My partner noticed it swimming with its head pointing upwards at quite a sharp angle about 8 hours ago and I've just got in from work and it doesn't look very well. It appears to be swimming with jerky movements and going round and...

Thanks OldMan I'm at work now reading this but I'll do as you suggest as soon as I get in. I really appreciate all the help and advice people offer on this forum. I'll post some water readings and hopefully things will be seen to be improving. Thanks again

Well I just tested the water again and these are the readings. ammonia 0 nitrate >50 nitrite 1.6 p.h. 8 Are my fish ok????? They look fine, infact the platies are single handedly eating as many plants as they can as well as eating some babies that we didn't know one of them was going to have...

Hi. Thanks for replying. The readings were nitrite between 0.8 and 1.6 and nitrate 50 ish. I changed 25% of the water 3 hours ago. I'm just going to test for both again and I'll post the results. Am I right to be leaving the filter so long without cleaning the media etc? I know I have to...

Can anyone please offer me some advice about water qualities as I think I'm in a real state of confusion. My tank has now been running for over 2 months. Everything seemed to be going fine (apart from a few snails) and now I'm not sure what's going on. I check the water readings every monday...

Thanks Rooster, OldMan and Miss Wiggle. I hate the things too so I think i'll persrvere with the crushing them method for a while and maybe as OldMan also said I'll get a little army of snail eaters on my side. At least I know it's ok to kill them, I didn't want to declare all out war on them...

Hi! I'm a new aquarium owner who (after delighting in the joys of cycling a tank for weeks and geting it in the neck from his other half about the lack of fish) is having a spot of bother with small snails in the tank. I have had 6 Glowlight tetras in the tank for 8 days since the tank cycled...