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well the part that sticks down below the syphon you push down into the sand and move it through the sand and as you move most of the dirt rises up out of the sand and gets sucked up through the syphon and you don't even have to go near the sand with the syphon and so none gets sucked up

well thats good that ye all think its good idea, as i said i've found it works really well it just takes a bit of trial and error at the start to get it sticking down the right amount at the start so as just to suck up dirt and not sand, i should patent this or something and start selling it to...

i recently changed to sand and i was finding it hard to clean the sand so i came up with the idea of using tie wraps to hold an orange peeler which is what i used onto a standard syphon so that it sticks down below the syphon and that way you can just sift through the sand and all the dirt rises...

Thanks for the good comments, :good: yeah the background helps hide the plugs i just have a few bubbles in it now i need to get out, i have 2 cories as well and they seem to prefer the sand a lot more,

So i've been doing a few changes to my tank in the last few weeks and thought i'd share with ye what i've done Heres how my tank looked a few weeks ago I've since sprayed the tank black, changed from gravel to black sand, got some live plants, added a reflector to my light that i made using a...

no it doesn't look skinny or bloated it looks perfectly normal other than the tail, thanks for the help so far i'll get some bacterila meds tomorrow and try that

no it doesn't really look like dried blood and it doesn't look like the tail is stuck together with mucas or slime, i mean he looks fine except for the fact the tail is just folded over and he's just swimming in the one spot on the top of the tank, he seems to be starting to struggle now as well...

actually from what you listed here i'm not so sure it is septicemia, there doesn't seem to be any blood streaks throughout the body and fins and theres no hemorrhages around the eyes, also the red i saw on the tail fin is possibly just a natural colour in its tail that i never noticed before and...

yes i think there is some red edging to the fins, i have nowhere to isolate it

I've had three male guppys for the last three months and have no problems up til now, one of the male guppys is now acting funny, his tail seems to be folded down on it self, normally his tail is about 1'' high now its only the height his body if you know what i mean, it doesn't look like he's...

i have a 26g tank for a few months now and i've been thinking of adding a few live plants, i was just thinking of doing it low tech, my bulb is 20w so that gives me about 0.77wpg, i dont really want to go down the route of co2 injection either, so i was just wondering if somebody could recommend...

thanks i'll have a search for the easy plants topic waterdrop. i just want to get as little as possible to start off with like you said. my tank is 26 US gallons

I have a 100L tank and i was thinking of adding live plants, i dont know the first thing about adding live plants and was just wondering if someone could let me know whats involved, Heres a few Q's i have at the moment my tank has a 16w bulb, would i need to upgrade this? how long is the light...

yeah thats what i thought, i actually got a betta somewhere else the same day and added the filter and its been a week now and its still fine, sick of lfs giving rubbish advice like this to people though

I recently decided to get a 30L tank and get a betta for it, i had my tank set up and ready to go with the heater on for about two days and i was going to add a filter i have from another tank because i got a new filter for the other tank and the two filters had been running in the old tank...

Cork, Ireland

20g tank €150 Heater with tank filter with tank sand €15 bogwood €15 test kit €25 dechlorinator €8 ornament €30 air pump €15 air accessories€10 fake plants €12 fish €80 Total €360 roughly =...

I since read the fish profiles for both ghost shrimp and ADF's and found out you can, guess i should have done that first, sorry

Hi, I have some african dwarf frogs and i would also like to get some ghost shrimp but i'm not really sure if the two are compatible?? anybody have any experience with these two?? Thanks In Advance

I've since added a piece of bogwood to my tank and a few neon tetras, Its kinda funny now actually my cherry barbs have started schooling around with the neons, I've added a few pics to photbucket but i've never used it before so i hope this works. Heres a few of the overall tank Hers some...

My thank has now finished cycling, my ammonia levels started going down about 24 hours after adding the gravel from the goldfish tank and i also washed out the sponges from the goldfish tank in my tank and i just wanted to thank you all for the advice and help

I have just finished cycling my tank and it took me 6 weeks to get it to cycle using fish as i didn't know about doing a fishless cycle. I got nutrafin cycle with my 95 litre tank as well and it did absolutely nothing and it took a lot of work to keep the ammonia down (partial water chenges...

i was gonna do that but they just cleaned it out so there probably wont be much left, the gravel hadn't been cleaned yet though

thanks for the quick replies, i've decided to add some gravel from my parents tank, how much should i add? about a cup full?? i had planned to get more cherry barbs alright once i got my tank more settled and i'll keep an eye on the parrot cichlid so thanks for the comments

Hi, i'm new to the whole tropical fish thing but i read up a lot about it before i got a tank, i got a 95 litre tank about 6 weeks ago and added nutrafin cycle which i later found out is useless, i started adding fish after about three days cos i hadn't known at the time that you could do a...