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Hi, Thanks for so much helpful advice. There’s a chance he was attacked but also a chance of poor water quality. I’ve had an upside down catfish for the same length of time as these (about 6 years). The catfish has shown aggression on occasion. Killed off my other severums over the years and...

Hi, my golden severum’s eye ballooned up. It’s now gone down with a ‘nipple’ type bit hanging in the middle and it’s completely cloudy. This is in just one eye. It’s quite clear from the lack of reactions on its right hand side that it has lost its eyesight. Anyone know what it is and whether...

Hi, I have a Fluval Roma 240 with a florescent lighting unit. One of the bulbs stopped working and I thought it was the starter. After taking the lid apart to replace it I discovered that it’s the holder that the starter clips into which has gone brittle and fallen apart inside the hood. I had...

Thanks for the response. Nothing mentions the tail being large :S i wonder if there is an issue and it's inflamed or something? Seems perfectly happy and healthy.

Hi all, I have 3 map turtles which i think are nearly 2 years old now. I'm not sure on what sex they are. A couple of weeks ago it looked like they were mating (Although they do often sit on top of each others shell anyway) I may sound stupid in thinking this - But i have now noticed one of...

How do i tell which maps i have? now they r coming up 2 1 year old and getting bigger (strong bites too,lol) how can i tell which is male and female? The shop said while babies they could not tell. I thought i remembered reading: females grow to 11", males grow to 7". males have longer claws and...

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After doing some googling, am i right in saying T8 are the 1inch diameter bulbs and T12 are the 1.5inch diamater bulbs? i can't seem to find T12/ 1.5inch uvb bulbs!

Are the florecent tubes always 1inch/25mm wide? The 2 i have at the moment i know are 1.5 inch wide as i still have the bulb box. I can't seem to find a 1.5 inch florecent uvb tube light. Need 2ft/24inch long. That site listed above lists 1inch wide tubes

Cool, advice taken :) Well i've been shopping around and found this at a good price to use as a basking lamp.....: 160W ES E27 PowerSun Mercury Vapour UV Lamps .BNIB I've already purchased the E27 fitting lamp holder. 160w isn't too much is it? just wanted to check this was suitable before...

Ok. Thanks again for a detailed response :) i'll be replacing the aquarium light then for the uvb type. Can the uv light be used to much? i have my fish light on for 8 hours a day, would that be suitable? Looks like i will have to stick to the heat lamp and timer for now, probably until next...

Ah ok, cool. once im done setting up i'll get some pics on.took me forever to catch the fish...now emptying water and then will be transfering. gna be ages until i get the little guy in his bigger tank. looks like a long night,lol. Just had a look at the tubes. i can't seem to see what the...

i was thinking the same about a lamp with timer. A straight 3 hours a day, or half hour intervals for a total 3 hours or something like that? Maybe i should take this gravel back then? The setup in the shop was a little misleading. i just thought if i sloped the gravel high on one side to get...

Hi, Thanks for the very detailed replies. i'll reply more later but im in the middle of switching fish between tanks and setting up the bigger tank for the turtle. I've already purchased some gravel type stuff which was reccomended by my LFS to use with turtles. It says on the bag for...

Hi, I purchased a baby map turtle yesterday which I love. He's happily living in a 3ft tank at the moment. The shop said to keep the water temp just above tropical fish temperatures (internet sites I have seen suggest 26c) The shop suggested a basking lamp is not required. I still wanted to...

So def 2 - 3 males? cus i thought it was males that had to be alone and females that could go together? :S

oooooo I've never been so excited going to a shop before :D lol Yet too busy this weekend, i can't wait til next weekend,lol

Just looked at the website for Wharf, looks amazing! i can't wait to go now,lol. http://www.wharfaquatics.co.uk/tropical.htm From my own experience of bardills i didn't rate it much. I live in stapleford and this is 1 of my 2 nearest. I've found Trowel garden centre (maidenhead) to be the...

None ring a bell really :S maybe i have completely forgotten the name,lol. but those directions above i do remember. He did say it was quite a drive along the road after breedon on the hill. Thanks for all the replies. I may take a drive out to the Wharf place in a month when my old tank is...

Yea thats not the one :( Maybe i got market harborough in my head from somewhere else? If we go from EMA, around the back past the DHL depot, then down a long road past breedon-on-the-hill............. What about any places near there? i remember he said it's classed as leicester but it's...

Ok, Maybe i was a little desperate and impatient to get a second tank for a betta? So i have now eventually managed to get hold of a second tank. My new tank is 3ft and holds 110 litres :D woo My old tank was 2ft and held 54 litres. I've moved all of my fish into the bigger tank now. So now...

Hi, I've asked around and searched multiple things in google as i didn't want to create a post just asking for this, but please help as i can't find it! An engineer sent to my house by a big company(so unable to track the person) advised me of a really good place to go to but i can't remember...

They leaked some kind of wax? weird! what did pennine say that was?

How do i know if a guppie is imbred or not? The plant is fully back to life now. im putting that down to the light being left on too long if thats possible to cause it to brown off a bit along the edges of the leaves?

Sorry it's been a while for me to come back with this update. I wrote my letter to Aldi head office. In return i was fully refunded for the light i purchased elsewhere and i got a £10 goodwill voucher to use in store. So thumbs up to Aldi. It's just Pennine that are the bad guys here. Aldi said...

No more fish have died and i still haven't seen the tiger barbs attack a single fish....so maybe it was just one of those things and they just got ill? I also have a shiny new clean tank now as the other started leaking! so that may help things. The only change i've made is moving the air...

cool, thanks for that. I also have some danio's, they were my harder fish i put in after a month of cycling before putting the rest in. I suppose i'll just have to see how things go then. I was wondering if....due to them not being fed for a while if my tiger barbs maybe ate the tail of the...

Thanks. i always did wonder about the filter in there...but at least it seems to be doing some work,lol You recon i should also get a new filter? I've been looking at the ones with a uv light as i have one of these in the pond. Did you keep both filters for good, or just until it had cycled...

They have only been overfed once because of not being fed for a few days. Since the overfeed only 1 has died (he may have even died before this as i only came home yesterday, my partner never spotted him), the other 3 died prior to this. Also the brownish leaves have only occured after them...

I treat the water with Nutrafin Aqua plus, which was also reccomended i wash the filter in the tank water i have just removed Heater, filter & air bubbles are left on overnight, light off. Right now the tank is 25c and always maintains the temp very well. No smokers in the house, no plug in...

Nitrite = 0.1 Amonia = 0.1 It's just the nitrate that isn't on 0 but the book says it's safe up to around 50 and my mate said hers is always the same colour on the test as mine and all her fish are fine. I use the interpet easytest kit with tablets and test tubes reccomended by my aquatics...

I don't seem to be doing very well at the moment. had the tank since xmas and the fish for about 3 months now. About a 6 weeks ago i lost my 1st ever fish, a guppie. Around 2 weeks ago i saw 2 of them that didn't look very well. one was worse than the other. it was hanging around the top mostly...

Thats a shame. My tigers are in a group of 6. As they seem happy in their little group they have never once turned on the guppies. i've watched them for hours (im not sad honest,lol) So if the tigers have never once touched the guppies, do you think it would be worth the risk...or strongly...

if thats the case.... i have guppies, neon tetra's and tiger barbs. if i put a female betta in with these now, would she be ok?

Hi, I thought i remembered reading and also being told, that female bettas can only be housed with certain other fish and males should be kept on their own. For this reason i haven't yet got one. A friend came over the other day who has also recently started out in fish keeping. He went to...

only to feed them before i leave for work. it goes off when i leave and back on for the evening until i go to bed