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I just tested the PH, it's at 7.6 - 7.8 in the tank, which is in the same range as the tap water, so it doesn't appear to have altered much as a result of the driftwood. It's a piece of ADA dark iron wood if that info makes the slightest bit of difference. thanks for the link, it's quite a...

Ah ha, I understand completely. Obviously by sticking things in to decompose it will be hard to gauge when they begin producing ammonia and at what rate it's being processed. I will head to Boots forthwith. Thanks very much.

Hey guys, I've got a new tank. 180litres. It has about 40KG of plant substrate and a large (70+cm) piece of driftwood. It's been up for two weeks. The temp is set high at about 30 degrees C. I initially put a piece of salmon in there to decompose and I also fed the tank with fish flakes...

There's me simply wanting to put my sister's old goldfish tank to some use and one idiotic bit of advice from a LFS later and I'm going to end up with a house full of aquariums, I can see it already. Still, I've learnt too much about nitrites and ammonia to give up now; besides it's my own...

^ Thanks for all your advice guys, I will take it all very seriously. I think I will set up a larger tank just for the barbs, predominantly (or perhaps exclusively) tiger and green tigers.

The tank is about 15 gal (US). I made the mistake of actually listening to the LFS and have clearly overstocked with potentially incompatible species (2 Angels, 2 Gourami, 2 Tiger Barbs and one Bala) and made all sorts of other heinous mistakes, however I was determined not to lose any to...

Hey guys, I have a question regarding barbs: I currently have 2 Tiger Barbs but I understand they do better in larger groups; can I mix similar-sized/shaped barbs with them and will this fulfill the function of having more than only two (i.e. will they school?), or must they be of exactly the...