Search results

Totally upside down and now dead wondering what caused it now. The other one is fine. Happened within moments of being introduced to the tank.

Hello all I have a small (45l) well established and settled community tank (1 dwarf gourami, 1 bristlenose, 2 neon tetras, 1 minnow) and today bought a pair of platys, one significantly larger than the other. I did the normal acclimatisation in the bag before introducing them into the tank and...

Rightyho. So the test kit arrived today. Test results: pH 7.6 Ammonia 1ppm Nitrite 5ppm Nitrate 20ppm (could have been 40ppm - kinda hard to tell) So I performed the suggested 50% water change while sucking a load of crud out of the gravel then re-tested (dunno if there is any value in...

Thank you - fascinating reading! I should have read this BEFORE I drove half way across the county on a rescue mission. Still - even if they all peg it, I now know what I have to do and any new fish will stand more than half a chance of survival. I've ordered one of the kits - express delivery...

Yes - I cleaned everything with tap water but the water I filled it with was dechlorinated. I used gallons and gallons to get all the gunk out of the gravel - should I have dechlorinated it all? eek. I filled it with dechlorinated water. Should I still do a massive water change? I don't have...

Last week I rescued a 90 litre aquarium from a teenager who had neglected it for 6 months. The water level was down to half, the water was green, there was thick green/black slime on everything and the filters were clogged. Miraculously there were 4 fish still alive despite having lived in that...