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this is awesome information thanks i am gonna give it a try, i will let you all know what has appened. i am also really excited i have been given a 3 foot tank today and will get it tomorrow it has some leaks but i will fix them and then have a new tank

yeah i ment everything, we dont need heaters were we live the water temp is 23 with lights off and about 25 degrees centigrade with the lights on. yeah i have the lights on a switch now when i get home i will switch the lights on and in the morning i will swich them off. thanks

can anyone provide me with some more information on breeding brine shrimps or tell me were to go

can you use a normal test kit like the ones used for a swiming pool, or do those only test for ph level?

yeah pity the pic is not working, you should check out www.photobucket.com for that, let us know what is happening i am very keen to learn more about this.

do you need to switch off the lights or can you leave them on 24/7. do the fish need the lights off to sleep. can they survive if you switch off everything during the day?

here in Durban South Africa we have lots of outdoor water features at office complexes. at ours we have a small pond with Koi and hundreds of guppies and possibly some telapia too. i want to take some of these guppies out the dirty pond and have them in my tank at home, some guys here at work...

it is very important to some people to have all the facts and to know what is going on in the tank, this forum with posts like this have helped me so much and i am sure will help many others, it can eliminate alot of doubt when you are new to tropical fish and are wondering what is going on when...

were we live the water is really good quality, here most people i know with tropical fish dont cycle, they fill up a tank and de chlorinate with over the counter aditive. i have done this twice now and had no problems. the tiger's before lived for 3 months but i think i over fed them and they...

wow i am excited yesterday i got 2 silver mollies one is a lyre tail they looked happy in the tank wich is awesome and well cycled, i think the female might be preggies alrady she is a bit bloated, but i am not sure. the male was following her everyware last night, and they were happy to feed...

hi guys, i have 3 tiger barbs in a tank 2 of this are perfectly normal but the bigger of the 3 is acting really strange. about 2 days ago it started to distance itself from the others and now this morning it is swiming sideways and swims up the floats down backwards. the fish looks good and...

i have used a thick piece of towel cloth it seems to have done the trick cause i have no problems so far and fish seem happy and no vibrations get to the tank

yeah you are right they do seem to be interested in everything. i only want barbs now after reading so much about them i am gonna get more tonight and add them to the 3 i have already

yeah from reading all this i think i am going to get some more barbs for the tank i am going to mix species though and get some more tigers too

i have seen on the web that you must not have 2 or 4 tiger barbs together but i dont know that for sure i have 3 together in my tank and they seem happy but i am new to fish so i am not 100 % sure of this. all i know is they are alive and swiming around like mad things most of the time.

hey i have some tiger barbs in a tank together and everything seems great. sometimes the fish seem to face head own and sort of bob up and down quiet close to the bottom of the tank? i am not sure why? Also there are 3 fish in the tank at the moment and only 2 chase each other around at any one...

hey i live in glenwood Durban, have a small flat with a small tank but i am keen to build a big tank now, or very soon. lots of mates living in the uk all over now. how are the tropical fish there, do you get the same types of fish like here. we dont seem to get tropical shrimp and snails like...

hello all. i am new in here today so i am very excited about this forum. i am not new to forums so it is good to join such a friendly one. i have a small tank with a few tiger barbs in it. the tank has been running for about 4 weeks and all is well. i look foward to using this forum and...