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Thanks, he seems to have perked up a bit especially when the female is close by :hey:

Hi Guys, I just need a bit of advice really. We got a new tank at Christmas 30lt we have fishlesly cycled the tank and the reads are as follows: Amonia – 0 Nitrite – 0 Nitrate – 20ppm PH – 7.8 Temperature – 26C This is our second tank and we do weekly water changes of 25%. The tank has been...

People never seem to take advice on board. I don’t know if its because they are defensive as they have realized that they have made a mistake but it drives me a bit crackers! My sister in law has a 22lt tank with 1 x mate betta, 3 x female betta, 2 x male guppies, 2 x female guppy, guppy fry...

Good morning, Thanks that’s been really helpful. I would say though you shouldn’t keep any guppies with the betta, this is the reason we have got a second tank as we have guppies in the main tank. You can’t predict what the feeder guppies will look like as often it is just indiscriminate...

Hi guys, Happy Christmas and New Year! :D I just need a bit of advice about a new tank. I have bought my husband a new tank for Christmas as he would like a beta and our current tank has guppies. I was wondering about setting up the new tank, my plan is to do fishless cycling but I was...

Hi, Welcome to the forum. I know a few people have said it already but try not to look back and just concentrate on moving forward to getting the tank established. So many of us have been through what you are experiencing now and it is truly horrible when you realise that the information the...

Hi, Thanks for the help, there is no white and the guppy tails seems to look better already! :) Ill do a bit more research on the tetra and see what I find. Thanks again :D Steph

No one got any ideas? :-(

Hi Guys, I just need a bit of advice really. I have a couple of fish that have split tail fins I have had my tank for about 3 months now and haven’t had a problem but we did get some new fish on Saturday. The water levels are all fine and I have been doing weekly 15% water changes and 25% once...

Thanks guys thats really helpful :D

Hi, Could someone advise what size tank I would need to get for a Japanese Fighting Fish? My husband wants me to get one for him for Christmas but it cant go our main tank as we have guppies and I don’t want there tails getting nibbled! Thanks Steph

That’s a good plan I shall give them a call. :good: So you think it would be ok to add another fish or swap the fish even though my tank is relatively new the tanks stats taken this morning are as follows and have been like this since at least Wednesday when I got the water test kit (apart...

Good morning guys, Just need a bit of advice on our phantom tetra, we were told that you should never have more males than females as the males can get quite aggressive and harass the females but that without any females you wouldn’t see the male color changes. We opted for two males and two...

Ok no problem thats great, thanks again to both of you :D

Thank you for your help its great to be able to ask people about it especially as you cant seem to trust your LFS :sad: Would you recommend getting a few more guppies as im not sure if they like to be on there own or would they be fine with the other fish in the tank? Also would you advise...

Thats great thanks, I might try and get some bogwood then. The tank wasn’t cycled properly as we followed the advise of our LFS, we filled the tank, set the filter going added plants etc and left it for about two weeks then added the 3 guppies, the following week we added the three platies and...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can offer any advise, we have a new tank about 6 weeks old we added fish after 2 weeks (this was the advice from our local fish supplier and I now know that there advise can not always be trusted!). We had 3 guppies, 3 platies and 4 phantom tetra, a few days ago...

Thanks for all the advice guys I really appreciate it. I have ordered the API master kit so should have that soon.

It is so rubbish, although I did read up you do rely on the 'experts'! I have now ordered my test kit! Being a beginner is crappy there is so much to learn and you feel like a fool when you get stuff wrong! :sad: Well one day I shall get there and in the mean time read up as much as I can :S

Also on a side question our filter pushes water in several jets across the surface of the water it seems great for oxygenating the water and the fish spend most of there time swimming against the strongest section of current (particularly the guppies). Can this stress the fish or would they just...

Thanks for your help. That’s a bit worrying I really don’t want to loose our fish! When they tested the water on Saturday they did test for ammonia though and it came back ok could the levels have changed that quickly?

Hi, Thanks for your help. We ended up going through the process twice as the first time round we had the wrong types of plants and the sent the nitrite/nitrate levels sky high so we started again. We declorinated the water and left it with the filter running for a week or so and then added...

My husband and I inherited a fish tank we clean it thoroughly and cycled the tank before adding any fish. The first fish were 3 guppies the following week we got the water tested again and added 3 platies again a week later we got the water tested and added 4 phantom tetra. All the fish seemed...