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Environmentally friendly way of ridding your tank of unwanted snails.   Assasin snails breed slowly and are yellow and brown ins colour aka Bumble bee snails   we have a surplus  now they have killed all our snails        5 for £3 collection from Derby or can be container posted for £3.10 .  ...

Did you get any we have several and are in the Derby area

Hi I have some Assasin snails 5 for £3 collection from Derby or £3.10 for container postage   Cant work out how to attach a pic but can send you some pics if you need some   I have various ages and sizes from tiny babies to adults

Nitrites 0 amonia 0 nitrates low ph fine corydorus sterbia doing well thanks for the help and advice

alas Mr Merseychic is qualified as a bio/chemist but doesnt actually do this for his job any more though he may still have access to the necesarry kit. We have bought the full spec testing kit and can confirm we have no nitrates at present despite the tank now running for a week with fish in...

Ok we are trying to cycle with fish in and thanks to the advice on here things were going well. so story so far bioorb set up left for about a week first fish went in sterbais corydoras X2 and 6 rummy nose tetras the tetras starting dying and we discovered the cycling with fish in page. we...

corrys are doing fine. Oh and on a side note this he is a She lol

no bow fronted one, rumy nose has gone now any way thought he might

Thanks for all the advice the 2 25% water changes had reduced the nitrites down to just over .1 and we bought a 65l Aqua one tank and have set it up, added 50% new water, got it to temp added 50% old water from old tank, plus plants and media from the filter including the sponge some of the old...

was advise no more than 15 % so as not to stress fish and to do again tomorrow then retest 24 after that

Amonia level o nitrite 0.4 all but one rummy nose now gone

Thank you that is so kind its a bit far from us as I work in Stone near Stoke and Mr Merseychic works in Foston Thank you nice to find a friendly group

yes I knew you meant the media in the filter not the substrate I was mentioning that we use gravel not cermainc media to enable us to have catfish as the gravel is a better medium for the food they require. The odd thing is that all the Tetras had really red noses, no signs of distress no fin...

Hi being cheeky as one of the forum members has suggested we add some already established media to our biorb to prevent our poor fish from dying off any further Anyone in the Derby area thanks

Hi the orb is 60l and we have gravel not media in the bottom dont know any one we can beg some media off any one in the derby area. Plus three big plants the cats Corydoras Serbian (thinnk that is the correct spelling)

We have bought our Biorb and though we kept fish years ago the orb is new to us. We established it new filter, plants and ran it for a week empty. We introduced 6 rummy nose and 2 cat fish and lost 1 rummy nose the first day today we have lost 2 more. I have now found your site and been...