Recent content by Angel-Leaf

I think you’ve just solved what’s happening with regards to water hardness, my provider’s website says for my postcode area it 285 milligrammes per litre. So hard water. Perhaps that answers that. So I wonder if you can suggest ways to help soften the water for them. I read driftwood is good...

The eggs didn’t hatch and went utterly white. But four days later another of my females laid…so far the eggs are looking the same as the first batch. So I’m wondering if the two I thought were males might be young females instead. I’m not intentionally breeding them anyway but it has sparked...

Ah, I did think that might be the case. Still I have them in a breeding box so I’ll wait a few more days - but I don’t expect to see any fry. - it was a surprised and tbh I’m not even sure if it’s my Albino’s or my Peppered Cory’s , as it won’t be my Eques as they are still juveniles. I...

On Sunday I woke to find my Cory’s have laid eggs in my community tank - I have since moved them to a separate breeding box. A complete surprised as I’ve not gone out of my way to attempt breeding. Unfortunately I have no experience in recognising wether or not they are fertile. I’ll attach...

Wow that’s a really lovely looking tank and both the Betta and the Snail are beautiful, such vivid colours. So I’ve actually just found a tetra starter line 105 litre well in my price range, might need a better filter (reviews say it’s naff) and will have to get a heater (not supplied) which...

Thank you, this has actually help a lot. You have even suggested a few fish I’ve looked into and like, for example I’d love Betta, but I know they can be aggressive so was weary. On that note if I went for 6 Corys and a Betta, would adding the Corys for a few weeks first, before adding a Betta...

I see, hmm I did look at a 110 L within my price range, perhaps that would add more space. I do indeed to have a much larger tank eventually- once we’ve decorated our living room, but that will be a while off yet. So if I did purchase this six could would be fine, obviously that’s sort of the...

Hopefully this is in the right place (apologies if not) so I’m looking to purchase my second tank, I know exactly what fish I want to add to it and have extensively researched into them however I’m still unsure if this tank if suitable and wanted to ask for advice from people will far more know...

Oh dear it’s all so confusing, thank you for pointing that out. I think I’ll go along to our location Aquarium shop later today and see what they recommend, perhaps buy a good book as Googling seems to flag up conflicting advice.

Ah, I see. We have been looking at the Zebra Danios to start off with in our tank, which I have actually just researched and apparently they are quite hardy and would be okay going through a cycle. So assuming the Zebra Danios’ are hardy enough to withstand a cycle then I’ll heed your advice...

Thank you, yes I am aware of the ‘Cycle’ but only because I stumbled upon the information during research. I have opted to use the fish flakes method, I’ve popped some flakes into netting and set it inside the tank for a few days ( as I await my testing kits being purchased) if that fails I will...

Hi, I’m Lea. We recently purchased a starter Aquarium four our family to enjoy. It has been up and running since Friday 22nd, it is a 19litre tank with a Q112 Aquarium pump, a Delta Therm flat heater 15 Watts. Gravel and a little house, we plan on getting some plants along with our fish in the...