Recent content by sarah1953

Hi, do you give tropical fish frozen or defrosted Gamms cockles in the shell please?

Hi, I'm a newbie, I have a huge 197L tank and I'm finding it difficult to both empty water and clean the sand. Is the hose on the attached picture the easiest way to do a water change with such a big tank? And how do I clean the sand sufficiently without hoovering too much up? I'm quite a short...

I can just about lift the original cabinet but it took three people to lift the solid one the tank is currently standing on. Looks can be deceiving. As for "overhang" it's just the way the photo has been taken. Anyone slamming into that big daddy would be KOd!!

How is that going to brighten up the inside of the tank??

Thanks for that. Do you think my two T8 20W tubes are enough or would you opt for a brighter white?

Dull tank I recently purchased a second hand Boyu 197L tank and it's now set up and running against a wall with fish in it. But the background paper has "pooled" and consequently what was a background vivid green is now a sort of background dull grey! It's a lovely massive tank with no...

Thanks for that but did the black trash bag not let light in in places? The thing is, now the tank is set up, there's no way it can be moved. I can just get my hand round the back to tear off the paper. If I roller paint the back black do you honestly think it will brighten up the tank?? I don't...

Hi, no the colour is the same all over - (you can see the little bit at the sides of the background paper are vivid green) It MIGHT be an air pocket but when I press on the paper and look again the colour is still as drab.The thing is, if it's drab now, how on earth is an even darker...

Thank you, but how can I view it as your upload doesn't enlarge?.......(or did you just mention that colour background in passing?:)

Could someone please shed some light ( no pun intended) on why the tank below was vibrant with lovely coloured green background before I filled it up? The background was a beautiful lush green. If you look at the sides/edges of the background you can just see how lovely and green the colour...

I bought a 200l tank yesterday off someone I trusted only to discover this morning there was a "cover-up"/dishonesty issue with the background scene. The water has cleared nicely but there is absolutely no background colour depth and the whole lovely huge tank looks pale and uninteresting. I can...

This morning the water is a lot cleaner looking but what on earth is going on with the green foliage background colour? There is about half an inch of lovely bright green colour all around the edge. And that's it. The whole of the rest of it is greyish, dull green, dull white, dull everything...

Do you mean WAS the paper background losing colour when the tank was empty or IS the background losing colour now the tank is being cycled?? The fine gravel is grey, yes, and in my other tank I have sand. Why does fine grey gravel pose a problem? The person who sold me this tank uses it and...

Hi, Someone brought me his secondhand (but very clean) 200 litre fish tank today - it's huge - and set it all up for me. The backing paper is a multi colourful green and the colours were viewable through the front of the glass when it came. At 1pm the water was incredibly cloudy due to buckets...

Haha it's only 5' high in total