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Boy what a huge inconvenience! I'd rather get my hands wet than freak out my fish or scratch up my glass :/ I do have one thats not magnetic hanging around so I might switch to that..thanks guys!

Hi all! So I have two brands of magnetic cleaner, one is a magfloat and the other I think Is Marina or just store brand. It sounds stupid as hell, but I have no idea if I'm using them right! :oops: Both of my magnetic cleaners judder along the glass. It's awful. Its loud and rattles the tank...

Hi there1 thanks for your help :D I would but my ipod doesn't handle the movement well at all, even in the breeder box the pictures are very blurry. But I can assure you they all have a thin long gonopodium. It doesn't appear to be mating behaviour, if one does start circling the other it has a...

Hi all! Trying to sort out my male guppies. My biggest guppy was being picked on rather relentlessly last night, in particular by the orange small one. It would give him short breaks >1 min then go back at him for a good while again. I sort of described the situation to my LFS and they didn't...

Hi all! I feel like every time I have one question answered, I find another for you. I've been looking into adding filter floss, I actually have some batting I use for craft projects already. But with my filter I'm not really sure on..where to put it ? I have an internal filter, the Aquael Fan...

Thanks so much :D I wont use any more for now then in that case. Seems fair! I've certainly heard mixed things and I do plan on having other fish in there, so I'll be keeping a close eye on what's going on. Worst comes to worst I'll just get him his own tank, I plan on picking up a few anyway...

Hi all! Thanks to everyone who's helped me with my previous questions. My tropical tank has been running for very close to three weeks now, and it seems like it's reached the end of the cycle. I have a 54 litre. I did fish-in, and about three days ago reached 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrite and 5 Nitrate...

So just to clarify, should I add prime until the nitrite reads 0, even though I'm still cycling my tank? or am I misunderstanding :D ? Thanks, I'll look into it!

Hii! Yup I'm already using Seachem Prime - perhaps I'm not using enough? I did have a high nitrite spike at the start of the week, I've managed to reduce it to .25 with water changes + prime. I'll look into RO water some more, my LFS is actually a general pet store - where my cardinals came...

Hii! Not long ago I posted about a chubby cardinal tetra I have- everyone seems to think it's just well fed :D - I'm back again because it has developed some other things i'm concerned about. First time owner, so everything makes me panic! :oops: Today it seems to be breathing quite heavily...