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  1. rubyjess

    tetra missing part of tail

    as stated my tetra is missing part of its tail been monitoring the tank and it seems to be one of the other tetras causing the damage as an emergency measure could i float a container on top of surface to seperate them please help as container i mean a food storage sort of thing till i go and...
  2. rubyjess

    what's wrong with my Cardinals?

    hi i have a 180 litre tank which was fully fishless cycled took about 4 weeks i added numerous fish overtime 11_now 6 cardinal tetras 1 betta deceased 4 bentos tetras now 3 4 corys 1 plec 2 bolivian rams 2 clown loach the betta died fron what looked like a fungal sort of infection as did the...
  3. rubyjess

    gutted 2 fish dead in 2 days help

    hi all im gutted i lost a bentos tetra on thursday night ,then to my horror got home from work today to find my betta on the sand barely alive it had white fluff on its eyes and one gill,strange as the night before he was feeding fine swimming around fine :(
  4. rubyjess

    floating plants

    evening everyone ,just wondered if there is such a thing as floating plants ,its just the top of my tank looks bare cheers :rofl:
  5. rubyjess

    what next ?

    hi everyone ive just started to stock my tank and so far i have 4 corys 6 cardinal tetras 2 small clown loach 1 small plec all in good health just wondered what else i could put in ,that wont upset the balance of the tank i would ask the bloke at my lfs but he didnt even know what a cardinal...
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    my first residents in my tank

    here are some pics of my new fish
  7. rubyjess

    cycled ?

    hi all let testing for a few days to give my tank a rest and done a check this morning my results were nitrites 0ppm ammonia 0ppm nitrates 40 ppm is this good news at last cheers
  8. rubyjess

    crazy cycle

    please help im so confused im adding pure ammonia up to 4.0 ppm its back to 1.0 ppm in under 24 hours nitrites havent moved in 2 weeks 5.0 ppm + nitrates are all over the shop starting from 80 ppm to 10/20 ppm then 5.0 ppm to 40 ppm ,then today back to 5.0 ppm ?? have i messed up somewhere here...
  9. rubyjess

    fishless cycle so far

    this is how my cycle s going so far been up and running for about2 weeks now had a few problems with heater but all sorted now after finally getting some pure ammonia last week have started testing with a new api test kit seems to be the best one to use yesterday my ammonia was 1.0...
  10. rubyjess

    heaters

    hi all man im having some issues ,bought a new heater when i started up put it in my tank left it for 30 minutes,switched it on ,temp went soaring up to 38.0 :banghead: unplugged it let the temp drop again set up heater to min on dial plugged it in straight up to silly degrees again took the...
  11. rubyjess

    Water from an established tank

    Hi all just went to my lfs tried to get some seeding material to no avail,they did however give me 10 litres of water from an established healthy tank, my question is will this water help with the fish less cycle Cheers
  12. rubyjess

    ammonia

    h all anyone know of shops in uk selling ammonia,i need some badly but cant find any HELP!! or something else i can use for a fishless cycle:confused:
  13. rubyjess

    my first attempt at fish keeping

    this is my 1st attempt at a FW tank ,its a juwel 180 bow front ,i think it looks ok lol its just the fishless cycle is CRAZING ME !!!!
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