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Hi, had these appearing on some of my mollies for months now. Only on about two fish at a time over about a year. The rest (about 20 mainly juveniles) are fine. It doesn't seem to spread throughout the community. It's never affected my neon tetras that have been in there for four years now nor...

Hi all, I use a hose pipe (specifically for the aquariums) with a spray end I use for water changes. The tap water goes through three filters. Foam, charcoal & sponge that removes chlorine etc. It then goes via an electric water heater that can be set between 30c & 55c or just normal cold water...

Hi, If I have white, black and orange mollies and they breed what colours can I expect? Will they come out with patches of black, white & orange or will they be one colour? I like mollies but the constant breeding makes it difficult to keep them as they soon outgrow the tank & I know all males...

Hi, This is probably a silly question but I generally have no idea... I wanted to breed different coloured guppies which I know is easy however do red, blue male etc guppies have female equivalents? Is there such a thing a a blue female guppy? I've never seen them in LFS What I'm getting at...

Hi, I wanted to setup multiple aquariums for breeding & simply to have all the fish I want but can't otherwise. I'd rather have a single filter for ease of maintenance but then this causes obvious problems with different temperatures & any disease breakout. An air system would be a solution...

Has anyone ever had an issue using a dechlorinator filter for water changes. After two months of scratching my head over unexplained tank deaths in all my tanks I linked it to water changes. I'm going to test it for ammonia and chlorine today but I'm convinced it's this. Had anyone ever had...

Anyone know a good aquarium treatment that'll just kill everything in the aquarium (not the fish obviously) I know I'll need to get filter boost afterwards. Been using Waterlife different treatments prior but it's not helped. I want a fresh start. Thanks in adv

Hi, I can't seem to shake this green coating of algae from my tank. It covers my java moss & fern as well as the bog wood. Water parameters are fine, I've cut the feeding of my 8 Cory catfish (5 are babies) back to once every 3 days as was the LFS advice a couple of months ago and keep cleaning...

Does anyone know what this is? It's a lump what appears to be getting bigger on the fish, the scales has started to peel back as their bulge of the lump comes from underneath. I thought maybe it's a tumour or something but another Fish has started to get the same lump on its body. I've started...

Hi, I've set up an aquarium it's been running for about 2 months now and I just bought some plants to attach to bogwood. (Anubias barteri var. nana) avoid after a couple of days it looks healthy but a day or so later I started getting dark green patches on it and now it looks like it's...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me what's wrong with this goldfish, I've had him for nearly two years but now it is sticking at the bottom and sometimes rubbing his side along the sand. I was thinking ich? Water nitrate fine, nitrite 0, ammonia 0 Thanks in advance

Hi all, I'm looking to redo a planted aquarium which are mucked up first time around. I want to know what type of dirt to put at the bottom because there seems to be so many different types I wasn't aware of. I have a gravel heater then I was going to put the dirt then cap it off with black...

Hi all, I have a tank which since I set it up a few months back has caused most of my fish to die then one pleco hanging on but I don't think he's in a particularly healthy state. It's a planted tank with dirt at the bottom capped off with sand. The water parameters are fine nitrate nitrite...

Hi, I come on here about a month ago. I was given an aquarium which already had soil and sand on the top which was never used before. I added plants and run juwel 180 led lights for seven hours a day now. Its been running for three months now. I'm down to one fish from four in that time...

Hi, I set up this tank a couple of months ago and it's been a complete nightmare for me. It has aquarium dirt at the bottom capped with sand. I have live plants, a pleco and another fish. I've taken to feeding the fish sparingly making sure there's no food waste. I've got an external filter...

Hi, Can anyone recommend a good quiet quick & easy to clean external filter for my 200 liter freshwater aquarium? Advice much appreciated Fatfei Sent from my SM-T310 using Aquarium Advice mobile app

Hi, I've had cherry shrimp for over 2 years now. They seem happy. Always breeding but they never grow more than about 1 and a half centimetres tops. They are from a batch of babies I bought on eBay 2 years ago. I've seen and had bigger ones I've bought in the past from my LFS. Any advice would...

Hi all, Does anyone have advice on how many wafa mix to feed 11 corys (about inch and ahalf big) and 3 ottos (about inch and a half long too but skinny) per day? I've been feeding them 3 disks per day but I think they might still be hungry because they go for the flake food when I add it later...

Does anyone know if it is okay for the plant to trim its leafs off as it is growing too big. I'd like the leafs to grow again though ideally . Also dies floating netted Java moss on the surface encourage faster growth? Cheers

I have a ex700 tetratec filter running which a clean every two months. I have a spare ex700 too. Will adding another mean I can double the the cleaning to four months? Thanks in advance Fatfei

Hi, My drop checker was green but now turned blue. I've checked for leaks and made sure the bubble rate is still 1 bubble every 2 seconds which it is for my 150 ltr tank. What could be causing the drop in co2?

I know if you are starting to put co2 into the aquarium for the first time then you need to do it gradually to adjust the fish as even introducing new fish gradually from a lfs into a co2 tank will probably kill them. However what if you are reversing the process and putting oxygen back into the...

Hi, I have had a two of guppies die over the space of 3 weeks. They just disappeared. I had 12 mollies (most of which babies and 12 neon tetra and 2 shrimp and snails. My big Molly was hanging at the bottom when I left Sunday which seemed strange for it and when I come back 4 days later...

I was told when I brought two of these that I don't need to feed them in a mature tank, I have hair grass algae so assumed that would sustain them anyway. Only the two I had are not there although to be fair they could just be hiding from the light and there are lots of plants. However I have...

Hi, I want to get some otocinclus to help clean my tank glass and because they don't knock everything around like plecos. Does anyone know if they feed night or day and if one feeding a day is enough for them? cheers