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I have an old 96ltre tank and have just upgraded to a 1500 litre as need more space for fish which i understand. I have read online about various ways to cycle the tank when its delivered but am unsure what the most effective quickest way is. I have 4 dollars ( Which grow massive ) a sucker...

Hi, I have an age problem in my tropical tank at the moment and was after some advice on what the best way to get rid of it is. I have it on my glass mainly the front and the side of the tank. I have scrapped it off with an alge scraper and got most of it off but it is not totally clear. I...

Hi, I have a 100L Tank and have some tropicals in it, few guppies, mollies and a few dollar fish. I have just changed my filters over from the usual tank ones to a filter I bought as I thought this might better clear the debris off my gravel better. Before I changed and did water changes my...

Hi peeps, I have my Goldfish tank for about a year now and I have an airstone bar with LEDs at the back giving me lots of bubbles. very similar to this Aquarium Fish Tank Airstone Bubble LED Light Blue White Purple Yellow Multi - UK | eBay It was blocked up with only half of it working so I...

Hi, Have just noticed a bit of redness on my angel fish between the head and body. Is this any thing to worry about?

Hi, I have a little fish that's not very well. He is swimming at an angle for 4 days now and just mainly keeps swimming round the castle I have in tank. He is feeding bad at feed times he does swim up to the tank to eat then goes back down. The other fish are fine. I have neon tetras mollies and...

Hi as mentioned on a previous topic, I have a guppy that swims at an angle and keeps swimming round my castle I have, he does this all day every day and had done for the past 3 or 4 days. At feeding time he does manage to swim to the top and feed then goes straight back down. What should I do as...

Have just noticed last night that my fish has been swimming at an angle round the tank and I don't know why. He had been doing this most of the day now and he keeps mostly doing this towards the bottom of the tank never the top. Is he dying?

Have just looked in my tank after coming back from work and I have spotted these on my pump. Are they fish eggs? If so what do I do? I'm worried as I have an angel in the tank and it is showing a keen interest in what ever it is.

hi, Does anyone know where I can buy a replacement sucker for my all pond solutions heater for my tank? my one fell off during the week and I put it to one side and was going to put it back on when I did my water change and somehow its disappeared! I have the clip that it slides into but not...

hi, I have a little frustration with cleaning my tropical tank. i have a 100ltr with about 10 fish in, few guppies, mollies, tetras. I did have white gravel in my tank but have recently changed it to a coloured thinner gravel as the white went horrible brown and I hated it. I empty about 50...

Hello, When I looked in my tropical tank this morning I noticed that 2 of my fish had died. One was a guppie and the other was an angel fish. I have had my tank setup for just about a year and they have lived peacefully together since then. Yesterday I gave it a deep clean, hoovered out the...

Hi, I really want to change the gravel I have in my tropical tank as I really don't like the stuff I have in there at the moment. It is fairly chunky and its not the best colour which is white and shows up and has on it loads of alge that I am fighting a loosing battle to clear up. In my...

Hello, I would like some advice on air pumps. I have the panorama 64litre tank with a few goldies in it and have purchased an air curtain that I placed along the back of the tank and it did look spectacular. Its been a while now since I have had it and although I have been pushing through air...

I have a problem with my tropical tank in that it is leaking from the top of the tank. It only leaks about an inch or 2 inches down and then it stops at does no more. I think I have located the leak to one of the corners and need to deal with it but I have a few queries. When starting the...

Hi, I have a love fish panorama 64l tank from pets at home and have Goldie's in. I am confused about the filter side of it though. The filter in it is a foam that is in a slot that goes into the filter box. There is also another foam that slots in behind it but in the middle of the foam it has...

Was just wondering how long tropical fish can survive without oxygen in the tank? I had a very bubbly tank but I was half way through doing a clean/change and the thing just stopped pumping. I have had a quick look and cleaned it out, which it wasn't too bad but it won't pump. I think it just...

Have just bought 2 goldfish to add to my goldfish tank from pets at home. got them home and left them floating in the bag so they could climate with the tank water then 20 mins later let them out. 2 hours later Come back to check them over and one of them is hardly swimming and is floating a...

Hi, I have a 100litre tank and I have 3 mollies in it. My black and white one acts a bit strange sometimes and am wondering what's up. He is in a pattern of barrel- rolling round the tank, but only for a while. We would see him doing it say from lunch time onwards, then the very next day he...

As stated in my previous posts, my Molly was spending its time cork screwing and spinning about all over the place. It seams now to have made a complete recovery and is now swimming about happily with the other fish! Was very worried it was bladder infection of something else but the fish seems...

Hi, I have a few guppies in my 100ltr tank and one of them is not swimming right. It is cork screwing all around the tank but other than that he looks ok. He is feeding well but has been doing this for about 24 hours now. My readings seem fine, and am just about to do a clean and it's weekly...

I have a heater in my tropical aquarium and it is set to 25 degrees. When I woke up my tank temperature was at 24.7 degrees and my heater was off and did not come on. I double checked it was set to 25 and it was so I turned it to 27 and it came on. When I turned it down to 25 again it went...

Hi, I think I have been conned by the pet shop. I bought a few fish yesterday to add to my aquarium ( 100L ) I bought 5 neon tetras and also 3 Angel fish. Before I purchased them I made sure by asking the shop person if they were ok to live together and he said yea fine no problems as long...

Have just tested my water in aquarium and have had to use test strips as have not received the Master kit as yet. These are my results Nitrite 50 Nitrate 1 GH 4 KH 15 PH 0 CL 0 Are these readings fine? My Nitrite was 100 Before water change but the rest was ok.

I've just come back from the fish shop as I went to get some tropicals for my 100 ltr set up. When speaking to them they said i could only take a few fish today as its a new tank and you cant put them in all in at once. I had the idea that I wanted neon tetras but was told that i couldn't...