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It would appear that i have an Ich infestation and was wondering if people think heat and salt treatments or medications work best to treat the issue. I have Quarantine tanks and spare heaters. I just want to know what people think is the best solution.

I'm posting this on behalf of a friend from a rugby league forum who has recently had some issues with their tank. I've given what (limited) advice i could offer, but I know there are people with better knowledge here than me so any help would be appreciated "My tank is a 90 litre and I set...

Just a whinging thread here. After a long running dispute about a water bill i've been given the ultimatum to get rid of my tanks or find new premises. For a few months i have been involved in a dispute with my landlord about a big water bill they incurred because they failed to have a badly...

Hi all. I am looking to diversify the range of plants i have for my tanks by trading out some of the trimmings i have in excess. I also have about 40 Red Ramshorn snails ranging from pea sized to full sized (shells about the size of a 5cent piece) plus hundreds of smaller ones that could be used...

Hi all. I am slowly discovering that i'm a sucker for oddballs when it comes to the aquarium pets i want. I have wanted some fiddler crabs for a while now but never see them at my LFS's. However i saw on one of their facebook pages that they have FW crabs in stock this week. I asked for info...

I think all of my Kuhli Loaches are pretty well fed. Frozen bloodwroms twice weekly, peas once or twice, and mostly new life spectrum community pellets as well as flakes thy scavenge and some lettuce and cucumber every few days. One in particular is looking incredibly fat. Though all the others...

I have a couple of Anubias plants i am attaching to rocks. One of them is in a pretty elevated position and the roots are now growing off into space. I would prefer to have the rock coated in green roots ASAP so i'd like to trim the roots close to the rock to encourage lots of branching roots to...

Hi everybody. In the last couple of months i have picked up 2x cheap 20g tanks ($5 each) that i hadn't had the time filters or substrate to set up. So today i will stop procrastinating about this and get the tank ready for set up. I usually rush through the setup process so i thought i would...

Hi all. I recently 'saved' 7 fish that had been abandoned by their owner at work when they moved to a different city. People with no aquarium knowledge were overfeeding (tank had loads of floating food when i spotted them) them and the filter in the 5g cube they were in had burnt out as the O...

Hi all. I have been researching this as well as i can but can't find much information. I bought a Bristlenose on friday and noticed that about half it's belly had what looked like a blister (raised skin that shows yellow over the white stomach). Haven't seen the little fellow today but before...

I've been a member here for a few months now but have also checked out a few other forums i have come across while googling for different information. I love this site. It has a helpful community and a very friendly group of experienced and enthusiastic newcomers to this hobby. I'm hooked and...

Hi all. I have a pretty heavily planted 20g. It had a comet in it which i rehomed to a 30g, the next in a succession of larger tanks to come. 2 in there for now both under 6 inches and heavily filtered and well planted. They seem happy enough with the extra 1' swimming room and 50% extra depth...

Howdy all. I have had 2 planted 20g tanks running for a while but this is my first tank journal. At about midnight last night i spotted a 35.6 Gallon tank. Rang the owner at 10am today and had the tank in my house 4 hours later. I've had a few hours to clean the tank, wash river sand and move...

Hi all. I was looking at some plants that i could bonsai and plant over my aquaruim and like some local tea tree species. I know they produce oils in the leaves and was wondering if anyone knows if the oil released from leaf fall would harm my fish? From my reading in the last hour i know they...

Over the course of about 2-3 months i have slowly added to my plant collection. Before this time i would usually just buy a plant occasionally that would die. I really did some research about planted tanks and how to make them work when i signed up here so i'm slowly starting to see patterns...

Hi all. I have a three plants in my tank that i don't know the name of. One is too well hidden in my tank to take pics of so it stays out of this thread for now. I got the green leaved plant with yellow patterns in a mixed bunch. It struggled for nearly 2 months but might be finding a new...

I'll start this thread with a confession. For 7-9 years i have been an enthusiastic keeper of Comets, but absolutely clueless about stocking ratios, required tank size and even dietary requirements. I won't talk about my die offs but i've had 2 big ones most likely due to overstocking. Having...

Hi all. I will have 2 cycled 20G planted tanks running soon and will have a larger tank cycling for a big Comet i can't let go of (4 foot tank that needs an end replaced). I was planning on stocking one 20G with Threadfin Rainbows, Spotted Blue eyes and if possible some Kuhli loaches. If Kuhli's...

I'm fairly new to planting and still completely clueless about adding ferts. I picked up some slow release tablets for water gardens back when i decided to plant my tank which i forgot about. If someone with more idea of what is helpful can tell me if these are worth using as root tabs it would...

Hi all I was looking through the Bunnings online catalogue and saw some LED light strips that might be just what i need. I have 18 watts at the moment for 20G tanks with flourescent lights. The LED light strips aredescribed like this Energy efficient, bright, LED light source Safe 12V d.c...

Hi all. I noticed today that my small comet has a split in the tail fin. It wasn't there yesterday and she still seems to be swimming ok. Aside from adding extra stress zyme to maybe help coat any potential sores what should i do? I have 2 comets in the tank and do big regular water changes but...

I have 2 retrofit flourescent fittings for my tanks. One of them i bought with a 20W reptile light in it (says on the bulb for reptile use only). My other bulbs are 18W T8 bulbs. I'd like to know if the reptile bulb would be harmful to the fish or plants. I'd assume it's a more intense light or...

I have a fairly simple idea for diffusing CO2 from the sugar and yeast bottle system that i am using that should work ok with my old Aqua one 101F Maxi internal filter (which basically sucks 400L/hour through a removable chamber with a sponge inside and shoots it out the top in a fast stream)...

Hi all. For a few days now i have been reading various sources about how to get started on planting a fresh water aquarium. I have hit a major stumbling block when it comes to information on the initial fertilizer type and dosage that i should apply when setting up a tank. I don't know if i...

Hi all. My name is Alan. I've been keeping some fairly boring fish (Comets and Zebra Danio's) in a fairly boring aquarium for a long time. I recently started looking at some planted tanks and have decided to convert my 16 gallon freshwater into a planted one. Even the most plain planted...