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Thank you for the advice! Yes, I have got them a pill box for future feeding, it's got little compartments which are labelled with the days of the week. :brows: Will continue with the water changes and it's good to know not to move them. Thanks again.

I went away for four days over the weekend and my house mate very kindly fed my fish for me. Unfortunately she put enough food in there to feed a shark and when I got back there was a weird creamy sludge over the everything, an ammonia reading approaching 8.0 and the fish were gasping at the...

I live in the UK so we don't have a Pet Smart but it was a similar type of large pet store. The Platys weren't the only quarantined tank when I went in and spoke to them so thank you for the advice! :-) I will go in search of a specialist shop. Thanks again.

I just spent nine weeks cycling a 5 gallon planted aquarium. When the cycle completed it was able to process 3ppm of household ammonia in 24 hours. I ran it like this for five days and then stocked it with two Amano shrimp and two male Platy fish. My water parameters were and still are: 0%...

This has all been so interesting! Thank you for all the thoughts. I read about dosing tanks with lower concentrations of ammonia but the general impression seemed to be that 4ppm would produce a healthy amount of bacteria to deal with all stocking eventualities. As I originally planned to put a...

Hahaha! Yes, I could see how people develop multiple tank syndrome! :lol: I was looking at bigger tanks and some of them are incredible. However, I'll wait until this one's cycled and established before starting another one- then I'll have some bacteria to start it with... I'll look at tiny...

I think I'm going to put my goldfish idea on hold for now. I just found a second hand 10 gallon tank locally to me so I will go and have a look at that. I was researching small tanks this evening and was reading about cherry shrimp, they might be better in the tank I currently have, they look...

Yes, I think a goldfish would outgrow the tank but I figured I could get a bigger tank in time. I looked at smaller fish today (Danios and Platies) I have to do some homework on them though! I tested for Nitrates and Nitrites. No nitrites but there were a lot of Nitrates which cheered me up...

:) I will test for them tomorrow and post the results. Thanks for the advice, it is good to know it's worth persevering.

If Nitrates show up should a water change be done? I read that you should wait for ammonia to reach zero and then redose the tank to 4ppm to ensure the bacteria can cope with the amount of waste which goldfish produce.

Mines been like this for so long that this shade of green is definitely boring now. :whistle: I will start testing for Nitrites/ Nitrates tomorrow. Let's hope that we may get another shade of green soon. It's comforting to know that it's not just my tank that has got stuck. :facepalm:

BTW I can pick up a Nitrate/ Nitrate test kit tomorrow. :)

Thank you so much for your reply Dalto! I will take your advice on not going to that particular fish store any more. Please find an image of my ammonia reading, I took it about ten minutes ago. (I did overdose a water specimen with ammonia before testing the tank to see what it looked like, that...

I have a 25 litre freshwater tank which I found when moving house. I started a fishless cycle on 18th of September and intended to put one Oranda goldfish and a shrimp in it (I know that doesn't sound very exciting, but I found the tank when I was moving house. It seemed a shame to throw it out...