Recent content by AlexF

The nitrate and ammonia are the levels that keep rising, i do water changes which bring the levels down but the next day they seem to creep back up again. I have never been able to get the nitrate down. I am very careful what i feed the fish and ensure he eats all the pellets i give him, so the...

i test my PH in the middle of the day so the light has been on for some time. i just use an RO pre mixed saltwater mix from the fish store and my SG is just above 1.020. i'm having to do water changes 3 times a week because my levels just keep rising every time after i bring them down

hi Everyone, unfortunatly my clown died yesterday, i woke up to find him at the bottom of the tank and he looked very stiff. I'm very upset and am now worried the other one will get lonely although he seems absolutly fine and not even fazed by the death of his tank mate. do you think i should...

hi ive posted another threat somewhere else about the clown fish acting strange the other day. he now keeps going and laying on the rocks at the bottom of the tank, he perks up and swims around when i go up to the tank and has been eating normal, he swims around for a while and then returns to...

hi ive done a few water changes today and the ammonia is now once again down to 0 the only thing wrong with the water now is the ph and the nitrate. ive added some tetra aqua nitrate minus which i'm hoping will help. the fish seems fine apart from the laying at the bottom of the tank, it perks...

do you really think he's going to die? i know it sounds weird but he seams fine and its as if he's just choosing to float there, in exactly the same place every time he goes back. it looks as if both the fish have something hanging from underneath them, i was wondering if they had been mating...

hi everyone, i'm really really worried about one of my clownfish. i cant see any visible damage to the fish but i woke up this morning to find him hovering right at the bottom of the tank near the rocks, if you go near the tank he will get up and swim around as normal but afterwards he will go...

hi everyone, just to let you know the ammonia has now reduced to 0 and so has the nitrite. the nitrate is still the same and the PH is making very small improvements due to the marine buffer. one of the fish is worrying me, he keeps swimming up and down from the bottom of the tank to the top...

i was feeding them frozen food the artemia. the guy who sold me the clowns told me to feed them half a cube a day. i think thats where ive been going wrong because they havent been eating it all and obviously that must be whats polluting the water. ive got some hikari marine s that im going to...

thanks for all the advice, have been doing small water changes but as of yet there is no change. the fish still seem fine, one has got a lot of black on her though, looks as if shes changing colour.

no the fish are breathing fine, if u go to the tank and they think they are getting fed they will perk up straight away and start swimming around. they haven't been going to the top for air and everything seems fine really. the only changes is one has some of its fin missing and keeps...

hi thanks for the reply, yes everything in the tank was as it should be before adding the clown fish and all test results were perfect. the test kit i'm using is an API saltwater master test kit and its a liquid one. i have about 2.5 kilo's of live rock. the tank is more tall than it is wide so...

hi everyone, im alex and i'm all new to saltwater and all this forum business. Ive had to join because i really need some advice from people with experience as things are going wrong and i dont know what to do. ive already posted this somewhere else but im not sure how these sites work so im...

hi everyone, im alex and i'm all new to saltwater and all this forum business. Ive had to join because i really need some advice from people with experience as things are going wrong and i dont know what to do. i own a 60litre biorb life. the tank has been set up around two months now and...