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hi yes they are African cichlid blood parrot fish, they have teeth and HUGE mouths :) the fry are really small, only 4days old we looked in her tank and we just saw them all laying around the heater so we managed to fish them out before the adult ones decided to eat them and they have been in...

ok thanks ill leave her in there she actually seems to be happier the males arent harrassing her. i have got a breeder tank managed to get an 6yr old tank from a family member who got a bigger one and left their old one all running with just water in. My sisters fish have had about 40 baby...

As title, i have put her in the breeding thing but dont want to stress her if she aint going to drop yet

Tested again this morning Ammonia 0 Nitrite 2! Didnt test the nitrate just started straight on the PWC's 3 x 50% PWC's and a extremely good clean of the bottom (better than i did yesterday! dont think i can see any waste now at the bottom) and cleaned the artifical plants in old aquarium...

Thanks for all the help. Just gave the stones a good vaccum (just got a battery operated one much better) and then did a 50% PWC Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 5 Will test now tomorrow and do whats needed seeing as i now fully understand how to maintain the tank properly :) im sure all...

thank you again :) The white spots are now disappearing off the fish and they look soooo much happier I tested again this morning and have done 2 50% PWC's and the nitrite is now a very light purple but more blue which puts it between 0.25 and 0 rather than the 1-0.5 it was this morning...

Hi thanks once again both of you I have done another 2 50% PWC's Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0.25 Nitrate 10 Shall I now leave it and test again in 24hrs?

Thanks all, ill do another test in the morning and do PWC's as needed. Yes, i did the full fishless cycle the nitrites werent quite 0 they were 0.50 when i added the first 6 fish. I did remove the standard filter and replace it with a different one a few weeks back (i put the old filter...

Thank you Lynda Should i do another 50% water change tomorrow i have stats currently of Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0.5 Nitrate 40

Oh ... also shall i cut back on feeding them or continue giving them their small pinch of flakes in the evening?

Thanks for all the replies! I have now done 3 50% PWC's fish do actually look alot more active I have just tested the water Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0.5 Nitrate 40 shall i do one more 50% PWC? or wait till tomorrow?

API liquid test kits so i just need to work on getting and keeping the toxins down to an acceptable level?

Hi, It is a 60litre tall tank with 10 guppies 6mollies and 6 neons tetras. there are also a few of the molly fry's think i have seen about 8 in total The tank is abbout 9 weeks old, and i did the fishless cycle . Ok, are you recommend doing 3x 50% PWC's today? will get to doing the first 50%...

Hi, I was away for a few days, came back yesterday tested the water Ammonia 0 Nitrite 5 Nitrate between 160!! so i did a 30% water change as i was doing this i noticed one of my black mollies had loads of white spots on so i added the correct dosage of Interpet Anti white spot while i was...