Recent content by AzureJasper

Thanks Andy, much appreciated. Followed Colins suggestion and an hour or so after adding the salt I thought it looked a little better, less swollen but still protruding. It’s now the next day and you can only just see the white spot. Still a little bit white but not a big lump anymore and has...

Thanks Colin, have added some rock salt, and will closely monitor. We do have some slate type rocks in there, stacked to form a cave, might have to remove them and just have the smooth river stones

Thanks. Getting a clear photo is tricky, when I go near the tank they think they think it’s feeding time and they go crazy. Hears another pic. Don’t have another tank, would we put it in a bucket? We do have a HOB filter that came with the tank that hasn’t been used yet, maybe bucket with tank...

Sorry for the blurry photos - hard to see the lump properly but it looks like it’s under the skin, but does protrude maybe 2mm

Hi. Advise please. We’ve had two fantails for two weeks now and on has developed a white lump on its head. Tank was cycled before adding the fish (two Gai tails only). 130litre/3foot tank. AquaOne 800 canister filter Parameters (from api master test kit): ph7.6; ammonia 0; nitrite 0...

Hi. I have an Aqua one 800 canister filter that came with a spray bar (two tubes with holes along their length). We’ve just finished fishless cycle and now have two (very small for now) fantail goldfish. When added to the tank they seemed to hang out in one corner, farthest from the filter spray...

So at no point should I see any nitrites at all when properly cycled, even after adding ammonia? I thought we were there… after seeing zero after 20+hrs. Thanks, this is really helpful

Follow up question: so far I’ve been testing the water about every 24hrs, today we tested this morning after dosing ammonia the evening before, and it had nitrite and ammonia both zero. We thought to be sure we’re cycled before adding fish we’d do another dose of ammonia this morning and check...

After reading the linked article, and discussion with my 9yo who’s tank it is, we’re thinking of a bristlenose pleco to go with a fancy goldfish. I found another thread on here where someone suggested to get a female bristle nose - is that something we should consider (and is it curved bristles...

It’s the day after the big water change (about 80%), dechlorinated the fresh water and added GH and KH powder; Tested tank after adding fresh water: Ph 6.8 Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 20ppm Added 1ppm ammonia (tested 30min later as 1ppm) 9hrs later ammonia 0.5ppm; nitrite 0.25ppm. Now 21hrs...

Thanks for the input Aiken and Andy. You both helped me make sense of it. Also I dunno if admin will see this, but the link Andy posted isn’t working (iPhone safari browser) - its adding the linked URL to the end of the forum URL, and it has ASCII characters instead of slashes etc, I was able...

Thanks for the advice and input everyone. I’m doing an 80% + water change now

Thanks, this was my thinking too, after reading similar online somewhere.

I live in the blue mountains, very cold in winter here, I thought I’d need to keep the temp up above 20c at least? We often get in the negatives over night and it’s an old house with no insulation.

Initially had the heater set to 20c, but read somewhere that the beneficial bacteria grow faster in warm water, so bumped the temp up after about two weeks. Of course there’s no fish yet, doing the cycle with ammonia chloride liquid.