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Just chipping in here as you said you are new to this... Not sure if you know this but don't ever throw your filter sponge away even though it will say on the packet to change them once a month. You can rinse it in some of the old tank water you are throwing away when you do water changes. Don't...

He's gorgeous... remove the terracotta pot, just in case!! :)

You have helped already - I'm going to have another search tomorrow. Yes... ammo, nitrite and nitrate are all zero. Hardness is 8.5kH and ph is around 7.4 which is normal for this area and where I bought him from so he should be used to it.

Oh no sorry to hear he died. :( There is a coconut shell but its full of leaves and stuff. I could check in there. Why would he be hiding... would he be unhappy or sick?

I really hope he is still alive but he used to be pretty bold and was usually stuck to the glass somewhere or on one of the plants. I'll have another look tomorrow morning incase I've missed somewhere. It's just odd that he used to be out all day and suddenly he's hidden. I really hope he's...

No frozen bloodworms should be treats only as they don't have much goodness to them but they seem to taste nice... I'd treat then once a week with bloodworm and try frozen brine shrimp and optimum or sakura pellets daily - they are meant to be the best for nutritional value. Not sure about the...

I haven't seen my bristlenose catfish for a week now. The lfs said he's probably hiding but then someone else said he could have got stuck somewhere. I've searched everywhere in my 180 litre. Would any of my fish have eaten him?: Neon tetra Dwarf neon rainbow fish Guppies Bumblebee gobies...

I have a hospital tank - it's a small 19 litre tank and its cycled - you can fishless cycle it by using ammonia or fish food. Personally I would cycle it. If you urgently need to put a sick fish in the tank it's better that it is a cycled tank. It should only take a few weeks to cycle it. That's...

Hey I'm glad I could be of some help. However... I have had an update today and found out that it was my test kit and not the rock! I found out that my test kit has been reading wrong as I went to another lfs and we both tested the same water with different kits and my API nitrate test bottle...

The vet specialist said he thought it was a bacteria problem and that I should drop the temperature slightly. He thinks one of the neons may have had an infection when I bought it. The Melafix would have cured the problem from the start but sadly I lost 3 neon tetras before I knew what was...

Okay so to give you an update... I added Melafix for 7 days and dropped the temperature to 26.5 celcius and no more casualties so far :)

Okay so to keep you uptodate - I have finally found out where the nitrAte was coming from. After yet another 90% pwc with RO and still nitrAte showing I decided to take out a large stone that was in the tank and check it out. The lfs where I bought it from told me it wouldn't be a stone that...

I normally dose up to 3ppm. It will only be for a couple of fish though... My beta and I might get a small bristlenose to keep algae under control and maybe a few neons but that's it.

I'm using the API liquid test. I've been dosing 2ml of ammonia as its an 80 litre tank. I've stopped doing that now and I'm just adding fish flakes. Do you think I need to take out all the gravel? I'm not sure where the nitrate is coming from. Could it be the plants - they are all new from the...

I've fishless cycled 4 tropical tanks successfully, but this current one's nitrate levels won't fall below 40ppm. I don't understand? I've being cycling using ammonia. It usually takes me about 3-4 weeks but I'm in week 8 and although my ammonia and nitrite are cycled and not showing on my API...