Recent content by herdo

I used 3 small sword tails to cycle a 23 gallon tank, I ran it fishless for a week before hand and it cycled in 3 weeks and have had no major dramas since. I didn't treat the water during the fishless cycle. TBH mate, the more you read on forums the more conflicting you will find the...

Been reading a lot online that test strips are unreliable. Ive tested my water with test strips and everything seemed fine, I then tested it with an API test kit and got the same results. What im really asking is by unreliable, do people mean innacurate? Like im not going to be testing the...

cheers again guys n girls :)

Yeh it has cycled. So if im changing water (still not sure on how much to change haha) should i do it in one go or say x amount of 10 litre buckets throughout a week? Im now also confused about gravel cleaning. I did clean the gravel today and got a fair bit of waste product out of it. Im...

I assume this topic has been done to death but it just like some advice on the subject. Set up my tank a month ago (90litres), media running, with plants in but no fish. I added 3 sword tails a week later and had left it running for the past 3 weeks. I haven't done any water changes yet. I...