Recent content by Hubert90

Ottos wouldn't eat green algae! In fact, not many algae eaters would eat it. It's better for you to fix the root of problem. Most of the time, green algae is caused by too much light. Having only an anubias, you don't need the lights on for long at all. 3-4 hours a day will do it just fine. Try...

It looks like a Botia kubotai or some calls it Polka Dot Loach.

You wouldn't need a big heater for a 6gallon tank. Just buy an eheim heater 25watts, though, it doesn't really matter if you get heater with high watts.

Shouldn't be an issue for the Angels as long as there is a dead spot for them if they do need a rest from the current. If the media from your old filter is still in good condition, why don't you just move the media over to the new filter and keep the new media for when you need to replace them?

I have never heard of veiltale German blue before but I have seen veiltail(which is just another fancy name for long fin). Yours looks more like a balloon German blue ram to be honest, however, I'm not an expert.

You don't need to an established filter media to complete a nitrogen cycle, but it does accelerate the progress. All you need to start the cycle is an ammonia source, you can get ammonia by rotting food, ammonia chloride or fish in cycle! How long have you been cycling?

Diatom is not bad! It flourishes when there's silicate in the water(which is mostly found in new setup), so it will go away once silicate is depleted. If you can wait for it to go away by itself, then the best fish to get will be otocinclus. They will eradicate diatoms in a few days. Hope this...

Ya, you wouldn't do much(if any) harm to it, if you rip the roots off, it's kinda the only way to go about it to be honest.

Hi welcome to the forum! Can I just ask how are you able to get nerite snails in Perth? I too am from Perth but was never able to find one.

Hi everyone, Just wanted to ask everyone their opinions on burying aponogeton's bulb? I've always buried them and had no issues until I recently upgraded my tank and changed the gravel. The gravel was a nightmare! Long story short, most of my plants didn't like the new gravel including the...

It's a hillstream loach. When do you feed it? Sent from my iPhone using Aquarium Advice

Ya, with ottos I recommend the drip acclimation method. It's what I do with all my fish. If you are to get SAE, just get one. And don't feed it too much algae wafers to encourage them eating algae. They do get lazy when they get older though, so buy them when they are juveniles. Sent from...

You don't wanna be doing large water changes weekly if you don't have a high tech set up though, the fluctuation in co2 will cause an algae issue. Sent from my iPad using Aquarium Advice

I don't gravel vac my planted tank. I only remove dead leaves otherwise, I let nature does it's job.

No, they can't. Firstly, Goldfish requires cold water and Bala sharks requires warmer water. Secondly, Bala sharks is semi aggressive when they are older so your goldfish may get bullied.