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I am looking for suggestions on natural methodsto control the snail population in my 25 gal freshwater planted community tank. I am currently keeping two corys, 3 guppies and 10 platy fry. Since I'd like to keep the fry, whatever you might suggest that could eat the snails shouldnt be keen to...

Reply Thanks for the advice Menagerie. Will do. Simon

I dont have a nitrate level reading prior to the death of most of the fish but here is what I did record: nitrites between .20 and .25 ppm & Ammonia was just under .25 ppm. These levels arent off the scale but gauged against a series of tests I did a little over two weeks prior to this last...

answers My tank had been running for about a month before the gold gourami was introduced. I had waited two weeks before putting in fish. Water had been treated in this maturation period with conditioner, "CYCLE" bacterial culture and plant fertilizer. My water has been a steady 75 degrees...

correction The size of my tank is 25 gallons, not 2!

Two weeks ago I had a healthy comunity of six platys and three dwarf gouramis in a 2 gal tank. A few days before I went on holiday I inherited a mature golden gourami from my brother who had this guy as the sole occupant of a tank he was restarted from scratch. He had been having unexplained...