Recent content by Ktrk

Hi, Wonder if anyone has any idea what is going on with one of my panda Cory's.. We've come home from a kids party and he's in the corner looking like he's swimming his butt off with his tail going, but he's not actually getting anywhere/moving. Like if a fish was treading water! He was fine...

Thankyou. Ive got the API master kit so I'm good on that front. It'll only have the betta in it, maybe a snail depending on how feisty the betta seems to be, so the bioload should be small. I'll give it a go and keep testing daily! The other thing I have noticed is that my ph straight from...

It's just a standard sponger filter so I'm not sure how I'd add any coral etc but I'll have a think. Thanks again, I might look at adding the betta then and seeing how it goes. What would you say is doing it properly, daily water changes to compensate ammonia? Or adding amm. binder?

Thankyou for your help! I'll have a look at kh! Is there anything that i could look at changing if kh is the problem? Also, do you think a betta would be hardy enough for fish in cycle?

I know, ive done it fine before which is why im stumped this time. The only difference is this one has live plants. I know it takes weeks to months, this current stalled cycle is at 12 weeks now (this time around) I have another tank that I have successfully cycled before which has been happily...

Hi all, I have a fishless cycle question (I know it's a topic that is covered to death but there's so many elements). I have had the tank for a year and been trying to complete a fishless cycle in it ever since. It seems to get to the same point every time: ammonia, then around a week or so...

It's a steep learning curve hey! Whenever the tank seems to have completed its cycle, I think I'll hold off adding anything fish wise, until I've replenished the root tabs a couple of times and worked out if there's a pattern, just to be on the safe side. Thanks for your help with this :)

OK yeh that makes sense. I know bacteria grow to the size of the bioload, is it something that you think with time the bacteria would grow sufficiently to take care of it? Just scared it happens again. Forgive me if these seem like dumb questions, I'm still learning!

I don't have any scaping tools specifically so I improvised and sterilised some normal tweezers to hold them and push them straight in... Is it worth trying to take them out somehow (thinking gravel vac) then the don't keep leaching things? Or would pulling the plant out and messing with them...

Thanks guys, Darn it, I thought as much in terms of my cycle! I was getting so close aswell..fingers crossed for some hardy survivors! That's a consideration point about rummaging the substrate and stirring things up. If you have a more "delicate" method I'm all ears! I guess I'll just have to...

Thank you for replying so fast! �� And yeh isn't it �� No inhabitants at all, just plants (saving grace i guess). I've just checked it this morning and we're at 2 ppm ammonia, 2ppm nitrite. Do you think I should do another wc? I'm worried it's stalled my cycle after...

Hi, I'm only 18 months in to the hobby and about 3 weeks in to the wold of live aquarium plants but I'm trying and willing to learn! I'm in the process of doing a fishless cycle on a 30l cube, and it was going to plan (4 weeks in so far), with drift wood and anubias attached (with liquid...