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Im moving in a month. Its only a 10 minute drive from where im currently living but have never moved a fish tank thats bin lived in and still is lived in before.
How best would i go about this? Fish in bags? Drain all water out of tank or leave some inn? Whats a no no?
Any thoughts please...
My male honey gourmais has found how to get into the top compartment of my juwel bio filter 3.0
He seems happy enough but didnt no for sure if this is ok?
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Its a 55g tank. I may invest in a battery powered vac just to keep things a little more under control.. its not too bad
.. maybe i just have ocd. I just have one piece of wood in tank atm. Did have 2 but the other one started to rot so got rid of that. I love the pleco too but hes realy hard to...
Its more the substrate thats getting dirty. Glass seems fine. Just alot of poo on sand so wasnt sure the best ways to clean that up or if vaccuming it up was only way. This would mean doing this every 2-3 days plus by doing this also doing a water change each time.. its this which i wasnt sure...
I now have 9 barbs, 3 green, 3 albino and 3 normal black and white tigers. Also 1 pleco, 1 red tail shark and 2 gourmais.
I have a fair white sand substrate and this seems to get very dirty quickly. Is this the norm with sand?
How often should i vac the excess up and should i change or add...
Advice is always appreciated guys no matter what as its all new to me this. I think it could well be to do with over feeding them as the tank did seem to have cycled to the point where parameters where all good but wasnt sure if it can reverse or something..
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Ok thats a relief then. Just using the juwel spounges and cirax media from pet shop which is what the juwel site specified although i dont no its change rate as its all second hand. Its not a planted tank either.
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3 Green and 3 albino barbs which are an inch in size and have no problems but tank parameters are ammonia 0
nitrites 0.8
Nitrates 20
Ph 8
Temp 27 degrees.
180 litre tank and almost a month with fish in for a week.
Filter is juwel vision 3.0
50% water change yesterday as parameters where much...
My tanks levels where great 4 days ago but checked again last night and nitrite and nitrate had sky rocketed.
I did a 50% water change straight away and have this morning just checked and Nitrite = 0.8
Nitrate =20
What could be causing this?
I was planning on getting...
I got 6 barbs yesterday, gunna add 3 more in 5 days plus eitha a rainbow or red tail shark. Will this be ok? The new and old barbs should get along shouldnt they?
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Ok, cheers for feedback guys. Gunna leave it for today and test water again tomorrow n see where i stand then.
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