Recent content by NewToFish1989

errr why do you have goldfish with angel fish? O_o Goldfish are COLD water and Angelfish are WARM water, you're going to have issues with these 2 together and plus there diet is different. Plus Goldfish can grow fairly big and are very messy, imo, they aren't suitable for aquariums at all but...

Not sure is this is just Betta behaviour. But I've had my Betta for about 3 months in a cycled 50 litre aquarium and he lives with 4 cory cats which he ignores. But the last month, he doesn't swim that much anymore. Only time he moves is to get air and to eat and either floats in one corner of...

Disagree on the Purigen, its useless for absorbing Nitrates! I've used it over and over again and does nothing besides make water crystal clear.

Having 10 to 20ppm of nitrates in my tap water, my tank usually stays around 40ppm Nitrate and planning on adding plants to try and lower it as I can do 50% water changes as many times I want, still will be around 40 as its down to my tap water. Which are the best plants to soak up the excess...

No different than leaving any frozen food out for a period of time, it'll go off. If they stay frozen, they can last a while.

So I got into a heated debate with a guy I know who deals with fish and saw he had a imported Severum Cichlid in stock and I remember my mum and dad keeping one of these successfully in a community tank about 6 years ago. I told him about this and he looked at me funny and said no Cichlid...

I used to get this alot on my cichlid tank, it was caused by my air stone splashing and hitting up against the hood. After I turned the pressure down and moved it away a little, no longer get it.

So I already have 2 established tanks that have been up and running for a year and a half and got a new tank last Saturday and started the cycle off on the Sunday and did a fish in cycle this time with 3 small hardy fish. On that sunday, filled the tank up, moved some plastic plants from my...

Does anyone watch this? I love the tanks they do but I always wonder, do these guys even cycle their tanks or even tanks they do for others? I notice they heavily over stock and saw in one episode them using bacteria in a bottle so are these guys really that knowledgeable if they using...

I'd remove half one month and the other next month, I removed mine all at once, not thinking and started off a mini cycle, luckily it settled after a week of water changes but still.

Did a 50% water change on my cichlid tank today and was surprised to see a baby orange cichlid shoot from a hole in my ocean rock, but there was only one :( I do have a hatchery but couldn't catch the little bugger :lol: and went to hide. As long as he/she can hide, shall I just leave him/her...

I use black fine gravel, don't like sand, find it hard to clean.

I'm currently cycling a 200 litre tank to keep 3 red bellied piranhas in and I already have 2 established tanks which have been up and running for 2 years (one is a angel fish and gourami tank and another is a cichlid tank) and to speed the cycling up, can I use a little filter media from each...

My friend just gave me his old 200 litre tank, I'm currently testing for leaks and other equipment and do plan on cycling it to keep a small group of discus or red bellied piranhas but but when I filled the tank up, added the lights and a digital thermometer, saw the temp had shot up to 90 to 95...

Nope, not worth it in my opinion, just use the good old carbon :) only time I had ever had to use purigen was when my tetras got white spot and its well know not use medicines with carbon so switch to purigen until treatment was complete. But purigen is just a expensive version of carbon...