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Hi guys ive been hoping the problem wil just go away but its not. The disease is affecting my gold tetras, so far none of the other fish have been affected and my guppies are having babies and the babies are growing up fine. The gold tetras loose their scales, then stop eating, go really...

Im having a couple of issues i would love some advice please: 1 - My LFS today told be that i shouldnt be using bi-carb soda to raise my KH because plants dont like sodium ions, and i should be using calcium carbonate instead, but ive read numerous times to use baking soda, and on top of that...

Do i have to lift up my driftwood and vacum under that? also how deep should i push the vacuum down into the gravel? (it is gravel not sand, and no UGF) the tank is planted, im worried about damaging plant roots and my dissolved undergravel root tabs. can i possibly hear some of your guy's...

Well im pretty sure i have the water chemistry sorted out, but i have a gold tetra who is not looking healthy at all, there are no spots but its extremely skinny, it was hiding for a long time so i couldnt see how bad it was but it came out today and looks like a starving fish. i feed my fish a...

Hey guys i have a couple of questions would love some advice... i get my kh right by adding bi carb soda to the water im going to add to the tank. my tap water is 6.8ph and the tank is about 7.4. i keep the tank at 4.2 kh and my tap water has a kh of 1. my question is, how long does it take...

Hey all, tank details: 29 gallon planted plenty of places to hide 12 gold tetras 2 male neon dwarf gouramis water quality all fine, (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phos, gh, kh, ph, ect) the problem is that one gourami is picking on the other, at first the other one was fighting back so i thought...

Hey guys, the large anubias type plant (starts with s (anyone?) at the back right of the tank is curling up really badly, i think i know why can anyone confirm this? I bought it, went shopping, then came home to find that the idiot at the fish store didnt close the bag, so the leaves must have...

What u think? it now has 12 gold tetras and 2 dwarf gouramis. soon gonna add a pleco, and a red tailed shark if its not too aggressive

i just need to know right. . . i have added DIY co2, im about to do an 80% water change, then raise the KH from 3 (tap water) to 6, then ive been told i can get an accurate test of kh in about an hour or two so heres my question, If the kh is at 6 in an hour or two, i have temp right, and my...

Hey there i want about 12 gold tetras in my tank, one fish shop has 5 and another has 7... are these fish less likely to stick together because they are potentially from different places? or even just different fish shops? also, will they still school if i dont have any even remotely agressive...

Hey guys i got a hagen natural co2 kit 2 days ago the bubbles are meant to take a while to flow right but there still getting stuck in the reactor after 2 days, i have tried . .. -moving the reactor deeper -playing with how vertical it is -the tube is in correctly slanty edge the right way...

ok i think i can do this without really needing test kits but i need a couple of questions answered please . . . I have iron rich substrate tabs for the substrate i have a liquid fertiliser - 0.6 - 0.3 - 2.4 plus trace elements i have an iron rich, liquid fertiliser also containing trace...

Hey all i have just half-planted my tank no fish yet still cycling just thought id show u all and ask if theres anything i should improve im getting some more large plants for the back, the rest ill let bush out a lot. Oh i was wondering if you guys could tell me where to put these substrate...

Can anybody tell me roughly how much ammonia 15 gold tetras (1 inch ea) would give off? Im cycling my tank im putting in 4ppm ammonia a day and its completely gone the next day but im only 1 week into my cycle (seeded) and my nitrites are going up and up so i wanna cut back on my ammonia but...

started another thread about my problem coz i need a lot of ppl to see it because not many people will know this so heres the question quite simply: does anybody know for sure if soap/detergent kills ammonia->nitrite->nitrate bacteria? or if u were using a cloudy ammonia solution for...

Into week 3 cycling, im using cloudy ammonia, asked dad if it is ok to use he said it wouldnt have surfactants or fradrances in it. only ingredient on the bottle says ammonia so i thought it would be ok ive just read somewhere that they use soap tro make it cloudy!!!!!! noooo!!! ive seeded the...

hi im getting some cycled gravel to seed my tank could u help me choose where to put it please? should i spread it out or put in the 1 spot? leave it at the surface or mix it in? thanks heaps ppl

Hey can u guys please post the brand of nitrIte test kit you use and the level that it tops out at eg. mine is nutrafin and it tops out at 5ppm thank you!

ok im trying to work out my KH 3 drops and the water turns yellow, then it says to multiply the number of drops by 10. so is my KH 30? or do u guys all talk in dH?, which is 1.5????? ok ooo i really need to know this. it says 20 - 80 mg (mine is 30) KH, is soft acidic water, but my ph went up...

oh no. just had a 35C day and i have another one tommorow, cycling the tank atm, new setup. came home at 5:00pm and the water is at 31C!! the house is well insulated so it will hold the head so tommorow the water will be even higher. plus i dont have lights on yet!!! (3 X 20w NO flouros) looked...

Im setting up a tank and the only place i can do this is next to a home ent. system's subwoofer its almost under the tank down at like a 70 degree angle. how much of an issue is this, i cant move it because on the other side of the tv is a snake and i think thats really sensitive. the subby...

Hey guys a couple of questions if thats ok If i get 2 Redsea Co2 'cans' for my 28 Gallon tank, would i need to use florite Excel as well? do i determine this purely by the omount or co2 in the tank or carbon? or add up both? Tank specs: 28 gallon Heavily planted (wide range of plants) 3wpg (1...

Do i need a chiller if my temp goes from 26C to 28C and back again over the space of a few hours or are the fish ok with this? if i get one am i more likely to spawn Fish: 10 Gold tetras 5 Guppies 1 Red tailed shark 2 Dwarf Gouramis 1 Bristlenose Pleco temps are ok for all fish but is the...

29 gallon, 29 inches of fish, moderately planted. 3 questions 1: people say with that amount of stuff i should do a 50% change a week 2: does that not seem like too much to u guys? in my head is spells shock to the system even if ph and temp is adjusted. 3: If i add a fluval 104, full of...

Hey there. Im planning on moving the stuff in my tank around dureing cycling a fair bit, like pushing gravel around, not major stuff just like burying new rocks and drift wood. How ok is it to do this? also turning over rocks and repositioning them with a new side facing up/down. i ask because...