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Thanks for replying. I fishless cycled the tank and have been testing my water regular and everything is ok on that front. They aren't coming up to the waters surface for food but I noticed some were eating sinking pellets I dropped down to where they hang out. It's hard to see them all through...

All the fish have only been in 7 days and there all acting normal other than the cardinals. The tank is a 200L/52gal. Thanks.

Hi, I hope someone can help work out why my cardinal tetras won't come out from hiding at the back of my tank. I have 15 very active harlequin rasboras that swim all over the tank but mainly the middle to top of the tank. There is 6 cory that just stick to the bottom as they should doing there...

Some photos of the tank with fish added. Hope you like it as much as I do it's great to watch at night so much activity from all the fish.

Thought I would add some readings from the api master test kit First image is 1.0ppm ammonia reading (green) 0ppm nitrite (blue) 160ppm nitrate (red) Second is 0ppm ammonia (yellow) 0ppm nitrite (blue) Third is 0.25ppm ammonia (green) 0ppm nitrite (blue) 10ppm nitrate (orange)

That is good to know thanks for that. Are the honey gourami have to be either both female or one male and one female?

Thanks for your input. I can swap the cardinals for neons no problem I went for the cardinals as I thought they were hardier than the neons. Could I swap the dwarf gourami for a different gourami kind like say a pearl? I didn't realise shrimp and fish weren't able to co exist what is the...

I have used aqadvisor to help me plan to stock my tank and was wondering if you guys had any ideas or advice with the list of fish i have chosen please. The list is shown in the picture. If you need any other info just ask.

I am hoping to not need excel or any other CO2 additive but I will have to wait and see how the tank goes over the next month or so.

Thanks. I will take your advice with the background and try pick one up soon. I only have a LED white light that came with tank and I only have it on 6 hours a day, the plants I picked all have a low light requirement.

Thanks, no there is no CO2 at all in this setup. I added root tabs for all the plants when I first planted them up but I don't plan on using any liquid feeds or further root tabs in the future, I will continue to use root tabs for the amazon swords as there root feeders everything else takes...

Thanks very much

This method in my opinion is the best and quickest one to get a quick cycle and really strong bacteria colony. This is my second tank using this method and it's great. I hope your cycle goes well and your fish get into there new home soon.

Thank you. Thanks. Thanks.

So after 19 days cycling my tank has now tested 0 ammonia 0 nitrites and off the scale nitrates :dance:. I will leave it for another week and continue daily testing to confirm these readings are constant then do my final big 90% water change and everything should be ready for fish:fish2: I used...

Thanks everyone for all the advice on the substrate etc this is how my tank has turned out.

Thanks, I don't have fish in tank at the moment as it's cycling but I think I will leave it for when I add fish for them to eat now I know it's safe.

Thanks a lot

Thanks for your quick response

Hi, I was wondering what the furry white stuff growing on my redmoor wood in my tank is and if it is ok to leave or should it be cleaned off, all my plants are fine and aren't suffering from this neither is my driftwood pieces. Any ideas or help would be great, thanks.

Hi, I am currently cycling my tank and I am not using any bottled bacteria to try and speed the process up ( adding an ammonia source nothing else) but was wondering do they need to be added after the tank has fully cycled when carrying out routine tank maintenance such as after water changes or...

I have dosed ammonia up to 4ppm and my ph is 7.4/7.6 and the heater is set at 30 degrees now to just wait for everything to happen. :popcorn: I will be testing water parameters regular with the API master test kit. My plant list: Nymphoides hydrophylla 'Taiwan' Microsorum pteropus Sagittarius...

Thank you

I have finally got my tank initially setup and just finished adding the first dose of ammonia and thought I would share my setup with everyone and update progress of how the cycle goes and how the plants grow as the tank goes along in this low tech setup. Also hoping to get any help or advice as...

Thanks fishenthusiast great answers. My tanks filtration is an external filter 1100lph I will probably add the circulation pump 5-6x flow as you suggested.