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Thanks. I’ve had the brown algae for 8 months or more so I don’t think it is going to magically clear up

Hello, I have a 250l Fluval tank with aqua sky lighting. My tank houses neon tetra, guppy, kuhli loaches, pearl guarmi, otos and glolight rasbora. I have some valisneria too. I have the following light schedule. Does this sound good? I am getting quite a bit of diatoms (brown Algae) on rocks...

Thanks for the reply. I have a few plants but I have struggled with so called easy ones. I am not adding any plant fertilisers at present. Nitrates are not high at all. My tap water is on the high side for hardness. I will attach a photo of my light schedule. Regarding the filter, I have been...

Hello, I have a Fluval 250L tank with 307 cannister filter. The tank has 5 otos, 20 neon tetra, 2 pearl guarmis, 2 Kulhi loaches and 12 glowlight rasbora. I have had the tank over a year. I have been having algae and diatom issues for a long time. The issues are under control with cleaning but...

Some more details about the tank… Size - L 105cm W 40cm H 60cm Water changes done of 30% once weekly including cleaning gravel and declorinator Tank has a Fluval 307 filter Fish feeding can be adjusted to suit the fish I have. Currently fed daily The tank has been running for nearly a year I...

Hello, I currently have a Fluval shaker 250l tank. I am wondering how much fish space I have left as looking to get some glolight tetra or some rummynose tetra or both. The tank currently houses 11 neon tetra, 6 otocinclus, 2 guppies, 2 khuli loach and 2 pearl guarmis. Any advice appreciated...

Hello, I have a 250l freshwater tank with neon tetra, kulhi loach and Vallisneria (which is struggling). I am getting brown algae which I can control through weekly water changes but it comes back after 3 or 4 days. Water params are all as expected and fish doing fine although phosphate is...

Hello, I’m thinking of adding some Kuhli Loach to my 250l freshwater tank. I have read a lot of sites which say they need a varied diet and that it’s not as simple as just chucking in a few flakes. It will get quite expensive to buy a load of different products. Does anyone have a suggestion...

This is more about fish survival than roast dinner

Hello, Any recommendations for holiday food? I have a 250l freshwater community tank. Thanks

You are right, I just have 6 Neon Tetra at the moment. By all in 1 fertiliser, do you mean a product such as Seachem Flourish Comprehensive supplement?

Not using any supplements as such just Seachem Flourish root tabs. Photo to follow

Hello, I have a 250l community tank. I recently added some Vallisneria plants and they appear to be dying. The top half are going brown and Wilty. They are planted in gravel and I added some Seachem root tabs when I put the plants in but that is it. There are 4 plants and I have just 6 neon...

Thanks. On a side note, should I put the Vallisneria and initial fish in together or get the fish in first? I’m thinking fish first.

If I wanted to recreate the settings you have how would I do that? Can you give me the exact times and percentages? It’s a bit hard to tell from their graphs. The app could really do with some ux design!

I plan on adding Vallisneria as a live plant and a variety of community fish built up over time

Hello fishy friends, I’ve just completed a fishless cycle on a 250l fluval tank with 307 filter, heater and aqua sky lights. I’m planning on adding a few community fish in the coming days. Does anyone have any light setting recommendations? Im planning on using the auto settings. I’m in the...

With a little patience, after about 6 weeks the nitrite has dropped to zero. Hurrah! Ammonia at zero also. Adding Dr Tim’s more ammonium chloride and it gets eaten and converted through to nitrate in a day. The tank appears cycled. Now to slowly add a few fish. Thanks again for the help

I agree the nitrite is strange. Haven’t done any water changes. I also have some Easytest aquarium test strips and these are showing nitrite at 10ppm but I figured these would be less accurate than the master test kit. The nitrate is reading 5ppm. Does dosing 15ml of Dr Tim’s every 2 or 3 days...

Hello, I have a Fluval 250l tanks with fluval 307 filter and heater (set to 28). I am attempting a fishless cycle. I set up the tank and added dechlorinator followed by Tetra safestart. I followed Dr Tim’s advice closely using dr Tim’s Ammonium Chloride. As expected, I reached the end of the...

Ok thanks for the tips. I’ll keep an eye on its stability and go from there

I live in a hard water area so my tap water is 8. It’s a new tank and I have recently added driftwood so that may help overtime