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The first one that I found, looks pretty bad, just lying on his side with an occasional twitch. The second one seems to look a little better, but not 100%

Ok, did another water change. I can't drop the water level due to my filter outlet. I get pretty good surface agitation from my filter, but I have added a air stone on a separate pump for now, just in case.

Today I found one oft bronze cores on his side gasping. About an hour later a second one is doing the same. I can't see anything physically wrong with them apart from their behavior. The tank is a mature community tank with gouramis, platies, blue neon tetras, bronze corys and some shrimp. I...

Oh, and I was also looking at tossing up White Clouds as an option White Cloud 3cm

Nice looking fish, thanks for the recommendation Bolivian Butterfly 4cm - American - Cichlids - Tropical Fish I saw the rummynose in my LFS on the weekend and thought they would look great in the tank. Would I be pushing it if I got 10 of them?

I've almost got my tank to the level of stocking I had planned. I thought I would get see what people thought. My tank is 165 liters and have a 1000 liter/ hour filter. So far I have the following fish: 3 - dwarf gouramis 7 - platies 5 - bronze corys 9 - blue neon tetras I was thinking of...

I have three in my 165 liter tank. My LFS said that one is ok and three ( or more) is ok, but two will cause fights. So far they seem to get on ok

What about Cherry Shrimp? I've added four to my tank to see how they go. Apparently they love to eat algae.

Here is a YouTube video of the Male Platty picking on the female one. YouTube - Bully Platty I still don't think it is a friendly thing

The lone female platy that was acting strange died :(. I guess she was sick. The male is still hitting on the one female as before.

I'm not sure if the one that is getting picked on would make the Freshwater Playboy Fin Edition or not

I have one male and five female platties in my tank. The male charges and chases off one of the females whenever they get close. He only does it to the one female and swims with the others no problems. Is this some sort of mating thing or does he hate this one female? Also one of the...

I already have three guppies in with 3 yabbies in the 60 litre tank. I hope they don't get eaten.

I have two Yabby tanks (Australian freshwater crayfish). One is 20 liters and the other is 60 liters. I'm after advice on what I can put in with the yabbies to clean up algae. My LFS says the yabbies will eat snails as the move too slow.

Yeah, the guy at my LFS said to leave the PH as well, as you will just end up crashing the tank

I think I will just stick with getting a few more fish settled into the tank for now.

The fish seem more than happy, so I'll leave the ph for now. I only have one live plant in the tank ( the rest are plastic) should I add some more? My nitrate level doesn't seem high enough for live plants. Do I even need to have live plants?

My ph is 8.0 straight out of the tap, so if I need to bring it down then I will have to do it each water change

Well I gave the gravel a bit of a vacuum. I did about half the gravel. The filter was fairly clean, but I rinsed out one of the pads in tank water anyway. I also did a pwc of 60 liters. That was yesterday, and today I got these readings Ph 8.0 Amonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates 5

What's the best method to vacuum the gravel? The syphon hose I have would drain the water out of the tank before I could do much. Maybe I need a smaller diameter hose?

Tank is 165 litres. Only feeding once a day and they clean up the food quickly. The filter and gravel are from the previous owner. The gravel doesn't look too bad. Perhaps I should give the filter a rinse?

Another pwc this morning and still no change to the test levels. Amonia 0.25 Nitrites 0 Nitrates 5.0 Ph 8.0 I'm using an API Freshwater Master Test Kit

Out of interest I tested the ph level of the water straight out of the tap. It reads 8.0 the same as my tank. Should I worry about the ph level as the fish seem happy? Still showing 0.25 Amonia, 0 nitrites & 5 nitrates. So that is day three with no change (I did a pwc this morning). I'll see...

Thanks, that's the one.

Here is a bad photo from my iPhone. He is sitting right at the back of the tank