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One baby platy survived our latest brood. She was in a breeding net but the other fish were stressing her at feeding time, so I decided to move her into a small 15 litre tank of her own. This tank was *not* cycled. However I figured that the bioload created by one baby would not be an issue...

My first marine tank will be arriving soon. It is going to be 160*60*60cm, with a sump (70*50*45). I am thinking that my first fish obviously need to be quite tough, and would like to get a small school ideally - I worry that if I put in just one or two damsels, say, the tank will look awful...

This will be my first marine tank. I went to Lfs with a spec that included maximum size of 140*60cms, stating that i was interested in fish, soft corals and crustaceans. They have come back with a recommendation of a tank that is 140*60cms, and 90cms high (that's 36 inches). Generally, when i...

One of our Danios has what looks like a tuft of white beard/cotton wool on his chin. We've been to LFS, who sold us Interpet #8 - (Reviewed here - Interpet No 08 Anti Fungus and Bacteria - Review - Has your fish lost it's tail or grown a beard). This looks to be the right treatment. I've also...

Our LFS persuaded us to get some Red Clawed Crabs, assuring me they don't need to get to the surface. Reading round the web afterwards (I know, should have been before), it seems they do need to. Firstly, can anyone point to authoritative evidence one way or another? Second, is it possible to...

We got 4 guppies, 3 girls and a boy, 10 days ago. They looked to have settled in fine, but had not noticed the male for a couple of days. This morning i saw him looking very lethargic indeed, and that he had what looked like green algae on his nose area. This evening we were doing our weekly...

Guys, This will be my first SW tank, 100 Gallon (Probably the Aquareef 400). Below is my planned stock list. Any stupidities/incompatibilities? Am I being too ambitious/trying to squeeze too much in? ? Bleny 1 Neon Gobies 3 Common Clownfish 2 Banggai 3 Pyjama Cardinalfish 2 (Yellow) Tang 1...

I will shortly be purchasing my first marine tank. I have not a great deal of aquarium experience, but we will be installing this at my office, where a colleague has kept tropical freshwater tanks for 10 years, so have some experience there. It will be purchased by the company, so budgets are...

Our tanks is a month old, 78 litres (20 Gallons), with 5 Danios, 2 Platys, 2 Small Corys, 3 pentazoa barbs. Nitrites and Ammonia zero after a fished cycle. On Saturday we bought a male Betta. He looks gorgeous floating around the tank with his red 'skirts', but; a) He's not eaten any of the...

I am, I think, reaching the end of our nitrogen cycle (With fish in tank). Ammonia has been 0-ish for over a week, and while Nitrites were very high for a while, they have now diminished to 0.25ppm. Nitrates are still low. Noticed yesterday that out 2 platies are 'gasping' at the surface, and I...

First time tank owner, in theory my daughter's :). We currently have 250Mg/l of Nitrates, if I read our tester right. This seems extremely high. We have a 78 litre tank, and introduced fish 3 weeks ago (6 Dorios, 2 small Corys, 2 platys, 3 harlequins). Our Ammonia level peaked at 3-4, and is...