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Hi all :) i'm going to be decorating one of the rooms in my house and will be moving my bedroom into it. however i do have a 35ltr tank all set up with fish and shrimp in. what would you advise is the best way to move it? its literally a few feet away so its not going to be moved far. but i'm...

Hi all :) i have in my tank (or should have) 8 RCS. however over the last week or 2 it seems as if their numbers have dropped. i can still see one or 2 but not in the place that i believed to be their "home" in my tank. we do have a betta but we havent seen him eat any, i realise that doesnt...

hi all :) just a quick one. do night lights, and when i say night lights i dont mean kiddy night lights i mean things like this Micro LED light blue by Marina | Pets at Home affect fish sleeping paterns? i was thinking of getting something like the above light to illuminate my tank at night...

hi all :) this might seem like a dumb question but you dont learn if you dont ask. say you have a heavily planted tank with large pieces of bogwood, various live and silk plants etc how would you go about cleaning your tank? a few videos/people have said (or i have seen) hoover the front...

below is my tank about 3 week ago Below is my tank from last weekish what do people think?

hi all :) i'm thinking of getting a fluval u2 filter for my 35ltr tank. it has a betta fish, some shrimp (red cherry and amano) and a snail (and apprently a lil snail that got in on one of the plants i bought recently sneaky lil bugger lol). my main question is this: can you adjust the actual...

hi all :) i'm thinking of getting a fluval u2 filter for my 35ltr tank. it has a betta fish, some shrimp (red cherry and amano) and a snail (and apprently a lil snail that got in on one of the plants i bought recently sneaky lil bugger lol). my main question is this: can you adjust the...

Hi all, just a real quick and easy one (hopefully) i have a 35ltr (roughly 10US gal) and i'm hoping to put a few java, and possibly, annubis. in a tank of this size how many plants before theres not enough Co2 for them? i'm trying to go as low maintenance as i can on my plants so i will be...

Hi all, when i initially got my betta i had already done plenty of research. most places say bettas are picky eaters and may only eat certain food. my betta will eat anything and i mean anything. flakes, pellets, bloodworm, shrimp, even algae wafers and cucumber. now i'm only really asking...

hi all, my main question is this. i have been reading up on betta fin rot and found that melafix(?) would be a good solution. its compatible with snails (which we have) and has been recorded to regrow fins from pretty much nothing. however. i have also read that you should only dose 1/5th of...

hi all :) I got some driftwood yesterday to attatch a java fern to (if i can get one) quick question though. i had to get a piece of DW that was big as thats all i could find (got it from LFS) so i sawed it in half. issue is that its black in the middle and it feels sorta like plastic? anyone...

hi all :) i have started to notice recently that my male betta's rear fin keeps getting ripped. at the moment he has a split as such inbetween 2 barbs that appeared the other day. and before then he has had the odd hole or very small split that has healed up. he seems healthy, he looks (other...

Hi all :) me and my partner have just finished cycling our new tank we believe. its a 35ltr (roughly 10US gallons) tank with a marina S10 slim power filter, a suitable heater and a bubble stone. i read through a guide to fishless cycling on these forums (thank you!) and followed it the best...

Hi everyone. can anyone please clear up the different algae types and what they mean? i've tried finding details online but a lot of places offer mixed advice and i usually find you guys are a better source for information. we are setting up a new tank (has just finished cycling so will be...

hi all i have taken these questions from the sticky post in this forum. 1~What type of fish is afflicted? our neon tetra is acting a little odd. he seems to be swimming ok albeit with a ever so slight curve in his tail (but its been like that for a while now probably since we got him) and he...

Hi all, all ive seen so far is stuff about setting up Co2 systems and flourishes and lots of other things i dont really understand... :/ all i was looking at getting was a single java fern on driftwood for a 10gal tank. do i really need to get Co2 tanks and fertilizer and certain substrate etc...

Hi all i am setting up a new tank to move my betta and tetra into. already doing a fishless cycle and will drop my ceramics from my old tank into this one in thenear future to help it along. however my question is that the tank i bought came with a filter and as such on the back of the hood...

Hi all. I have searched "API master test kit" on these forums and not found a definitive answer. my questions are: 1: my PH reading is very light blue on the low PH and like a see through brownish when doing the high range PH. i cant match the see through browny colour on the high range...

Hi everyone :) Unfortunately it seems as if our male betta has a hole in caudal fin :(. its about half a cm long (ish). our paramaters are ammo: 0ppm; nitrites: 0ppm; nitrates: 15-20ppm; PH 7.4-7.6 (i say that because the low end PH API test comes out light blue which means it should be 7.6...

Hi all. I did a lil search but couldnt really find much aside from this one sentance "add enough conditioner for the entire tank before you start adding new water." so when i am doing a water change (be that 20% or 100%) i will need to add enough (in my case) tapsafe for the entire tank...

Hi everyone! I did a search of the forums for info on this but couldnt find anything (might just have been me though) and google isnt being much help. I have the Marina slim S10 power filter attatched to my 35ltr tank. Just starting my cycle (fishless) so i can house 1 Male betta, and upto...

Hi everyone! I did a search of the forums for info on this but couldnt find anything (might just have been me though) and google isnt being much help. I have the Marina slim S10 power filter attatched to my 35ltr tank. Just starting my cycle (fishless) so i can house 1 Male betta, and upto...

My betta fish has been off these last few days. everything in the tank is fine (parameters for amonia etc) other fish in the tank are fine. the betta fish however is bloated on her underbellly and is very lathargic. she ate a pea yesterday (i heard that feeding them a small bit of pea may help...

Thats right they have 11 female betta fish in the same tank and its not that big. maybe 6 gallons. they are also housed with some red crabs..... at least 4 of them are showing stress stripes albeit the shop seem to think horizontel stripes on betta fish mean they are female. what should i...

hi there :) i am looking for advice on how to feed my betta fish live brine shrimp. i can get a bag of around 60+ live brine shrimp but have been told i can only feed them maybe 5/6 at a time. how would i sort 5/6 shrimp from a school of 60+? can i keep the rest afterwards? (maybe keeping them...