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Yeah neons are nice little fish, but maybe I will have to try cardinals next time. I have heard they are a little tougher. Maybe they are not suited for my tank either though. And 2 weeks overdosed :o I under dose just be safe :) and nitrates are never over 20 when testing at the end of the week.

I used to use aquasafe in my previous aquarium with no issues, but thanks for the suggestion I'll have alook at Prime though :)

I have been reading about that they are a bit weak (neons) I didn't know Cory's were like that also, I actually thought they were a little tougher. Yeah I am going to be keeping an eye on temps when doing water changes now, so hopefully that will help. I think the next set of fish I get will be...

All of the fish were eating, the first neon tetra that died tended to stick near the outlet of the aquarium, and didn't really love much for food. The rest all seemed fine and ate fine, I would then find one had died in the morning :(

I just finished a water change, I used a spare thermometer and got it matching the aquarium temps. And yes it could be the retailer, but I couldn't see any bad signs in their tanks. I drip acclimated them in a bucket for both the neons and the Cory's (neons was purchased about 2 weeks or so...

At the moment it's just the Cory's and the neon tetras, I don't want to add anymore until the problem is found and fixed really :(

How do you manage to heat up the water to ensure it matches the aquarium temps? The drop can be 5 degrees when adding the water to the aquarium when doing a water change. I need to do a water change today so I will put a thermometer in the bucket. I Aldo dechlorinate the water before adding, I...

Yeah I have heard that they are fragile, but they seemed to be doing fine for the first 3 weeks, I don't want to add more fish until I have found the problem :) The only fish that really had something abnormal was one of the Cory's, he had a white fungus on one of his lower fins. The neon...

Hi, I have had my tank running for more than 4 months now, but have had the fish in for about 1 1/2 months. The problem is there has been a few unusual casualties recently which i cant lead to what the problem is. The fish were 6 Neon tetras & 2 Trilineatus corys The aquarium is 90L planted...

Ok thanks for that, when you say "You probably don't really want your pH any higher than it is for the type of fish you want to keep" are you talking about my tap water or my tank water :p As I have already got sodium bicarbonate should i use this to raise the PH/ KH, if so how much shall I...

Haha I didn't realise it was so good :p I read online that a KH of around 5-6 is best to keep it buffering the PH, is this correct? And like i said in a previous post, Im going to have small shoal of tetras and a clown pleco. And for crushed coral would this be ok: Caribsea Geo-Marine Florida...

OK, the tap water is: KH: 2 GH:4 PH:7.6 Tank water: KH: 1 GH:4 PH 6.6

That was my tank reading I'll go and test the tap water now, I'll report back once done.

Hello, My KH/GH test kit just came so now I can share the results I got from it. The KH turned yellow from the first drop , the GH turned green after 4 drops; so results KH: 1 GH:4 PH 6.6 Hope someone can suggest something for me, thanks :)

I was planning on getting some tetras and a clown pleco thats it. I will report back once I have tested with the GH/KH test kit to see where I stand.

Thanks for that link :D very helpful, i'm about to order the test kit had it in my bookmarks for a few weeks but i guess its needed a now. What type of buffereing agenst would you suggest? maybe soemthing like crushed coral?

How much baking soda should i add to raise the ph? Thanks

I just done a 80% water change before reading this, what shall i do add ammonia again? last time i tested it removed 2.75 ppm of ammonia as only 0.25 was left (probably due to the pH crash)

Another update, I added the 3ppm of ammonia to see if it could drop to 0 within the 24 hours and it dropped to 0.25 but i tested the pH and it was 6 so would have this stopped it from dropping to the 0ppm mark for the ammonia? would you say my tank has sustaind a complete cycle and is ready or...

I will be getting a GH and a kh test kit very soon, I'll try and get both around the 6 mark as you suggested; I will also be keeping Cory's, tetras and one pleco :) I did actually use my old bio filter which was for a tank that was running for 2+ years so that's probably why it was so fast for...

I know you just read around that you "should" see a nitrite spike so you somewhat expect it to be there. I haven't got a Kh test kit right now but it seems expected that I will have to raise it , I have spare tray in my bio filter so maybe crushed coral maybe a viable option :) when I do get a...

Ok ill check it again in 24 hours. I'm hoping its at 0 by then :) And I have tried to catch the nitrites earlier in the cycle and could never get a reading past 0, they are just too fast or my Nitrite test bottle is no good.

Update: Earlier today I done the 100% water change, The results after that were Ammonia: 0 Nitrite:0 Nitrate:5 pH:6.8 I added the ammonia upto 3ppm and then tested later today; The test resulsts were: Ammonia: 3 Nitrite 0 (still haven't caught it rise) Nitrate 5 pH: 6.8 Once the ammonia...

Ok thanks, i will be able to lower the NitrAte that has accumulated also :)

I will be doing weekly wc's as expected to keep ontop of the maintenance, would you reccomend doing a 100% water change or use baking soda to increase just the pH? was mentioned above just curious.