lorraineg
Aquarium Advice Newbie
Hi my name is Lorraine and I am a new fish keeper. We purchased oyur first tank early November and had problems setting it up (3 weeks and had to use water from pets at home) then at last got our first fish and have been going great it is a 60 litre tank we have 15 fish tetras and harlequins we then purchased 3 shrimps!!!! they hv disappeared? cld the fish hv eaten them? cant find skeletons and also we had 2 bigt snails to help with algae they hv gone too??? then yesterday we lost a fish so I did an immediate water change and cleaned all the gravel with siphon and hv taken the water levels today and nitites and nitrates are fine but ammonia is slightly up? not sure if our filter is gd enough it came free with tank but barely ripples the water? should I go and get a better filter? I read that the filter cartridges shld be rinsed in old tank water which I do but when do they need to be changed surely if I purchase a new filter and put 2 new cartiridges in I hv lost my biological filtration help!!!!!
do you feed the snails or do they just eat algae????
do you feed the snails or do they just eat algae????