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I’m in London so very hard water. The fish shop I buy from have theirs in normal London water. So any I buy will be used to my local water parameters.

Corner tank with curved front.

Hi, I’ve just got a new tank. It’s a Juwel trigon 190 litre corner tank. It will have a Eheim classic 250 external filter attached and a large piece of wood and plants. I’m looking for help with stocking levels. Here my list of desired/compatible fish: 1 x angel fish ?x cherry barbs ?x corys...

That was something I also read in my research and was another thing that made them appealing. I did have a bristlenose but he produced an awful lot of waste.

Thanks for the info. Some bits of my sand are slightly deeper than 2 inches but I can get to most of these bits. It’s the bits under the wood and ornaments I’m most concerned about but they are surrounded by live plants that are rooted in the sand so I guess they are doing the job for me. I just...

I’m not expecting them to clean the sand just move it around from below the surface.

It’s a sand substrate I have and I use the end of a a glass cleaning stick to stir it up. But I’m always nervous of messing with the live plants roots and to move the decorations weekly stresses the fish. I just thought if there was a fish I could enjoy that also helped in those areas then it...

Hi, I have sand substrate in my 20 gallon tank. The back is planted and it also has ornaments which make it difficult to fully mix up the sand during partial water changes. Will a group of 6 Kuhli loaches keep the sand aerated in those hard to reach areas?

The assassin snails will do their job. Just give them time. I had a major infestation of bladder snails as well as a few rams horns. They ate the rams horns first but then demolished the bladder snails. This did mean I had hundreds of baby assassins (I bought 5 of eBay, but ended up giving over...

Yes I’m in London. Very hard water. I got them from pets at home and I think they have some underlying problem because a couple have bent spines now but it doesn’t seem to effect them. I’m not replacing any of the fish that die because it’s not what I would choose but I could at least make the...

Brilliant, thank you. I will do it that way, thank you. Will keep it so I can use it another time if needed.

Sorry, just read the second part of your reply. I had 6 neons as was told that would make them happy and not be too many but they have slowly died one by one. The mollies are the reason I got the second smaller tank (the biggest I could fit in my living room and afford), i made the mistake of...

Just a regular plastic box that I can buy from a supermarket or something more fish specific? (Obviously rinsed first)

Thanks for advice. Yes, the depth is what I was hoping for and I find plants either thrive or die in this tank. My larger tank seems to do much better with plant variety and without daily liquid fertiliser but this tank needs daily(5 days out of 7) dosing for plants to live. So as well as...