Recent content by Aisling

You're right, you're not supposed to! They supply their own 'ceramic media' in which lives the good bacteria ... this ceramic media is quite big ... which makes the tank impossible to keep clean in that you can't hoover it with your syphon ... this was one of the most annoying things about mine...

Hiya, I just have a quick question about my zebra danios. When I look closely at two of them, they seem to have little barbels ... but any of the pictures in my books don't seem to have any?!? Also, these ones seem to be a little bit territorial! Nothing too agressive but they've kinda made...

Hiya, welcome to the forum! I'm a newbie myself and the best advice I would give you would be to do a fishless cycle. I had a small 30L tank and didn't have a clue when I started about the ammonia cycle or types of fish or anything! I didn't do a fishless cycle and to be very honest it was...

Don't feel bad, I did exactly the same thing ... bought a tank, put a fish in there without fully understanding or researching what I was doing. I had some lovely fish die because of my lack of knowledge but luckily I've turned it around now! I'm still pretty new and still learning!!! You did...

What's your new tank like? I had a Bio-orb and changed to a rectangular ... I now have gravel and it's much easier to clean so I don't know why you'd want to put those stones in there!!

Hmmm, nitrite ideally should be 0 ... did you test for ammonia? Looks like your tank isn't cycled fully yet that would explain the sick Molly!

I had a 30L bio-orb and I'd advise strongly against getting one. Everything I had in it died and it's such a small volume of water that if anything goes slightly skew-ways (and again because it's such a small volume of water this happened to me a lot!) then it's very difficult to turn things...

Hiya, my platies (x3) have developed the early stages of whitespot (they're flicking and have developed about two tiny little pin-prick sized spots on each of them) I only brought them home from my lfs on tuesday and got them as first fish because my tank has just cycled (fishless). I'm just...

I've got a book that says that Rosy Barbs are excellent community fish and also says that Flying foxes are agressive with age but to combat this to get at least two of them?! But I really want to try to get this right so I'll probably replace the Rosy Barbs with Zebra Danios, do you think this...

I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I've got a new tank which is going through a fishless cycle at the moment (for 21 days to be exact), I know it may take another few weeks but I'm beginning to think about what fish I want to stock it with. I'm a newbie really, and kept some mollies...

Hi everyone, I'm a bit of a newbie so bear with me if I sound a little bit stupid. I have a new tank (Rio 50 gallon) and I read loadsa of articles online about fishless cycling and decided to go ahead with this method. However, I couldn't find any ammonia so I went to my lfs and he recommended...