Recent content by alysonpeaches

A few years ago a very kind person on these forums showed me the calculations for diluting and using gluteraldehyde, and they also showed me where to get it. I bought some, and it was about £18 for a large container from a medical supplies place. This was taken to the dump when I moved house 2...

I used this forum years ago but I had to stop fishkeeping when my mum was seriously ill as I couldnt keep up with the maintenance. Well both my parents have now passed on, that was last year, and now I am looking to get back into fishikeeping. I sold or dontated everything except my books. Im...

I am aware of the age of this post, but wondered, is Harlington World of Pets still open? Its a reasonable distance to me and I ought to go and have a look!

Sorry to hear this. How big is the crack in the shell, or is it in pieces? There are stories on the net of people mending a hole in a snail shell with a piece of shell from another snail or even eggshell. I cant remember what they use for glue. Continue to watch him though and watch water...

I have apple snails in with 4 fancy goldfish in an unheated 240 litre tank. The room is warm and so far the temp hasnt gone below 20 degrees C. The goldfish mostly leave the apple snails alone, sometimes if an apple snail is near a piece of food a goldfish will mouth it but then the apple...

A smaller rated pump?

This is an old thread, I know, but I have just put some azolla in my tank and it is doing well BUT is also shedding roots and clogging my filter intake. I just wondered, does azolla continue to do this or is it just when its moved to a new environment?

For a long term home for 4 orandas you need a 4ft tank at least. If you dont know the capacity of your tank measure it. Have you tested for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH? If you dont have a test kit ask your local fish shop to test a sample for you. The best thing you can do in the short...

I have also observed poor growth in mollie fry. Perhaps the one isnt thriving is a runt and would normally have been culled by a professional breeder. However, it is obviously important to you, and I personally could never cull fry. I can only suggest extra feeds, perhaps with some frozen...

Widespread use of antibiotics has already meant that many life saving antibiotics are now useless due to resistant strains appearing. Show a bit of sense and dont put more antibiotics in the water system. It might be in your tank now, but then it goes where the rest of the waste water goes...

Would a hydor koralia really make a lot of difference to the sand being clean? If it does I would be tempted to get one myself. I have thought about adding an extra powerhead to my filter, but might go with the hydor thing.

I have a couple of bronze, about 4 peppered and 3 albino. They do hang out all together, but also separate into their own groups just as often. Its more serendipity than planning that makes me have such odd numbers. The latest pair, the bronze, I bought in an auction. They are all happy and...

Well despite all the new plants and floating plants, the mollie fry that were there last week before I went on holiday, arent there now. So next time they appear I will get them into a fry saver net.

Well Im a bit gutted no one replied. But I sorted it myself and tank is now clear. No fishy losses!

I got up today to cloudy water. Ammonia alert wasnt showing presence of ammonia and recent water tests had been zero for ammonia and nitrite, 5-10 for nitrate pH 7.6. I set up the tank about a month ago with a mature filter from another tank and kept testing the water and have had no problems...