Recent content by antn1.b

well i took the plunge and got some stock for my tank yesterday morning. the tank had been consistently dealing with the ammonia for 5-6 days (11 doses). I went and had a chat at my lfs they were very impressed with the cycle and their only concern was the breaking down of actual solids in...

hi after a bit more help and advice. basically i have followed the fishless cycle guide and results have moved along very quickly my ammonia only took 4-5 days to drop initially then after a couple of weeks the nitrites went off the chart and didnt seem to drop at all until last Saturday when i...

classified section should do the trick :good: http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/forum/113-classified-section/

this is mine so far, going to add some more plants before I get some stock. the stingray filter came with the tank so am using that for the time being but a friend of mine is downsizing soon and giving me an external fluval pump that was for his 120 litre tank. will have to run two for a...

keep changing my mind so just a well its not ready yet really! I found a fish stock calculator through here last week that was giving me a good idea of what I can and cant get to live together happily but cant find it again now. really like the idea of the dwarf puffer fish but understand...

strange one that, looks like a pc graphics card issue but would imagine it cant be as all your tool bars are fine.

blimey this takes some patience lol. the ammonia is now sorted dropping from 4-5ppm down to 0 in around twelve hours, nitrite is still of the chart goes purple s soon as the drops go in. but on the plus side my nitrate has shot up now a well so must be getting there... at a snails pace!

another little update, tanks moving along nicely now. the ammonia is taking around the 24 hour mark to drop from 4ppm back down to under the 1ppm mark. also just checked my nitrite reading and that is up at 5ppm so very much present. few more days for the ammonia to be doing what it...

my filter did have the zeolite pods in and the ammonia was dropping out at a ridiculous rate. after a bit of research I found the the pods could be prised open, so I did that and emptied them then filled them with mature media from another tank! thanks for the advice any way update on the...

well seems like some progress is being made. got myself some nice live plants only 4 at the moment but seems enough for the size of the tank. I added the first dose of ammonia on Friday evening to take the level up to 4ppm and having checked just now its down to between 1 and 2ppm, also the...

well after some extensive reading on here and a discussion today the friend has been sacked so to speak lol I have done away with about 80% of the water and got myself a bottle of ammonia (Robert dyas) and a api master kit and am going down the fish less cycle route also got some more...

will check exactly what he has and hasn't put in tomorrow and report back. had a good read up this evening/morning so will start getting a bit more hands on so I know what he's up too. site seems very useful loads of info!

to be honest I am very new to this and a friend of mine has been dealing with every thing he's come round three times now (morning and evening) with a test kit and said that the levels are as they should be and that the bacteria are doing there job so to speak. he initially added a filter...

just thought I would sign up and say hi. I picked up a new fish tank two weeks ago and have been searching for some advice and this site kept popping up. I have got a 60 litre marina elite tank as its about all I have room for, the tank will have been standing for 2 weeks Saturday and...