Recent content by avinalaff

Should I be vacuuming the gravel whilst replacing the water?

Hi! I totally agree with this comment, if it wasn't for people here, I would be on the brink of giving up right now!

Fantastic article...many thanks.

Hi, I have had our tank since 23rd April 07. We have had a number of losses, but this may have been explained by overcrowding. I have just taken a reading and have found the following:- PH = 8.5 Ammonia = 0.1 Nitrite = 4.0 mg/l Nitrate = 50mg/l I know the latter two are dangerously high, and...

First I should say that I got it wrong about the size of the tank in the first place, I edited the post and signature once I found the correct information, so not your mistake but mine. Second, many thanks for all the great advice. I now need to find a home for the danios or consider upgrading...

Hi, It would appear that we are being given dodgy advice by out LFS. A month ago we bought a 28L fish tank and were advised to put a mix of cardinals, platties and zebra danios in it. I've just been advised by a member of this forum that Danio's require at least a 20G tank and the platies need...

Many thanks Christine and Andy, excellent advice. We've had the tank for just over a month, the fish have been in there for about a week. We did cycle the tank, but weren't really sure what we were doing. I will test the water tomorrow to see if we can find the cause of the dying fish. Having...

Hi, I'm extremely new to keeping fish and have a bit of a problem. I have a 28 litre tank which had 2 cardinals, 3 plattys and 6 zebra danio's in it. After a few days we found one of the cardinals dead and half eaten, closely followed by the other one. Then the same happenned with 2 of the...