Recent content by carled

Thanks. Fair points. Did dechlorinate as usual and added a bit of nutrafin cycle. I've been doing the weekly 50% change for 18 months now with no ill effects and I'd have thought that troublesome tap water would have shown up straight away, not 48 hours later? Like I say, it was (according to my...

...not a good day. I have a small community tropical tank. Bit of a newbie, but everything in there has been fit & healthy for 18 months. Recently lost one glowlight tetra and a zebra danio that I put down to old age basically. Two other glowlights and three other Danios were fine as always...

Not sure what the problem is here folks. I have a small tank with a couple of shrimps, a couple of corys and 4 danios (2 zebra, 2 leopard). All are happy and healthy apart from one of the zebras. Last night I noticed it swimming around mid-water at a diagonal angle - head raised slightly...

Tetras get to 2"?? :o Good grief, thought they stayed tiny! OK, sounds like the guppy isn't a great idea then! What about the gap at the top of the tank then? It really doesn't look that nice with the water level an inch or so below the rim as it has now misted up as well, but I don't want to...

Hi all - new to all this. Just taking step up from goldfish bowls to small tropical set-up. Don't have the time or enthusiasm (yet!) to indulge too much in this hobby, but both my daughters & me are keen fish enthusiasts, spending hours gawping at them in aquariums. The intention is to get a...