Recent content by Caroline63

I am not sure why I did not received any answer since this morning, perhaps my question was not clear enough. Anyway, during the course of the day, my other fish have started to show little spots too. As I am still not sure about the diagnosis (the spot might be too big for white spot...

Hello, My german blue ram has a single white spot that appeared just above his eye. I am not sure this is the white spot disease as the white spot appears a little bit bigger than the photographs I have seen around.Can you help? Thank you PS: I do not have a camera good enough to take picture...

Hi there, I am new to this so need some help. I did my fishless cycle (no problem there following the good advices found of this website), planted my tank. My water readings are perfect. So far textbook beginning. 3 days ago, I introduced my first fish: - 2 endlers - 6 cory habrosus - 2 crystal...

Thank you very much for all this. Should information like the 5/2/5 advice be removed from the network or at least be flagged? newbies such as myself will be tempted to follow this kind of advice (especially if pinned).

OK thanks a lot for all the advices. I will leave phosphate alone. While both of you are around perhaps you could comment on the following: I have a setup of 3.6WPG light. I was thinking of doing a cycle 5 hours light, 2 hours dark, 5 hours light (again based on advice I found on your network in...

I thought that although phosphate is not a reason for algae formation, high level of Phosphate (>2mg/l) was promoting algae formation. Is this not true? So in my case would you leave the phosphate concentration around 5mg/l?

OK I am new to this but here's the dilemna... I have a very high level of phosphate in my tap water (around 5mg/l). After reading all your (very useful) advices on cycling new tank, I decided to use Phos-Zorb while I was cycling to avoid algae bloom. (day after adddition of Phos-Zorb level of...

Thank you so much for the answer. (I thought that nobody will reply!) This is SOOOOOOOOOOOO USEFUL. THanks again

Hi, I am setting up a 12G tank. I am going for high tech setting with 3WPG (2 T5 18W). I do not really want to mess around with DIY system and /or yeast method. I looked around and think that the 2 following CO2 pressurised systems would be suitable. My preference would be for the DD system as...

Thanks. I will look this up.

SOrry, I misled you I have already chosen gravel. But I would like some recommendations regarding the plant substrate to put underneath.

I am starting a new tank (River reef aquarium 48L) and plan to cycle as recommended in your forum (fishless cycle with ammonia addition and help from a filter media donor found on the forum). I am sure I will have a lot of questions in the future, but the first one is about the substrate. I am...