Recent content by cdelly

hi it's not red algae, its cynobacteria you need to have balance in the tank to rid this. you need to be showing some po4 and nirates. you also need more water movement. the goby is a lovely fish, but it gets most of its food from sifting through the sand and getting small critters from in...

https://www.theaquariumsolution.com/content/david-saxbys-aquarium-18 He is MD of a major marine aquarium company(s) so he has probably developed some of the items and got them at cost(free) his tank is also a bit of a test bed. I would have a big tank and fish room, somebody would run it with my...

Would love to do a British coastline marine tank, unfortunately I don't have anywhere to seta new tank. And the wife also says can't have another lol

The old way scraping a tank was to have a wall of rock, food, dead or dieing fish can get trapped around the back of it. If a fish vanishes it usually ends up around the wall. I would have a spike shape (v) of rock coming from the filter end, you can still have hidey holes for fish in there. It...

To be trueful, when I can bothered. I top up every other day and prob. do a 30% change once a month.

Tank looks good but sorry to say it will back and normally very quickly. The tank is out of balance, you need a decent test kit rather than the API one. They are know to give false results. Get the po4 test ASAP. You need a balance between the po4 and no3. As it is a bacteria rather than an...

Will do a step by stepbut will have to wait a few days. Now back at work

you have a job now and staff discount lol

have a tank full of sexy shrimp :)

Somebody forgot to tell the ones i had

Used to have yellow gobies, they just hung around on top of the rocks watching me. So I wouldn't class them as bottom dwelling. Clowns tend to be OK with other fish until they start to breed, then the will defend their patch and the eggs

Used a Stanley knife blade, put some of the old filter media in the new filter. Didn't start to run the external till I'd removed the internal.

They just dissolve in the tank

Would have thought so, I did take the very first moult out and daughter took it to school to show her teachers. She brought home, but had got bored of it by then(having to look after it all day takes it toll on a 5 year old lol) so went in the bin

I just left the moults in the tank and they would just disolve/break down in there.