Recent content by centreparcs

Thanks so much to everyone. Three more fish died this morning and the others were not looking good. Looked like I had nothing to loose so I did almost complete water change, cleaned up muck from gravel and re filled with treated tap water. Rescued a few plants so hopefully all will be well...

Thanks for all your replies. Tank not much better this morning but at least no more dead fish. Filtered out quite a lot of water last night and did about 20% water change. Will propbably use gravel wash to get out more muck later today and do another small water change. Looks like I may be...

no airstone. Guess i need to go shopping tomorrow.

Only a few swimming round, most are at top of tank and fairly still. I have been told before not to take more than 20% of water out at once. Is this an exception? I have borrowed some tap safe from a friend as I usually let water stand for 24hrs before adding it. I am concencerned as I don't...

Do not have anything to test with but assume that I can get hold of something tomorrow. As you have probably guessed I am new to this and not very knowledgable. Got tank in August fish gave birth next day and all has been very happy since then up to today!

OK thanks for this. Do I not feed them for a few days then? All six neons I had died but one platty adult and her 20 babies survivied along with large black sucker type (sorry dont know what it's called but is a common fish). Plants are in a right state too. The light was not put on all...

We have been away since Friday (now monday evening) and my neighbour has looked after my fish. The tank was perfectly healthy when I left. lots of plants and happy fish. We have returned to find water cloudy - more milky than dirty, (like when you run a tap in an area which is high in lime)...