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Its rio 180 (101 x 41x 50 cm) volume 180 litres, Its heavly planted with various plants and huge pieces of petrified wood, has a sand floor. Rainbows are one of the fish with fin damage, one of the thread fins upper tail was completely removed over night so its certainly not fin rot unless this...

its deffinatly not fin rot its too much too soon for that i think but the platys are alot bigger than the other fish and it only started to happen about four days after they were introduced who ever it is, is doing it when the lights are off at night thats for sure

has anybody had any problems with platys, fin nipping as they were my last fish to go in and the problem has only just started

sorry i mean thread fin 2 of these http://www.fishtanksandponds.info/images/r...in-rainbow2.jpg

hi all quite new to all of this when i put the fishes light on yesterday i noticed some tail damage on one of my new male guppies tales and this morning when i put the light on three guppies tails had been chomped on and one of my sail fin rainbow fish has been just about de-tailed and i was...

ok i did a test just for you guys and heres the results ph-7.2 ammonia-0.0ppm nitrite-0.0ppm gh-179 kh-179 i think i will give it a bit longer before i start adding fish even though im really tempted

ok my new plants arrived this morning and after a good sort out and removal of some decaying leaves they have gone into the tank and it looks ok for now but im guessing its just trial and error to see what survives so heres a quick pic and look what someone gave me this morning what a god...

new plants arrived today im not loving it overall just yet as i know its trile and error over what survives and im not thrilled about the overall look of it maybe a few changes will be made i will post some pics after ive had a good fiddle with it

thankyou shall i get some plant fertilizer while im at it can you reccomend a good one that will work well for my size of setup thanks again

API-FRESHWATER-MASTER-TEST-KIT if you paste this into ebay it comes up its 14.95 buy in now

opopps sorry let me try again

ok thanks for the replies you dont know much it means to have help does this look ok its on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/API-FRESHWATER-MASTE...1QQcmdZViewItem

im not 100% sure yet i have a bit more reading to do i know that i want some neons and some corydas and i have seen some pedigree guppies on ebay that i like the look of

i filled it yesterday and changed to water again today just because it looked a funny color but apart from that nothing i did try and read about cycling but i didnt fully understand (trust me im not blond just thick) i was going to leave it about a month before looking for fish

ive just set up a tank for the first time ever its a jewel 180 im just waiting for some more plants to arrive but what do i have to do next to ensure its 100% safe for fish i tried reading the atricles on here but found them a bit confusing i would like a really nice fully planted tank but am...