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Oh and also i have an underwater filter but have absolutely no idea how it works, how to clean it, what it does ect. Can someone explain it to me SIMPLY!!! i don't know much about fish.

my fish kept dying so i took a sample of water to pet shop and they said it was nitrate poisoning and told me to buy this nitrate bag (£20!!) and put it in the filter for a week, do a water change then it would be safe. i did so then went and brought more fish, 8 guppys, 20 neon tetras and some...

i don't wanna return him :( im pretty attatched, he's amusing, keeps trying to unsuccessfully nip my speedy fish, and he hides and climbs :) i need find a way to keep him, no fish fatalities yet because of him anyway, maybe hes vegetarian :)

My crab keeps trying to scape!!! there is a opening on the condensation cover where the wires come out and he keeps climing up!!!! i have covered it with blue tack at the moment!!!! i really should of done research, i just got the tank and brought pretty fish, firstly they all died and now it's...

the fish that i dont know and Mr Krabz :) sorry the fish tank pic is crap, was in a rush, and house is a mess yeah lol

dunno how to add pics!!

sorry, that last post didn't make much sense my laptop is messed up and keeps skipping to different parts of the texts while im typing! so annoying! my tank is 4 foot long and 18 inch height i think, i can take pics and put them on.

ah, they need lanng to the, that's why it keeps climbing and sitting on the top of my filter, so it will eat my tetra? :( i have 20 tetra! 2 guppys! and 5 other fish that i have no idea what they are. i don't wanna take my crab back :( will it eat flake? or bloodworm?. All the lfs man said was...

I have just brought 2 crabs for my tank, one, unfortunately dies in transit but the other one is amazing, it is so amusing watching it climb up my filter and generally wander about, anyway the problem is what do they eat? aand it has tried to nip my tetra :( researched crabs on google and...

My laptop will not allow. me to install it, it says windows security has blocked it. I tried a couple of times. .

so many of my fish have died! i have had some advice but am so confused. I didn't cycle my tank and put fish in 1 week after setting up, i didn't treat the water and 3 weeks later my fish were dropping dead! and still are! although i thought a fish was dead last night as it was lying on the...

I have read the fishless cycle thing but i am still totally confused, no one told me about this before and now i can't start it because i have fish in my tank, so what should i do ?

I left the tank a week before adding fish but they were fine until recently!!! about a week or so ago! i used stones and plants from an established tank to set up and they were fine, it is only recently they all started dying :( my neons are all pale aswell :( i don't know if it is because i...

Hiya im Laura and new. I moved into my own house recently and thought it was a good idea to get a 4 foot fish tank, i did so and brought some fish, 4 guppys, 11 neon tetras, 2 dalmation fish 1 fighter fish thing and 4 other fish that i have no idea what they are. Anyway, my fish keep dying! i...