Recent content by Diablo45

As Colin has said, more frequent and higher % water changes. Do you have any thing else in the tank, plants, substrate etc? Try frozen food, you don't get the risk of a bad batch and if you feed pellet do you soak?

Thank you so much for your help, I will update how I get on.

Hi, So if I use his filter media I wont have to wait so long, he said I will still need to do the 25% water changes each week for about a month, before adding the fish. I know I need to establish the good bacteria and happy to wait if the advice is best to do so. Its so confusing. Maybe I'm over...

Hi Colin_T, Thank you for your reply, the tank dimensions are 76x30x45.7cm The water is Hard, 118mg/l, DGH = 16.52, Ph 7.5 Thank you for the advise about Danios, might just have more tetras instead. The Betta that I have reserved has been kept in a community tank with neons and corys, so I'm...

Hi All, I am new to keeping FW tropical fish ( previously kept a few Marine fish, Porcupine Puffer, regal tang and one other but cant remember) , but that was about 20 years ago. Anyway I have just ordered a new 87 litre tank and cabinet and after planting and cycling etc my aim is to do a...