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Went today to a good local place. Got a plant (unknown) and some duck weed. I didnt know it was floating bits. Put them in tank and one of my fish thought it was a good snack. So I fed them early. 3 hours later all gone. The plant is there, but duck weed was too good not to eat. It was only 10p...

Had plants before. The fish nibble them. causing bits, which clog filters. Ill try for a few months. Cant see then growing much before they get munched up lol ) :good: :good:

I tried searching for picture of both named algae and none of the pictures looked the same. In the pics they seamed to clump together. Mine are spread all over but in mild form. 10 dots here 5 there etc. Why does plants help anyway?

Hi its been nearly 2 years since I had a problem. Last time it was a green tank which cleared itself. i think it was because tank was new ish. Now I have black dots with hair coming out of them. i assume its a form of algae. They stick to tank glass and plastic. They dont apear to be on gravel...

I need help now. The green turns to a thick black. The ornaments are black. I took then out yet the backs are ok and underside ok too. It not daylight. Its 20ft away from a window which doesn't let the sun onto tank. The water is clear. I can only assume its algae due to fish being large and...

Its not just coloured, its hard green stuff, coating everything. I have to push quite hard with the stanley blade to remove it from the glass

Got no plants, Just ornaments. I change about 10% per week. Tried doing more to no avail

No sunlight reaches the tank. I have 3 shabunkins (cant spell) 1, 6 inch long and 2, 3 inch long. The tank is 3ft long by 18 inch. Oh and a small aquatic frog. They have all lives together for the last 6 years or so. I never had any water problems until I got the larger tank. I feed then blood...

Hi. I have had this problem ever since I got a larger tank. 70 ltr I thing. Everything is Green other than the fish and water. I have to scrape it off the glass with a blade, Ornaments are now very dark. I did water checks and all is spot on. I posted about it before and someone said lack of...

I have a very long garden, but i know its a lot of hard work keeping up to one of those.Also I can't sit eating my tea and look at them swim around

Thanks.Ive done a bucket change every day and today they are all looking happy.I am sure it is from introducing the pleques. OVER A FOOT LONG :-( Ill need a 12ft lonmg tank.Where will my wife let me put one of those :good:

I have 3. Only the 1 is so big. Another is abut 5 inch and the last 1 is a normal small one. Funny thing is all were purched together and all were shabunkins (cant spell it).I didnt think the big one would grow so big.Soon ill be able to sell it to the fish shop as a special :)

You could be correct.The funny thing is when I used my old tank which is half the size, with a poxy internal filter, which was always blocked and did a bucket change every 2 to 4 weeks, all was ok for 5 years. I get a dogs whatsit ext filter, a bigger tank some new gravel and a few small plaques...

My tank is 36x15x18. I think it is 30 gallons. I usualy do 1 bucket change every week but sometimes every 2 weeks. I just did a test again and the colour card is a bit hard to read.It is a dark red but my colour card starts at yellow and ends in dark red . The 40 and 80 seem the wrong way...

HI again. My fish are now spending most off the time laying at the bottom of the tank looking sad.I even thought 1 of them was starting to sway a bit :/ I added a little salt a changed a few buckets of water. Then I added some finrot anti bacterial stuff in. The 1 that was not moving 2 days...