Recent content by Esoe

Hi, I am new to the whole fish keeping lark - but managed to not kill anything for the last 2 months! I have a 60l tank with 3 mollies, 3 guppies and 6 cardinal tetra's. My last plant purchase appears to have snail eggs and I didn't know about treating the plants first! So I am currently...

Hi, I have a 60L tank and using the gallon stocking method I can have about 16" fish, using the water surface area method I can have 20" of fish - so I am working on somewhere around those numbers. My reading suggests that the Mollies/Guppies could get to 2" each. Cardinal Tetra's from what I...

Having now stocked the aquarium, I have: 3 * Mollies (I thought I'd been given Guppy's - but have since been corrected!!) 6 * Cardinal Tetra's 3 * Guppy's (and I think their tails are LOVELY!) So do I get a snail, shrimp or something else?! I fancy something that would stand out. From what...

Thanks! :) Not sure I saw them in the LFS......... :)

OK, I've had my tank for about 3 weeks now. Firstly I had 3 Mollies from a friend, 1 nearly full grown (as far as I could tell!) and 2 tiddlies..... :) They all settled in and then my bulb started playing up. I replaced it (it was flickering sometimes). Since then I've got 6 Cardinal Tetra's...

Thanks for this. I re-read some information and I think the cardinal Tetra's are smaller than I had though initially(I now have them at 1.25") So my stocking is: 3 * Guppy 6 * Cardinal Tetra 6 * Pygmy Cory This leaves me with maybe 2" left to play with in the future - but should give me a...

Hi, Thanks for all the earlier advice re: fishless cycling - I now have 3 Guppies swimming happily around and they've not died yet! (72 hours and counting!) Now I am thinking of what else to add in - my dream has always been neon tetra's - but I've been persuaded (quite happily!) to go with...

OK, it seems to be going well (albeit slowly!). I've read that if you don't put fish into a cycled tank - you need to keep feeding it Ammonia to keep the bacteria happy. The question is - when your ammonia drops to 0 - do you have a set time frame to add more ammonia/fish or do the bacteria stay...

OK, Thanks to Corrine I have part of her filter media. Before the media went in (after I did a 60% water change) the Ammonia level was about 3. 24 hours later, after the media has been in, it is just over 1. So the question is - do I put the full 3.16ml in to bring it up to 5ppm+the 1 it...

Thanks for this - I've done a 50% (well just a bit more) water change and the level of ammonia is now between 1.5 and 3 (my scale doesn't do in between those!) - so I will monitor this and talk to my friend about the filter media.

I recall it was just less than 5ml and the current reading using the NH4 JBL Test kit is off the scale (so over 5ppm) The water temp is 23C. Having said that I've just followed a different link on this site and found a calculator that shows I should have used just over 3ml - is that all the...

OK, I've wanted a tropical tank for ages and finally the kids persuaded me to get one! Bought it on eBay and filled it with water straightaway as well as other bits and pieces. It was a cold water tank previously so I brought a heater - but I was told the filter was new (2 weeks old), so once I...