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Just to emphasise Uberhoust's comment Liquid nitrate testers have 2 or sometimes 3 bottles. One of them contains a reagent which settles out onto the bottom of the bottle. The instructions will say to shake this bottle before use, this is to make sure all the reagent is back in the liquid. Many...

Our 3 year old grandson will grow up bilingual in English and Romanian. His mother is Romanian and until last September he was looked after during the day by his non-English speaking Romanian grandmother, hearing English only in the evening and at weekends. His parents were worried that he was...

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API White Spot Cure is available at Pets at Home. I don't usually suggest this shop but there should be a branch near you and they should be open past the closing time of other fish stores, and as Innesfan said speed is important. Edit to add - Pets at Home also list Interpet white spot med...

The safety data sheet for API White Spot Cure says it contains malachite green oxylate which is the chemical GaryE recommends for ich. You can open the safety data sheet pdf from this link https://apifishcare.co.uk/product/white-spot-cure

I'm lucky that I enjoyed both my jobs before I became a stay at home mother. I worked as a research assistant in a university biochemistry department; then got married and moved away and my next job was a medical laboratory scientific officer - that is, I worked in a hospital chemical pathology...

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Fishkeeping uses 2 units of hardness - ppm and German degrees. Fish profiles give the hardness needed by a particular species in one or other, so you need your hardness in both units. Your hardness is 14.7 German degrees - also called dH - and 263 ppm. Pretty hard. One of the best sites out...

I have cherry barbs in my tank. I originally bought 2 males and several females. One day I discovered a fry which turned out to be male, giving me 3 males. Then one day I got up to find 2 dead males in the tank. Was that just co-incidence that they died at the same time or do I suspect the...

With your London location, it is likely you have very hard water, though it is worth checking on your water company's website to see just how hard. Most tetras, barbs and danios tend to be soft water fish though there are species which would be OK in hard water (though maybe not very hard)...

At least we weren't in the amber alert area; that was a few miles south over the North York Moors and there were photos of all the cars stuck in snowdrifts in the local media.

Byron made a few recommendations for all round fertilisers - many products contain only a few of the minerals which plants need. None contain all of them but some contain more than others. For UK, he recommended Seachem Flourish Comprehensive Supplement for the Planted Tank (no other Flourish...

Today we have a yellow alert for snow and ice. We got up this morning to dry roads, but grey skies. Around 9 am it started to snow - for half an hour. We had 1 cm (1/2 inch) snow then it stopped and the sun came out. Most of the snow has now melted. The forecast for this afternoon is rain. That...

Luckily for us older people with no smart phones, the parking machines round here take card payments :)

We also have chlorine (Northumbrian Water). From my water quality report - and where the figures on the blue ground are min, mean, max.