Recent content by ex0rc1st

Thanks again to all the replies. My tank is super clean, fishies smilin, no putrid smell and I am digging this hobby!! Oh, it is a plec. I would recomend fluttermoths advice to any new starters.. That guy knows a lot and gives good advice, as for the other replies, you guys also helped me.

Desktop.. :) I don't have adsl, I am doing all this from my cell phone. But ill see/try do it some way related to how you explained.

Does any of you have a blackberry? So I can communicate through BBM, pictures also on BBM.. Apparently the pictures cannot be posted on forum, file size to large etc. The other option whould be e-mail. I did the water change, fresh! Fish smilin! But need bacteria urgently. What can I do about...

Where can I obtain these good bacteria? Pet shop? Thank you fluttermoth, you've been of great assistance. Ill get started right away. Ill ask you again if anymore questions should arise. Do you have a blackberry?

"Cycle the tank"? Meaning soaking and washing everything with luke warm water? (That's what they told me to do at first)

Well the sucker looks like.. The afrikaans word "n barber" I, When asked the pet shop assistant, was told not yet to buy temperature stuff... So its pretty much cold tap water, dechlorinated ofcourse.

Would it be advisable to get snails to clean? Also when I lift the lid of the tank, I get a putrid smell. I've only had fish for 2days, and everything is still clean, I added 10ml of anti-chlorine. I have 2 fake plastic type plants, then 2 real plants providing oxygen as well as 4 long strips of...

Thanks for your time reading. I am from S.A. I really don't know my fish by there biological names but the question is not about goldfish. Its the fish that cleans the tank, in the shop the fish would be flat against the tank(you can see his mouth)he sucks the tank clean and he pretty fast. Well...