Recent content by Fishy2020

Great that's good to know, I will do as you advise before going ahead and getting the fish. Thanks again, you've been so helpful!

Ah really? I am planning on just keeping a single betta in the tank so I think I might try doing a silent cycle then. Thanks for the help. I'm thinking I should have just asked here first before I started trying to cycle my tank as everyone's help is really useful!

Great, I will give this a try. Thank you so much for your help, much appreciated.

I'll try adding the bacto start to a tub of water and see what happens. If it does start to smell does that mean the only way to remove the smell from the tank would be a water change? Or do you think would it eventually go on its own? Substrate wise I used Tropica plant care substrate with a...

Thanks for your reply. I have three live plants in the tank and I added a dose of Colombo Bacto Start at the beginning as it came with my tank. Yes , I'd say the cloudiness was white. There is also a film over the top of the water. The smell is a sulphur/egg smell.

No this is my first tank so I haven't added anything from an already cycled tank

I began cycling my 25 litre fish tank last week but I don't understand the readings I'm getting. I initially added ammonia and got a reading of about 2 ppm. After two days the ammonia dropped to zero and I also get zero readings for nitrites & nitrates. I then added some more ammonia and...