Recent content by gacf

Many thanks prairieSunflower

Hi all, last Thursday I bought a second larger tank (4ft). It was emptied and refilled all in the same day with 1 Angelfish 2 pearl gourami and 3 hoplo catfish being transported via a large bucket. I had removed the gravel from tank for ease of moving and put it back in at home...

Many Thanks fluttermouth. I never looked at the pencilfish before and have now radically changed my thinking. I'm now planning on 8 to 10 Golden pencilfish 6 x Panda Cory 6 x Cherry Barb (apparently they go well with the pencilfish) And then when I think I have sufficient algae present I can...

Obviously my last posting should have read as thanks essjay and loaches not poached. Soddin spellchecker!!

Thanks very much essay. I do have sand for substrate as it was always my intention to get corys just wish now I'd got a bigger tank! I will again rethink what top dwellers I can get to replace the platys and will drop the lake tenbera rainbowfish and the zebra poached as well. Back to...

My readings from the water board are 2.03 Clark degrees 2.90 French degrees 1.62 German degrees Soft. But my local LFS who is in the same postcode area says it's soft to moderate

Sorry should have posted that at the beginning! Tank is 76x36x43.5cm. Water is soft to medium with a ph of 6.8(using API master test kit) Readings up to yesterday were Amm 0 Nitrite 2.5- 5ppm Nitrate 80ppm.

Hi everyone, I'm another newbie to the forum. First of all I'd like to say a massive thank you to TwoTankAmin for his superb post on tank cycling. I'm presently on day 17 and am hopefully nearly there.( My tank lay for two weeks whilst I was waiting on ammonia arriving...