Recent content by Halszka

I've just started setting up a 150L three foot tank and, although the instructions provided were minimal, installed a ProAqua CF1000 canister filter. It seems to run fine but small beads of water are continually leaking out from where the lid fits onto the rest of the filter box. I've taken it...

I can't afford to buy my fishies all at once anyway :D So using my mature filter media and adding fish slowly is probably the best option for me. I was leaning towards having two schools of different tetras - one of black phantom tetras and one of the diamond tetras, plus the six pygmy cories...

I understand where you're coming from about doing the fishless cycle and, I checked, the stuff needed to seed the tank with bacteria isn't expensive. However, would 6 little fishes really suffer in a 150L tank that is cycling? It's not as if it would be cycling from scratch. I have media from my...

The fishless cycle is something I thought of, but the cost factor creeps in. Why buy the ammonia and other bacteria to seed the tank when I can buy the fish and have them pee and poop it out? I do have another freshwater tank and I can use some of the filter media to speed things along. I was...

Thanks for the help modernhamlet :) Yeah, I do know that chocolate gouramis are rather delicate fish and have been reading all I can find (offline and online) about them. I wouldn't purchase them until my tank had been running for a while (at least a few months if not more) and all parameters...

Heya! I'm so excited! I just bought a new 150L tank, well, second hand but it might as well be new, the stand was still in its plastic wrapping. At the moment I'm still looking for a filter, gravel, etc but I figure there's no harm in doing some research into what would look nice in it once...

Do you have a heater? Bettas are from tropical climates and appreciate warm water :)

Thanks lilfishie :) Is that your betta as your avatar? He's gorgeous! I plan on setting up a four compartment betta tank later this year, once I find some of that heater cable and work my way up to a higher bank balance :)

Hi guys! I'm relatively new to the whole fish keeping scene and would love to compare notes with all of yous :D