Recent content by Hooch0959

Firstly please tell me if I'm being a pain in the #16##### with my questions, especially as I feel a bit pretentious with my a my new tank thread, but I could do with some more advice please. Just when I thought I cracked the water levels the nitrite has spiked to 0.8mg/l over the weekend. I...

The levels are not quite zero, but when I say acceptable I mean considering this time last week the tank was a swamp with a half working filter. I didn't know that about the Plec as I'm only 6 days into my fish keeping career. Any help in where I could re-house said beast as a knew 5-6ft tank...

I had a phosphate testing chemical come with my testing kit. To paraphrase it says it can promote unsightly algae growth and originates from fish feces, excess food and decay of organic matter such as plants, fish and other organisms.

Well firstly I meant thoroughly but I'm terrible with a keyboard Scrubbed the inside of the tank to so you could see in it and let it settle Fixed the lights Bought a new rubber pump socket for the external filter as the pump wasn't housed correctly Spent some money on an external canister...

Thanks for the Welcome everybody Both the fish are about 7-8 inches long. There are also two firemouths at about 5 inches long as well

Thanks for the help guys. He had no idea what he had bought, they are a least 9 years old he says. With how often he cleaned that tank I'm surprised that there were any fish in there at all.

Hello, New member here hoping you can help me. I have inherited a fish tank off my Step son. I slowly watched him ignore his tank over the last 5 years to the point where he hadn't even cleaned it in over 6 months. Finally he said I'm sick of it and I have stepped in for the fishes sake. I...