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I'm optimistic that my tank will be cycled in the next day or so. How many fish can I add to start with? Also can I add fertiliser for the plants? I haven't yet - I've been paranoid about ruining the cycle!

Yes it was aiming for 1ppm. It was a third of my other doses. OK. So just keep testing for now waiting for nitrites to go down?

Hi, I'm day 32. Dosed three times as per instructions. Just did dose number 3 yesterday after having the 2 consecutive ammonia =0 test. Nitrites have been 4 for at least 2 weeks. So did the third dose of ammonia yesterday and tested today, 24 hours later and ammonia is zero again but...

Hi, I'm back to the hobby after a 10 year break. Tested the tap water. pH 7.5, GH 20, KH 17 My most successful fish last time were Botia Striata (zebra loach). They lived for about 8 years until I rehomed them due to a house move. But it seems my water is too hard for them? I'm struggling...

Fascinating thread bloozoo. Sorry it didn't quite work out, but well done for getting as far as you did.

This is sasha, my parents black spaniel. Shes still a pup really.

Our buns have been having lots of fun recently making little homes out of card board boxes:

I've done 2 separate 3 day blackouts. The first worked but within a month it came back again. I've also dosed 3 courses of maracyn. Again it works but the cyanabacteria returns. I've been told the fish can carry the cyanobacteria? How true this is I don't know, but I don't think its the...

To those of you that don't know me... I've tried 2 proper blackouts and I've dosed maracyn on 3 separate occassions now. They work, but not for long. After a treatment of maracyn, the bga comes back after a month or so. I'm at my wits end so starting over seems to be the only thing to try...

lol did I not phrase that correctly? I mean steralise as in cleaning them.

Yesterday I was cleaning my tank and got so mad at the cyanobacteria that I syphoned all the sand out!! Today I finally rook my crap interpet t5 light thing and tube back to the shop under it's guarantee and got £60 refund :D With this I bought new gravel, new heater, thermometer, net, syphon...

Having suffered with cyanobacteria for nearly a year now I am now at the stage where I'm about to start again. I've just bought new gravel, sponges, filter material, nets, syphons etc etc. The only things I'm not replacing is my filter, CO2 equipment and tank. I was told if I dry these out...

Right now I don't know my NO3 levels. Like I say I've lost all motivation. I do my weekly water changes and feed my fish and that's it. :( I've just done a water change a couple of hours a go but I can test the water now. However I've had this bga problem since august 2005! Look at my post...

for the life of me i cant remember the name...is it maracyn? or myracyn? I got it from George. Trust me - the antibiotics worked a treat - but a few months later the bga creeps back. I think I do have a more fundamental problem which I'm really trying to figure out. My main thought is water...

I've had sand but am thinking of switching to gravel. But as for the sand going to the bottom and laterite to the top - you would expect this, but it doesnt actually happen - or at least it hasn't happened in my 2 tanks. A few bits of laterite makes it way to the top - especially if you have...