Recent content by Iggy Georgia

I've set up the tank again and have the filter running. The only thing i'm worried about is if there was a toxin in the tank then it will still be in there and I don't want anymore fish to die :(

I'm wondering why the one tetra has survived though. It seems healthy just a little nervous because it is on it's own. I found all but one of the dead tetras so I am wondering if spike ate the body and it poisoned him?

The new tetra is now in.a quarantine tank and I have taken almost all the water from the old one and would like to disinfect it in case of a toxin. The tank is in my living room which is pretty spacious and it is tucked away in it's own corner. So nobody but me usually goes near the tank so I...

Thanks :) To be honest when we first got him we were very ignorant to what a pleco needed but I daresay he had a better life with us than he would of with my uncle whom we got him from. He had been in the new tank for well over a month and seemed so happy. He had gotten a new lease of life and...

Thanks everyone is so nice i'm glad I joined up and asked. :) No, they showed no symptoms until right before they died, they swam abit funny but this was literally seconds before death. At first I thought it was ich because of one of the tetras looked like there was white spots so I went out...

Thanks for replying, the new tank had got media etc from the old tank as well as bogwood that had belonged to spike in his previous tank. I had tested the water the day that the first tetra went missing and it read zero ammonia. The other tetras and spike died that night so I did another test...

Hi everyone this is my first post and I could really do with some help. I had a common pleco called spike, he was about 13 years old and 14 inches long, we've had him since he was about an inch long. He had outgrown his tank so I forked out as much money as I could to get him the biggest tank...