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Thanks so much everyone this is extremely helpful! Will look for Malaysian driftwood - and as I'm allowed to ask about vendors (cheers for clarification!), does anyone know a good place I can buy WYSIWYG? Would like a moderately large piece - unfortunately my Fluval Flex cracked a couple of...

Hi all, haven't been on here in a while! Hope you're all well. So a couple of years ago now, I bought Red Moor Root Wood for my tank - however now I'm worried it's rotting and seems to be the last cause I can put down to elevated nitrates - the outer layer just disintegrates when I scrape my...

Oh wow thank you, this helps a lot! No I removed the carbon a while back. However did not know about doing the water change afterwards but I guess makes sense! Food-wise I've been feeding daily, a combination of shrimp pellets, spirulina flake, and half an algae water for the BN, however been...

Just wondering how long it takes to work? It says I can dose it once a week for maximum four weeks, I'm now on dose 2 of 4 and no visible improvement :( I've been dosing soon after water change to leave the meds in tank for as long as possible if that makes any difference. This thread has more...

Thank you! Think I'm going to go down the route of removing snails temporarily - although still struggling to find a/some good uk medication/s that will treat what I need it/them to! Been doing large water changes every other day, been worried to do daily in case I restart cycle, don't have a...

Thank you! Snails are medium, red racer nerite snails. There's only two and could remove them easily enough but unsure how to care for them outside the tank?

Thanks so much for this! Yeah I'm tentative about adding anything without actually needing to - don't think it's a bacterial infection as no bloating, I've experienced dropsy before and this is nothing like that apart from the trouble staying upright! Being cories and mostly on the sand I...

Thanks for the help! Looks great but when I looked it up I struggled to find brand new in UK for a reasonable cost - I assume it's an internationally-based product? However in searches for this I did come across something called 'Fluke-Solve' which apparently contains 50% praziquantel which from...

I could be wrong but a few things have led me to suspect an internal parasite problem with one or two of my Bronze Cories. I'm looking for a medicine available in the UK that's safe to treat the entire tank with (bronze cories, a bristlenose pleco, and snails) and hopefully works! Would really...

Thanks so much all! Didn't feed last night, have an eheim air pump with two air stones anyway which hopefully helped, and had just done a water change when the problem happened so hopefully water was nice and clean! Managed to get to nearest fish store today thanks to a friend, turned out one of...

Have no money till I'm paid on Friday and after a routine water change and pump cleaning, it won't turn back on! Tried taking it apart and putting back together a few times, but nothing! What's the best thing I can do till I can get a new pump? Daily water change? Not feeding tank? Please and...

This is a relatively recent pic of my tank - sand must now be at least an inch deep, definitely deep enough, but plants still not staying in place. Could this be due to not using root tabs, or more likely due to having adult and baby bronze cories and a BN pleco, who all love playing in the...

Hi again all! You've always been great help in the past - I have a new problem! I had a few bladders snails come in on a plant, I allowed them to stay and they bred - pretty excessively, I know this is due to overfeeding but feared underfeeding as I have baby cories in my tank at the moment...

Okay thanks for the help! The biggest baby is probably nearing 2cm however many are still a lot smaller, maybe 1cm max! Temporary grow-out tank wise - really can't accommodate a 100-200 litre container in the space I have - current tank is 57L and couldn't even get permission weight-wise for a...