Recent content by jaxz85

Ahh that explains it! Thanks I was starting to that that they were just fat because they are almost always first to eat! Thanks Jackie

Hi, I have a relatively small tank at only 60l, I have a few fish in including 4 neon tetras and 2 glowlight tetras. My neon tetras look fine as does everything else in the tank but the glowlight tetras are quite a bit rounder that the others. Is this just because they could be female? Or...

Hi, I added new fish to my tank the otherday and now I have whitespot! I am giving then medication which I started yesterday morning. The directions on the medication suggests that I give them the medication every 48 hours then do a 10% water change after 5 doses. My question is that is the...

Hi, I have a 60l tank which is fully cycled and the readings are 0. I have had 2 blue dwarf gourami's for a little over 2 weeks and they have seemed fine. I put 4 bronze cories and 3 male guppies in the tank the other day and now one of my gourami's is staying at the bottome of the tank...

Hi, Its has been set up 4 weeks. There are 2 dwarf gouramies, 4 bronze croy, 4 neon tetras, 2 glowlight tetras, 2 male guppies and 2 red wag tail platties. The water readings are Ammonia and Nitraie/nitrite 0 and PH is at 7/7.5. Jackie

Hi, I bought 2 redwag tail platties tonight one of them is spending a lot of time at the top and not really swimming about. It dosent appear to be particulalry in distress. Do they spend time at the top a lot? Jackie

Well all seems ok so far! I have 5 now and they have settled down, so bad starter fish or not they are still alive! They havent eaten this morning and I left the food for about 4 mins, but since they didnt eat it I took it back out and I am going to try them again soon. Thanks for the advice...

Thanks very much for getting back to me, with a lengthy reply! I have API 5 in 1 test strips, they test for : General hardness, Carbonate hardness, PH, Nitrite and Nitrate. Both the Nitrite and the Nitrate were at 0. The PH was a little high last week and I put in some 'ph down' and now it is...

Oh no! Now I m worried! The girl in the shop told me that they would be good as a first fish! So im not amused! I put in Tetra 'SafeStart' last weekend. I asked about cycling in the shop and they gave me this and said that it would help. It says on the bottle that it 'enables a safe aquarium...

Thanks for that! They are just Neon tetras, I was told that these are pretty hardy little starters! Ill have a read at it, I have already used some live bactreia in the form of 'sure start' and I have been feeding the empty tank for a week. I though this would have made sure that the filter is...

Hi, I am brand new to fish keeping! I have had my 60l tropical tank set up for 2 weeks now with some live plants and the water has been tested and was fine! So I went off today and got 5 tetra's as a wee starter to the tank. I put the bag in the tank for 20 mins then put a little of the...