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The mixture I bought from my LFS is remineralisation salts not salt salt (i.e sodium chloride) I believe the mixture is calcium carbonate mostly. I did buy the API GH and KH water test kit my GH is still very low less then 50ppm but my KH is now closer to 100 ppm (it was only 50ppm before). I...

I took a sample of my water to my LFS and they said that it had 0 Nitrate, Nitrite and Ammonia, so my test readings must be correct. They suggested that I add salt to harden the water and increase the temperature. The owner of the store has a display tank with Odessa barbs and they keep the tank...

Oh and the décor of the tank is its a fairly heavily planted tank with water wisteria and ambulia, amazon sword, hair grass, java fern and anubias. I dose with Flourish excel but way less then the instructions say and I have seachem root tabs in the substrate which is mostly sand but some of...

I have done my tests again and they are still reading the same, I set a 5min timer on my ph to be sure. Its reading 0 for nitrite, between 0 and 0.25 for ammonia (there is a light green tint to the yellow colour but it hasn't changed colour) I get the exact same colour for my tap water. The...

The Giant Died :-(:-(:-( I have attached some photos of both him dead and one I took of him alive resting on the bottom of the breeder tank.

The water is quite soft in my area 38 mg/L (CaCO3). My pH is around 7-7.4 colour is between the two on the colour indicator sheet. The temperature is 21C. I know that it is unusual to show 0 nitrite but I have not seen any colour change using the API water tests. I have previously been using the...

Update the Giant Danio is now lying on his side on the bottom of the isolation tank (guppy breeder tank). He is thrashing around like he is tying to swim but can't!!!! :-( My tank is 250 L that helps

Hi Everyone, I setup an brand new tank a month ago (its been stocked for a month, it has been running longer as I did a fishless cycle). It had x9 Pepper Corys, x9 Odessa barbs, x14 zebra danios and x6 giant danios. Since setting it up and stocking it I have had six deaths, x2 corys, x2 barbs...

:thanks:Thanks everyone for all of your advice its been really helpful :) I'm thinking after reading everyone's advice and spending sometime researching on Seriously Fish, that my new tank stocking idea is: x13 Panda Corys x15 Odessa Barbs x7 Zebra Danios x7 Lepoard Danios I would like another...

Which Corys like lower temperatures compatible with the Odessa barbs? Also instead of a gourami does anyone have a suggestion for a feature fish that will work?

Okay, so I'm thinking about keeping the 50L running with the Danios, moving the cory into the 200L increasing numbers to 10-15x corys (I have had these fish for a few years now and want to keep them :), I do feel bad that I've been keeping them at the wrong temperature but I just went of the...

Those temperature ranges are quite different from what I've found and they also differ from some books I bought on aquarium fish (particularly for the danios). So I am unsure what to do now. I currently have a single corydoras sterbai (I know they need groups) and a couple of danios in a 50L...

Hi Thanks for your advice, I was concerned about the aggressive behaviour of the three spot Gourami but I was assured by my LFS that it would be fine with the Odessa barbs. I scoured the internet and found other people who keep them together? I was unsure about the compatibility with the...