Recent content by JCorvinus

Personally , i have seen what happens to guppies when water quality deteriorates , they are the first to go , in 3 months i lost 6 guppys and am now reluctant to buy any more, the first 3 died from poor water while my tank was cycling up,  to pregnant females died when being separated, from...

I know this is an old post , but here goes ,  1 i use a 15 Litre top bucket , that I stand on top of my hood , i fill that , and dechlorinate that accordingly  2. i start back syphoning this in to the tank directly on top of the filter or pressed against the side wall , so i get a dispersion...

i have an idea, how about , the first time you use an acronym in a topic , you type it out in full , like practical fishkeeping(PFK_) and then in brackets place the acronym beside it ,  after all that is the grammatically correct way of writing , and makes so much more sense.  that way if you...

SOLD < IM HAVING IT :) 

Will take and collect for the agreed price , thanks in advance 

if i understand this correctly , the nitrite bonds to the blood , where as  the cloride , slows down absorbion through the gills , making them less effective , and less able to suck up the poisens,    would i be correct also in thinking that this could effect the bio filter if added directly to...

I know this seems pedantic , but i would like to clarify a small point , reading from a biochem report i read recently    1. Nitrisonmas is a NON MOTILE bacteria , meaning it does not produce spores to move , it simply creeps along el boundary contacts,  ... you will see this on undergravel...

i only did the charts cause i was bored , lol , but it appears that my nitrate readings are false positives , there may not be any nitrates present, this morning a nitrite spike took two fish , so 50 % water change and i went to the local shop and bought , a gel pack of bacteria, actually 2 ,   ...

die back ? of the plants or the efficiency of the filter performance , ammonia , is very low , but present none the less 

ps , if anyone wants their results placing in a chart , i can either tell you how on excell or if u ask nicely i will do it for you lol 

  seem charted results here 

today my new plants arrived and they have been placed in the tank ,    new tank 2 weeks old water chemistry baseline was as you would expect  tank is 100 litres in size  ( 1 us gallon = 3.7litres)    Ph = 7.2  Ammonia, NH3  = 0 toxic Ammonia NH4  = 0  nitrite NO2              0 Nitrate NO3  ...

In the past i have used a variety of driftwoods in my tank , however after soaking in boiling water etc for several days ,    which did reduce tannins and stain considerably , eventually my tanks still went yellow ,      how is this best avoided ,    buy , pricey pre treated wood ? or is there a...

they look fantastic, not just the planting , but also the camera work , how did you take such amazing pictures ?