Recent content by jimxms

Looks like you got it in one. Now I'm off to get some more. Thanks :)

I'm having trouble tracking down these fella's that I bought from my LFS a few months back. They are the size of a cardinal tetra, have neon green eyes and a green body. Some of them have a blue stripe down their body in the same place a cardinal tetra would have an orange one. Unlike normal...

  You're right! Thanks for the ID as I was only guessing

He stayed hidden for a few more weeks, but he seems to be recovering now. Weirdly he's gone an orange colour too:  

Hi All,   Last weekend my Amano shrimp (about 2" in length) decided to climb out of my closed tank and jump 9ft across my living room from our 3ft high tank. I found him in the morning when I came downstairs looking a bit dry and crispy.   At first I though he was dead until I saw his legs...

I've had my tank set up for about 2 months now and everything has been going great. I've become quite obsessed with testing the water (almost every day) and have been performing a lot of 25% and 50% water changes when needed. Ammonia was nill, Nitrites were almost nill (ever so slight pink tinge...

i have the equipment as stated above. But fish shop said to wait until weekend anyway. the kit was quite expensive (about 45 pound i think) And im running low on it all already and dont really want to go and have to buy another lot. people been keeping fish for years before they bought out these...

no as i said will be doing it this weekend

Well i spoke to local pet shop and they said to just go for it, so last saturday we added 4 mollys and 2 platys, all seem to be doing ok and one of the mollys started having babies today, not checked water levels again yet will do it this weekend. We ended up removing 20 percent of the water and...

Thanks again David. To answer your questions, the tank wasn't on display with fish in it - in fact it looked brand new when we bought it. It had definitely been used though as the filter was really quite dirty when I pulled it out to clean it on week 2. I do believe I may have made a massive...

Thanks for the reply David. I've just had a read of the thread you mentioned. It looks like one of the main missing ingredients in my setup is the adding of ammonia and testing the water regularly to see how the tank deals with it? My question now I suppose is what should be my next step...

Hi Everyone, Please be gentle as this is my first foray into fish keeping! Basically I purchased an ex-display 120L Jewel fish tank from the local aquarium store about 2 1/2 weeks ago. Got it home, gave it a good clean out (although it was already pretty clean). Put some cleaned gravel in...