Recent content by johnson.ce2010

OK thanks I shall consider upping the temp. Other than that I can assure you the behaviour isn't normal, if you could see for yourself you would agree with me. His behaviour has gradually got worse over the past week.

Hi everyone Can someone help me diagnose my lyretail checkerboard cichlid so I can try to treat him? His symptoms are as follows: Curving his tail round - if you look from the top he is kinda 'S' shaped Drooping his tail, sometimes dragging it on the substrate Resting occasionally on the...

Hi everyone I have a 60 litre tank with small fish at the moment; ember tetra pygmy corys bumble bee horn snails I've got a bit of an algae problem so I wanted to get a decent size catfish to help. The pygmy corys don't seem to do much good, but I didn't get them just to clean the tank (cute...

Hiya Was wondering if anyone can chip in with some advice on how to breed bumble bee horn snails. I've got a tank full of eggs and would like to hatch a few as I love the little buggers :) Any knowledge appreciated!

Hi everyone I have a 60 litre tank, currently at the tail end of a fishless cycle. I have black fine gravel plant substrate (was in some sort of liquid enriched with minerals) with larger, rounded black gravel on top. Currently there are plants in the tank: Amazon swords Salvinia (floating)...

I've not go the biorb any more, it's a normal little bowfront tank with a sand and smooth gravel substrate, so the cory's will be fine. I've read that the checkerboards are unusually paceful for rams, but you're right, I probably don't have enough space. I'll stick to the other types of fish...

Well, the end of this story is unfortunately a sad one. I lost all of my fish except 1 little ember tetra, and 6 out of 8 shrimp (safely transferred to my mums 25L nano tank). Absolutely gutted. However, fishless cycle (oh if I had only known about this before) is now well underway, hope to...

Hi librarygirl Sounds like we've done exactly the same thing! I feel awful for killing my fish but, like you, I looked to my lfs for advice and simply didn't know enough. I am now on day 10 of my fishless cycle and I am starting to see nitrItes drop and am waiting for a rise in nitrAtes...

Hiya, I saw that you have pygmy corys on one of your posts, are they a good fish to keep? My tank is a 60L planted tank which i'm currently fishlessly cycling. I want to put a few different small fish species in there like celestial danios and ember tetras, so I think the pygmies would mix well...

I lost 3 ember tetras yesterday. Another is on his way out today, and 2 of my danios have clamped fins and are very wobbly. Poor things. I was thinking it was surprising I hadn't lost any fish, seems I spoke too soon. pH has climbed to 7.6, so I am adding bogwood as I have read a lower pH...

Thanks for the response everyone, this issue has now resolved itself and all fish are still present, although they are quite listless and a few have their mouths open. I'm guessing this is because their gills have been damaged :-( Does anyone know is there is anything I can do to help them...

Thanks for the reply onebto. I have been heating the water as you say and am using the tetra aquasafe water conditioner which states it eliminates chlorine and chloramine, and binds heavy metals. However, when everything started to go wrong I had just run out off the aquasafe and was using...

Hi everyone, this is my first post and I'm afraid it's asking for help & advice. I've fallen into the trap of many newbies and think I have new tank syndrome after reading many other posts on many forums. I have had my tank set up around a month, since 27/3/11. I added cherry shrimp after a...