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Ive had a cycled 95 litre tank with 15 fish . Unfortunately my internal filter began to stop working 6 months into its 2 year guarantee . My LFS replaced it with a different and more powerful filter and my old filter media was in tank water for 2 hours until i got it into the new filter. I...

The filter body has 2 square compartments the bottom 1 contains like a coarse sponge and the top 1 contained the square Zeo/carb Cartridge . Ive been to the LFS and put in 1 flat piece of foam and 1 flat piece of polyester filter pad but the filter has sucked that bit up diagonally . Could i...

Ive just lost another Guppy as well as having a very sick Skirted Tetra ( Posted in Fish Emergencies). Got a small Ammonia reading today so Immediately did a 15% water change and Ive removed the Zeo/carb cartridge to put Anti Bacterial medication in for Tetra & kept it in water but it cant be...

Ive just taken a photo but how do i up-load it please ?

Need advice quickly please. I have a 95 litre tank fishlesly Cycled for 2 Months, 0 Ammonia , 0 Nitrites ,20 Nitrates before adding 6 skirted Tetras but i never read the filter instructions properly as it has a Zeo/carb box in the top half and i have soaked it in separate tank water as with the...

Hi Waterdrop & Alchemist , when you say Chemical media are swapped ive just lost a guppy and one of my Skirted Tetras is reaaly bad with Both POP Eyes distended abdomen and shiny scales Shes had one slight POP eye that ive bought some Interpet Anti Internal Bacteria for but it says on the...

I thought id done a fishless cycle , i regularly test the water and since adding the fish do a 10% water change every week .

My Nitrites are 0 and I use the API Freshwater Master Test Kit. The thing is the tank manufacturer is selling this type of filter with the tank so obviously a beginner would think thats fine . Its got the foam in the the bottom of the filter which should get populated but it says never clean or...

Hi, ive been using an Elite Jet Flo 100 filter in the 95 Litre tank it came with and was wondering if i could replace the Zeo carb cartridge with normal filter foam the same as in the bottom part of the filter and the put some Tetra Safestart in to populate it with bacteria. I am begining to...

PM=Pesky Mouse, Shall we call it a draw after your go otherwise we could carry on till 2020 UNLESS you can think up an aquatic one like ~~~~ Pufferfish Media :hooray:

PM=Professional Musician as well :hyper:

Thanks , sorry im appearing a bit thick but whats 'PM ' ? and bye the way you people are a friendly bunch of fishlovers , im glad i joined :good:

Thanks for the link , ive posted on waterdops page , sounds like a bit of legend around these parts :thanks:

Hi waterdrop. Ive copied my 1st posting to you: Im a first aquarium novice and have been fishlessly cycling for 7 weeks , got a planted tank and Ammonia readings 0.25 peaked at 1.00 >>> Nitrite 0, peaked at 0.5 and Nitrate 20 , been using only fish flakes ( increased to larger pinch per day...