Recent content by Karliki

did you wash the gravel/sand before you set it all up? If you didn't then this could be a possible reason as to why the water is looking cloudy.

its because your tipping a large volume of water into a tank, the o2 gets caught in the water during the tipping motion and because you have nothing in the tank to disturb the bubbles they just stay there. Its like when you run a bath the o2 bubbles stick on the side until you get in there.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I shall keep them in mind :fun:

thanks for the pleco suggestions: I've never kept plecos before so I'm not sure what type would be best for the size of my tank or how long I'd have to leave the tank before it had a good source of algae for them to eat. Any suggestions? Also, I've never kept shrimp before so I don't know what...

thanks for the replies, I was only going to get male guppies and female platies (I should have put that in the original post). I was thinking of getting a few more Cory's but wasn't sure if I would have overstocked. Would shrimp cause problems with the other fish, and how many would you...

Hello everyone, I was wondering if I could ask for your thoughts. I will be looking to create a community tank once my tank has cycled (125liters, 27.5 UK gallons, 33 US gallons) but am unsure if the fish I want will make the tank over stocked. This is the stock that I was thinking I could put...

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Hello Everyone, About 3 weeks ago I purchased a 25 liter tank, thinking that starting off small would be the easiest way to go. However, after doing some reading on the net I realised that the bigger the tank the easy everything is too handle. In the tank at the moment I have 2 guppies, 2...