Recent content by keastclan

I would never have normally done a fish in cycle. 180 litres of water gushing to the floor, there was just panic. I hate the thought of a fish in cycle. It goes against everything I have learnt. I would never recommend anyone does a fish in. It's like rolling a dice to decide which lives or...

Thank you. I am just not used to doing a fish in cycle, and them being in the bucket probably didn't help their chances. I fully expect to lose some through shock alone. Unfortunately I didn't save the media. I left it in the filter, but as it was sat a couple of days before the shops opened...

I had a frugal 180 litre which decided to haemorrhage water from the bottom on Saturday night. Because of Easter Sunday the fish had to spend until Monday afternoon in a bucket. Not ideal..... I now have a new 180 litre jewel. I've put evolution aqua pure aquarium balls in (20 of them) got...

Hi,  I have a fluval vincenza (bow fronted and the canopy comes in 3 sections. Occasionally one of my cats jumps up on it (well I think it's occasionally).  I am concerned that it's not going to take the weight and I will come home one day to electrocuted cat and fish.  Has anyone out there got...

Hi All,  I have an ongoing problem with green cyanobacteria in my planted tank since the back end of last year. I have done numerous blackouts etc which temporarily gets rid of it but it keeps returning. Also bought a powerhead to get rid of dead spots. In the UK you can't buy antibiotics to get...

and what type of size am I going for? 1000, 1500, higher? in a 180 litre bow fronted tank. Completely unrelated too should I reduce the hours my lights are on from 8 to say 6?

does anyone have any idea what wavemaker I should get?

I think I am going to have to buy a wave maker looking at how my tanks is doing. No one told me that this hobby would be a bottomless money pit lol    There is no way I can change how my tank is set up unfortunately

just cleaned the filter too. Doesn't look like there is filter floss in it, just sponge and substrate and the carbon (which I have now removed as the cloth bags it was in had disintegrated. How often should the filter be cleaned? and should there always be carbon in it?

light on times at the moment are 2pm until 10pm, I can reduce that.... I've just moved one of the outlet heads to point down to see if that will create more of a current. It's a fluval that I have so the outlet is 2 heads on one pole in the right hand back corner

so would I angle something like that towards where the cyanobacteria currently grows? as I presume that is where I have dead water?   What I need is someone to come to my house and do it all for me lol

how would you increase the water circulation?

Hi, I have an ongoing problem with cyanobacteria. I have a 180 litre tank with external filtration. I do 20% water changes twice a week.  I have previously treated this with 3 days blackouts, but unfortunately it returns.   I have read about doing a blackout and increasing the nitrates. Does...

I got some vouchers for Aquajardin in Gloucestershire. will go at the weekend, can't wait!

Just to let everyone know, I unwrapped my tank. All fish were present and correct and all the cyanobacteria had gone. I would not hesitate to use this method again. My other good news on Xmas day is that I had vouchers for my LFS, yay!!!!