Recent content by lealou

Hi I have a tropiquarium 88 but the lights have stopped working. We have replaced the 2 lights, the fuses, and the battery in the control/timer unit, and can't see any loose wires but still no joy. I noticed you can buy new control units, is it worth doing this or is there anything we've missed...

The root is bigger than i made out and actually takes up half the tank. The cichlid was with others of the same kind for years but he and the catfish are the last left and we thought that the angels being the same size/bigger and cichlids would be ok in the tank especially as there were no other...

They are ghost/glass catfish and have been with the angels for about 3 years. The catfish is a synodontis and the cichlid is a mbuna (i can't remember the full name). The angels are the same size or if anything bigger than the cichlid, and from what i've seen they are the aggressive ones in the...

I have 3 angel fish that i have recently moved to a larger tank that was already established, very quickly 2 of them have developed what looks like fin rot. There is one particularly bad one who seems to have hardly any fins left and is either on the bottom of the tank vertical, or upside down...

Thanks, i looked at the melafix and it had tea tree oil so i went for that. For a couple of days the symptoms didn't get any worse, but then it just died. I'm not sure what is was in the end as when i fished it out it looked as if his body had been disintegrating from the dorsal fin down! :-(

:( I have a 4 year old featherfin catfish (3-4 inches) that has lived with some angels and ghost fish for the same amount of time, 4 days ago they were all moved to a larger tank. This tank has been running for about 2 years but was recently emptied and water changes done over 2 days, it was...