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you can buy a small baby breeding tray. it is basically a tray which floats on top of the water and it has a small grill at the bottom. you put your females in there and when the babies are born they swim through the bottom and stay safe where the mother cant eat them! not that i would visibly...

thanks for your advice, the water is pretty cloudy at the moment, not sure if that is because of the missing carbon filter. my fish are all moving very slowly and hardly move at all now. im worried that they may all die as i lost 4 neon/cardinal tetras last week could the losses be anything to...

hi, i have done a really silly thing and left my carbon filter out of my jewel rekord 96 for 3 weeks! i was treating my fish for various diseases and totally forgot to put it back! im such an amateur, but was just wondering if you could give me some advice on what to do and possibly recommend...

definitely best to change it every week, and even then keep checking it. if the wool pad is blocked up then it will slow the whole thing down

i have had exactly the same problem mate. mine is a rekord 96 and my flow stopped for about a week unfortunately i didnt notice, my water became really stagnant. i could smell it in my living room. you need to rinse some of the clogged up sponges in some fish water taken from the tank and then...

no i cleaned them in some fish water that i took from my tank. i hope i sort things out soon!!!!

[B]hi everyone B) i did have a mixture of 12 neons/cardinals. i say did because i have lost 4 in the past week! what a nightmare! well they started off with what looked like a fungus covering them, which then deveolped into 1mm water like blisters with what looks like a tiny white spore in...

i think some of my fish are gonna have to go!!! which ones would you suggest to get rid of? its the only way as i cant afford to buy a new tank i did have a problem with my filter a while ago tho, im very new to all this and didnt clean the sponges enough which stopped the motor working and...

cheers mate, what a nightmare eh? ive had my tank set up for 6 mths now and not had any probs at all. my plec is only 2 ins big and about the same for my loachesand the shark. i dont have a test kit but perhaps i should buy one and think about shipping some of the fish which are not my...

[B]Hi everyone just thought i would introduce myself, im emily from cheshire in the uk. i have a jewel aquarium - rekord 96 and thought id just let you know which fish i have: 2 x glass fish 2 x rams 2 x pink kissing gourami's 1 x opaline gourami 2 x clown loach 1 x coolie loach 1 x...