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I do test the water on a weekly basis - so far I have had two instances of slightly high nitrates so have done a water change straight away and it has settled down. I am passing on a lot of my 'babies and teens' to my mother who has a relatively new tank so that should reduce the stock in the...

I have mickey mouse platys that have crossed with a red swordtail. Although they are only about 6 weeks old the fry have the characteristics of the platy - they have the mickey mouse markings and the shape - however, 5 of the 6 are the dark orange of the swordtail. One of them is almost white...

I recently swapped tanks - an upgrade from 125 ltr to 400ltr The plan was to transfer the water from the old tank but we got some kind of parasite So the new tank had a couple of bottles of tetra safe liquid chucked in along with a load of new plants - left to cycle for 48 hours then we...

I am fairly new to tropical fish - started with a Rio 125 and after six months have a 400ltr Rena tank. I initially got quite a lot of fish as I was told it would take a while for the tank to settle and for the fish to start breeding - I currently have:- 2 x Sterbas corydoras 2 x peppered...