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Hi I have (well had now) a 220L community tank of tropicals with the following: 2 x halfback angels 2 x marbled angels 2 x Pakastani loaches 2 x spotted catfish 1 x gold gourami Since I reduced my stock levels months ago, I have had a very peaceful and clean tank, but in the last 2 days a...

Given that I got so much good advice about my yellow water problem off this forum, this should be fairly easy for you. I want to find the quietist but still effective way to aerate my 220L tank. Currently I have an intank sponge filter with an air intake. It seems to do a good job at moving the...

OK, so I took another sample to a different LFS today and the gave me the following pH 7.8, Ammonia 0ppm, Nitrite 0ppm, Nitrate 0ppm The only thing he could see was the pH was too high. He said the Seachem Neutral Regulator I use should bring it down. The only thing he could suggest was to use a...

Thanks again for all the replies. The way they tested the water was to pour my water into 4 test tubes and then add chemicals to each of them. I may have misunderstood him, but he definitely picked up one of the test tubes after he'd added the chemicals and said the food and waste is fine. How...

Thanks for all the replies. Ok, so firstly, when I clean my filters, I only ever clean them with siphoned water from the tank. I squeeze the sponges from the internal cannister filters until there is no gunk. With the external filter, same thing - siphoned water only. Squeeze out the big sponge...

The driftwood has been in the tanks since day 1, when I started with Cichlids, but I never had the yellow water problem in six years. I'm just wondering if I've hit some kind of limit in terms of bacteria and waste in the tank. I do have a large Eheim external filter that my brother says is...

Only have a PH test kit and it is sitting pretty much bang on 7.

Thanks for the reply. I was doing a water change cos I was told when I first stared keeping fish way back when, that you should change 1/3 of their water every 3-4 weeks. I was thinking it might be a stock problem, but when I purchased the fish I did tell the aquarium people how big my tank...

Hi, I am recent convert to tropicals after having kept a community tank of mainly cichlids for nearly 6 years. Recently our large Parallelus went nuts and killed nearly all the other fish within 2 nights. We decided to try tropicals as our our local aquarium said they were more placid. We...