Recent content by mark35

Thanks for the good advice, i'm not a complete novice as i kept fish very successfully when i was a teenager. but i will be sacking the forum off. back to the books for me. boosh.

In the first 3 weeks we added nutra-fin cycle to introduce the bacteria into de-chlorinated water. On Saturday just gone we went to A5 Aquatics and they did a water test for us - ammonia was 0.5, nitrate 0.3, pH 8. We were advised not to add any more fish at this stage and told that real...

The tank has been set up for 5 weeks and the fish have been in for just over two... thanks for your advise so far. Mark

Hi all, newbe here. My daughter received a tropical tank set up for Christmas, all was going well until tonight. We'd had 3 fish in for 2 weeks. 2 platies and a cat fish, who was swimming upside-down and bumping into things. I have taken this out. The only changes I have made...