Recent content by Meady

Thanks Coldcazzie, great reply. Cheers :) I am in a bit of a situation regarding the water changes, in that I have no option to dechlorinate tonight, well I have some old dechlorinator there but didn't know whether to use it as its past its use by date, and the fish need fresh water now. So...

I know a guy with a tank, how would i go about adding mature media? simply expel one of his sponges onto one from my own filter? Just noticed that even after a 30% water change the fish are starting to go back to the top so I've just changed another two large buckets of water (around 15%) and...

kaivalagi - Thanks for your post. Glad you seem to have it under control!!! I will keep doing water changes, I guess my saving grace will be that at least 'some' of the beneficial bacteria will be in the filter from the old water that was in the tank, I just lost a two year old chichlid when...

Hi and thanks for the quick reply... I have tested the water and have a slight nitrite reading and a slight nitrate reading, so it would seem that the cycle is well in, but not fully established. I simply clean the filter by removing the sponges and washing them under the tap, but I found out...

I've been an idiot. I had a lovely little tank setup that was starting to look drab, so the missus and I went shopping yesterday for new substrate and a few new fish. We removed the old substrate, put in the new and cleaned the filter. Today the tank has gone cloudy and my partner noticed...