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Hmm that's interesting thanks Wilder. I'm not sure if it is that but it could be - it does say that the virus only effects the hostfish or some additional closely related fish so I guess it could effect more than one lemon tetra. Doesn't sound like there's much I can do about it though so I'll...

I'd say they look like growths rather than just black marks. I haven't noticed any flicking or rubbing. The tank is 240 litres - 9 lemon tetras, 12 cardinals, 1 platy, 6 corys, 2 SAE, 3 Ottos. No Ammonia or nitrite, nitrate is 10 and pH 7.

Hi Wilder. They are very dark grey/back marks. Hard to see what the texture is but it does stick out from the fins. As I said the fish don't seem bothered by it at the moment but it does seem to be spreading to the other lemon tetras. That's the best picture we could manage I'm afraid.

We've had them for about 18 months and their tail fins have always been clear so I don't think it's part of their colouring unfortunately.

Hi - a few weeks ago we noticed that one of our lemon tetras has some dark marks on it's tail and dorsal fin. Some of the other lemon tetras have now also got a small amount of this. We went to the LFS and described the markings and they gave us some Interpet Anti-Internal Bacteria to try. We...

We have the following setup that has been running since September last year, we did have blue/green algae a few weeks after the initial setup and were advised to carry out a 3 day blackout and reduce the phosphate using Rowaphos (phosphate was at 5). This did work and we had good plant growth...

Thanks Rabbut. Tetratec is one I was considering as I have heard good things about them. I guess we would have to go for one with a higher flow rate and capacity than the 305 otherwise I don't see how it would be any different. Just another question - does it matter where the input and output...

Well it's just a hum really - we've sort of got used to it but I have read that other filters like the Tetratec are pretty much silent. We have the polishing pads in the filter and it looked okay but we've just fitted some T5 lights to replace the T8s and you can see so much more how unclear...

Hi We have a Fluval Roma 240 which came with a Fluval 305 filter - we have had this running since August last year. The water in the tank is usually quite cloudy and the filter can be pretty noisy so were thinking about replacing the filter with possibly an Eheim 2026. Would this be worth it...

Thanks for the reply Andy. We're not planning a total change just to swap out some of the fast growing plants. Now comes the hard bit - deciding which plants we want!! :fun:

Thanks for the advice! How is the best way to remove an Amazon Sword which is likely to have big roots - can you cut it in the same way? We will try and do it stages so hopefully it will be okay. Now we just have to decide which plants we want - not very easy as I'm not very good at design...

Hi - we've had our first planted tank set up since August with lots of fast growing plants (H polysperma, R rotaundifolia, Hydrocotyle leucocephala, Limnophila sessiliflora, Ceratopteris thalictroides, some Bacopa and Cabomba, along with Crypts, Amazon swords and Java moss). This has mainly...

Thanks we'll try that - will probably run out of the Pimafix but hopefully it will last till we can get some more at the weekend! So it is that there is a bacterial problem which then allows the fungus to grow which is why you recommend using the bacterial and the fungal treatments?