Recent content by mikey26

Thanks mate, Well no more fish are dying, but it's really frustating because I don't know what caused it! The new water should have been exactly the same... I get it from the same tap every week :-) I tested everything else and there didn't seem to be anything wrong with the water. Whatever it...

Thanks for the replies guys. That's exactly what I did. When I found them all gasping for air, I took the CO2 out straight away. Luckily I have a spare pump and airstone so I put that in, and I took out about 25% of the water so it was below the level of the pump outlet. No more have died now...

Hi there, If I put too much CO2 in tank will the fish suffocate? This morning I found 13 fish had died and the rest were gasping for air. I can't understand why. I had just done a big water change and moved a lot of my plants around. In fact I had started doing this the day before. I took...

Hi, I just had exactly the same problem this morning. I woke up and found a couple of dead fish floating at the top of my tank. I noticed all my other fish where swimming near the top. At first I thought they were just trying to eat the dead fish, but then I realised they were gasping for air...

The tank looks great. I've got the same one and it doesn't look as good as that. I wish I'd gone for sand instead of gravel, it looks really good.

Hiya, I haven't got a testing kit for Nitrate and Nitrite. When I first set the tank up I was taking water samples to my LFS until they told me when everything was okay. Since then I've just been making weekly tests for Ammonia which is 0. I thought if the Ammonia stays at 0 I don't have worry...

Thanks Heather Everyone at work thought it was funny! But it was actually pretty sad - It's not very nice taking a dead fish out of your tank... especially with its eyes missing!

Cool I hope you're right - it certainly looks like the other angel is missing him. I think I will buy another one to replace him... I just hope the same thing doesn't happen again. It's very difficult to know what fish to buy, which ones go together okay and how many to buy. Every site I check...

Really? I thought clown loaches were supposed to be peaceful? According to Wikipedia they are harmless, very active, social fish. Which is pretty much like mine I think... they zoom around and bump into each other a lot but I've not seen them be aggressive to any other fish or nipping them.

Hello, I'm still very new to keeping fish and I've had my tank for a couple of months now and so far have 4 young clown loaches, 2 young angel fish, 2 leopard mollies (one male and one female) and about about 10 baby fry mollies (the tank is 260 litres), and everything was going fairly well...