Recent content by Mikeyboy123

Thanks everyone and Happy New Year. Very pleased to have come 3rd.

How about egg crate or similar plastic grid. You could sandwich a few pieces together to fill the space you’ve got. Maybe tie the different pieces together with cable ties so the holes line up. I wouldn’t think it would clog that way.

Glad you got it sorted. I think you did the right thing. I like your stand. What make is it? Did you buy online?

I like your tanks but I would put more plants along the back in all of them. Perhaps buy a bunch of vallis and put one or two in each tank. Once they get going they’ll be putting out shoots and any that appear where you don’t want them, snip the shoot off once it’s an inch or so tall and plant...

From the info I’ve found on the web this species typically inhabits the bottom-middle of the water column so perhaps what you are seeing is their usual behaviour.

Your ammonia is on an upward curve. Soon (hopefully) the nitrite will do the same. Look out for a nitrite peak followed by a nitrite crash to zero. At that point, your ammonia should also be zero and you'll be cycled. You will probably have a pretty high nitrate level by then, so will need to...

Why did you feel you needed to reduce the nitrate level? 8ppm is not high.

Yeah, just clean the gravel with a siphon as normal and then quickly filter the water you've removed and put back in tank. I sometimes do this. A fine mesh filter works quite well - the type used to strain off BBS.

I've never liked livebearers at all, at least not the ones commonly available. However, for the past couple of years I have been keeping two 5 gals, one with chilli rasboras and the other with axelrod's rasboras. Living in an area with pretty hard water I have to harvest rainwater and mix with...

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I was thinking the same thing.

Rotifers are no good for adult fish. As I keep tiny fish, the only live foods they get are baby brine shrimp and microworms, both pretty easy to culture on a small scale. If you need something bigger then I don't know much about that I am afraid, but I do know that people culture things like...

Rotifers are really just for tiny fry. Is that what you need?

Hi. I don’t know much about raising brine shrimp beyond the baby stage but I have an alternative suggestion for you. How about raising a community of small inverts in a spare tank? Scuds, daphnia, seed shrimp, copepods. Don’t know a great deal about this either mind, but it would take salt out...

Looks like it's a device that allows you to easily remove solid waste that would otherwise sit in the filter between water changes. I suppose if you have a big tank with big poo machines then it could be handy to stop the filter getting clogged and to allow to remove the solids more often rather...