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We have two small-ish Angel fish and last night they were swimming around as if they were kissing. their mouths were joined and one would swim backwards and the other forwards for a small period and then wriggle a bit and come free. It is hard to explain, but they did it several times. Can any...

So only put 1 fish in it ?

And, what would be suitable for this tank? or is it useless?

I can only find a pinned thread for fishless cycling. Is there one for with fish ??

I don't think that the shop would let us return them. . .

Tank size: 5gal/20L pH: 6.8 - which I know is probably a little low but we have had a heap of trouble getting it down and now that we have its gone in the opposite direction ammonia: The water looked a little cloudy this morning (I'm in Aust.) so I added 5mL of "ammo lock" nitrite: not sure...

We have a blue acara and a gold cichlid and they seem to be "gulping" at the surface. A low DO problem maybe?? But i can't see how this is the case - everything seems to be running fine.

awesome :) thanks again

yeah that makes sense how bad is the really cloudy water for the fish? Just checked for leaks and stuff it all seems to be in working order. Maybe I just think that it should be flowing faster for some reason. Any way the water is extremely cloudy at the moment due to me stirring the gravel up...

Thanks heaps for all your help =) I think that the gravel might be used for the filtering of big bits of stuff, as you say. I might have to look into weather we have a leak or not Thanks again for the help

yes in the tray where the water comes out there is a "carbon floss cartridge" and a "black bio sponge" it does say underground filter on the instruction sheet

we pulled the "black box" out from underneath the gravel - (making the water very cloudy) and pulled it apart and cleaned the cartridge which was inside. Was this wrong :$? It says its an undergravel filter

We bought a tank kit. The set up is hard to explain so i have just posted a copy of the instructions that came with the tank. We just set it up like that and then chucked the gravel in

It has to be in contact with the gravel - it sits underneath it. How often should it need to be cleaned - it was only done two days ago and already the water flow seems to have slowed down.

Not really sure, the water flow just slows down a lot. - We haven't had the tank for long and we first cleaned out the undergravel part of the filter the other day. This caused huge disruption to the tank due to the gravel being disturbed. The water was extremely cloudy and I can't imagine that...