Recent content by Peter Blake

Yeah, 19l is small - looking to upgrade soon, but want to get this one stable first. Cutting back on the feeding is good advice, thanks - we'll move to every two days and see how we get on. I'm surprised to hear they can survive a week without food - Probably won't be trying that if I'm honest!!

No, definitely not going to add it myself - that would be fairly reckless! My point was that there needs to be some ammonia in there to build up the bacteria (from the fish), but ultimately that seems to be harming them. But I'll just let nature take its course now - daily changes and hopefully...

Thanks again, I'd done a 50% water change this morning. Will keep doing 30%-40% daily until the levels stabilize. It's becoming apparent that I've cycled the tank wrong and these fish are suffering the consequences of that, which isn't great. The horrible truth seems to be that the tank is...

Thanks - yes, I do use the strips, but to be honest I recognise that they are not great. I'll certainly upgrade now. The strips do not have a test for ammonia - my limited understanding of it lead me to believe that nitrite levels were indicative of ammonia, but if that's not the case I'll look...

Hi all, First time fish keeper, so learning all the time - could do with a sanity check on what we're doing following a couple of deaths in the last week. We've had the tank set up for around 6 weeks (2 weeks cycling and 4 with fish). Here are the specs for the tank: Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 25...