Recent content by poshcatz

Thank you Bullrock74, this is what I had read before, but assumed that I was wrong after fishdude replied. Now I am totally confused. I had not thought about the light bulbs. Is there nothing I can put in the water that will clear this up?

Thanks I will give your advise a go.

Thanks afishdude. What is the appropriate length of time to have the tank light on? The tank is in my kitchen and is in a corner where it does not get much natural light. I usually have the lights on from about 5pm until about 1am. I cant understand why this has only recently started to happen.

Hi, may I ask for some advise please. I have a small tropical set-up which has been up and running for about 5-6 months now. Recently I have started getting this brown algae. So I searched the forums here and found advise about it being caused by not enough light, and that the only way to get...

Thanks Wilder, its a real pain, as i was about to add another couple of guppies at the weekend. People keep telling me it is easier to look after a tropical tank rather than coldwater, but as yet, I am not finding this. But i love this hobby, although I am new to keeping tropical fish. Thanks.

yes it does look like salt but there is not a lot just a few bits on the tail and on the top of the body. When I had a coldwater tank many years ago I had an outbreak of whitespot but the fish were plastered with spots, so this is why I am unsure. Do they float about in the water too?

Hi everyone, Hope someone can help me diagnose a problem I am worrying about. I have a small aquamode 20L tank, set up as tropical. Nitrite and Amonia levels are fine both at zero. But today I have noticed lots of small white particles floating about in the tank. A couple of the fish seem to...