Recent content by purrsian

Oh ok awesome. It's a drip test and on the little chart, it has 0 as yellow, 5 as yellowy orange and 10 as orange, reason I said they were 7 and 10 is because the colours definitely were different, but I suppose yes, it's probably just inaccuracies or the tap water being different. I was mainly...

Also if it helps I tested my tap water today and it was pH 7.6 and nitrates between 0 and 5ppm. I don't know if that has anything to do with anything but hey, might help :)

Just recently, I've had two fish die - a neon and an albino rainbow shark. Because I can't totally tell why they died, I've finally bought myself a nitrate test kit, soon to be followed by a few other tests when I can afford them. Tested the water yesterday and it was pH of 7.2 and nitrates of...

Unfortunately my little sharky has passed away tonight :( Thank you tttnjfttt for giving me some advice when I was panicking, it's greatly appreciated. I'm about to do a water change to help reduce the risk of any of the others getting anything. Is it normal for him to have passed away so...

I'll do a water change this evening. I'd isolate him into another tank, but I don't have a heater to fit either of my smaller tanks :/ The tetras always avoided him anyway, so even though he's sick they've still be leaving him alone thankfully. What antibiotics do I need to get and do I just...

I'll try feeding peas, although I don't know if that will be successful as I never saw him feed anyway - he always must've at night. And he's not generally on the bottom - he's floating right up the top and I've just been watching him and he's now spending his whole time at the top and he's...

Request Help Tank size: 2ft, I think it's about 16 gallons pH: I have no testing equipment at this stage at all ammonia: nitrite: nitrate: kH: gH: tank temp: 25 degrees celsius Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior): no visible change at all...