Recent content by Renzo77

I don't remember adding anything to the tank. I do think it could have been what I've fed since i fed him pellets that were mostly dry and not pre-soaked and sometimes flakes and freeze-dried tubifex. I'm pretty sure he was quite young considering his size and comparing it to fully grown bettas...

Sadly, my betta passed away and I'm trying to find out the cause since he's not the first betta to die in a similar way. He was ok for 2 weeks in a heavily planted 20 gal tank already stocked with some cardinal tetras and seemed naturally lazy ever since I bought him, which I believe was a...

I’ve had nitrate problems in my tap water for a long time with my tap water having about 40ppm of nitrates. I was wondering if someone could give me insight on how you would install a pozzani filter and use it as I don’t want to buy one only to find out that it’s basically useless. Apparently...

The regulator was attached to the output of the extinguisher and had two pressure gauges that stated the inlet pressure and the delivery pressure. We didn't realise that a more fine adjustment knob was required as the videos we've seen sometimes didn't show one. Could the lack of this second...

There was a sudden rush of co2 coming from a co2 fire extinguisher cylinder that has sadly killed majority of the fish in our tank, with 2 weather loaches that have been rushed to another tank with similar parameters currently recovering. The setup consisted of the fire estinguisher with a...

i ordered some hornwort from eBay and found a worm around half the size of my finger nail (however has the ability to exceed this when stretching itself) and feared it might be some kind of leech or parasite. Is it possible that it could be some kind of leach and could it harm my fish? I also...

I’ve made a thread about this before but my honey gourami is somehow still sick. Before I was talking about how he would stay at the top of the tank and breath from the surface and suspected it was a bacterial infection. It did seem he got better as time went by but now he’s gotten similar...

So I’ve been checking up on him lately and I think he’s starting to bloat? I can see some swelling around the main organs and it’s starting to become noticeable. Could this be some kind of bladder problem?

I got an aquarium hang-on filter 600-ho by allpondsolutions and I just simply take out the black sponges and squeeze them out in tank water in a bucket.

My tanks about 90 litres(20 gallons) and I’ve been told of pozzani filters but don’t really know which one I’m supposed to get and I’m pretty sure they’re expensive?

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My tanks been up for around 3 years and I’ve gotten the gourami around 2-3 weeks ago. Sadly the nitrates straight out my tap are very high here in London and am still trying to find a cost effective way to reduce it. I’ve just attached a video of the gourami

i get that gouramis have a labyrinth and can breath from the surface but my honey gourami does it for extended periods of time. He eats and swims around the tank but his time at the surface has increased. All the other fish are fine and are swimming normally (10 cardinal tetras, 1 molly, couple...

Water straight out of my tap is 40ppm so that’s the lowest I can go or I get an RO system. I guess it’s a common problem for people who live around west London.

Ammonia - 0.2ppm Nitrites - 0ppm Nitrates - 40ppm My pH is around 7.6-7.8. My pH before was around 8.2 before but I’m guessing the CO2 has altered it. Could this be a contributing factor and can’t the bubbles from my sponge filter help with the CO2?