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Er - a fishless cycle?

I'm going to use my old tank for tadpoles (and then frogs!). I hoping they'll croak? Had a feeling it wasn't a good idea to introduce the bog wood to the new tank. I'll start again with fresh wood and a new java fern. In the end I opted for yet another bag each of glacial 2-3mm gravel and...

I'm going to get a couple of tadpoles for my little (40litre) tank and then hopefully we'll have two frogs.

Whew: that's a relief! I really wasn't looking forward to lugging 10(!) buckets of water around every week! Luckily the laundry is close by and I can run a hose. Should I get special inert tubing or is a length of garden hose okay? Wow: 300gallons! Wow! You must have one or two (or three or...

I remember the excitement of my first tank, and no I hadn't heard about fishless cycles then either. The knowledgable chap at my LFS recommended Platys as the best fish to cycle a tank. Neons are lovely little fish, however I have found them to be fin-nibblers: I tried a few times to keep a...

I'd be more concerned about how hot it got during the day! We have a conservatory off the end of our house and it must hit 40C during the summer and temperatures like that will heat up your tank, making conditions a little uncomfortable for the fish. Plus won't all that sunlight encourage algae...

I have a 225litre tank that I am currently cycling preparatory to adding my first fish (this is day 2, only 26 to go!). My current dilemna is how will I manage my weekly water changes once I start to add stock? My little 40 litre tank is no trouble: a 25% water change is more or less a regular...

Er, um: please excuse a silly question but wouldn't more food mean more waste? As in won't the greedy wee fishy things extrude what they can't metabolise? My poor fish are lucky to be fed thrice weekly as I'm sure I read somewhere it's better to under feed than over feed.

My little tank has a piece of bog wood nicely covered in java fern and some other plant (with round leaves). However this tank also has a nasty infestation of hairy algae that I see in another forum is unbelievable difficult to get rid of. I suspect it is NOT a good idea to put this in my new...

When Santa popped a 225 litre tropical tank in my stocking, I wanted to set it up right. Despite many attempts, I have never been able to grow plants in my first - 40 litre - tank, and this time I am determined to have lush greenery (NOT plastic!) with shoals of fish flitting hither and thither...