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One of my platy's is in a bad way, I noticed a couple of days ago it had started to sit on the bottom (it still swam around) but now it is on the bottom exclusively on it's side, it's body is curled over. It has a chunk of it's scales missing on one side and it's fins are ragged. The tank is a...

That's good to hear, I spoke to a couple of people at my LFS, one from the Marine room and one from the Tropical section and both said i'd be fine with this setup. Out of interest why would I need to drop the UV? Is UV not beneficial to plants?

They are LED lights, features red, green, blue, deep blue, white, warm white, violet, and UV LED's. I have attached a pic of my setting screen, if I move the slider from the blue side to the left I can set it to output at 6500k.

I currently run a 75 gallon reef tank but i'm wanting to change it over to be a low tech planted tank. Would I be able to use my existing Ecotech Radion lights for this setup? In my Ecotech settings I can set the lights to output at 6500k so I was thinking I could potentially do it, but i'd love...

I still dont think his behavior is 'right'. He spends a lot of time sitting either at the back of the tank or just on the gravel. So far he will only eat live food, either daphnia or brine shrimp. I tried frozen bloodworm but he just spits it out. Are daphnia and brine shrimp nutritious? I was...

I'll be honest, in the pics I saw of him his fins where yellow not orange. Whether they changed colour because he is stressed or simply because he's matured since they were taken I dont know. Either way I think he looks stunning.   I believe live food is used by the Thai breeders, not 100% but I...

I got a halfmoon betta on Friday morning, he is living in a cycled, planted 6.4 gallon tank. He is lovely and he seems very lively and healthy, but he is still stressed (he came through the mail from Thailand). He sometimes swims around but spends a lot of time sitting on the bottom/plants or...

  What would you suggest feeding instead? It must be something which can be fed with long tweezers, pellets for example are no good as they stick to the tweezers.

I have 4 African Dwarf frogs which ive had for around a year. One of them is quite fat, he has been larger than the others for a while but recently he seems even bigger and is having trouble reaching the surface for air. I dont think he has dropsy as he has been fat for months and months, I...

Right ok, I always thought you would start to lose beneficial bacteria after 1 day with no food source, but that's good to know.   At the moment ammonia drops from 2mg/l to 0mg/l in 24 hours. But Nitrite is steady at 5mg/l, nitrate is around 10 - 20 mg/l. Should I maybe do a small water change...

OK, im confused though, if ammonia reads 0 surely that means there is no ammonia and the bacteria will starve?   At the moment Ammonia is at 0.25 and nitrite is at around 2 - 4 (hard to tell which).

Right, I dossed 2mg/l ammonia, 12 hours later it had dropped to 1mg/l and now nitrite is at 2mg/l. So I have a bit of a way to go yet but at least the ammonia seems to be processing well, just gotta wait for my of the nitrite bacteria to grow.

My local fish store wouldn't give me any media but they took a bunch of their sponges and squeezed them out into a bag of water and told me to first put my sponges into the bag and mix them into the gunk, then to put the pads back into the filter and pour the bag into it.   This seems to have...

  Ok thanks a lot for the advice, I checked my readings again and now im getting ammonia 0.50, nitrite 0.25, nitrate 5.   So I guess I will check ammonia again in the morning, and if it has dropped top it up to 2mg/l.