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Nitrate was 30. Nitrite 0. So our test kit was rubbish. With the gravel vac we push it right down to make sure all the gravel gets cleaned. All our remaining fish are fine. The acquarium thinks there was just something wrong with that one fish that died as they said the platties would of...

I did shake the bottles as it said to in the book. I will get the local acquarium shop to test my water for me today.

Nitrates have been zero for a long time. I have a liquid test kit that is about a year and a half old. It suggests the Nitrate levels should be 40ppm or less. Considering ours is zero I thought that was ok. Ph hasn't dropped recently. Its been pretty stable at around 6.8-7. Im a bit confused...

We have just lost a golden gourami. He started looking not to well last night and then tonight he really wasn't looking good so we put him out of his misery. I have checked the water - PH was 6.8 (a little off), Ammonia was 0, Nitrite was 0 and Nitrate was 0. Our tank is 280Litres...

Our pearl gourami has made a very good recovery. We have been treating the tank for a week now and all the "fluff" on her fins has gone. We turned our tank temp down 1 degree, and I checked our PH, Nitrate, Nitrite and Ammoia and everything is spot on. Thanks to everyone who helped.

Yes, Ive read that they get quite big. The fish shop that we go too has them in 3 different sizes, but I have also seen quite a large one in an tank that the fish shop has set up. We were planning on keeping the fish we have at the moment (As posted above) and added 3-4 clown loaches and that...

Inchworm - We do have a test kit and we tested the nitrate, ammonia and PH last week and everything looked to be OK. I will do another test tonight. A water change was done last week. Should we do another one this week ? or is that going to be too often? We do also have a male gourami who...

Thankyou - I will do this today. Im presuming lfs stand for local fish shop. The fish shop we went to has a very good name and was recommended to us by several people, so I thought I would get good advice from there. We wanted to put clown loaches in our tank but were told to wait another...

Thanks for the reply. The tank cycled for a month before the gouramis were added. We went into the aquarium shop and asked advice on what fish we should add and when. We were told we could add the gourami's. Should we have waited longer ? - We relied on the aquariums advice. Id say it looks...

We have a 280L tank which was set up about 1.5 months ago. 3 weeks ago we added a few platties and 2 weeks ago we added 1 female and 1 male Pearl Gourami. Yesterday I noticed on our female pearl gourami that she has something on her top fin and back fin. It looks a bit like there is some white...