Recent content by Siggy75

I think this forum is very anti-bottled bacteria, I've noticed that others are a bit more receptive to it. I suppose that's the nature of forums - attracting like-minded people. As a newbie I'd be frightened to mention the bottled stuff for fear of being shot down like other people.

I'm a beginner and set my tank up using one of these products and I think they do help. They are not perfect by any means but they are not as bad as people make out on here, and I think that a lot of the naysayers have probably never used it or understand how it works. I think they do give you...

Thanks for your comments. I've done a large water change with a bit of a scrub of the glass and it's looking a lot better for now. I've also picked up a lovely Red Dwarf Gourami, so I'm going to see how it goes, but I'm feeling a lot better about it now. Yes, I am doing a fish-in cycle (thanks...

I'm a beginner and everything has been going swimmingly (excuse the pun), but I woke this morning to find hundreds of white specs on the glass of the aquarium. They are about 2mm wide and on close inspection they are hanging on by a thread. I think I can identify tentacle like structures but the...