Recent content by simonandlisa

hi, everyone may seem a funny question but how do we size fish, is it from nose to tail, or nose to end of body. also what is the rule for stocking a tank , is it one inch of fish per gallon or one inch of fish per ten gallon. many thanx

hi, thanks for the reply miss wiggle, the only thing that worries me is that the tap water we are putting in is very high in nitrate, now the test kit im useing is interpet easy test. how ive tested the nitrate, is a glass off water left for twenty four hours then test the water. now my test kit...

Hi all, just an update, aquarium ammonia and nitrite both zero mg/l worried about our tap water though, nitrate is reading 75-100 mg/l and ph is 8 approx also does anyone know about detonators for nitrate removal ??? do they work as they are very expensive??? thanks simon and lisa

Hi waterdrop, thanks for your advice and help, we will invest in a more accurate testing kit, for now its just test and wait for ammonia to rise,

Hi, ammonia and nitite are zero, nitrate is high, but levels in our tap water are, you refer to levels not going above 0.25 for ammonia and nitrite but we have nutrafin test kits and on the ammonia result card it goes up in stages of 0, 0.6, 1.2, 2.4, 4.9 and 7.3, mg/l so when you say 0.25...

hi, thanks for the help and great advice, so far, as things stand, we have taken the clear max out of the fluval and replaced that with the fluval biomax, and performed a 50% water change today to try get the nitrate down, also we have tested our tap water for nitrate and found that it was...

hi, thanks for the reply we have taken the nitro zorb out but replaced it with clear max which i put in the external filter so should i take that out and just do water changes if levels go up but the problem what we have now is nitrate which is 50 mg/l after a 30% water change many thanks

hi, sorry what i didnt tell you was i ran the juwel sponges briefly under the tap to get algae off

hi everyone im new here nice to meet you all. me and my girlfriend have bought a second hand juwel rio 240 litre tank, when we bought it this tank was full of algae so we had to scrub the tank and and couldnt use any of the water due to it was green lol. now what we have done is bought a fluval...