Recent content by Skipper123

Yep - I put in a large piece of bogwood on Sunday so hopefully that will start to lower the pH a bit. I do have another (pretty daft) question, which is about breeding. I guess when stocking a tank you put in a mixture of males and females (to replicate the natural environment) but surely if...

Wow - thanks a lot for all the advice - really helpful. I guess I'll not bother adding PH down to the tank then and add a couple of hardy fish in a couple of weeks time. I'm thinking of starting with a couple of platys then adding some guppies a few weeks later... which from all the texts...

Hi I'm new to the site and fishkeeping in general, so I was wondering if anyone could just offer me some advice on my pH reading. I got my 125l tank about a week ago and the I tested the pH after a few days and the reading was about 8.5. I know that our tap water is pretty hard so I'm...