Recent content by spidergravy

I had the same problem with my EX1200, which leaked into my cabinet without me realising (I thought my water was just evaporating more since the central heating was on) and I phoned Tetratec who were so helpful, nice, efficient and really good! They sent me the new hose adaptor without charge...

Thank you for this information about weather loaches. I bought one this morning, from the tropical tank of a pet shop, and was told it was a tropical fish. I have danios (that came from a cold tank today), guppies, platies (or mollies - can't remember) and some neons, so I guess they can all...

I've moved! But sadly I had a few casualties. However, I now have very pretty sand in my tank rather than gravel. I have some questions. My plec is a terraformer. He likes to rearrange the sand into huge mountains and down to glass at the bottom. Is this a problem? I lost a couple of fish...

Thank you to everyone for their help and suggestions. Wish me luck for Wednesday and Thursday!

Hello there I'm moving house on Wednesday and Thursday next week. The removal men will take the tank on Wednesday and I will take my fish. On Thursday the tank can be set up in the new house. I have a few questions. 1) How long can the fish happily be in bags and boxes? I have a lot of small...

Wow, what a star. Will get the sand, wash it, and renew my tank on moving day - thank you! You mention not having to keep all the water - I thought that it was a good idea to keep as much as I could? I have four little panda cories and two clown loaches, a big black shark and a plec, so I think...

Hello there, I was considering changing to sand because we're going to be moving house in a few weeks' time, so at that point I have to empty the fish tank out anyway and remove the fish. Worried now that I might not have time to do it on moving day, what with the kids and the dog and the, um -...

Hello! I'm back. I have been taking a couple of buckets of water out of my tank every evening or couple of evenings and tonight there didn't seem to be much gunk left in the gravel, so I bit the bullet and pulled out the undergravel filter mat. Ooooooh, that was nasty! Possibly about 20 years of...

Thank you everyone, will start today and let you know (if you're interested) how I get on!

Great, will start at the weekend. Like turning over a new fish-caring leaf or at least giving them a fighting chance of looking after themselves a bit! Thank you for your help.

Wow, thank you Sharon, I appreciate the help. Will get someone to take care of the baby, the toddler and the giant puppy and give it a go at the weekend! When you say condition the water, do you mean anything other than adding something to remove the chlorine? I have 'chlor-out' or some such...

Hello there I;ve just posted about my neon tetra, but while I'm with you and I have your attention, I'd really appreciate some help with my water quality. It's rubbish. I inherited the tank, all 220 or so litres of it, from a friend of a friend in January. She said that one of its inhabitants...

Hello there I've not posted for a while (been busy having babies and the like) but you've always been really helpful in the past so I was wondering if you could perhaps tell me what illness just one of my neon tetra is suffering from? I've had white-spot in both tanks this week, and at the same...

Thank you Nim, that's what I was planning to do. Not too sure why my ammonia readings are high though. Haven't got as far as researching that yet. The wind blew my shed door off. Not that that's an excuse or nuffink. hehe

Don't know about the calculation, just going by their website - they say that a Tetratec EX 1200 will be fine for up to 500l, so I thought I might trust them... hehe