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Hi At last I have finished fishless cycling of my daughters 48 litre fish tank..yipee!!! Despite me saying it looks good with just warm water and plants she is insisting she want fish in it! So I just wondered if you guys could suggest the best fish to get her started. Our water has ph of 7- 8...

Not sure what ph is but water is very hard, we suffer with limescale! But I do have a water softener on tap though, I haven't got ph testing stuff will have to buy some to check.

It's a bioflow mini filter it came with the tank x

I have been doing my fishless cycle for 3 weeks now and my ammonia level has been at 3ppm for last week, nitrite 0.25. Not sure what to do shall I just wait? Just found out the kids caught some 'snot' their words! in the tank with the net when I wasn't looking, do you think this was my longed...

I have been doing my fishless cycle for 3 weeks now and my ammonia level has been at 3ppm for last week, nitrite 0.25. Not sure what to do shall I just wait? Just found out the kids caught some 'snot' their words! in the tank with the net when I wasn't looking, do you think this was my longed...

First of all thanks so much for your help, I have decided to go down the fishless cycling route for 2 reasons firstly I dont want to be cruel to the fish and secondly this 'present' has cost me a fortune already and I haven't got money to waste on poor fish I will no doubt kill!! My daughter...

Thank you for your welcome! I realise it is a small tank for most but as it was a birthday present for my daughters 7th birthday was just expecting to get a small tank in a pretty girlie colour like in the Argos catalogue she circled!! Little did I realise these turn out to be fish killers!! So...

Hi just bought a tank for my daughters birthday yesterday it took 48 litres of water! I put in gravel, plants real and silk, a plastic cave thing, turned on the filter and heater and added biotopol to tap water as the man in fish shop advised.. Now what?? I was sold denitol and filterstart when...