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Thanks again for the reply. I will check the site out for more information 😊 I hadn’t given any thought to livebearers, I had guppies many years back. Started with 6, ended up with hundreds. I also had bristlenose plecos which bred prolifically. I will do a bit of research and hopefully...

Hi Naughts Thanks for your reply. I have found this for my postcode.

Hi guys I’ve been wanting to set my autistic son a fish tank up and have been waiting to find a cheap acrylic one as it’s more child friendly. I have managed to get a large one for free, it’s a Cleair tank bow front and back. Internal dimensions are 118cm length, 75cm high and average of...

When I used Dr.Tims I used the whole bottle in one go, think that’s what the instructions said. It said it would be safe to add all the fish the next day but I introduced them in batches a week at a time to allow the bacteria to multiply as the bio load increased. For the first week 10...

In regards to Amano shrimp, I don’t think any of the species of fish you mentioned are big enough to eat them. If they are the cardina japonica shrimp that I had before, I was more worried about the shrimp preying on my fish. Mine always had clutches of eggs stuck under there bellies on their...

If this stuff is anything like Dr.Tims one and and only nitrifying bacteria, i’d tend to agree with Byron. I’ve used it when setting up a couple of tanks and it’s pretty much an instant cycle as long as you don’t over stock or over feed. The live bacteria will establish a colony straight...

I’m gonna go with the opposite to Alex. I had test strips with my first tank and the results seemed to differ all the time. I even tested the water with 2 different strips at the same time and there were slight differences. The liquid tests are much more accurate and last a long time so don’t...

Hi Kimmie It can take a while for results to show during cycling. Stick with it and don’t get disheartened. With regards to the film, I had this with my first tank and it was due to overfeeding and having no surface agitation. You can remove it with paper towels, place them gently on the...

I quite like when the tanins colour up the water but my main reasons for doing it was to get the wood to sink. It was so large I put rocks on the flat parts and it was still floating up

When I first set my tank up with the piece of wood in my profile pic, I left it in the bath overnight. I turned the water temp up on our boiler to max and filled the bath with hot water, bathroom was like a steam room it was so hot. When I woke up in the morning the wood had already sunk.

I had yellow lab cichlids before but after finding this species I thought it would be nice to get both colours with mixing species. The ones are found are in the picture. They look nice but I cannot find them for sale anywhere :(

Looks like male and female. The fish on the right has a lot less black. So turn down the lights and throw on a bit of Barry White