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Yeah its a common plec. At the moment he is about 8-9 inchs long so quite big. We were thinking of getting a bigger tank at some point.

Ok thanks for the help ill try this. We did a big water change last night about 40%. As for messy fish then yeah your right the big plec likes to leave poo all over the place.

Water changes roughly every 4 weeks same with cleaning the filter out. 180L tank Not done a water test yet will do that tonight and see whats going on. We have 6 white mollies, a big plec, 2 rams, 4 frogs, neons and black neons.

Hi, my tank has grown black fury algie all over everything especially the live plants. We have also had allot of fish die recently which i think is related to this. We had 22 baby mollys born in there and about 3 days later they all died one by one. Any ideas whats going on and how we can sort...

I did think that myself but on the box and instructions for the kit it does say its for salt water and freshwater aquariums. I thought they would be the same? I think were going to have to remove the shrimp from the tank like you say, not sure where it can go though. But i will add some ammonia...

Yes the external filter was unhooked from the tank which had been set up and running for years, left for 24 hours dry and then set up again at my house. We put it straight back on without cleaning the media inside. The shrimp is doing fine, it just wonders about cleaning up, no strange behaviour...

Ok so ive had this tank up and running for about 3 weeks now, it was a used tank when we got it (empty), it came with the external filter that we have running now.   Heres some pics of whats in the tank now, (no fish yet)             We did some tests this morning and this is what we got:  ...

Right we have bought some ammonia, and we have a full test kit with test tubes etc.. Just about to do some tests now and I will post the results later.   In the tank at the moment we have normal gravel, a mountain ornament and some pieces of lava rock( I did ask if these would be ok in the tank...

About 24 hours

Yeah the blokes tank that he'd had setup for years was drained, fish sold off and then the tank setup sold to us, we took it straight home and filled it with water and set it up again.   So do you think it would be ready for a fish?

We have got a 180 litre tank with a large external filter, both these items were literally in full use as a fully cycled tropical tank just a few hours before we turned up to collect them.   Now we have had the tank water in and running for about five days now, its got tetra aqua safe and some...

I'll give that a go cheers

Ahh cool, So can I use this in my tropical tank? Will it just need washing properly before it goes in as I think it had been used In a marine tank

When we bought our tank we were also offered this rock for it too which we took not knowing what it is.   Heres a couple of pics:     Any ideas what type it is and which tanks it can be used in?   Cheers

Cheers, just read it all now, think I better save it! Some useful videos there, they make it all look easy!