Recent content by welshie

Ive kept dwarfs and lost them to iridovirus. I had a beautiful powder blue gourami. Had him in the tank for well over a year. (Lasted longer than any other dwarfs(normally only make it a month to 2 months tops). Showed absolutely no signs of any illness. Then one day I cam home from work found...

Yes I have taken a few cups from my community tank to cover the bottom. The bog wood stays in there all the time and the tank is always running even when empty. I know as @Byron said the ph will change over 24hrs as the co2 exchanges with co2 but my comm tank sits at around 8.0 and the water and...

Cacatuoides should be ok then. Yes I suspect their tank raised as them seem to be doing ok. Cherrys even spawned in the tank. But they also made light work of eating the eggs up Haha. Yes that does seem to be a bit involved. I have read that a ph change of 0.3 can cause harm or death to fish...

. Yes I did that. Not done it for a while as I didnt think the tap water would change much but I know the tank sits about 7.8-8.0.

I mainly keep barbs after my gourami passed. Cherrys, gold, black ruby and 5 banded. Also have 2 yo-yos. I've just recently obtained 2 apisto cacatuoides which are in there own tank at the moment and I know the water round here isnt good for them. They have bog wood and Indian almond leaves in...

My tap water also comes out about 8 ph. The water round here is ground sourced and we have a few limestone quarries around so I should think that's one of the causes to the water being hard. In the summer when its gets really hot we have to run the tap for 20 seconds because otherwise the water...

Thank you for your reply. I think I understand now why the ph level dropped and rised again as it was being 'buffered' by my water. I'm still struggling to get my head around all the gh/kh stuff.

this is my tap water from the water company website.

Hi all, I'm having some difficulty understanding ph and was wondering if anyone would be able to lend me some knowledge? This may go on while as I have lots of questions. So I apologise in advance. This started about a week ago. Well...I started this about a week ago haha. Basically I've been...

Thank you! That certainly cleared things up for me. At the moment I have a moulded lid with the lit fitting being part of the lid. So yes I will stick with the fluorescent tubes for now, and look to change my set up/equipment over the next couple of months. Thank you both again. I think I...

Thank you both for your advice! I have decided to get a new bulb! however, I'm having difficulty sourcing one in my lfs. They have the jewel hi-lite range. I tried to read the box but it might aswell be in Chinese as I couldnt understand it. So I came home bulbless and done some googling...

Thank you both for your feedback! I will definitely look into changing the bulb then. As for the sediment, before taking the pics I had just pulled alot of dead plants out the tank and with a soil and gravel substrate it kinda made a mess Haha. I do dose 1ml daily of seachem flourish iron but...