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Within 4 minutes of an unattended tank my external leaked and emptied over 100 litres of water all over the lounge carpet. Managed to save the fish but was wondering is there any sort of valve available to stop this happening again please

Thanks 75% water out of 480 litre tank now the long task of added the treated water back in bucket by bucket jes. Also gonna add big bag of shell slate as pf was lower than 5 so water very acidic. Will test again tomorrow thanks for the advice As the local shop said when I took a water sample in...

I was gutted yesterday when a Mono I have had for 2 years was upside down dead for no apparent reason. Now today 2 Peppered Corydors are spiralling around as if they have swim bladder disease. So I moved 5 fish to a smaller tank and did a water test. Nitrate 0 Nitrite 0 but what has shocked me...

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I recently put an external filter on my 480l tank and 3 weeks on the water has gone cloudy. I am not suggesting it is the filter maybe it is something else I have not done. Any ideas please?

thanks for the tips i will send back the barbs and mollies and turn the 128l tank into a species only tank with puffers and gobies. I have moved the elephant nose into the 480l tank and will also place the larger angel into the same tank but last time I did that the koi angel already in there...

I have 3 species of puffers but have avoided the dwarfs as they seem to be very good fin nippers and can kill fish much larger than themselves so keep an eye on your swords lol

128l tank has plastic plants lots of open space and is stocked with the following: 5 Mollies 5 Barbs all around 3inches. 2 Chinese algae eaters 3 very small Angels 2 Bumblebee catfish 2 weather loaches 2 Corydors and 5 puffers. In the 64l tank again plastic plants stocked with 15 Platys 9...

Before I had a fry tank I used to make a tunnel under the plastic plants so the fry could hide safely it worked for me until I had too many and now have over 80 I na 48l tank just for them

In 2 of my tanks I have high nitrate readings any ideas on the best way of reducing them please/ 120l has a reading of 80 and 64l tank 60 nitrate is zero on both at the moment.

You can get lots of different colours of platys and maybe corydors for the bottom dwellers

ideally you should have 1 male to 3 females cos they might not be fighting but just mating. But if the ratio is wrong then the females will get stressed with all of the attention

I agree I tried a breeding box it just stresses out the fish just make sure you have plants that the fry can hide in and when you do a water change and move the plants you can either get them out into a baby tank or just keep the plants in with a little tunnel underneath. when they get big...

Platys are a good starter fish maybe 1 male and 3 females but watch out for the babies lol. the corydors will command the bottom and the platys the rest. good luck

Yes thanks I know they are brackish and will put them in a brackish when they reach adulthood but these were bred freshwater