Recent content by Yoshi

Hi Miss Wiggle. Reading this with interest as struggling with my readings. Mine are PH 8.0, Amonia 0, Nitrite 0, but Nitrate 10. Varying replies on here as to whether my nitrate is too high but certainly my PH is (tap water is 7.6). Had my fish happily though for six months until recently...

Your right about the neons - I only found out afterwards in a new book I have bought that they need a much lower ph - unfortunately they never offered that advice in the shop when I bought them! My tap water is 7.6 so its fairly high. I have used PH down to reduce the PH from 8.4 to 8 over...

I lost the angel fish a little while ago. I agreed to have it because someone was getting rid of their tank and it needed urgently rehoming & it had previously spent its whole life in a smaller tank than mine so I thought it would be OK normal & I had a lot less fish at the time. Sadly he died...

New to the hobby and managed to sucessfully cycle my tank and have had 13 fish (see below) happily for six months with my only death being a very old angel fish given to me by someone else. All going fine until bought 6 neon tetras from my local Seapets shop and put them in my tank last Friday...

Hi all. Some good advice there! I now only feed my fish once a day and this seemed to help with the algae bloom. I have led lighting - daytime lights are white and on for only 4 hours at mo to try and ensure algae is under control and then have blue led lights for the evening (grant you they...

Returned from sunny spain and fish all well - thanks everyone for your advice.

Hi there. Just back from hols and see you are still having probs. I have just reread your emails and notice you have put new filters - perhaps thats not helped either as with a 90% water change and new filters the bacteria will have disappeared and you may have to recycle? My local fish farm...

Good plan - will do!

Thanks everyone - I think I will leave them without food as only going for a week then. I am going to put a big note on the tank saysing "Nil by mouth!" to stop my well meaning neighbours feeding them whilst in watering my flowers. They are looking very well so should be OK and did a 50% water...

You might want to take the plants out but mine seemed ok - it probably depends on the plants?? The blanket idea is really random - don't hold me responsible if it all goes horribly wrong please! I used a big woolly blanket - it improved the algae bloom no end and then with a couple of water...

Going on hols for a week and wondering if I can leave fish after reading in my book that you can leave them for 10 days?? Worried about letting neighbour feed them as they did that last week and overfed and left me with one dead angelfish, horrendous algae bloom, high nitrite reading and food...

Hi madjoker. Also a newbie but I have been suffering with algae bloom so I know where your at and have spent hours online researching it. Its probably this that has killed off the fish if its that bad but i thought mollys were fairly tough? Few ideas for you... Firstly I would consider your...

Very upset - lost my gorgeous angel fish. Removed angel fish (and other fish) into holding bucket along with top 50% of old water & filter etc (ie without all the crap at the bottom), and the shock of it killed it within seconds. Cleaned all plants & rocks in further 25% of old water then...

Help - I think my angel fish has gone blind. Been on hols for 4 days and come back to find my angel fish cowering at the top of the tank and swimming backwards and swimming in to everything??? Done a water test and my nitrite levels have shot up - sadly I think well meaning parents/neighbours...

Help - I think my angel fish has gone blind. Been on hols for 4 days and come back to find my angel fish cowering at the top of the tank and swimming backwards and swimming in to everything??? Done a water test and my nitrite levels have shot up - sadly I think well meaning parents/neighbours...