Hello all! I'm new to fish keeping and I have a query about water quality.
My current set up involves a 100L tank containing 1 bubble-eye goldfish and a small pond containing 5 goldfish (a mix of orlandas and regular goldfish). I've had some trouble recently with ammonia poisoning with my...
Alright, I made a post a few days ago regarding my violet goby and he seems to now be showing signs of ammonia poisoning. I had him in an uncycled tank. I've done 2 25% water changes so far and attempted to add one of those fizzy ammonia tabs to lower the levels, but no luck. He's still gasping...
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So basically, I've had my tank set up for nearly a year now, and It's been fine for a long time. Recently (about 2 months ago) I noticed that the Nitrate levels were increasing, I increased the number of water changes to twice a week. Now I didn't take a lot of water out the second...
I'm in the process of setting up a quarantine tank for some new shrimp I'm getting this week. I'm using the 12L to quarantine the new ones when they arrive in a couple of days. My plan was to use a mature spare filter that has been running in the 60L platy tank for months now. Also going to run...
hiya, ive had to setup a qt tank due to my old clownfish injuring her eye and getting pop eye, im on day 2 of myxazin which treats popeye, 1.5-2ml of it in a 28liter qt tank, think is i need to do water changes cos the ammonia is creeping up ever so slightly and i want it nominal, the question...
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It seems it about time for me to get a new test kit, so i was wondering if any body has had any experiences with a particular kit witch has made you go " WOW , that's awesome" or "CHRIST , that's naf " i'd prefer to make up my own test kit of different brands this time so i can get...
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Due to thievery of buckets and general busyness/laziness with perfectly maintained tanks... my tanks are no longer perfectly maintained and my water is crazy. Now I have some questions. For the stats, after the LFS telling me I had issues, I bought a test kit yesterday to test...
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New to hobby and have a few questions. 20 Gal tank that is about 6 weeks old. We probably should have waited but were worried about only have 3 danios, so we found a small locally owned store, and bought 2 snow white danios. So we have 5 danios, a platy and a mollie. They also recommend...
Sooo... My Daughter moved to japan and left us with her comet goldfish, a black moor, and a pleco, 3",1.5", and 3". They're currently in a 5gal tank. Just got the API kit ( fish acting oddly lately) and ammonia is 8+ ppm, Ph 6.0, nitrites .5-1, nitrates 160. We had figured they needed a larger...
Hello,
After my initial attempt at cycling my 125L tank for 33 days without any drop in ammonia, I cleaned out the tank and filter completely and started again.
On the second attempt the only difference was that instead of using water from the tap I filtered if through a Pozzani to remove...
Will changing the filter pad cause an ammonia spike or are most of the benefial bacteria in the c nodes (i have a fluval c3 filter), should i replace it or just rinse it out a bit in declorinated water?
About 50 years ago, I used to have an aquarium -- a very happy healthy one. My success must have been blind beginner's luck, because I knew nothing of the nitrogen cycle, yet my tank flourished! Okay, so here I am 50 years later, trying to pick up this hobby where I left off. Unfortunately, I...
So I had a tank for about a month and 2 weeks ago I began testing the water. I saw that the nitrates were through the roof! So I had been doing water changes everyday of 20% and then eventually to 50%. After I saw no difference, I did an 80% and all the fish died, but anywho...
With a fishless...
Hello All,
I am sorry to be having to ask a fishless cycle question when there is so much information available online, but here goes again…
My tank is a newly set up 125 L Fluval with an Eheim Professional 3 filter. I measured the water going in and there is 112 L. There is a 1 cm think...
Hello All,
I have a new setup as follows:
Roma 125 tank
Eheim Professional 3 250 filter
I put 1 cm of Tropica Plant Substrate in a couple of days ago, then 3-4 cm of gravel that came supplied with the tank over this, a medium piece of washed in fresh water bogwood from Petsathome and a...
Hi all,
This is my first post on this forum, although I have been reading it for some time now.
I have recently purchased a 25l tank for a single male betta to live in.
I have planned to do a fishless cycle and have been reading about it for weeks prior to buying my tank.
I got my tank...
I thought I would start a new thread on where to source ammonia and live bacteria starter for those of you wanting to start a Fishless Cycles.
Link for Fishless Cycle - http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/421488-cycling-your-new-fresh-water-tank-read-this-first/
Since I am UK based...
I have been reading up on easy to care for plants to add to my aqueon evolve and was looking for some input. I came across the Marimo Moss Balls and was wondering if anyone had experience with these. From my understanding they are a great addition to the bio filtration in a tank and are helpful...
So I've had this nagging suspicion about an ornament that I purchased for my tank. The local petsmart had this lovely porcelain looking Buddha statue in their aquarium ornament section and I didn't think twice when I purchased it. I've been having issues with the tank that I put it in having...
I set up a 10 gallon tank just over a week ago and have 3 guppies. The water has been tested often and I'm doing water changes about every other day. My fish eat well (I feed them once a day) and overall seem fine, but recently one keeps opening and closing it's mouth. The tank isn't cycled yet...