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ive recently aquired a few plants as i wanted live plants in my tank and planted them in on thursday. i just brought amazon swords, wisteria and cabomba the amazon swords are not looking great they look like their dying whereas the others are fine. ive got 2 large 25w bulbs in my 160l tank i...

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ive had the dg about 6 months!!! i do a 20/25% water change every week and vacum a quater of the gravel every time!!! my readings are normal. thanks for letting me know the discolouration is normal for my parrot, he's a weird fella lol!!! still a little worried about him scratching on the decor...

just noticed my parrot fish has a black marking on his fin and seems to be very occasionally scratching himself on the ournements he also has slight black/dark grey spots on his body (not very many and very small). also one of my dwarf gouramis has a slight discolouration black mark on his fin...

ok i can do this is the treatment ive got no good then?? im just broke at the moment so was hoping that would work!! if not ill have to find a way to get the others!!! the fin rot was there before the red parrot so ?? why this has happened but hey i just want to get it fixed!!

im in serious need of hel everythings going wrong and i dont know what to do i swapped my tanks aroundmid november to a bigger tank and now everything is going wrong. I noticed that one of my guppies had fin rot when i introduced my red parrot am really wishing i noticed before i got the guy. as...

why should i just keep it like it is???? i have plenty of space for more fish?

Ive just swapped my 60l hex tank and now have a 180l tank but dont know what to stock it with. currently i have a red tail shark 5 neon tetras 2 guppies 2 pearl gouramis 2 platys and 1 bristlenose pleco. i am going to move the guppies and platys back to my hex once set up at my mothers house but...

thanks for all the help guys , i done the change over yesterday and all seems to be a succsess so far. im running the filter from my old tank in the new one as well as the new filter along with my olod gravel and decorations. all the fish seem really happy to be in a nice new big home. am gonna...

how would i add the filter media to the new tank without using the filter in a pair of tights you say???

yeah the old tank has been cycled for months has been running since the summer!!!! when you say add the filter media to the tank what do you mean??? how can i do that i have carbon pad and foam pad in my filter!!! thanks for the help lucy its mnost appreciated!!!

so should i not run the two filters then??? unfortunatley i cant seed the new gravel in the tank as i have to transfer all this by tomorrow evening as its all taking up to much room in the house!!! am still a little confused about the filters though?

ok so im in a serious dilemma of how to do this I have a new tank which is double the size of my hex and am really cofused of how to transfer the fish and stuff over to the new tank. I cant run both at the same time so am looking for a way to transfer them over and in need of some help. I want...

yeah my tank is a hexagon one and tall!!! i heard too late about dwarf gouramis needing to be on there own but both mine are so placid!!! my platys are more aggressive than the gourami's!! so you think im fully stocked then??

have just purchased 2 dwarf gourami's to add to my tank which has 2 platies 5 neon tetras and a bristlenose catfish!!! would like a couplle mre fish if i can but really need some that hang around the top any suggestions????