Recent content by Humz26

Hi, I am currently cycling a 75 gallon with a FX4 on it. I wanted to start an all male peacock and hap tank but wanted some advice. I know I’m gonna see some aggression but I wanna avoid psycho fish.A few questions I needed answering: - How many fish should I stock max? - How many would be...

Hi people, Just a bit of background, I currently have a 50 gallon community tank, heavily planted with rainbowfish and cardinal tetras, the tank has an FX4 filter on it as it used to be a Fancy Goldfish tank. A bit overkill if you ask me! Anyways, so I won a 75 Gallon tank, that comes with a...

Thanks for the replies everyone….it seems most of the boesmani rainbowfish have now left the other fish alone….. there is one or two rainbows that is still chasing the others but I hope that shifts too. I think they just think that anything that moves is food but idk. I will send a pic maybe...

Hi everyone, so today I addded 6 small boesmani rainbow fish to my 55 gallon planted tank and as soon as I’ve added them, I’ve noticed them chase my Otocinclus, corydora and Cardinal tetras. Though it looks like they are doing no damage, the fish are hiding but the rainbow fish are swimming...

Thanks for the messages everyone! The cardinal tetras I have are super chunky ones so I think they will be ok. The tank is a 55 gallon and is almost as heavily planted as ur beautiful tank so I’m hoping the cardinals will be secure. Do u think it will make a difference if I get the boesmani...

I currently have 15 cardinal tetras in a large planted tank and wanted to add a larger centrepiece fish, I was thinking of maybe 6-7 Boesmani Rainbowfish but I wanted to know if people thought the cardinals will become a snack for the Rainbowfish. What’s your experiences with this mix?

Hi everyone, I just did my first ever aquascape and it’s on a 55 gallon, I wanted to go for a jungle aquascape…. What do u think (ignore all the stuff on the surface, just did a water change) ??? Also tips on how to make the plants greener would be great!!! Wanted to eventually add some...

Funny you mention this coz the room temp is sitting at roughly 80F and the tank was sitting at around 84F too, I’m guessing my best course of action is to just sit tight until the summer peak is over and reassess then. Hopefully the cardinals will be able to manage these temps.

I’m gonna try unplug it tonight and see what happens temperature-wise but I’m hoping now that If the fish do come, they will be ok I have a few electric thermometers with probes that I use to measure the temp and they are a few degrees up or down but still the same temp roughly….I’m also...

Hey, so I’ve set up a new tank from some old equipment and I’ve been watching everything diligently as I have some cardinal tetras being delivered in 2 days for this tank. Currently the UK is going through a heatwave so I think this has reflected in the tank temp going from 84F to now down to 82...

Thanks for the replies everyone….. I’m gonna try these and see if it works, I heard about using bleach too but I can only get hold of scented thick bleach so seems like it may be better to skip that idea.

Hi everyone, Recently I had a really bad episode of black beard algae in my aquarium…. I have now got that under control but in the process I removed some of my seiryu stone that was covered in it! I stored it away and let it dry out. Now I wanna use it in another tank but the stone is...

I cycled the tank with the stone in there so it’s been ages Seachem prime all the time…. I’m so baffled myself…. It’s wierd coz ammonia and nitrates are absolutely fine but nitrite is strange…. I might test it again later ? Could it have been a false reading ?

I do have some Seiryu stone so I’m attributing it to that.

Ignore the results I said earlier ….. tap is 7.8 and tank is 8.2