Recent content by justinleeldn

Thanks for all your replies. I only feed my fish twice a week, so hopefully they won't be a problem. Just in case, I've added 5 assassin snails to take care of the population.

I have recently been finding these snails in my tank (see attached photo), whilst not a problem now, I have had snails in the past that took over a tank, and practically ruined it, so want to know if i need to take action before it gets to that stage. Can anyone identify what this snail is, and...

As we all know we use RO water for our saltwater tanks, because that's what we're constantly told to do. But! Would it be okay to use tap water and dose it with Seachem Prime, which states it can be used in saltwater tanks? Seachem Prime removes chlorine, chloramine, and also states it...

No worries. Yes, I have a protein skimmer.

I have a saltwater tank. Sorry, have i posted this in the freshwater section? I could've sworn I posted it in the saltwater section

Yeah, I'm thinking that too. It seems like getting it without the malt is harder than it should be.

Distilled vinegar, sugar and vodka dosing are methods commonly used for lowering Nitrate / Phosphate in saltwater tanks, thus reducing algae growth.

I am wanting to vinegar dose my tank to reduce algae growth and i understand I can do so with distilled white vinegar. My question is, can I use distilled white malt vinegar, or does it have to be without the malt? Thanks in advance.

For anyone who is interested here is the response I received from API... Hopefully this will be useful information for someone else.

This is true and I do water changes weekly. The reason I started using Pristine is because there is an area of my tank which gets a build up of fish poop, and I just find it a little annoying to look at. If Pristine can get rid of this, or even help lower the amount then it will be worth its money.

Around a week ago I added Seachem Pristine to my freshwater tank. From what i understand it should eat away at fish detritus pretty well, but I am yet to see the results I was expecting. On the other hand, I've used Aquavitro Remediation (basically the same thing as Seachem Pristine) in my...

Hi all. I have bought a 24/7 light that mimics times of the day. I usually just have the light on full power, on a timer for 8 hours of the day(12:00-20:00) I am wondering whether it's healthy for the fish to have the light on 24hr mode, where it mimics the sunrise and sunset then goes to blue...

I'm using Red Sea test kit, which as far as i'm aware is the best one.

I have just tested my water and my fishless cycle is complete, finally. Ammmonia and Nitrite are both ZERO!!! :) My Nitrate on the other hand, is a little too high, around the 40ppm mark, so i have just done a 10-15% water change to lower this, before adding any fish. My question is this, can...

I have a 105 litre (27.7 US Gallon) tank and am looking to buy a Hang On Back filter. Can anyone recommend one that is good and reasonably priced, that also isn't so powerful it sucks/blows the fish all over the place? Thanks.