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Don't overload your tank to begin with let it settle in for a while before addign to many fish. Your readings need to be: Ammonia 0 Nitrites 0 Nitrates 0-20 Honestly leave your PH its not wirth the stress you cause the fish mucking around with it.

Could be your test kit then, you really should be picking up something Nitrate wise if the tank has been running for that long. Could be a change in Diet as you say, you have wormed so its clealry not going to be that now, just keep and eye on it if it doesn't improve I would look at re worming.

Hmm Interesting Do you add salt to your tank at all?

:love: Truly Stunning :love:

Amazing how they can regenerate their fins I had a discus that lost it's tail due to fin rot, tail was completely gone, with good clean water they regenerate quite quickly

Usually the white stingy poo is a sign of worms/parasites, when did you worm them and what did you worm them with ? I would re worm a few times with a break in between treatments. You say your water prams are: 0ppm for ammonia, nitrite, and nitrates ? How long has your tank been running? You should be showing some reading for your Nitrates? Cloudy eyes are usually a sign of bad water conditions. How often do you do water changes? How much do you change?

What fish do yo have in there ?? Clearly you have had Loaches, if you still have Loaches, you wont be able to have snails, Loaches will EAT your snails. Are there just the snail shells left or is there still a body inside the shell? Doing a 30% water change as you said you did, shouldn't have killed the snails. Lynda

Bristle nose

Where are you?

Looking awesome

Definitely Neon's, Cardinals red line continues through the length of the body Dwarf Gourami a good option for your tank as Discusguru has mentioned :thup: Welcome to the world of Fishkeeping :bounce:

Awesome job

Awesome Job well done Loving all of the planting Something about a planted tank, it always looks more alive if that makes sense.

I would be rehoming the Silver Dollars and going for a peaceful planted community tank. I had Angel's and Neons together with no issues, I tend to get them when they're smaller then they grow up with each other and don't seem to both with each other when they're older. Could go with: Angels. Swordtails, Platties, Serpae's, Black Widows, Glowlights, Scissortails, Penguins, Neon's plenty of choices if you go to a peacful setup.

I removed the original hood filter from my AR980 (they're crap) and replaced it with an Aqua One CF1200 external filter, the only mod I had to do was cut the hole bigger where the tubing comes out from the lid and down the back of the tank. I'm petty sure the Eheim tubing is smaller than the Aqua One so you may get away with not having to make any changes to accomodate the new filter. I fill the exsisting filter area with filter wool and run the spraybar across that, amazing how much crap it collects.

:cophot: Stunning :cophot:

:dunno: Always a shame when something like this happens :dunno: Hope the dem's that you have left pull through ok.

:slfg: Too funny Caryl :slfg:

Tanks looking Fab :bounce: Jealous that your Dem's are holding already :an!gry Congrats on your new arrival :thup:

My Cories used to do the darting upto the surface for air regularly, not sure about the other behaviour though. All corys are facultative air breathers, meaning they have the ability to breathe atmospheric air to a certain extent if necessary. They possess a modified, highly vascularised intestine to aid in the uptake of atmospheric oxygen. This adaptation allows them to survive if their habitat becomes oxygen-deprived for any reason. In the aquarium you’ll see them darting to the surface to take in gulps of air on occasion. This is perfectly natural and no cause for concern unless water conditions are deteriorating, in which case the frequency of visits to the surface will usually rise correspondingly.

I've got some here I'm happy to sell you, they were from valray off Trade Me, but never got around to using them. PM me if your interested

Sad thing is, the fry actually feed of the parents, so seperating them probably isn't going to work. The parents secrete a mucus on their skin which is what the fry feed off untill they are old enough to fend for themselves.

Caryl: Couldn't help but laugh when I read your post :happy2: Do you have Ants or Ants carrying eggs?? Had terrible ants in one property that we lived at. Put the dishwasher on one night, it got to the hot rinse cycle, next minute Ants running everywhere, ended up taking the dishwasher outside into the carport, took the outer shell off and OMG full of ants and eggs YUK YUK YUK :sick: Little blitters had got inside the outer shell somehow :an!gry The ant bait in the yellow tube was what we found worked best, it contains Borax which the ants will take back to the nest and feed to the Queen, apparently causing their stomachs to burst :roll: which in turn or course kills them.

Pop them into a salt grinder ;-)

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