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Does anyone know what hardness roughly bore water may be?? ie soft or hard?? Any other pros/cons on bore/hose water vs tap water?

THanks, will do, Ammonia is reading 0. I'm starting to wonder if it's from using bore water?? I never had a problem before but used to keep cichlids, mainly aficans therefore if the bore water was hard they wouldn't have minded. Does anyone know if bore water is hard? Have bought test kit on trade me but hasn't arrived yet.. I might have a go with the house/tap water & see if that makes a difference.

Thx, did a small water change today & will just keep doing them. Fingers crossed it comes right soon :-?

K thx, just keep doing them?? temp is 24 adjusted it and is now 25

I've just started a tank again, used to have heaps! They used to be 400L etc, this one is a Jebo 110L, I had it set up with 5 gold fish for a couple of months no probs then things turned to custard, had algae blooms etc, cloudy water, lost 2 fish. Assuming the tank hadn't cycled properly & had an ammonia spike. Anyway I let the last few go in the pond & have started from scratch again. This time I tried cycling with fish food only for 3 weeks, the ammonia gradully climbed, then Nitrite climbed then both back to 0 then nitrate slowly climbed to 10 as its supposed to. I used "cycle" too not that I believe in that stuff really! Anyway I left it for another week, have planted it too. Yesterday added 2 kuhli loaches, 2 dwarf chain loaches & 1 zebra loach, all tiny. Probably not the wisest first fish for new set up! Today ammonia has slightly risen. Fish yesterday were swimming erratically, today not really swimming but just sitting on the bottom, is that normal for these loaches? Ammonia is virtually 0, hard to tell. Nitrite 0 & nitrate only 5.ph 7. I'm guessing it hasn't cycled properly?? What else can I do, water changes, hope for the best lol? I've ordered 3 dwarf puffers that are meant to be arriving next week..that was all I was going to keep in the tank.. I'm using bore water from outside hose, ph is low but rest of the tests were good. Maybe I'm just panicking over nothing but don't want to lose them. Also using an undergravel filter, 2 x internal & one built in trickle filter. :nilly:

haha all sounds good..except the mice!eww lol, they certainly aren't fussy I just wanted to make sure I was on the right track

Awesome thanks

Any suggestions on food for theses guys? Currently feeding them mixed veges, potatoes,peas,frozen shrimp mix,banana and floating pellets. Can they be fed trout pellets?

Hey thanks for the replies...I wimped out and bought shrimp from the supermarket, the bait I had looked and smelt disgusting so figured it wasn't worth saving a few bucks, especially when the frozen mix lasts a fair while..

Can you add some fish bait when making up the frozen european shrimp mix recipe? Aswell as shrimp etc, it's just alot cheaper. What are the pros and cons does anyone know? Would hate to kill all the fish or polute the tank

thanks david, I don't think I could remove the babies, too hard to catch them all, so might move the parents soon and see what happens.

Hi, Not sure I should post this here on under breeding but how long can you leave the parents of the above fish with their babies before they decide to eat them etc?? Also unfortunately the convicts bred in a 4 ft tank which I was closing down so just the pair+babies are left in it, so it becomes a big tank to try and catch babies or feed babies in!!lol Thanks Sarah

Thank you

Cheers, Jack Demseys

Gone from no fish breeding to 3 different lots lately, cool So will have lots of the above to rehome later if they survive

Is it ok if a normal black/striped breeds with a pink? Will the fry just turn out as a mix of both? From what i've read on the net it sounds fine but just wondering.

Is it ok if a normal black/striped breeds with a pink? Will the fry just turn out as a mix of both? From what i've read on the net it sounds fine but just wondering.

lol yeah i'll try that too...

Thanks for that, good link Maybe i'll get some algae eaters & leave light on for longer and see how it goes

How do I slow it down? I never used to have this problem but now it seems to be taking over, mainly my african cichlid tank with no plants. I do a water change once a week, nitrates are usually on the higher end, wouldn't say the tank was overstocked. Am I overfeeding? I feed once a day but maybe too much at once though they seem to eat it all. Any ideas? It looks really messy and just about needs scraping daily. Also it may be positioned too close to a window, not my choice, but has been for awhile now and only recently has the algae gone nuts. Also I only put light on for about 2 hrs when feeding & have no algae eaters in the tank.

Thanks everyone, yeah ashame as I now have a lonely oscar left but he's buddied up with some other fish, glad to hear I didn't do anything wrong, probably just too much stress on him.

So sadly my oscar died today I thought he was coming right, the fungus had fallen off & he was swimming around again, wasn't eating but seemed alot better, then I did some big water changes like suggested & he just sulked at the bottom after that & looked quite sick. I added some stress coat & mela fix yesterday as he had wounds from the fungus and it said it aids healing etc, couldn't find furan2. Anyway he was dead today. So what did i do wrong? Too much mixing of meds? too big a water change or not big enough?Just so I know for next time, hopefully there won't be a next time though! cheers.

Lol yeah actually have a 900litre tank for him normally

Yeah i've got him in an 80litre tank while treating him, he's only about 10cm's, also albino, not sure if they are more prone? His scales/skin has always looked dodgy since he first arrived like a different colour or missing scales, I wasn't too suprised when i saw he got sick, but don't want to lose him if possible!

Hi, Thanks, saturday night I put the tonic & salt in, then monday the stress coat. He's definately improved from how he was but just wanted to make sure I was using the right stuff & it only said to use it twice which I have so wondered what the next plan was ie how long until I change water or see the fungus improve. So I guess a water change again, did one yesterday, will have a look at LFS but they didn't seem to have much selection for these sort of things when I looked on monday.