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We bought a nice Jebo tank off trade me, all working but it needs a bit of a clean up and I was wondering if anyone can suggest what to use to give it that really good clean as obviously cleaning products are a big no no.

Well we have bought some more plants, moved the decor about a bit and put both fish in together and while they are currently still going for each other it isn't as bad as last time. If they continue over the next hour the lady in the aquarium shop suggested putting one in a spawning net overnight to get him used to having the other in there but ot able to fight so we will try that and if that all fails one will be going back to the aquarium shop this weekend after a few more days in our hospital tank! Fingers crossed it doesn't come to that though as we like them both!

we had two dwarf blue gourami in our tank but one fell ill so we put him in the hospital tank to get better and thankfully he did. The one that fell ill had always been the less dominant of the two so we were concerned about how to reintroduce him to the tank without the other one bullying him. We decided to do a swap nd give him chance to establish himself in the tank for just a couple of days. Yesterday we put the one that had been more dominant back in and the other one went mad and started really harassing him to the point where we had to take him back out again for fear he would get injured. So my question is how do reintroduce my gourami to his "friend" without him being bullied? Any suggestions please otherwise I think I might have a blue dwarf gourami in need of a new home!

the tank is a 60L so I know we are slightly on the high side stocking wise (another reason for staying on top of the water changes). We feed the fish a good mixture of food, flake, pellets, blood worm. We did try them on some cooked pea the other day (skinned) as the gourami in the treatment tank was a bit bunged up and we were told this would help so we thought we would try it on the main tank as well.

We have been having a few problems with our tank, we bought it before Christmas and took our time setting it up and stocking it (although after reading stuff since I acknowledge that we probably still did it too quickly). everything was going well but lately our fish seem to be falling ill and dying. First we lost a zebra danio, then one of our gourami fell ill (he is now looking a lot better in the hospital tank), this weekend we have lost two of our panda cory. We lost a couple of other fish to nipping (we think by the other gourami) but these four illnesses and deaths are unexplained. I think the gourami illnss is unrelated as I think he might have had a swimbladder infection (lost bouyancy control) but I am getting concerned about the other fish dying and was wondering if you guys might be able to offer any suggestions. We noticed the two panda's kind of flicking about as they swam round the tank, I suppose a little like they were having a fit. The one we have just taken out also looked kind of yellow inside but I don't know if that's just decomposition setting in or whether it means anything. Our Nitrates have been at 0 for the last month, our pH has been steady at 7. We don't have an amonia test as the aquarium shop said that if we have nitrites we would also have amonia so we wouldn't need it. We are now wondering whether we should invest. We have been religously changing 25% of our water weekly, two weeks ago we "washed" one of our filter sponges (in aquarium water we had just taken from the tank during a change) and on Saturday we changed the carbon pad in the filter. Sorry I have waffled on a bit but any help/suggestions would be great

Isn't that one of the sure fire ways to annoy a kiwi? Call them an Aussie!

It's a gourami but I'm not totally sure what type, I did a google search for a blue dwarf but I think it gave me lots of random gourami...I liked his little face though

right hopefully I have fixed the little image glitch and you will be able to see my tank again!

Hello, Just joined the forum today and thought I would come and introduce myself. I am the long suffering other half of Rufus and part owner of a rather lovely (even if I do say so myself) 60l tropical tank I'm from england originally (well nobody's perfect according to Rufus) but moved out to the Tron 18 months ago for a year and am having too much fun to go home! The tank is proving a steep learning curve but it has been fun so far and hopefully will continue to be so :bounce: