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Thanks for your post aaron! We don't know how much you can charge for guppies but with 50 of them you can make yourself a little bit of extra cash! lol

:oops: ..... were embarrassed!! our apologies!!

Hello Everyone! :bounce: Thanks all again for your help, we went to the fish shop today and got some more advice, Thanks to the poster that told me NOT to rinse the sponge of the filter under fresh water!! We were doing that!! The guy (I forgot his name, but says he is also a regular here in this forum!) at the petshop said he wanted me to start cleaning the tank after 3 weeks, then a 20% water change, also to clean the sponge of the filter in the bucket where the dirty water goes, and yes we have a vacuum to clean the stones. Adrienne was very nice and offered to us to post the photo's of our wee little tank online, We have sent them too him so they might be up later tonight, please come back if they are not on there yet because we are very interested in you pro's comments! Thanks again guys Mark & Cherie

Wow, thank you sooo much everyone! :lol: Our tank is ready to go, we are probably have 2 new fish in the, do you guys think that when we halved the amount of gravel the rubbish these fishes leave behind is easier to clean?? Also, what else do we need to monitor when we have the fish in there???? We do not want the fish to die again! So when when we get new fish, 20% water change after a week? Then recondition the water and ad the stress zyme For people that want to know, we have a aqua one 101F Filter, this gets cleaned once sometimes twice a week, it cycles at 400 litres an hour! (says in the booklet) If anyone can tell us how to add an photo to here we can show you guys! So greatfull for your help, gives us hope and encourage to try again!

Hi! We live in Rotorua. We have a Aqua one Filter 101F, this is cleaned sometimes twice a week. Mostly we do a water change once a week.

Hi, We bought a tank about a year ago, it is a aqua 320 and it holds 28 litres of water. We have had fish in the tank for about 6 months till we got into trouble (these were normal goldfish), the fish kept on dying, since the beginning of this year things are getting worse and we are at a point where our tank stood in the garage ready to sell on Trade Me. After the second to last fish died 3 weeks ago I took a sample of the water to the petshop, the guy was really helpfull, he said that the ammonia level in the tank was too high and this needed to go down immediatley, we vacuumed the pebbles (stones) every day and the guy at the pet shop also gave us a little bottle of API Ammonia Detoxifier (which we used as instructed), but our last fish died about a week ago, he was swimming upside down and was very weak. We cleaned the tank and was ready for sale on Trade Me, until we thought we would give it one last shot! Now, the tank has been cleaned, the pebbles in the tanks we have halved the amount, because we think there might be too much pebbles in the tank that would cause more ammonia build up. We are ready to buy a new fish, but we are wanting to make sure that we are doing our best to keep the tank clean and do not kill our fish over and over again, any advise you pro's can give us??? We are at a point where the funn of having fish is taking off, but we will give it one last try...that's why we need your help! Mark & Cherie