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A BIG tank and LOTS of filtration. They are very messy eaters! :lol:

Oh dear you are well overstocked, especially for a newly set up tank! The clown loaches are going to get too big plus should never be put into a new tank, they need one well matured. The red fin shark will also get too big for a tank this size. What sex are the guppies? You should have a ratio of 1 male to 3 females. Ask the shop if they will take some fish back - especially the clowns and shark. If this is a new tank they should never have sold you the whole lot at once that is irresponsible. Get some test kits for ammonia and nitrates and start doing 20% minimum daily water changes until your ammonia and nitrate level are reading as per the instructions in the kit. Please read as much as you can about cycling aquariums. Feel free to join us in the chat room too. A group of us are in there most nights around 9pm.

Nice fish (not as good as yours though billaney eh? :lol: )

Also, how big is the tank, what filtration is on it, and how many fish have you added? Do you know about 'cycling' a tank? What fish have you got in there?

Hi and welcome. Quite a few people use grey gravel, some even use white. The fish prefer dark but nothing wrong with grey. Plant heaps of plants and you won't see much of the gravel anyway

Litres per fish is not particularly accurate as a lot depends on the size of each fish, filtration and maintenance routine. A lot of little fish will produce less waste than one large chunky cichlid or similar. A well filtered tank can sustain a much larger stocking level than one with less or no filtration. A regular 10 - 20% water change per week will support more fish than a tank getting less water changes.

Hi DG and welcome to the fishroom. Hope you get the 4ft problem sorted quickly - it sounds like a water problem. How long has it been set up and the inhabitants added? What filtration does it have? The water tests should give you an idea of what has gone wrong.

MURDERER!! Survival of the fittest Jude :lol:

Try everythng and see what happens. I know mine have enjoyed carrot in the past, as well as peas, cucumber and lettuce. I wonder if pumpkin would foul the water quite quickly.

Welcome Kirsty. I am sure the changes are for the better

I got red Xs but a right mouse click and then click 'show picture' fixed it.

What exactly did the manual say? How big is the tank and what have you put in it so far? (filter etc)

Hi and welcome Roy. Not as big a market here as in China! Sorry I don't know any Chinese.

Hmm Grant and I will be in Tauranga in June. Got a spare bed Vicki? :lol:

I'm at work too

Yes Alan, and in the advert and in the next YB (well I will do shortly)

Nice pics Vicki

here's how... http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/viewtopic.php?t=2406

Thank you both. Coming from an experienced fishkeeper as yourself Bill I take that as the highest compliment :oops: Phollz I hope you leave the AWs casually scattered around the cafe for customers to read too

Hi Mark and welcome. The bigger the tank the easier it is to maintain and keep the water parameters stable. Puffers and electric yellows will not be compatible with the other fish you have, nor with each other. Can't help you with the Aqua One tanks as I have no experience with them.

People like Alan have fishrooms for their 200 tanks and the room is heated, not the tanks, so he doesn't need 200 heaters. You can also set up a single filtration system for all of them as well if you want to. Still, the power bill does go up a bit

Cardinals are a little bigger than neons. You can tell the difference between the two by looking at the red. Neons have a red stripe that stops halfway down the body but in cardinals the red stripe goes right along the whole length of the body. 78F (25.5C) is nothing to worry about. In fact most people keep their tanks at anything from 72F (22C) - 80F (27C).

Welcome morgie and I hope you enjoy it here.

They will always do it to a certain extent.

By 'themselves' he means just discus, not other species. Not a single fish on its own.