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Its important to know if the problem that your fish are dealing with is a localised issue or an environmental issue. This will help you formulate an action plan to help your fish. Make sure you watch it in HD.

We have finally got the clarity perfect with an industrial canister filter loaded with Poret filter foam. The glass tank floats on the pond and houses some new species that we have added to our collection. The pond has allowed us to use some really large rocks in the aquascape and Im Mclovin it. Its created an awesome feature to enjoy an ice cold beverage. Room sits at a constant 26c. Make sure that you select the HD option.

Wicked good read.

Cheers for that Alexyay. Im sorted .Please delete this thread.

As per title Im after a microworm culture if anyone can help me out I would be much appreciated. Flick me a pm or a text on 0226894204 Thanks in advance, Greg

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Once again thanks for the feedback Ira. Regarding your query I guess I`m purist at heart and in my brain I think the carpet should always match the drapes. I cant remember seeing many pale white rocks in the lake and I think that I have only ever used them once in an aquascape before. I really wanted to do a marine tank and Im gutted I cant. I guess this is why they call it a poor mans marine. I think the combination of tanganyikan fish, which with their body shapes are very marine like, lighting tones and white rockwork work well. Im very happy with it even if its just a standard African tank.

I have been planning on setting up a marine aquarium for some time now. Unfortunately it hasn't come to fruition. In the meantime I decided to try and replicate a marine tank as best as I could. This is the final result and Im pretty chuffed with it. Make sure you watch it in HD. Faux marine aquarium video

Well put.

Been trialing aquaponics intensively now for a few months. Love it. Been growing strawberries over winter under full spectrum LED grow lights. Check out the video that shows our 500liter mixed African cichlid aquarium which provides us with strawberries, basil, mesculin mix and water cress. Make sure you watch it in HD.

Honestly it is worth doing the treatment for a full 5 day period, although the jury is out on the creation of a super bug if the course is too short. I found trichozole to be not that water soluble and I try to get it in a liquid form used for iv`s. Keep back a quarter of the tablet and cut into little bits which can be mixed into the food. Ingestion is the best way to fix a gut problem. The epsom salts I mentioned is mixed into the food and when ingested floods the belly with liquid flushing out the bugs. This method wont fix a sick fish but it will help the others. Most important thing I have learned from fishkeeping is DONT PANIC, take deep breaths and come up with a good action plan. Again good luck.

Hey there, Sorry to hear about your issues. The white marks on the leleupi are opportunistic (bacteria or fungal) bugs that take hold due to a poor immune system., The reason the Leleupi are showing this is that they have smooth skin similar to clown loaches and come from a lake with very stable water conditions. I feel that perhaps you were getting an incorrect NO3 reading, the test is quite tricky. This affected the immune system and the opportunistic bugs took hold. I assume that the leleupi were doing kinda of a side to side body motion. This is there "Im not happy with the water quality signal." I think with the addition of rock salt at 1g/liter of water and stable clean water conditions with the addition of stability or another similar product to get the bio filter back in action. Raising the temp up to 27degrees and lots , and I mean lots of extra air. The raised temp will speed up the metabolism and help the immune systems. The salt will affect the skin scabies, for lack of a better term. The salt concentration is quite low as the fish that are being affected by bloat might react badly by taking on more liquid due to the effect of salt. Dealing with the bloat is a separate issue, I would feed the fish with food soaked in epsom salts to flush the gut from bad internal flaggelates. If you check our website dedicated to African cichlids , http://fish2water.co.nz/available-species.php, there is a downloadable fact sheet (Introducing New Fish) that gives the epsom salts solutions. This will help the fish that are not blown up by flushing out the bugs. Keep on with the metronidazole. I dose with metro every 12 hours for heavily affected fish as it breaks down pretty quickly. Are you using Trichozole tablets? Finally there is a reason this is all happening you need to find the root problem as the bloat, skin infection are all symptoms of the root problem. I would look at lack of aeration, ammonia spikes due to a mini cycle after cleaning the filter, Try testing an hour after feeding. Im happy to chat with you about this issue if you want to give me a ring. Good luck Greg

neutral cure* works well as long there is not too much stress placed on the join. I use options that have no mold inhibitors. If its is supported in the water I think it can work well. Neutral cure silicone is different from acetic cure which is the very smelly vinegary stuff that is sold as aquarium safe, which it is, just not on acrylic.

A good water change regime is a very important factor when keeping fish. . Imagine living in a glass house on a tropical island with both of the available windows tightly shut. Evey time you do a water change you open those windows and let in lovely fresh air.

Good day Nige, It could also be the lack of water flow over the roots. I dont know what the layout of the roots in the pipe is. The key to the plants doing well is plenty of light and an lots of oxygen around the roots. We are fortunate to be able to place the root structure behind the HMF sections of our tanks. This is wicked as the fish cant get to it and the roots grow into the Poret foam and action the nitrates there. In some of our tank we use a piece of foam around 150.100.50mm slice it down the middle. Lay the root structure within the foam and let the foam sit in the tank. Direction water flow on the Poret foam and your roots are protected and get the nutrients. If you want to increase the Nitrate removal you could light the pothos. This photo shows an 105liter aquarium with around 100 tetras, and 5 adults breeding whiptails. Even with the heavy feedings, lots of fish and no water change since Feb. Nitrate sits around 5ppm. The Strawberry , Pothos and Spathiphyllum are devastatingly effective.