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  1. Hi all, quick question what is the best clean up with 3 small Oranda Goldfish (still young), I have a 40G, 3 nerite snails, and a few shrimp. What other stocking idea can you think of to help stir the substrate (mid size aquarium gravel 4-8mm ish) to help keep it clean ish? Would cory’s do ok with goldfish, was thinking red ancistrous but open to any ideas. Tank is heated to 20’C or 68’F. Combination of live and artificial plants.
  2. Hi guys, do you know if we can set the fluval E-series heaters below 20’C, mine doesn’t let me go below this temperature?
  3. Hi David / streetwise, before I redone the tank I had plant substrate and easy live plants. Initially it was a shrimp tank but I lost every one of them to the cycle crashing, at that time I put it down to my dechlorinator being off as I would always find chlorine on my test strips. Because of this however I couldn’t keep the algae in check and lost all of my live plants so decided to see if using inert gravel and synthetic plants would help (apparently not) I do use real floating plants (salvinia I believe) this reducing light and exporting nutrients and on the whole is going crazy in the tank. Because I have had the issues for a little over a month I weekly do at least 100% water changes but still finding significant ammonia, nitrite and nitrate and the floaters can’t keep up, I try to feed as little as possible to avoid unnecessary build up of waste. I regularly move the rocks and plants and on the whole there is little waste building up but any that is there I put the HOB on full to pick it up.
  4. Hi Will, gh is normally around 6-8d and KH is very often close to zero but I use seachem something (sorry forgotten the name) to add KH. But I have often tested the water to find it at zero so thanks I hadn’t even thought a Ph swing could have caused it to crash. I will let the tank cycle again before adding him back in. Thanks for your help!!
  5. Hi Will, I have just used in date API master test kit about an hour ago. Given the issues and massive spikes (off the carts) I performed a constant water change of around 300% with dechlorinated (prime) tap water. Readings are now 20ppm nitrate after ferts (tropica complete), Nitrite 0.25, ph 7.4/7.6, ammonia around 1ppm. I had (now moved to 150L tank) betta and 1 Armano. Yes it’s a HOB filer oversized maxed out on cycled media (cintered glass not weighed) from said 150L, white stuff is filter floss 🙂. Tank around a year old, never vacuumed the gravel but create currents with my hand to sweep up the mess (betta removed obviously). I was using purigen but that’s been removed to see i can get the tank to cycle again. I have a good 1.5 inch layer of fine gravel so surface area for bacteria should be fine in addition to media. Can overdosing prime cause a cycle to crash?
  6. Also Feeding a tiny amount of oase organic 2 * per week to try and control waste. 😞 kept tanks for years without issue but this tank has my head battered.
  7. Hi all, yes the tank I thought was cycled as it’s been up and running for nearly a year. Nitrates & nitrite showing 250 & 10 on my tetra I done a 100% water change 5 days ago tested the water (after ferts) 20 nitrate 0 nitrite. Ammonia not yet been checked but imagine it’s really high aswell. I have done a constant water change and got everything back to 0 so for now he is safe. Just can’t figure out why the cycle has crashed. I’m using cycled media from my big tank. No ammonia or nitrite in tap water, little bit of nitrates. Thanks
  8. Hi all, I have a 30L beta tank which has been set up for nearly a year, some fake some live plants (floating) for the last few month ps I have been having massive nitrate and nitrite problems (off the charts high) but the Betta and shrimp seem absolutely fine. I have a 150L that’s really stable and had smaller tanks before, the same thing happened a while ago so I stripped the tank and replaced everything and now it’s happening again? Any advice would be great!! Sorry the pictures aren’t great
  9. Hi Nerms, just getting into the forum and finding my way round. Just thought I would try uploading my 40G tank for opinions 🙂. I have been a hobbyist for oh nearly 10 years and getting more and more into plants, happy for any views or comments.
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