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EKOMIXO Get one of these fish feeders, they have an airline connection that blows air through the food to keep it dry. Mine air runs 22:45 till 2am and every type of food is fine, no clumping and stays dry all the time.

Seachem Excel is a polymerised version of gluteraldehyde that is supposedly less toxic due to it breaking down slower than neat gluteraldehyde. Both CO2 tablets and gluteraldehyde are really in the end very poor sources of CO2, providing only a couple of ppm (parts per million) above naturally...

Ignore the water report, that is not your tap water and not your tap water today. Ignore your test kits as well, as generally are only good for getting unknowing fish keepers wallet contents in to the local fish shops till. https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/what-about-test-kits.52487/ So...

That's what I have done. The bags stops the water sloshing around during transport. Just leave a large air space above each bag. I wedged the buckets in the footwell of the car, covered buckets with old bed sheets, to stop further sloshing and keep dirt/mess out and make it dark and drove my...

My filter and tank was left for over 3 days with no power (know was 3 days from our house alarm log), one winter, when RCD tripped due to substation neutral fault. Came back home to very cold house, tank at 15'C. Restored power and all was fine.

Only possible ammonia problem if you completely remove and put back the substrate. I would leave the plants in place, cover substrate/plants surface with cling film to prevent water loss from plants (in this weather!) and stop dirt/bits falling into tank getting into substrate. Just make sure...

Put fish in plastic bags in plastic buckets, I've used Ziploc bags in the past. Put substrate & plants in buckets or large sealable plastic boxes to make them easier to move. Transport the tank empty, wrapped in blankets or some other protection. Empty water from filter to make it easier to...

Please stop following you test kits...this is starting down the path to future issues. https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/what-about-test-kits.52487/ Just leave alone for 8-12 weeks, maybe shorter if planted & water changes and you will be fine, no test kit needed. Stop adding ammonia (your...

I assume the tank is fully cycled ? (8-12 weeks) before they were added ?

Prime just says single dose will remove chlorine and chloramine. I did read, that if using ye olde, but ridiculously cheap, sodium thiosulphate method you need to double dose it. Here is sodium thiosulphate with chlorine. and reaction with chloramine, needs twice the amount. Any finally...

I have seen it being reported that chloramine is being injected into UK water (instead of chlorine) due to current hot weather. Chloramine lasts longer in the water pipes, especially in hot weather, but I think this is due to possible lower water pressure and to neutralise anything that gets...

A pointed out, should add Prime to tank, then water to neutralise the chlorine/chloramine as the water is added, and filters off as well.

This fish can also be affected by chorine/chloramine, it burns their gills and can asphyxiate them. The sudden loss does seem to indicate chlorine/chloramine present in fatal levels. You should always dechlorinate the water before adding to the tank.

Did you dechlorinate ?

I used one of these daily (cos couldn't often be a**ed to feed fish !!) for years. Just set on twice a 24 hour period and left alone. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hydor-Ekomixo-Automatic-Feeder-Aquariums/dp/B0030U8QRQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1531739315&sr=1-1&keywords=hydor+fish+feeder...

The best thing you can do for your fish and you is KISS. Keep it simple st*pid. Many people overcomplicate fish/plant keeping after Googling and waste an enormous amount of time & worries over things that in the end should be simple. So using tap water (and dechlorinator) is simple. Job done.

I have a shoal of cardinal tetras in 22KdH water and they are fine. Fish & plants generally don't care about KdH and pH values.

You put water conditioner in the tank before adding tap water, not after.

We need a lot more information before we can suggest things. 1. How big is the tank ? 2. Have you got at least x10 filter turn over of tank volume if using CO2. 3. What are lights and their lumen values ? 4. How is CO2 injected and distributed ? 5. What is your fertilisation scheme ? From...

I suspect shrimp will quickly become a nice snack to this fish...:(

For me its been chop head off, then down sink waste macerator.

Looks like white spot.

Some of my fish (loaches and Siamese algae eaters) took to eating & trimming my HC and Glosso. The fish had to go as plants just ended up as rootless floaters or completely bald stalks.

When I had plec's and plants I used to spent every other day replanting stems that had either dug up by the plec's. They also damaged the plants whilst they vacuumed around, usually punching holes in broad leafed plants.

I have a Hydor fish feeder (see Ebay) which in fact I have ended up using all the time. It is possible to set 1 or 2 or 3 feeds a day and finely control the amount from "b*gger all" to "woo there fat boys...". It has an air inlet, from air pump, to keep the food dry, which in my experience is...

I have guppies breeding like rabbits with a drop checker like this.... (actually more green nowadays). I regularly have to fish babies out of the filters.

Use this to confirm Flying Foxes or otherwise. http://njananoob.blogspot.com.br/2013/02/identifying-algae-eaters.html

Mine never touched it and fox's grew into plant eating and demolishing monsters. They ate and uprooted my HC and scoffed any new leaves from Glosso leaving just stalks. Once they had gone normal plant growing resumed. However Otto's did eat dead BBA killed with Excel. They don't touch BBA too...

With my loaches I placed the plants through a small piece of firm filter floss buried in the substrate. It stopped the loaches ripping them out. The loaches left alone my HC and Glosso, but when my Flying Foxes got bigger they uprooted the HC and eventually started scoffing the Glosso leaving...

Not really, we have ascertained that copper did not poison the original posters fish as copper pipework does not add copper to the water supply.

Yes. Generally copper pipe gets coated with limescale, either naturally in the water or added by water companies, thus copper (and lead pipe if you still have it) is immune to being attacked, due to the coating. However this is not the case with some brasses, which will be attacked, zinc being...

No the guy was confusing chloramine with ammonia. Scottish water injected chloramine into the water supply to sterilise the water/pipes after a burst pipe, this is very common all around the world (including the Netherlands) if there is ever any chance of contamination of the water during water...

Generally this is nothing to do with copper pipes, occurs with plastic piping as well, but is due to dezincifcation of the "non water board compliant" parts in the brass in taps (or other fittings). This is seen on very old taps as well as more modern Chinese cheap taps (and fittings), the hot...

Search ebay for sodium thiosulphate, think dose is 0.1gr per 10litres. http://www.skepticalaquarist.com/chlorine-chloramine

Netherlands uses other methods to sterilise water, chloramine is one, various other sulphur compounds as well. This says 95% chlorine free. http://www.hollandtrade.com/sector-information/water/water-technologies/?bstnum=4931 I seem to remember this low use of chlorine came about, due...

The problem is, when there is ever a water supply issue and emergency chlorine & chloramine is added to the water, you won't know until all your fish die and all the bacteria in your filters die. Thus, in most first world countries, you should always use dechlorinator. If you know your water...

Yes but I think largely an old wives tale. Copper pipe is attacked by hot soft low pH water, but my "Copper Tube in Domestic Water Services Design and Installation" book states that there are no UK companies that supply water that will attack copper as the water is treated to remove acidity...

Here you go 22 aquariums wiped out due to emergency chloramine. http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/410456-22-aquariums-wiped-out/ Also just reading that HMA filters may not work on chloramine as well. The HMA carbon filter breaks chloramine to chlorine and ammonia, chlorine get absorbed...

Not too sure about temperature drop, I used to fill straight from cold tap via hose, tank used to drop to 15-18C, no fish problems. In fact most of the fish seemed to like to swim in the incoming cold water. BUT what I did do is always 100% without fail, was dose the tank with dechlorinator...

Dechlorinator?

My mate was going to take my foxes tonight as they are scoffing my Glosso and damaging other plants, but once again they have dodged moving as mate in hospital

Nope. Generally though I have found when I get say 20 new fish I loose a few in a week or two and rest carry on living for ever.

Don't see any issue with your setup. I got 6 in early 2012, three left now. Not fed explicitly their own food, but do eat algae wafers and left over food from rest of fish. In my experience they are not an algae cleaning up crew, they ignore BBA and all types of green algae. They do spend a lot...

My three flying foxes have got rather large and taken to scoffing my Glosso. I now have a bed of just stalks with tiny new leaves at the end. :( (and uprooted and ate my HC carpet...). I have a mate who will take them, shame.

Doubt it, very strict regulations on water contents. Most likely excess chlorine or chloramine used as disinfectant and not using a proper dechlorinator.

Head off and remains down sink nibbler....

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Couple of things spring to mind... 1. If you are using rain water, you have run off contamination somewhere. Read that rain water from a "felt" roof (or even the roofing felt under tiles dipping into the gutter) can cause fish fatal contamination. 2. I assume you have an RO pre-filter to remove...

Did rinse the coarse foam in both filters in tank water as I would normally do each week, to remove coarse muck and odd leaves. Didn't notice other fish having issues. I feel it was probably my fault as I trimmed my anubias, slightly more than normal. There were some leaves starting with slight...

Water temp just now is 26'C. I have run for weeks before, with these loaches, where I forgot to turn heater back on after water change and tank temp was 19'C when I noticed. My water is heated before going into the tank. Look for my water heater butt in DIY section. Remaining loach is...

Seemed OK, last time I saw them parading around choosing which plants to either attack or lie under..

Water change, with dechlorinator, before first death was the Saturday. Water change on Sunday had dechlorinator, so hopefully not a chlorine issue. All other fish appear OK. CO2 was high, drop checker was nicely green. Have seen the loaches (and other fish) have trouble when CO2 was very high...

Two of my Clown Loaches (out of 3) have recently just died, about a week apart. One was found dead Fri 17th Jan and other Mon 20th Jan. Both were 10-15cm long. On water change day Sunday 19th Jan the two remaining loaches appeared to be OK. No sign of white spot on them or other fish. No sign...

Before fully planted high tech I had two plecs. Unfortunately when more than a couple of inches long they are quite plant destroyers. Mine rooted plants out of the substrate, slightly cured by planting plants through a buried square if filter floss. In that case they had a go at snapping...

I have noticed over the years that most decent fish shops the quality of fish, cleanliness of tanks and quality of the tank water has greatly improved. Most now have UV sterilisers, ozone generators, use mixed RO and water to keep water parameters constant as well auto-top/drain their tank...

I too have had fish deaths (years ago though) with new fish from Southampton branch. My tank had been running fine for years, and the Neon Tetras (including the existing ones) all got white spot within days and some died. Also the new Silver Sharks, with no sign of white spot all keeled over and...

Unfortunately, I have previously bought fish from a "cheaper" shop and suffered from either them dying couple of days later or white spot appearing. Pre-treating tank with anti-white spot couple of days before introducing, I got better results. However with latest aquascaped tank, I bought all...

For all of you wanting to follow George's idea with a blender, but would suffer domestic strife using kitchen utensils "for the fish", Argos do a hand blender for £4.13 and a jug blender for £9.89. I have the jug blender at home, only £7.50 in sales, and is now about 2 years old and still going...

I have an in sink macerator that finishes sick fish off very nicely.

I had 2 common Plecs (I think thats what they were) that came with my 2nd hand tank in Jan 2003 (and were a already a couple of years old 3?) and both have recently gone to the council food scraps recycling in last month or two, so at least 9 years. They are missed at the moment, as I am now...