any fishy people in the house?

[VW BUSH]

Don't need an air pump, just get a good filter pump that takes foam and charcoal pads with an air snorkel cost about £15. Heater will be about the same.
Rena, interpet are fairly low end and available most places just go to a good aquatics shop and ask.
You might find it hard to get an OEM hood for your tank but one can be made up easily enough and light units can be had for about £25
If you know the make/model of your tank you might be able to google something up.

You can buy a tank with all the bits as a kit for about £75^......

[sharki786]

Don't need an air pump, just get a good filter pump that takes foam and charcoal pads with an air snorkel cost about £15. Heater will be about the same.
Rena, interpet are fairly low end and available most places just go to a good aquatics shop and ask.
You might find it hard to get an OEM hood for your tank but one can be made up easily enough and light units can be had for about £25
If you know the make/model of your tank you might be able to google something up.

You can buy a tank with all the bits as a kit for about £75^......

I got a 28 ltr tank starter kit. Has a filter (foam) and its always on. It has different types of connections. Ive fitted the sprayer (long tube with holes for water to trickle out)

[sharki786]

thought id bump this up as wife wants to get a light INSIDE the tank (underwater led light) could someone give me some links please? i have looked on the bay but dont know which to get, also dont want to get the chavy headlight led lights.

[clipperjay]

wow still going on thread cool!
Just commissioned my 300litre tank re decorated the extension just for the little bugger!

[sharki786]

wow still going on thread cool!
Just commissioned my 300litre tank re decorated the extension just for the little bugger!

Fan tail fish?
Mahoooosive tank. Looks nice.

Went today to pick up a heater and led loit. But they didnt have a light to fit our tank and he said as you habe just got the tank last week give it another 2wks and bring a samle of your water down to test for ph level and told us not to buy any more fish as the water needs to be at the right level and no need to buy a heater yet as wife wants a purple siamese fighting fish. So we got to wait for 2 wks now

[clipperjay]

Yes its a Telescope the other is a Oranda Red Cap!
 
I'm going for a floating shelf and drill some LED's into it for lighting just haven't worked out where to hide transformer and wires to the LED's?
She is a big tank @ 300litres, but my other tank will hold invertebrates and live coral when funds allow! 
 
They had survived a batch of Ich lately and the fan tail is recovering from fin rot!
Fish in cycle is tough changing water every day is tough I recommend you buy a API master test kit off Bay its like £28.00 but worth it due to Ammonia and Nitrite spikes! I cycled my tank in 4 weeks but still that was too soon for a new filter and tank! By the way it normally takes 6-7 weeks and yes don't stick any more  fish you can always take back the fish for them to look after until the nitrogen cycle levels are safe?

[T_J_G]

Got a 125l tropical setup. Got guppies, flame tetra, dwarf gourami and cardinal tetras oh and some zebra snails. Just recovered from ich with no casualties.

Got a seperate tropical 15l setup with a Siamese fighting fish.

[T_J_G]

@ Sharki

Don't show your other half this site http://www.finzntailz.co.uk/

[golf-sib]

I just got a 80L tank setup a few weeks back, except my purpose was to relocate the gold fish from my pond to indoors as I am going to get rid of the pond. My only problem is algae, any plants that tackle algae, shrimps don't work, one of the magic krap (goldfish) keeps beefing and killing them, anger management issues would be my guess.

[clipperjay]

Any decent plants like Amazon Swords and Cabomba will help to suck up nutrients like Nitrates and Phosphates.
Its a balance and control rather than eradicate algae.
Cleaning the glass and doing water changes(same time) once a week 10-15% of volume will get rid of any floating algae when cleaning.
Scrubbing ornaments and gravel will help.
Keeping food waste down (No over feeding) will help and general cleaning of the tank TBF.
Some No No's is direct sunlight more than 12 hours of natural light will increase the growth, also if you use of Algae killers can kill plants also and kill off biological filter bacteria!   
if you have decent amount of plants they eventually take control and suck up or starve the Algae of what it needs.


This is my other 125 liters tank!


I recently bought this for £40 bargain @ 1000 liters per hour My water is crystal clear!