Recent content by jaycat

Thank you Foxfish, I passed your thoughts on to my friend who has said she will just recoat with many layers of beeswax. However I will text your thoughts to her, but she seems ok about doing many coats! :shock: She already had trouble with the stand bowing, and asked, told her to check floor...

Thanks for your replies. O dear re the beeswax! I will see my friend this morning and tell her, she just told me yesterday what she had done, so I had no time to ask for advice for her first :( I will pass on all your advice, good and not so good (for her!) :)

Hi, a friend of mine has aquired a secondhand 5' aquarium which has no hood. They have made a hood, and have already treated it with beeswax, now they want to know what type of varnish to use? On a search I see it has to be polyurethane, but is there anything else they need to know? Many thanks,

O well, no news really, all water tests came back fine, good in a way, but not in another, as it would have given me something to work with. Have finally decided to dose for internal bacteria infection, as there's no signs on the fish, and it's not the water, dosing seems to be the only thing...

When I have the results, my next question will be about RO water, what are your thougths please? I have already performed at least a 60% water change over last 4 days, so not sure about changing too much more? Thanks, J

Still losing fish, another 2 dead today so far. I am taking some water samples up to Maiednhead aq. both my tap water and tank water, I really need to find out what on earth is going on here. Have added carbon and just going to add polyfilter too. It so looks like water probs, but..... I'll...

Ah ok sorry ceg. Thansk for leaving it up. Cheers Fred, I need to say thanks about the filter being clogged, I am hoping against hope that this has been the problem, I was up at 6, and took all pipes to do with external filter of and washed them all through, they were clogged with bits brown...

Fish dying!! Duplicate post-sorry.

Hi, I'm back from day out, this is awful, I have no idea what is going in in my tank. :( First thing tomorrow I will hoover again the tank floor, and do a water change. I changed the filter wool last week, but I'l do it again, and check and refill filter. I don't have any carbon, will buy...

Hi, Jay's partner again (she's on the phone) Just got home from work, 2 more dead fish, one cardinal and one other, maybe an oto. remaining 2 cardinals looking bleached out and not swimming around. All red and black phantoms look fine. Help. could there be something wrong in the filter...

don't know if it makes any difference, all the fish that died were the older ones- all about 3 years old at least. None of the younger ones we added less than a year ago are affected.

Jackie's partner here. fish were just dead, 2 floating, 2 part eaten. all other fish fine. 3 cardinals and 1 rummy nose died, 5 rummies, 3 cardinals 5 red phantoms and 5 black phantoms, 2 dwarf chain loaches, 3 panda cories, 2 siamese flying foxes and 2 otos left. no aeriation (if that means...

Hi All, (last night) ok, I have an established, heavily planted 4' tank. 27 fish (now!) Fed every other day with frozen brine shrimp or dap. (frozen) algae wafers, and pellets for cories. (Did feed live brine shrimp last week, first time for months) Cleaned for their usual routine 50% water...

Water was coming out from the filter, so I'm thinking now that the seal must be shot on the filter. I'll get some advice tomorrow on replacing it. Thanks anyway :)

Hi, I've just had a power cut here for about 5 mins, I have a 4' tank running 405 fluval external filter; when power cut water came flowing out of filter, thank god we were up, or else it would have emptied tank! That led me on to thinking, can anything be done to stop this??? If we'd have...