Contacted AA Aquatics by email and was informed that although they no longer make this model they do have a few light units remaining and could ship one to me with a £30 courier cost (it'd be coming from Hong Kong), no mention of a unit cost does this mean its free

 

Going to contact Den Marketing their UK side of things and see if they have any units left. If I'd have thought about it I would have contacted them first seeing as they're already in the UK! Doh!

 

i have encountered a problem and would appreciate any ideas.

 

at the moment i still have my 90 Litre set up which has for some months now been home to 2 golden apple snails and several assassin snails (exact numbers i'm unsure as they breed).

 

in all the months i've had them my assassins have left the apple snails alone.

 

also home to several peaceful community fish...

 

i was browsing ebay and noticed some gorgeous little blue/grey apple snails that were advertised as being "grown"... so i purchased one.

 

it arrived this morning and i placed it in the tank after taking time to climatise it. i returned from shopping to find 2 assassins on top of the little snail.. so i rescued it unharmed but they persistently keep trying to get at it...

 

i have managed to get hold of a little 17 litre tank with filter to seperate them, but the little filter isn't cycled.

 

would i be able to just use some of my water and substrate and add the snail to the little tank instantly or would i have to cycle it with flake food?

 

i did think of running it beside my cycled filter, but how long would that take??

 

ideally i need this little snail out of there today, but how will i get the tank cycled that soon?

 

sorry it's so long.. any help appreciated...

 

My favourite platy is under the weather and I'm not sure what's wrong with her.  She seems to be lethargic, but is swimming in bursts, then she just seems to bob along in the water,  as if she hasn't got much control and as going with the current, and she is vertical quite often.  She didn't feed with the rest either... and they are buffing her about a wee bit.

 

My 65l tank has only been going since january, and her and a pal were the first two in after it was tunning for a bit.  there are currently two other platys and a molly.  They were all treated for white spot last week, but were all fine in themselves apart from the spots. It's cleared up now fine

 

Water is  PH7.4

               N02 0

               N03 10

Ammonia between 0-0.25 on API kit...  not up to speed at reading it yet sorry.

I have only had one external filter that's been virtually silent and that is my Fluval 205.

It will take a while to bed in as the internals get coated with algaes and such I expect.