Thank you. For those new to the hobby, the nitrogen cycle just seems hard to get your head around 🤔

@@FishKeepingAnswers i agree. Would help if Nitrite and Nitrate didn’t almost share the same name. 😂

Hello, Won the battle against Ich in my tank, Ritchie Blackmoor and crew are alive and thriving now thanks to your advice. Thank You! Currently running two cartridge filters in my 60 gallon tank? Wondering how often I should replace vs cleaning them monthly? Generally, I clean them every couple of weeks and change them monthly. Is this about right? Thanks

When you say a ‘cartridge filter’, is it a hang-on-back type?

@@FishKeepingAnswersthey are the Tetra Bio-Bag filter cartridges that slide down into the pump

Glad the video(s) help. 🫶🏻

Thanks for the kind feedback. I have never heard of hot tub water stabiliser????

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Thank you. That’s an early video. Quality has improved a lot since those days 😂

Thanks. These are Cryptocoryne wendetti ‘green’ 🥳

@FishKeepingAnswers thanks, that's perfect. I've been looking into what plants I can have with the fancies. They just eat everything. I'm going to reacquascape my tank with an anubias and crypt island, hopefully they survive. I'll also add some elodea as sacrificial plants, in case they want a nibble 🤣

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I keep live plants with all my fancy goldfish. Choose tough plants like Crypts, Anubias and Java Fern. They do pick at the Java Moss. If you put a small piece in they will probably eat it. If you put a large clump in it will almost certainly grow faster than they can eat it.

@@FishKeepingAnswers Oh ok. Java moss, anubias look nice with fancy goldfish. How do you disinfect live plants before planting them in the aquarium. Because live plants carry pests. Right? Please tell.

Honestly, I never worry. Just buy them from a reputable store and you should be fine. Goldfish will quickly eat the majority of pests, including tiny snails 💪🏻

Hi. This is a 180l or 47 US Gal tank 🫶🏻

Hi. That’s a 180l tank. It’s gets about a 75% water change each week. Welcome back to the hobby. I agree there is a lot more (mis)information these days 😂

@FishKeepingAnswers Thank you 😊 normally when getting new creatures I do loads of research before hand. But as I had fish before and thought I knew it all 🤣 this time I didn't! I brought a compleat set up. The filter would have been useless for one guppy, heater was unadjustable ect. I spent shed loads trying different ones and also atarted with plasic plants 😳 within a few months scraped it all, got a new tank and started again. I still had a fluval filter that's 25 + years old and still going strong when I tried it in their bigger tank. But I was amazed the pet shop that I got the fantails ( Billy, Barney and Bob) from still believe fish only grow to the size of their tank!!!!! Plus sold common plecos 😱 Anyway enough of ranting. Love your channel 👍 Goldfish are the best, like destructive puppies 🥰

You can use distilled water, but distilled water is free from any salts and minerals, so you will need to remineralise the water.

Thank one is 47 gallons or 180 liters 👍🏻

@@FishKeepingAnswersOh thanks for the reply.😊

​@@FishKeepingAnswers 180 litres isn't 47g mines 160 litres 35g

US gallons are different from imperial/UK gallons.... Just one more reason to use metric

It’s a single Corydoras paleatus. I believe I inadvertently brought in some eggs when I transferred a clump of Java moss from a Corydoras breeding tank into this tank a couple of years ago. He survived, so good luck to him 🤣

@@FishKeepingAnswers hahaha is there any fish you found you can keep with goldfish?

Nope! Never considered it cruel, unless the fish keeper is deliberately being cruel, which does happen. My fish have a longer life expectancy than wild fish, have access to medicine when they are ill, live a life free from predators and arguably have access to a better diet than their wild cousins 😎

@@FishKeepingAnswers thankkss