Any fish experts in the house?

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Okay, good news, the nitrates and nitrites have dropped to "ideal".

Plan is to drop a heater in and replace the lost platy, so the remaining one has a friend.

How often for water testing and changes going forwards chaps? 24L tank as I mentioned.

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budgie smuggler said:

Dr Mike Oxgreen said:

budgie smuggler said:

Dr. Oxgreen, I'm with you, but actually variatus platies are a temperate species and will survive at room temperature no problem.

https://fishkeeper.co.uk/databank/plant/livebearer...

That species is different from the typical run-of-the-mill platies that are usually offered for sale. I'm willing to bet those aren't the ones that P@H were selling.

Well you bet wrong. I happened to be near two stores this week (Chelmsford and Basildon). Both had common and variatus platies, labelled tropical and temperate respectively as I said.



So smell my cheese.

OK, so if we have a temperate platy is it going to be happy with a heater in there?

Edited by budgie smuggler on Thursday 25th February 19:20

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Okay, with water now right we've installed another platy.

The heater arrived and I've installed that too at 24 degrees. It seems to have been made in China and the instructions translated via Chinese-Afrikaans and Afrikaans-English dictionaries. What I assume they mean is, "set the temperature knob to the temperature you want, the light will come on and then go off when the heater reaches temperature. Keep it submerged" Does that sound right?

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Turn7 said:

Yep.

Light shows its heating. Dont let it heat un submerged.

The light goes out after a minute or so of setting a new temperature.

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Turn7 said:

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Turn7 said:

Yep.

Light shows its heating. Dont let it heat un submerged.

The light goes out after a minute or so of setting a new temperature.

The light will be powered by the thermostat. In a small tank with little water movement, it will quickly sense required temp and switch off.

OK thank you.

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Poisson96 said:

. Does OP mind we are taking over?

Not at all. The help was much appreciated, the problem is now sorted it seems. If the thread grows excessively I may take it off my watch list, outside of that be my guest!