Hello From York

Finally got my Ammonia to 0/ppm and my Nitrite to 0/ppm and as a bonus my Nitrate is down to 20-40/ppm. (Think my plants are doing what they are suppose to be doing) So not long now til fully cycled.

The Nitrite seemed to take an age to go down.

Put 3/ppm of ammonia in last night so will test later to day and hopefully the tests will show my tank is alnost fully cycled.

That’s great  looking forward to seeing pictures when they’ve settled in

They Seemed to have settled in.

Excuse the sponge filter I am cycling it to put in my other tank.

Any suggestions on food for my tetras. The pellets got are a bit too big. The flake is fine but want a variety.

Hopefully going to get some live food today.

Nice to see the photos, and glad all's going well.

For small fish, I find Fish Science Tropical Fish Micro Granules (slowly sinking; natural formula with insect meal) ideal, as they're the smallest pellets I've seen, red in colour, and therefore easily taken/consumed - I'd recommend these as the best option for your ember tetras. Aquarium Munster / Dr Bassleer's Biofish-Food (regular) are also very small pellets but, being brown in colour and sinking, they sometimes fall fast before they're noticed - but your embers would likely enjoy those that they do notice/reach and they'd be ideal for bottom-dwellers or those who eat from the bottom (your cories but not your embers). Fluval Bug Bites Tropical Formula for small fish (insect larvae and salmon recipe fish food) are good too but seem to be slightly bigger and more difficult to chew, brown in colour, and so are slightly less easily taken/consumed; you could pre-soak these to make them easier to chew but then they might fall faster and be missed by the embers.

I bought 5 pack of frozen food. Bllodworm, black mosquito and white mosquito aswell as brine shrimp and daphina. Just to see what they like. 5 for £10

Also got Dr Bassleer, NTL probiotical tropical, and some JBL Krill.

Oh yes and 5 more Ember Tetras. They are so much more confident in a shoal of 11.  5 more in a weeks time and my tank is complete. Look brilliant in my tank against the green foliage.

Congrats on the eggs. Eggciting times!   

I've never managed to successfully raise any fry myself so you might be about to make me very jealous!!

Just a quick update.

I have managed to get around 10 fry to survive.

I have them in a small 400 x 250 x 250 tank at the moment with some Amano shrimp for company.

I am so chuffed. They are about 10-25mm long. They are different ages and sizes due to different batches.

I will upload some picture if I can.

My 900mm tank is still empty apart for a large piece of wood and some plants. It is all cycled. Just waiting for pay day to come around then a visit to the local fish store.

Trying to decide whether to wait til the fry are a bit bigger and put them all together with the original 5 in the 900mm. The 15 of them should look quite impressive. The local store said they would take them off my hands when they get to around a 30-40mm for store credit.

Great news indeed.