• Use aquarium safe sponge to wipe out bowl weekly.
• Change 20% of the water per 2 weeks, stirring it up beforehand, or use gravel cleaner.
• Never change more than 1/2 of the water at a time.
• Feed a maximum of what they can eat in 30sec ensuring that you can`t see one spec after 30sec - once a day, in the morning, 5 times per week.
• Feed New Life spectrum, it is the best colour enhancer, healthiest and cleanest food in the world.
• Avoid buying food in bulk to keep the food fresh.
• Only one person is allowed to feed.
• Add 1 teaspoon aquarium salt per 5lt of the tank.
• Test pH weekly keep it 7.0. If ph blue add 1 teaspoon of yellow pH powder. If pH yellow do water change.
• Carbonate Hardness powder must be present so you can have a kH level of between 80 – 150ppm. This must be tested using a KH test kit. This is very important in Sydney tap water.
• Aim to have a green to greeny-blue coloured pH.
• Add double dose of Easy-life water ager to any tap water.
• Never clean gravel in tap water.
• Only have a thin layer of fine gravel.
• At no point should the fish ever come out of the bowl.
• Lack of bacteria will create cloudy water.
• Clean any filter media in water from the fish tank, never tap water.
• Dose the tank with Easy-life fluid filter media weekly.

Place a bit of polyfilter in the filter or in the water of the tank and replace it when it turns black. The polyfilter will remove all the bad stuff from the water including phosphate which is what creates algae!

By Paul Talbot