Cool! Thanks. 

When you say Lucky is still acting a little crazy, do you mean unusual darting around the tank and rubbing against objects? Or was she just peppy after her water quality came out perfect? I wouldn't worry too much yet until you find a cause for her behavior, such as a parameter spike or sign of illness. Keep checking on her and look closely at her body....details are the key! 

Glad to hear you solved the problem of the water leakage. 

It may have been the temperature, as I didn't leave the water to stand as long as I usaully do, because the level was a bit lower than I intended. Normally I give it 10 or 15 minutes to get to room temparture, so you might be right Nossie, was possibly the temperature.

From watching her yesterday and today she's been fine I just looked over now saw her swimming back and forth through the bubbles She's so cute when she does that.
She occasionally chases her reflection like in the video, but I don't think that's anything to worry about, I think it's just part of her behaviour, perhaps she thinks its another fish?

I'll be doing a water test tonight, just on the nitrates to see where their at. Then tomorrow I'll do a full water test and clean the gravel. Would it be worth getting a thermometer to check water going in the tank is the same temperature for the future? Or just go back to what I was doing before with leaving it to stand as she seemed fine when I did it that way.

Ahh I see.... all that Lucky would see on the side of the tank she usually goes to, is just my blue wall paper XD
The other side of the tank has some random things there but at the moment the towel would be in the way to stop the water from spreading.

I'll grab a thermometer today or tomorrow! I re call my dads having one because it was a tropical tank, but I can't remember what type it was... possibly a sticker? Not sure, I'll grab one with a suction cup in any case!

At the moment for water changes, I've just been using an old cooking pot, that no one in the house used and because my water conditioner dosage is one cap full per 4.5 pints, I usually do 4.5 pints at a time, in the pot, so it can take a while XD

Maybe I should grab a mop bucket when I go to get the thermometer I'm sure water would warm up quicker in a plastic bucket than the metal pot I've been using! Plus it could be a mop bucket just for the tank so I could potentially do the water change in one go!

I'm thinking of using the mop bucket in the kitchen, only for emptying the dirty tank water into and using my new one (which will be used only in the aquarium) for clean water ^_^

Well I managed to get two 10 litre buckets yesterday, 99p each! Can't get much cheaper than that
That Oranda bucket does sound cute

I realised what you meant about the temperature, my rooms quite warm, so the tank is too, I let the water sit in here yesterday for about 2 or 3 hours and it still wasn't as warm as the tank XD Lucky didn't seem to fussed, but I don't think there's much I can do if the water is a little colder than what's in the tank?

Water test was fabulous yesterday, the ammonia is even more of a yellow colour than before! So at least the water is nice and clean for her poorly scales!
On note of her scales, is there anything I can do to help that out?

Her behaviour this morning has been very chilled out, she's been nibbling at the aquarium plant mostly and I'm noticing more and more, that her swimming up and down behaviour is limited to when she's checking out the sides of the tank, so she's just having a good look around! When I removed the towel yesterday to let it dry a little, I noticed she was checking that side of the tank out too this morning!

Thanks for all your help guys! Sorry for being so paranoid XD It was just so horrible watching her flash, the poor thing didn't look happy at all, so when ever she did similar movements, I got worried!

I just hope it continues like this!

I'm going to be away for a little more than a week in December, for christmas and new years, I just hope she'll be okay in my absence! If I'm doing water changes twice a week at the moment, will the water parameters be okay if their left for a bit longer?

My mum bless her was like 'bring the fish with you!' the car ride wouldn't be to bad, but 3 hours going back on a train with a goldfish?! Pretty silly!

If I get the plant she likes to eat (a new one before I leave) and put that in for her, then she'd be okay? She would at least have something to snack on in case she got hungry!

Yeah I was thinking a test run, do water checks instead of water changes. (Unless of course the parameters get bad). I'll feed her flakes from my fingers (one at a time) every few days (she ate from my fingers for the first time yesterday ) it stops the problem of un eaten food, as I'll see the moment she stops eating the flakes

I've taken the plants out, Lucky was not impressed! She actually chased the plant as I took it out and poked her little mouth out at the top, like 'where are you taking that?!' One plant actually has some white roots growing through the brown, so I took the brown off, the tips of the plant where the roots are growing, are a little brown too... Might buy fresh ones today anyway!
See what other plants the man in town has, as that's where my partner picked up these, he might have some java fern too.

Just done a water check as Lucky has been acting a little odd again (mainly swimming a little erratically along the front of the tank), it's all fine, other than the ammonia having a slight green tint again, so I'm going to do a quick gravel clean and water change, maybe that'll sort it out, as I didn't fill the tank as much as normal on Wednesday so maybe the lower level of water is the cause, with things being a little more concentrated?

I was a little concerned that maybe it was her food, as yesterday I heated some brocolli in treated water in the microwave (the fridge partially froze some of it), I was going to take it out, but then Lucky had eaten most of it when I went to do so (it had only been in the tank for about 15 minutes!) Not sure if treated water going in the microwave was a good idea?
Maybe just give her some peas tonight, just incase? To help with her digestion.

Bless her, she was so cute though, she nibbled at my fingers for the first time today while I was filling one of the test tubes! She also nibbled the test tube XD Right... time to go grab the mop bucket! x

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Okay so water change done, I'm going to test the ammonia again tomorrow as Nitrites and Nitrates are fine. Hopefully it'll go down again. I'll be adding a little dose of stress zyme on Sunday, I feel the little tank needs all the bacterial help it can get! Lucky seems a little better, I'll be keeping an eye on her this evening as I have work and things later.

Nossie, with leaving her, if the water parameters continue to be like this, would it be okay to take her home with me? I can't really do a 'test' at the moment, when the parameters are being so un-predictable. I could always ask my Dad if he'd drive me back, instead of getting a train with the fish? Of course hopefully it will be okay to leave her, I'm just a little worried! x

Yeah, I picked up a different cold water plant today, it's quite bushy, so she can hide and swim through it. My partner stuck it in the tank, but I've come home to find bits of the plant all over the place XD So I took it out and had to fish the silly things out with a net!
Lucky came up and gave me a little nibble which made me feel a bit better as I was interrupted during this affair with the plant with some annoying sales guy at my door! It must have sounded such a pathetic excuse 'I'm right in the middle of cleaning my fish tank, sorry!' Haha I wonder how many people have used that one to get someone to go away!

I caught Lucky eating one of the bits off the plant, so I figure she'll like this one Although whilst cleaning this stuff out, I noticed a little tiny snails shell The plant is now in a bucket, being quarantined as I originally thought it should be! I've chucked in a piece of lettuce in to see if there are many snails in the plant. Hopefully it was just a random empty shell

Yeah thanks for the advice Nossie, sorry I'm being a bit nuts! I'll do just a simple water change on Sunday (leaving the gravel alone!) and add in the stress zyme. Maybe there's a period all new fish keepers go through, like 'New Tank Syndrome' but for people!

Aww well it's nice to know, other people go through similar things

I'll do a quick gravel clean then, after my usaul water test, and I'm thinking of rinsing the plant out in some luke warm water and hand pick off any snails, as my lettuce plan failed and nothing was on it XD So maybe it was just a random shell Wouldn't hurt to check though! But Lucky will have her plant back in the tank today!

Hmm the odd thing is, I checked the entire plant and when I popped it back in, I immediately noticed one of the snails on back of the tank near the filter (a potential hitch hiker on the filter during my clean?) removed it and checked the filter, nothing (but it needs a good clean on wednesday with my next water change ). Then I suddenly saw one on the air stone (Again maybe he'd hid there and I missed it?) Removed him as well!

I read a 'warm salty bath' can help with snails, so that is just what the plants having!

Not sure what to do with the two snails I've caught, I'd like to keep them, but I fear I'll wake up to lots and lots of baby snails, as they can re produce on their own I believe? Although my mum said she could always take them home to live in the pond!
(They are currently in a little tub with an air-holed lid).

Yes that's what I was afraid of!

I think there's no more in the tank as I've taken the plant back out now, but will be doing a thorough clean and check on Wednesday to make sure no more have appeared out of no where! They are like ninjas I swear...

But at the same time I don't want to kill the little guys, they are kind of cute!

Ah wicked ^_^

Yes I would much rather have snails than have Lucky get ill!
Making sure all plants get quarantined now as I thought they should have been!

The plant with the hitch hiking snails, is in a jug of salted water at the moment, how long should it be quarantined for? I know you mentioned quarantine any new fish for 3 weeks, so does the same apply to plants or do they need a shorter time period?

Other than that Lucky is doing fine! She's very active (I think I was getting flashing and her just being active a bit muddled XD), she swims around the tank exploring the world outside! I took down the backdrop I had, so she can check out more of the blue wall paper she seems to like

Will get a video soon, she is very lovely, becoming more and more tame every day now (I might pop it in the video/photo thread).

Thanks everyone, for all your help and support, I really appreciate it!

I'd have the plants quarantined for maybe 2 weeks? Since there are no fish there for any possible parasites to sit on, they should all be dead after the two weeks period

Like fantailer said: Yay videos!

That's your choice If you'd be suspicious about the plant carrying parasites, you should keep it in salted water (even if the parasites would die off on their own) but since it's just a snail problem here, you can decide yourself. I think
It really doesn't make a very big difference

The ammonia is most likely 0 by now, those colors aren't that accurate in the end.
The nitrates are a tad high, but Lucky will be able to handle it! In the early days they believed that nitrates aren't harmful until they're 400 ppm actually. Quite a lot higher than today's ideal, right?
It's probably because the tank is crowded and under filtered, that'll all be repaired once you'll have the bigger tank and proper filtration! (And even if you would have to use the smaller filter for a while, it would be okay since Lucky would be alone in the tank for the first month )

If there would have been parasites with the plant, they would've infested the tank already since the snails did...