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Aponogeton crispus red - does this flower? Mine appears to have sprouted a 1cm thick stem which is growing at 3 inches per day... Expect this will turn into a flower. The Anubias have two flowers now. But contrast, the Vesuvius never made it, and the crossocheilus have more or less eaten the...

Jeez! If you had that in your house you'd never leave! Awesome, just the sheer scale, the ridiculous number of fish, the perfection.... (the outrageous cost!!!!) Having said that it would never have got past the HSE assessment in this country - I swear I thought someone was going to lose an...

Small update: will follow up with some pics later. Have mostly cracked the algae problem with stable co2 and patience. Plus frequent 40%water changes. Plus 6 amano shrimp. Plus 2 crossocheilus reticulatus (nice fish). Also, the stems growth rate is such that they are now shadowing larger areas...

Hmmm, yes, six 6" fish might be pushing it. However I do want something a bit bigger than two inches.... That wont eat all the smaller fish. Or dig everything up. Every time I go to the lfs I send half my time googling the fish to check!

So many fish to choose from!! My LFS had a new delivery of plecos this week so spent about an hour browsing. They had a decent range from queen arabesque (ouch on the price), long tailed royal plec (serious ouch on the price) and so on. Anyway I ended up with a small starlight plec, which as...

If I was going to get apistos, are they not broadly a similar type of fish to the nannacara? Similarly, the rams?

I'm pretty sure the extensions without holes do exist and are used to extend the inlet kits. The eheim website might help you find the part number or try aquacadabra as they often have a decent selection, or call eheim uk.....

I was browsing my LFS today, looking for a slightly larger fish to be a centrepiece. I have. A 330l planted tank mainly populated with smaller fish, so I need one that is friendly, won't eat small fish, won't dig up or eat plants, and looks great. The chap in the shop suggested some kind of...

I would avoid matogrossense as it grows v fast and is huge..... I.e. a weed! The hygrophila by contrast is nice looking and sensibly sized, and fairly slow growing. Not sure about the others in this sized tank.

I think moss is ok as long as u stay away from java moss, but fissidens is very nice. My pogostemon erectus has mostly not made it largely because it is slow growing and has been eaten (by platiesmim guessing) faster than it grows.... Course it might be because its panted low down at the back...

Excellent. like it. Are you confident it will stay there? Are you relying on water dosing to feed the HC? It may get better CO2 there. Reckong this will look good without stems actually. Nice open spaces and a carpet of stauro will be great. Two thoughts: 1. the area top left has the...

Hope you've booked a day off!! And remove all the rock wool especially from the cuba else you will be forever removing it from the chunks that end up floating on the surface...... Reckon this will be very nice once it grows in. No stems?

For £80, get it , leave it in the garage, and if you decide you can't use it, you can probably make a profit flogging it on.....

And barely any visible flow! (Unless you turned it down for the vid?). On the face of it the combination of lighting, flow, co2 , planting etc is really complex - one man's beautiful tank (like this one!) is another man's algae factory!

I have the AM1000, and while its ok, it has its issues: 1. Its designed actually for fairly low rate filters, and comes with 12mm hose connections. Perversely most users fit it to larger tanks with more powerful filters. This causes problems as these usually have 16mm hoses so your hoses dont...