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Won't be making it this time around, enjoy yourselves :)

Bem vindos :)

That is used to show on your news feed, but like Michael says there are other ways to achieve the same thing, most people won't even know what the news feed is! lol Think everyone should start following @john6 :rolleyes:

A lot goes on in the background to make this forum as user-friendly as possible! ;)

They are fine if you buying standard goods (i.e. shrimp food) but I had issues with plants from them many moons ago also! But still buy dry goods if the price is right.

Seems religious, could it be a Bible passage: 1345 / You love each other in return

That feels like I would be travelling to another country!! Anyone making it from London? I will bring the cakes!

Stunning tank, never too late to start a Journal ;)

Great tank, stunning Angels :)

Post by a new member reminded me of this I 3D printed a few weeks back! With articulated legs!

Thanks @Geoffrey Rea for posting that, sometimes it's worth reading those again, did take a long time to get those right, and my vision for UKAPS when all the Founders/Admins lost interesting in UKAPS and left me to it pretty much to handle on my own for over a decade, was to create a nice and...

Moderation Team are evaluating this member after various complaints from members about his way of responding to messages, he had been asked to tone it down a few times over the last few months and ignored those requests and was actually abrupt towards the team. He was not banned, a discouraged...

It is sad what he got out of it in the end! so much greed by these large corps!

Quite interesting how multicoloured LED's were created! and how long it took for it to be developed! How it was possible to create our aquarium LEDs :) one of the scientists was called Amano!

I used to go almost every year to see Cirque do Soleil and the last couple of years has been crazy! Used to pay around £60-75 for good seats right at the front, and now those seats cost an extra £100 each! I have noticed gig tickets also have gone up 40-50%.

I kept a blue one before and loved it, they have such great characters, but make sure your tank is fully sealed, any holes and it will escape lol Mine outgrew the 60l tank when it got to 25cm in size, took it back to the LFS! Would love to keep one again!

I have mine inside outside and coming out the top of it! Can see it at the far end by the window, some time before the video!

Problem is instant gratification and throwing everything at it without learning the basics, then most fail and give up on the hobby! which is a shame!

I would say if you want to churn out Aquascapes every 6-12 months for competitions etc and want super fast growth to get the photoshoot you need then CO2 and high ferts are a must to get that. As I always advise newcomers, you dont need hight light and high everything (all the gear no idea) to...

One of my favs, looks like a mini bamboo! Shame I missed this one, it is a bit of stretched to get there!

Looks like the issues were resolved in the end :)

You can easily place that on your profile or signature, but then again most people have multiple tanks. Rather than ask a million questions all over the place, start a journal, list all your stuff, show progress, post questions on your journal, then you have a proper log and everything is in one...

How the tank looks today:

Darrel just tagged this post, and remember to put an update, the leeches are still there, but I only seem to spot 1-2 once in a while which I get the tweezers and pull them out (two yesterday).

Missed this one first time around, here it goes, moved to the UK in 1989 (well my parents dragged me to the UK ) when Portugal joined the EU. I have a degree in Accounting and Finance but I work in IT as a Network Manager, looking after the computer network for a University in Central London...

Everything you touch is gold mate :) love this little setup! Wish I had the commitment to keep tanks as pristine as these! I am just too lazy! LOL

I can enable your old account if you prefer? Send me a private message! Welcome back :)

At the moment with the current level of sponsors we are well-balanced, we keep a reserve to support us for a year, if that reserve starts to decline then we will have to be more open about it, I just don't like asking for money from members and we make the best effort in the background to secure...

Primarily keeping the forum online and on a decent server/service. (host costs, software licensing costs, add-on costs). Then whatever is left we leave a contingency, and if that grows we can then look at a competition or host an event. Donations from member are actually very low, we do rely...

You should have said something ;) Anyone else having the same issues, is under preferences in your account profile.

You had your time set incorrectly in your profile, I have adjusted it for you!

When I was there in the summer, noticed the same thing, for something that was only meant to be there for 2-3 years! not bad going by the Team at Oceanarium :) still worth the visit

Happy New Year everyone :)

Thanks for the reports ;)

Love that last one! slice of nature for sure! :) great work as always

More tweaks have been applied to the backend server, apologies for not getting your fix ;)

I can confirm that host has applied some optimization to the server, so let's see if that helps.

Seems to be an issue with the hosting, I have raised a ticket for them to take a look.

Hope you all had a great Xmas :) Happy holidays :)

All HOBS will have some hum/rattle to them, best option would be a small internal.

Not surprising, gotta make way for us humans!

Just a note, I would say never shut the valve on the reactor, the pressure from the CO2 can damage it and then it will leak! as some have experienced, I have been using mine for almost 3 years also! love it! never going back either! lol

upload to youtube (or similar) then you can post! not that complicated ;)

I did warn you!! ;) For a tank that size I would rather get one these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/120928619670?hash=item1c27e84c96:g:z9QAAOSwd4tTsUgA I run these in 3 tanks, biggest a 30l cube and its perfectly fine, I use the 450L/H version! longest running is about 4-5 years!

It's pretty good, I use it on a 60l tank and it has never looked so clean, it is quite big though, so check the dimenssions properly before you buy one, I originally brought it for my 12l tank and its bigger than the tank LOL

You currently responded inside the forum ;)

LOL fish will take care of them ;) Your next project!

One of the best I have seen in a while :) Would love this :)

I have a Pinto for 5-6 months that is pretty Varigated on a low tech that is just fine.

Great macro shots :)

Have a word with one of the sponsors, as they import plants from Tropica they should be able to get it for you!

I now know why I am always running out of space on the server due to attachments! lol last batch of disk space I added is costing an extra £200 a year! :P

I will have a look at some stage, just stick to 1920x1080pixel photos which is more than enough for now :P Could be a limitation of PHP also! maybe I was over ambitious with the max size!

Its the same value for both directions, it might push the file size above the 20Mb limit also! 1695901157 But then again you found your own answer anyway!

Limit is 5600px, i am actually considering reducing this :P 1695900569 its for everyone, could be interference with ad blockers

Some 3D printed coral later, its done! Setup today with some eggs next to my little freshwater planted setup. Now wait and see if the eggs hatch, will be feeding them spirulina!

Plan B should be ready to test soon ;)

I did try that with one of the experiments but made no difference, that one lasted slightly longer which might highlight the oxygen deficiency! Was worth a shot! ;) plan B into operation!

I have already started hacking the base of the ecosphere, and going to install a mini USB heater and USB air pump with air stone at the base, and plug a hole at the top, that way can still use the sphere just not an enclosed system! Just waiting for black silicone to arrive tomorrow to seal it...

Yeah, that is plan B ;) just not an enclosed system any more! 1695292415 did think about that, but some say hard to survive in that small container and no water movement!

Many thanks, guess I will have to give up on the idea of an enclosed system.

Won't the algae produce oxygen? I can see lots of bubble at the start when light is on, algae rises to the top of the tank with the oxygen bubbles!

Temp is stable at room temp, 22-23C, no movement, but I have a magnetic stirrer I could use, as closed system there is no way to get an airstone in there! I was hoping they would survive on algae alone! Guess its mission impossible then! 1695289963 Ah bummer! guess this is a no go then! What...

The idea was never to open the sphere again, so they won't survive on the algae alone?

You better off with a normal air stone during the night ;)

Morning everyone, Just a quick question in regards a tried and failed experiment with brine shrimp eco system in a sphere. I have been running the little 15cm cube in the office with the 3D printed mods for around 5 months and that is all going well, snails love it and got a couple of shrimp...

Damn that looks so good :clap::thumbup:

there is already a thread all about it! Next time please use the search feature of the forum! https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/nacd-aquariums.59225/

You should be able to enter a URL now ;)

To be honest no idea, as I don't write the forum software 🙄😉 I will take a look when I have some spare time and see if that can be changed

It's working the way it has been designed to work! For Twitter and Facebook it will cut the URL just to the nickname, and for Insta it will ask for the full URL!

Still use it to this day :) Another great tool is: https://diskanalyzer.com/ If you want to quickly find out folders that are taking lots of space on your disk!

I did look at the dimensions and its 34cm in height and my printer only does 32cm max! so would have to be a little smaller

I was thinking the other day about 3D printing one! lol

If every year you have the same judges, every year you will have the same results ;) Like Art it's all about personal preference when it comes to this, I am also not sure about some of the judges in the panel!

Until you post at least 3 posts, there is not much you can change! this is to prevent spammers from messing things up ;)

Tried puffers once! never again :)

I am available 30th September and 7th October ;) then nothing until November!

When I used DIY CO2, during lights out I just had a strong air pump going, actually worked pretty well (depends where you have it, can be noisy, if in a bedroom) I found out that using two bottles linked together and alternate making the solution every other week in each bottle created the most...

Why don't we put a date on the calendar for a meet let's say at Aquatic Design Centre which most know and is easy to get too!! There are plenty of coffee shops/restaurants in the area too for a bite/drink!

We used to meet up often at one stage, take turns around members houses, check their tanks, scape a tank even, exchange stuff, bring and share some food, I had a full house once too haha Maybe time to rekindle that, we also sometimes met at a local fish store and then had a bite to eat...

Had that great strike that hit the bar go in might have been a different story, and after the penalty save thought they would be more determined to win it! but wasn't meant to be! Better team won on the day ;)

Come on England :) What an achievement for the ladies! Back to back finals. :) Fingers crossed for the win!

There is one already: London Fish Keeping Club (LFKC) Use to run their forum many moons ago with @mlgt but then we decided to integrated it into UKAPS when members went down.

Really enjoyed Aarhus when I was there to visit Tropica many moons ago, great city, great food, and even got to check out the Tropica greenhouses and create a scape :) Welcome to UKAPS!

Bem vindos Eduardo :)

Shame I missed this one :( still need to make a trip up north to visit HA!

Then they will just create more jobs with new tiles to monitor the AI! and those people still have jobs they can apply for! Look in the corporate world and there are so many "BS" jobs, which have been created just to keep the workforce number in balance, even as technology evolves! And new tech...

These 3 are quite fat ones! :eek::eek:

I have a feeling its the snails, as there are 2-3 hundred snails in there! And I noticed 3-4 of the very large Rabbit snails passed also in the last 3-4 months, I have a feeling they might have been going after those, I moved the Rabbit snails to my 90cm tank now, to give them a chance. I will...

As the batch of leeches was delivered today to Norwich (be warned), I caught a couple more while I was removing some old moss from the tank, the two biggest leeches I have ever seen! One I actually thought it was a worm, thought it was too big to be a leech LOL damn! Anyway I have ordered...

Mission failed successfully! :) It doesn't take a lot of variables into account, I found it totally unreliable at times!

seems to be a common theme!

2 of them i perform a water change once a month, the other one maybe two a year! might be the high number of shrimp and snails in the 60l that keeps the plants going, although I dont have many species in there and mainly anubias!

I haven't done so for 10 years ;)

This is an ecosphere I set up in March this year, I have not opened it since, anubias, buce, moss, couple of Ramshorn and couple of baby shrimp, this is how it looked yesterday and so far everything still alive and moss growing well, have seen some copepods in there also! What I was...

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Yeah the missus did say "next time warn me before you post this 💩on your stories!! LOL But I have grown to them now! I am thinking of setting up a little contained ecosphere and see how they do in there long term! lol

To be honest, no idea, most likely in some plants I got from other people!