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Hi guys, Need some help plz. Try as I might, lighting is one thing I can't get my head around!! I want to set up another walstead style tank. It's a 18" tall and works out to be 90 odd L. Would an 18" 15W interpet "tropical daylight" bulb do the job? I've got a modded 30L biorb set up with...

Lighting is the one thing I can't seem to get my head around for some reason :x I found a little light fitting in my cupboard, it's got a 15W bulb which is just a normal household one of some sort. The light's pretty cool, so I was wondering if I could use it over a 25L nano I want to set up...

Hi everyone, I set up an el natural tank for my dad a good few months ago, it had been going well, but I popped over yesterday and it's not so good now. Got a little bit of hair algae, but that's not the end of the world. Problem is the plants aren't growing as well as I'd like them to...

One of my celestial pearl danios made a bid for freedom yesterday :shock: Scooped him up and got him back in the tank quick enough luckily. I know a lot of people on here have CPDs, just wondered if anyone else had found them to be jumpers? I've got them in an open top tank and I'm trying to...

10 points to me...managed to smash a fluorescent tube this evening :shock: I can't get out to get a new one until the end of the week, but I've got a spare 2.0 UV Reptile Bulb that fits. Is that likely to cause any harm as a temporary solution? I've just pruned the tank right back so I didn't...

Before I go ahead and do it, just wanted to make sure I've got things right! The tank in question is my 30L biorb. El naturel, with no filter. Just an airstone. The algae came in on some vallis, and has now spread nicely for me :( Had no bloomin problems with this tank before that! Residents...

I'm after some inspiration please! :D I really fancy redoing one of my tanks for Angelfish. But I'm a bit stuck on ideas. I want to go low-tech, but that's about as far as I've got!! So, if you were going to scape a low tech 3ft tank for a few angels, how would you do it? What would you put...

I have a super low tech tank on the windowsill. No lights, heater or filter etc, just uses sunlight. I'm after some ideas for fish for it. Temps don't drop below 16 (or if they ever do, a heater will go in) The idea with this tank was to almost treat it like a natural pond, and it's sort of...

On my windowsil I did have this; Which was an experiment to see how well plants would grow using just sunlight and soil with gravel over the top. It all went pretty well, apart from the cats insisting on drinking out of it!! The idea was to see if the sunlight would be enough (it is a soulth...

Has anyone done one as a planted tank of any sort? I've been debating redoing my 23L edge, but I've only got the standard halogen lighting in it. I do fancy the idea of doing it as a non co2 tank, but I'm not sure what, if anything, to do about the lighting. Just wondered if anyone could chuck...

Hello! I need some help please :) Do I need a certain kind of airline for a FE? I was hoping I could just plug my FE into the old airline and diffuser from my yeast kit, but the airline keeps popping off the no return valve :? Is it possibly my valve which is wrong or do I need a stronger...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-Aqua ... 519d6b0b5a Just been doing a spot of shopping :D and I came across this gizmo. Never seen one before. I'm just so confused! How could something like that possibly work?? :? (I think the answer may well be "it doesn't" :lol: but I'm open to the...

Hello everyone :D I've decided I'd like to get rid of my bottle of co2-producing smelly stuff! :sick: So I'm looking for a nice all-in-one co2 kit for one of my tanks to start off having a go using it, and wondered if anyone had any recommendations on which one to go for? I've never used...

In an 18" deep 4ft tank, I'm trying to figure out what kind of lighting would be best for low tech? According to my book (Diana Walstad) I'm looking at 1-3 watts per US gallon 5000-7000K. So, going straight down the middle, I worked that out to be 64gallons, therefore 128watts. She also...

I've been spending the day having a lazy sunday! And I came across this; http://www.atlasbooks.com/marktplc/00388Shrimp.pdf Just wondered if anyone had tried setting up one of these shrimp bowls and how you found it?

Couple of quick qs if you don't mind :thumbup: I have a bit of a holey plant :( ; Can anyone tell me what's likely to have caused that? I've got pest snails in the tank, which I wasn't worrying overly about since it would be useful for picking out and feeding to the puffers, but I wasn't...

Hiya everyone :) I'm still pretty new to this planting business. I've had my first sort of "proper" planted tank up and running for a good few months now. I've really enjoyed doing it, and the fish seem pretty happy with my efforts too :) (My cpd's were doing the circle dance the other...