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I live in a very soft water area here in Cornwall so I use Seachem Equiliberium to remineralise the GH of tap water. Testing the water the carbonate hardness sits at around 1 dKH (possibly more possibly less I don't trust the kits at all), TDS is 130. The water company adds an alkaline to the...

Well I realise this may seem like the aquarists' equivalent of a first world problem but I'm concerned about the lack of algae in my tank. I have only had to clean the glass once in 10 months, and that was only for some barely noticeable patches of slight green. There was a tiny amount of...

Ideally I would like a large footprint tank such as tom's bucket of mud but there is no way I would get away with that! I do love the idea of a shallow tank though for the surface area to total volume benefits. In the room I have I can compromise and stretch a shallow tank a good distance along...

Hi, I plan to move to low tech from my overly bright T5HO juwel internal lighting over my Rio180L. I will be removing the rim of the tank to make it an open top, as described in this excellent thread here at UKAPS Removing the rim on the Juwel Rio 300 | UK Aquatic Plant Society For the new...

Tank : Juwel Rio180L Lighting : 2x45W T5 (one with reflector blocking and shielding tank). 4 hour photo period Substrate : 22kg eco-complete with Osmocote Filter 1 : Fluval 306 External Filter (16W, 1150lph, 6.38x turnover) (Fluval bio-foam, Fluval bio max, Superfish Crystalmax) Filter 2 : Eheim...

Ok,so here comes another guy with a new tank, assuming he has a grasp of the whole planted tank game after reading the forums extensively, who suddenly hits reality and loses some stock. Any help would be appreciated so I can clearly see where I went wrong. New planted tank (180L rio) (amazon...

Hi there, Firstly, thanks for this great resource these forums are full of helpful information and feedback. I have already managed to find answers to most of my questions and feel like I am developing a good knowledge of the subject, albeit without much testing on the crucible of 'actually...

I have picked up some beautiful rocks for use (hopefully) in my aquarium but am looking for advice to if they are suitable with regards to the water chemistry. The rocks are lizardite variety serpentine that I picked up from the Lizard peninsula here in Cornwall. More in depth information can be...

Reading through the excellent sticky on flow at the top of this forum I would like to run over my proposed setup to see if it is the optimal solution... I have an Eheim 2080 filter which has two inlets and just one spraybar outlet. I have a pretty standard 5ft Juwel Rio 400L tank. I intend to...

I am looking to start up the 'carpet' planting of my low tech tank (400L) using dry start method. The current substrate I have purchased is a 50/50 mix of eco-complete and inert unipac black quartz gravel. I was wondering if a bag or two of Aquasoil in a thin base layer under the...

*Warning* This tank is not set up and running! As yet there there are no pretty pictures of fish or plants Welcome to my tank journal all. Here I will document my (possibly quixotic) attempts to set up a planted community tank in my front room two weeks before my wife gives birth to our second...

Hi there, Great forum here, thanks. I live in Cornwall and had a tank 20 years ago during my teenage years. Now I finally have my own house and have returned to the hobby! I have bought a second hand Rio 400 and a decent filter and will be embarking on a low tech planted community tank, which I...

Hi there, Firstly thanks for this informative forum, I have been reading through and gaining excellent information from all of your contributions. I am about to set up my first planted community tank using the low tech non co2 approach and would appreciate if you could run your experienced...