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Thanks! Ok, I will! But this time just small ones...as I just resized them into small! Well, to be honest, the truth is that pics are better in quality when edited smaller. Yes, its all about my poor skills! Hi all! Everything is fine with the new veggiefilters and all. I got my RO-unit (JBL...

Hi all! Its time to update, at least there is something to update now. Summer went pretty well without adding any kind of Co2 but as summer turned into autumn and all green was gone from the garden, I felt myself very very shortage of green and desided to start EC for three tanks (in order to...

Thanks mate! I always enjoy seeing your tanks and they have been been great inspiration to me! This hydro/emersed way of growing plants extends this hobby a lot as we can see from your experiences too. It definetly provides a larger supply of species to grow and the number of plants too. It is a...

Hi dw and thanks for you plant suggestions! Definetly need to try to find Restrepia somewhere from Europe and give it a try, just fantastic looking orchid, woooow! Have you grown it? Does it prefer how high humidity? Guess what? I already have C tamiana . Unfortunately I tried it in viv at...

Hi BigTom! Anthurium (some unknown small species) actually grows hydroponics, not emersed, Spathiphyllum (`Chopin`=small) grows emersed but there is a pot hiding behind the BW. Acorus and Hydrocotyles are growing on the BWs, "true emersed" so to say. I have red a lot horror stories of too...

Hello all! Photobucket is not working now, so no pics, sorry. Just have to tell the good news: Sakura shrimps have finally got babies! This is quite exciting and maybe even unbelieveble since EC is pretty high in all out tanks. This babyshrimp tank (45l) has around 500uS. We found babies about...

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RolyMo, this is absolutely one of the best journals I have ever red. I just wish every-single-starting hobbyist would read this! You have done that what too many are afraid to do: ask help when having something weird or problematic going on. You have got plenty of awesome information and all of...

Hi Tim and thx for your reply and kind words! These Emeralds of mine usually play mid-waters, they especially love swim around and through fernbushes. When not, they really stay lower levels. It seems they are becoming bolder, thou slowly, now they come and eat when we are in the kitchen so far...

Ookkey, heres some shots I promised of 600-l after moving the huge BW to 250l. After this there is plenty of empty room, hopefully not long. Looks too messy for my taste but before I touch the tank, I will let plants settle and grow a bit. Unfotunately the water is ugly tealike because a new BW...

Surprisingly... just some updates: Got few new plants... and trying to get some more for hydro growing. The 250-l is now fully planted...eeeeh...yes it is...erh...it is. 600-l Small Spathiphyllym-species is growing hydro. Phaleonopsis is some tiny species one. Im not a...

Just some quick updates... 600-l I got some small species Anthurium, wich is now growing in hydro (also in 250-l). A blooming orchid, Ludisia discolor 250-l I found fry, it must be CPDs. Sooooo happy! Everything seems to be just fine with plants too. A friend of mine is selling...

Hello again! Just some quick details this time: 250-l H micranthemoides has just started to grow emersed tips, it surely looked a bit unhappy for a short while! Sorry, no underwater pics now! 600-l Kitchen 65-l after some `Windelov`pruning, it was a huge bush! Poor...

Hi all! After some small rearrangements 250-l looks like this. Its just a poor start, but The Plan is strong and believe me, I have a vision! At the end of April I will order some small orchid species from here Startseite Bens Jungle Onlineshop. I already have Leptotes bicolor and Bulpophyllym...

Hi Darrel and hi sanj! sanj: By accident I just got a possibility to order from Glaser. There were some interesting bow, like M maccullochi, and blue-eye species but unfortunately the minimum order is 10 fish. No way now. I asked the prize of Danio erythromicron (for 65l-tank) since its also...

F fontanus is my favorite plant, so jeaulous I cant grow it anymore. Would you mind borrowing those moss covered braches for me as pillows? They seems soooooo smooth!

Hey Darrel, thats a good idea with HMF, too! How did you start with HC? I met my hobbyist fellow yesterday and shes having Hydrocotyle tripartita, wich I happen to love, growing on wood emersed, theres nothing under it, just the wood. Bingo! I ask her some Hydro and plant it half under...

Love it, great job! I like the touch of the wildness you have reached so well.

Hey, thank you ALL very much for your responces! Hi Sanj! It seems price level is pretty same here. Random species costs here 5-8 euros, more rare ones (inc C bleheri here) ca 15e. I got 10 P gertrudae for 35e, but Arus will cost much, much more. Hey mate, do you travel to Europe just for...

Thank you, Nat N for your kind words. Eh, I have nothing else to do... LOL, that was a joke. I have full time job and four kids but they help a lot, actually we take care of these together and as you already must have noticed, oldest son (14-years) has two tanks but as teenages used to do...

Hello! It time to do some updates. We changed tanks with oldest son so I got his 45-l for Celestial pearl danios and shrimps and he got new 40-l to his shrimps and Poecilla wingeis. We did this because of dimensions of tanks. 45-l is propably more suitable for CPDs since they seemed to need...

Hey, I really like this, very inspiring! Kind a wild one, well done! it looks like bigger than it is. Keep us updated!

Hi all! Instead of Pygmy Cories I end up Neocaridinas and so the branch coming out of tank was taken away and I put lidglas. So far so good but too few plants, try to find some more java fern. Sorry a bit cloudy glas, I just add more bacter ampoules (BioDigest) and did not want to bother...

I love it! Keep us updated! The stock is going to be...what? BTW, that floating manza is so cool, kind a like it there.

Hi sanj and markcousins and thank your for yor nice words! sanj, are you the one from Adrians Rainbowfishforum? If so, I really apreciate your knowledge and experience of bows. Your bowtank is absolutely one of the most gorgeous bowtanks Iv never seen! Just amazing! I really must read your...

I got some nice byt not totally healthy anubias from a friend of mine. I still dont like how the DW looks like, I`ll buy a new nice one when I find one. Til that... Anubias was given me by name A barteri var barteri but is weirdly tall (10-12cm), maybe because of light? I took some from...

Some updates as I promised in my last post: 250l: Current stocking: 20 young Spotted Blue-eyes (yahoo, I finally got them!), ca 12 Cherry barbs (sold +10 away) , a mated pair of Keyhole Cichlids, a mated pair of Cocatoo Cichlids, 6 Leopard cories (have to get more), 10+Peppered cories, 2...

Thank you for your kind words! Heres a quick update after tuesdays re-scaping. I have always dreamed a tank full of driftwood, java ferns like "Windelov", "Mini" and "Narrow" and crypts but less stem plants. Now I finally had them growing enough in our other tanks to prune them here. The...

Dan...Im nearly speechless... You see, I have always thought that planted tanks cant be beautiful with big stones. You showed that I was wrong! So inspiring since I love stones (as well as wood)!!! Man, great work, thats all I can say! Awsome!

My 14-year old sons 300l: This has always been very easy to take care for some reason of but as I told, after unstable C02 and strong lights (T5) last spring it was full of BBA. Nowadays plants grow like crazy with T8s, and there is no algae anywhere so I must do something right, eh...

Dear UKAPS friend, ...here we go. We have five tanks at home, 600, 300, 250, 65 and 45-l. 600l has been running fot three months after selling our 450l away. In that I used to have metalhalides (and T5s for some time) and pressurized C02 with EI, 300l used to have T5s and pressurized as 65l...