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I,ve the standard dual glo 39watt t5 lights that came with the Osaka, They are at the highest height setting so quite a bit of water to penetrate. The tubes are aound 8mths old, I,ve thought of C02 and have a cylinder which i got a while back, but kind of stopped at that point. i was a bit...

Hi George and thanks for the reply. The tank is a 260 ltr Osaka Discus set up, pretty well stocked fish wise I,m running 2 Eheim ecco externals and a Fluval 305, and a small Koralia pump. I dose 10ml Easycarbo daily. Waterchanges 40ltrs every other day using HMA filtered water. Billy

Hi, I,m thinking of trying Seachem ferts and noticed they do iron,phosphorous,nitrogen,trace, potassium,and excel. Do you need all these? I,ve had mixed success using PN, PN+ and Profito at different times, Plants seem to grow very well then i have some BBA issues, I don,t use pressurised C02...

Hi, I keep my Discus in dechlorinated tap water and they spawn every other week, Since getting Discus i,ve took the advice from the breeder to keep a Ph under neutral, Everyones tap water is different and alot of folk do recommend using an HMA filter, My tapwater is around 6.8, but has a low Kh...

Thanks for that Wraithio, It,s changed a bit after a BBA outbreak and i have thinned out the plants, and removed the 3 large pieces of spirally wood, I got a bit peeved with the algae outbreak and also fancied a change, so i decided to give the Discus more space but the tank still has quite a...

Hi, Just a little vid of my Discus tank at feeding time, ( freeze dried blackworms) which the Discus love, Billy,

Hi , My last 2 fish were from discusbananas and they are stunning fish. I have 6 Discus in an Osaka 260 and have 2 pairs out of the 6. They have not been too bad with each other aggression wise until the other day, when one of the pairs decided to move in to the same area as the other pair (who...

Thanks for the replies and for taking time out to give me some help and advice, Crypts are doing ok and the vallis is growing well, Problems seem to be with the swords and i,m noticing the BBA is more visible around the areas of my outlet pipes and any wood or plants the flow is hitting. I will...

Thanks for the replies, I,m dosing 10ml Easycarbo daily along with 5ml profito. 2 x 80 ltr waterchanges per week and tank is well stocked fish wise. Lights are standard T5,s and on 9hrs per day. The plants are mainly swords, vallis, crypts,anubias and the swords grew really well at first, but...

Hi, I have an Osaka 260 and the plants have not been doing great recently and been getting BBA outbreak. I posted on the fert dosing section as to what fert is better, profito which i,m using or PN which i have used in the past. Now i,ve been told the profito lacks things the plants need and the...

Hi, Have you checked your KH as i had a similar problem in my Discus tank recently. All my fish were ok, but it was new cardinals i added that were in a bad way not long after adding them, which made me check my water stats. My Ph was always around 6.6/6.8 but this time it was only 6 when i...

Thanks Neil for the info, Billy

Thanks very much for that YzemaN Billy

Thanks for your reply, but don,t have the original bottle as it was split on delivery and the profito is now in another plastic bottle so i don,t know what is in it. I don,t have a C02 kit, and only dose easycarbo which according to the instructions i,m dosing max amount for my tank size. Lack...

Hi, I was using Plant Nutrition ferts in my Osaka 260 and getting decent results, and i got great results using it on my previous set up. I was running out of PN when i decided to give profito a try as i was getting a good deal on easycarbo and profito at the time and it was being highly...