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Recent content by Cristian Savin

  1. Cristian Savin

    Rotala Wallichii

    Thanks for reply and link Increasing light period is a good idea, at the moment is on 7 hours/day. I'll try this way to see how it goes, i may also need to test the water for nitrate, phosphate and iron, it's been a while since last tests so i don't know the exact values. I use the estimative...
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    Rotala Wallichii

    Does anyone have any experience with R.W. My problem is that i can't persuade it to turn red at all. I've had this plant before with great results but the difference was that it was already red at the moment i bought it, this time though it was green and very young. Everything goes well in...
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    attempt at aquascaping

    really sorry for the photos quality, i don't know what's happening cos in my comp ,it's all nice and sharp but here seems to be quite unclear, blurred somehow, probably the conversion RAW -JPEG plus the hosting website,hmm who knows ?!?
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    attempt at aquascaping

    Hi everyone, I thought I would post a quick update Unfortunately the small 35l tank is closed down now since i've started a new 240l from allpondsolutions, but the the Juwel is still running and is doing fine i'm really pleased with how is coming along so far. I've managed to get over the algae...
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    attempt at aquascaping

    thank you all again for replies the Threadfin rainbows are indeed not so colourful in shops and the reason was perfectly explained by Danny, I was feeding them with artemia and red ocean plankton, another thing i'd like to add to what Danny said is the temperature which was about 28-29 C...
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    attempt at aquascaping

    thanks for the kind replies - yes Mark there is livestock, in the small arcadia tank i've got lampeye killies only 3 left from 12 initially, the hang on filter sucked most of them in the first night. The other tank hosts a school of ember tetra, few otos and amano shrimps. Both tanks however...
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    attempt at aquascaping

    Hi everyone I decided to start the journal of my two nanos i've got at the moment The first and oldest setup is an Arcadia 35l tank, 2 arc pod x 11w ,sometimes when heavy planted even 3x 11w, pressurized CO2 + atomizer, fertilizers complete range easylife EI technique, filtration Eheim 2213...
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    Hello from SW Scotland

    A big hello to everyone, I'm not so new to this forum been here for a while but just spying you for information and inspiration, really like what you're doing here so i decided to introduce myself. I'm originary from Romania but we moved to UK nearly 3 years ago, we've settled in a small but...
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