Recent content by justjason88

Thanks for this, i can only point towards the bloodworms too. Expensive lesson indeed.

last WC was a week ago, ill try sticking an air pump in, thanks for for your help and comments Lats i also found it difficult to rescape because im heavily stocked on fish but if you buy a perspex 100L box from ikea and fill it with water and a bit of substrate you can transfer your fish to...

Sure, i'll take any advice. When i re did the tank i had only the substrate and water in for about a month, well over the recommended 3 weeks, so it won't be that. Check this thread, this was back in July. I don't think it had an infection, i'm pretty sure this cory also died for same reasons...

Sorry mate my reply looked defensive, i was just putting my thoughts down on paper like you. I agree, if CO2 was a problem the other fish would be affected and the drop checker would also help indicating this. I note no abnormalities apart from the obvious on the 2 affected corys. I had a good...

Yes i always cut off half a cube and leave it out for half hour to defrost and then chuck them in a bit at a time. The sterbai has now died, that's the quickest i've seen a cory deteriorate it took roughly 1-2 hours. The adolfo has since moved but is still upside down, thankfully still...

yeah i do unfortunately

I have 2 adolfo and 2 sterbai corys which have been in my tank for about 6 months, it's well established and all parameters are fine. Last night i fed the tank frozen bloodworm. Today 1 adolfo is upside down laying on the substrate, it occasionally moves but has now come to rest between some...

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea im waiting for the crypt to lower its leaves as it is advertised to lay its leaves on the substrate, also the valis should hopefully fill out in time creating the effect you described :) eleocharis still not doing well though

yeah im injecting co2 and did the WC around 10pm when the CO2 stops before lights out at 12pm

During a water change about 3 weeks ago something very weird happened. I usually siphon out 4-5 buckets of water which is roughly 35-45% of the water. After i siphoned out the 5th bucket 3 out of the 6 harlequins immediately and simultaneously turned upside down and laid on the substrate. I've...

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea New iphone so new camera at last! Here are some pics from about 3 weeks ago: During a water change something very weird happened. I usually siphon out 4-5 buckets of water which is roughly 35-45% of the water. After i...

especially at £5.50 a pot!

thanks ady, very informative post :) i still have 2-3 patches that are doing ok so im hoping they'll take hold now the co2 is running. if they do i'll order some more and replace the dead patches. let me know how yours gets on. i havent started dosing ferts yet either so may start to soon

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea All fish are now in apart from the cories so they dont dig up and uproot the eleocharis. Also added 6 ottos which are doing great and much better than my last batch, they are even schoaling with the harlequins from left to right which...

Hi all Recently re scaped my large tank and decided to carpet with eleocharis sp mini. The substrate is aqua soil with tropica plant growth substrate underneath. I've got standard Juwel Rio 125L T5 lights 2x28 Watt 590mm. I bought 3 pots of tropica 1-2-grow eleocharis sp mini about 1-2 weeks...