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    Liquid carbon dosing

    The only plant that seems to visibly react to the dosing of Easy Carb are the various types of Anubias. A lot of plants don't seem to benefit and can even be killed by Easy Carb dosing such as Valisneira and Amazon Frogbit. The best thing you could do to encourage proper plant growth would be...
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    Low Tech Guidance

    Update: I now have several Anubias plants and Valisneria spiralis in the aquarium. There are new leaves growing out of both of these plants, however the leaves are much smaller and also, in the case of the new Anubias leaves that are growing through, they are lighter in colour. I feel that the...
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    Low Tech Guidance

    Hi, thanks for your response, but who are you addressing with your comment?
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    Low Tech Guidance

    Thanks. Will watch this when I have a little more time to spare :). Update: I now have several Anubias plants and Valisneria spiralis in the aquarium. There are new leaves growing out of both of these plants, however the leaves are much smaller and also, in the case of the new Anubias leaves...
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    Low Tech Guidance

    Ok I'll give it a try. RO water is something I may have to consider, especially if I buy a Discus that is wild and therefore used to brackish water conditions. The Discus I have seems to be doing well in Derbyshire tap water which can have a high hardness level. Perhaps it would be easier for me...
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    Low Tech Guidance

    The tank that the Discus is currently in is co2 injected using a Dennerle canister and a Dennerle pressure valve. The pressure valve is configured (using a basic UK plug timer) to inject co2 for about 12 hours per day to sufficiently cover the pre-photoperiod and the actual photoperiod time...
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    Low Tech Guidance

    At this time I inject co2 into my old Discus aquarium and the only issue I noticed was that the Discus appeared unsociable after I did a small water change. I would attribute this to a sudden pH swing. My hope is that having a new low-tech aquarium would mediate pH swings since water changes are...
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    Low Tech Guidance

    Hi Tim, Is there any downside to injecting co2 even if it is not needed? The reason I wish to inject is due to the fact that the pH of my tap water rises from 7.4 to around 8.0 after it has been in the aquarium for 24 hours so I need to mediate that effectively with dissolved carbonic acid. I...
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    Low Tech Guidance

    My new aquarium is now set-up with seeded filtration media taken from a well established pond filtration unit. The aquarium is 260 litres (around 57 gallons) in capacity and contains a 70cm length piece of Red Moor root. I've decided to attach a variant of Anubias, as well has a moss, to this...
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    Low Tech Guidance

    Thank you for recommending George's threads and provided plant recommendations :) Having looked at the 'My best low tech so far' thread I noticed that a substrate named Colombo Pro Soil was used. Could I manage without this and just use natural sand? I currently have sand in my current discus...
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    Low Tech Guidance

    Due to work and miscellaneous commitments I am now finding that I have less time to devote towards the maintenance of my high-tech aquariums. As such, I am now drifting towards the idea of maintaining a low-tech aquarium that doesn't need as much rigorous cleaning and pruning. The footage...
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    Dwarf cichlids....mixing

    I agree with DrMike on the points raised about M.ramirezi. They are often short-lived, most commonly succumbing to the hexamita parasite which is one of the most difficult infections to treat and they can easily die from having to put up with stressors. From my experience, the real culprits that...
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    German Blue Ram Fry - What Should I Feed Them?

    Unfortunately not as I threw the envelope contents away as it had been stud in the envelope for many days while I recuperated. Thanks for sending them, but as the time came to use them, the fry had passed on and I'd contracted food poisoning and still have the food poisoning!
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    German Blue Ram Fry - What Should I Feed Them?

    Apologies for the confusion. I'm referring to the walter worm culture that I tried initially.
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    German Blue Ram Fry - What Should I Feed Them?

    They had plentiful oxygen as there were holes in the container lid. I didn't want to remove the lid as I was thinking the worms may crawl out. Additionally, there is a pungent smell created by the yeast and some of the cultures I've used so I kept the lid firmly on so that the smell was contained.
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