Recent content by mr_sharpe

Hello Michael I'm planning to rebuild my south american tank at the moment and I was thinking about sticking to 2 or 3 species just cause I think this is more what you'd see in the wild, maybe even lots of one species! From everything i've read it seems that plants and a lot of the popular...

Hello :D does anyone know about the possibility of growing rice in the aquarium? :?: I'd assume that it would be possible in an open top aquarium and have read that although it is an annual in the tropics it is possible to survive as a perenial. I've seen Wildwoods have Cambodian Rice fish...

I haven't seen any, the most similar stuff in consistency i've seen is some of the oolitic sands that marine aquarists use but no use for the planted tank. I've seen sand on dirt roads thats very similar consistency, but wouldn't be confident it wont alter the water chemistry. I've got some...

Hi Tom the tanks looking great, I've got a 30cm cube on it's way to me, if it turns out half as good as yours i'll be chuffed. Nice one

hello, if anyone want's assaissin snails for free and can pick up from East London please let me know, the forum won't let me post a reply in my original thread (something about needing 25 posts to reply) but they can be had for nothing if your willing to pick up. Post costs i've still got to...

that is a really nice tank man. :D

Hello UKAPS, This is my first tank, this photo was taken in January of this year, before a snail infestation... :shock: The tank was set up in February 2007. It's low tech and low maintenance, less work and cash... :D and very very slow growing... I'm going to rebuild this tank and set up...

wicked tank the puffers look cool 8)

I bought 2 back in May from Wholesale Tropicals to get rid of a snail plague in one of my tanks and it worked fine, they're pretty interesting to watch them chase after the snails and eat them, biggger snails tend to get away after losing a chunk. (but not always!) What they've been really...