Recent content by Muel

Yeah its a pain ain't it. Ehinodorus cordifolius is the big one. Will be beasts when they get going ;) Smaller one is Hydrocotyle leucocephala, which can be grown as a floater also I reckon? To be honest I did have a big external but it packed in when I was setting this tank up so I decided to...

Hey all figured I would start a journal for this tank too. It's not a month old yet so would be nice to track its progress. Filter - Some micro thing with its media taken out just for water movement. Lighting - 2 x 25w T8 Substrate - John Innes number 3 topped with gravel Heater - 300W JAD...

Re: Now Lo-Tech nano - now up and running with photos Looking nice. I'll be redoing my 25L some point when I move house in a couple of months. Got some pagoda rock outside just lying around so may well have to have a crack using it for some sort of plateu like what you've gone for since it...

It's very similar to the Walstad method. Except he likes to use some equipment too and doses ferts. To create the best conditions possible for plant growth. Apparently if you don't do water changes plants get used to low CO2 levels so create an enzyme to help access it. Check his site out ^^

Yeah I'm swinging towards the Tom Barr way of thinking though. I'm considering wacking some osmocote plus in the substrate to help with trace elements.

Ok chaps I have a 25L cube (Details see journal - viewtopic.php?f=35&t=16305) that I'm wanting to start dosing in. I don't intend on water changes(maybe the odd one), just top offs. So how do I go about fertilising this aquarium? Surely I need to tone down amounts of trace elements since...

Ah cool I'll crank up the stocking some then. Probably stick a load of cherry shrimp in there and double the shoal of black phantoms and probably wack some hatchets or similar in. Though if theres any cheap shoaling fish on at the LFS they'll probably win in my decision making haha ;)

Erm I have considered sticking some male Endler's in there as I could get them free but I'm not really sure. The pennywort should get going and fill out the back I'm hoping. Then I can spread it across and really bush up the back.

Hey all. Decided I might as well post a few pics of this little tank since its currently my favorite project. http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/4141/sam0122io.jpg Substrate: Mix of some olf eco-complete, play sand, and some clay cat litter on top. Lighting: 11W compact Filter: None at the...

Excuse the poor quality photo's. Plants are Echinodorus tennelus, Echinodorus cordifolius, Hydrocotyle leucocephala, Aponogeton madagascariensis and Azolla filiculoides. I'm chainging the filter to an external since having that thing rigged up just to create flow is properly fugly.

Will post a photo in a bit when I find some batterys then ;)

Right finished setting up my 220l and its looking pretty nice. Got a mini filter with no media set on low about half way up the tank, with a length of hose attatched to take the water flow to the other side and a heater mid section (looks ugly :( ) Got 6 Black phantom tetra's, a baby apple...

My stocking will be 16-18 small tetras and a couple of snails/oto's.

I have a little micro sponge filter I was thinking of using without any media, running some tube off the nozzle into a sort of T shape to the sides of the aquarium and making it into a sort of internal spray bar. what do you think?

Hey all I'm setting up a 220l tall aquarium soon with soil and was going to go the walstad way. However the only thing that concerns me is lack of water movement leading to stagnation. Has anyone had problems with this? Plant list is Hygrophila difformis, Hydrocotyle leucocephala, Microsorum...