Recent content by silverteen

hi, i use a mix of yeast carbon dioxide sugar and tepid water which produces about a bubble every 3/4 seconds. ive noticed the last few days the airline in the tank and at the bottom of the ladder has a greyish/milky jelly fluid around it. what is this?

Hi, i wanted to replace the sponge in the filter which is under a cabinet under the tank. when i turned off the pump and reduced the flow to off i noticed there was still water in the piping coming and going to the tank. I opened up the canister and loads of water came gushing out from the...

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time for an update... did a slight rescape using different driftwood i collected at the local beach, happier with these pieces, had 2 deliveries of plants, and now i feel i have all i want in terms of plants, just waiting for them to settle in and to fill some of the gaps. hope the hairgrass...

Thanks LondonDragon, thats exactly what im trying to acheive, if you get a min could you let me know some of the plants names that he has used, sorry im not very good with the technical names and identifying them yet!

set up the tank last night before bed, just got home from work and the fluval filter i set up has been blowing bubbles constantly into the tank, its also a little cloudy. what can i do to stop the bubbles?

Thanks george I'll get some dried yeast tonight and fingers crossed that will work, still no sign of bubbles this morning. the yeast is a cheaper method anyway so hopefully that will produce the bubbles.

Well had a parcel from plants alive and i guess i was dissapointed but not with plants alive but myself, i guess i was expecting bigger portions of plants but when ive looked others it seems that i was expecting too much. Any way the plants are in, looks quite sparse at the moment so going to...

Thank you George, Your help will go a long way. Plants arriving today so a busy evening planned placing the plants and filling the tank and setting up all equipment. hopefully get a pic or 2 up

Any one know the answer to the questions above? Any help appreciated thanks

I hope so marthin!Still learning lots so hopefully i wont mess it up. Could some one give me some advice.... my plants arrive wednesday when i plant to plant them and then slowly fill the tank with water. Should the heater and filter be running as soon as the tank is full? when should i set...

hi sounds great, would love to see some pics. to do this ...(I'm not sure if its the only way or even the easiest but) the way i did it was by uploading the photos to a photo sharing website like photobucket or flickr. then when you find the picture you want to put in your journal you copy the...

Just prepared the hardscape tonight.... added substrate with "path".... the substrate is around 3inches deep at the front and 5 at the back, a bit more than i expected but im guessing it cant be a bad thing? then added the "forest" ordered lots of plants which i hope will arrive wednesday...

do you think it would be too much flow? im guessing it may be 1000 lph and i only have a 72 litrer! :crazy: is that too much?

its this one here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT its not a big brand, but i wont be stocking the tank heavily so im mainly after water movement and light filtration. i cant really afford more than £40 an external filter is proving difficult to find at that price. :(