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Now I was so paranoid when I bought him that I made sure he was only with tetras so he wasn't on the menu! This was over a year ago , 1 by 1 the tetras would disappear no dead body anywhere ! You can see where this is goin ! Well it turns out he's quite the preditor when i cought him the other...

Re: Aquarium rescape help Thank you Jack , is nice to know the truth to be able to gauge how much maintainance is req'd , I really like the look of it tho so I can see more questions bieng asked! So I re scaped the tank yesterday mainly just hard scape I left one amazon sword in there and two...

The substrate was an jbl one

Or fissidens!

I'm thinking a riccia carpet or some lilleaopsis ? Any thoughts? Also I would like to keep some tall plants in the tank an I understand if I trim the crypts whilst in the tank they release a form of poison for shrimp? Cheers

Re: Aquarium rescape help Hi antipofish thanks ,sorry here is the current spec : rena xp1 filter , rena inline heater , tank is 65ltr 60x30x45 ish cm substrate is John innes potting soil covered with 2mm gravel , I have some more substrate to add I know it's a really good quality one but no...

This is my tank at the moment but due to work I have let it slide abit , I have just bought a t5ho light 4 & 24w and all gear for co2 . I would like some help with set up , plant advice etc my aim is to try and grow a carpet of something and mainly keep shrimp. latest pic

sorry i meant 180ltr tank its rated over 700 ltr per hr i am using excel at the mo and dosing 1ml daily regards stuart

my tank is 60ltr , i have a rena external pump rated up to 180ltr and lighting is 1x 15w 6500k t8 and 1x 15w sunlight t8 on for about 8hrs a day? plants are small crypts of some sort , amazon swords , dwarf grass name unsure & Hygrophilia difforms , so not realy anything to difficult for set up...

yes matty , brown marks on leaves and some leaves lost the green and just look like pale skeletons! but they did grow . Im only a few days in but hopefully your right. cheers stuart

Hi , apologies if this is a dumb question but have just starting using a ready mix fertiliser from the above and wondered how the general plant growth will improve from previously using seachem flourish which reading the ingredients i presume its micro nutrients not macro which i believe the...

I have a 65ltr tank with a filter rated up to 180ltr so im guessing i can stock the tank more than the 1cm per ltr rule? at the mo i have 9 cardinal tetras which i want to keep as they have been with us from the start , i would like to add to them and also some other fish that are colourful and...

cheers Troi for the advice . Update , plants are growing much better now , just starting to get a small amount of hail algae in tank not sure weather to cut back on ferts or carry on and let the plants out do the algae either way looking alot better now .

Cheers mlgt i thought this may be the case so no harm to try under the tree now !

After having star moss in my tank for a few weeks and nothing really happening i did a bit of research on it turs out not really an aquatic plant ? true or false so i took it out and put i around the base of my bonsai tree on the window ledge maybe this is the right place for it!!!