Recent content by tonyg1

manually removing them is an absolute nightmare,i had a epidemic of the little beasties and had to totally blitz my tank.total strip down boil or replace all media,filter media included,house the fish temporarily,scrub every inch of the tank and filter thourouly using bleach and for good measure...

Re: Slow going, tank on a budget. looking good so far,but i'd be a bit concerned having the tank so close to a radiator.

do all larger echinodorus species leaves change shape in the aquarium?.they look beautiful when placed in the aquarium then change into floppy leaved monstrousity's and lose the shape you originally bought them for.

does anyone else have one?. in the last few weeks the missus as banged her head numerous times,badly sprained her ankle at the same time gave herself a fractured skull(unknown at the time but she needed an mri scan for epilepsy) today she's gone and broken her colar bone and last year she got...

mmm salicylic acid is for all intents and purposes aspirin(derived from the bark of a tree),if it is proven to be a good algae remover i'd just desolve a few in water and bung it in the tank and not bother paying silly money for a proprietary brand.

it looks like the bahrain gp may not be on this year either due to civil unrest and political bull ****. :evil:

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if you could set up a money no object tank/scape what would your item list be?.

just ordered a length 16mm x 3mm of rigid tubing to fab a return and spray bar,lets see if i can do it in one piece...should be interesting!.

free fish food matey.. :D

i know the plant looked great when i first purchased it now the leaves are mahoosive and could'nt hold up if i took one from the tank and tried to keep it as a sort of house plant misting etc.

plan on buying a new optiwhite 80x35x45 tank, some second hand florabase substrate and some Dragon Stone for a new scape :) but its not payday.. lol Mike ====================== thats just cheating :lol:

my first 2kg fe lasted for aproximately 3 months using a ladder diffuser and now i'm using an inline at 4 bps i'm only getting a month out of them,i've checked for leaks at 1 bar pressure and found nothing is this normal? i'm just about to order my 4th :crazy: .

with the end of the month aproaching what do we have planned for our tanks come pay day?. me i plan on replacing a lot of my substrate,doing a rescape using a lovely peice of wood that would'nt sink and adding a few new inhabitants....may even start a journal. :D

will give this a try cos i'd have loved the one in my tank to have retained its original form.as much as i like them submerged they look a lot better when i first purchaced the parent plant.