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Congratulations stu very well deserved and scape looked amazing. Truly amazing.

From this: To this: 6 weeks on

Be good to see yours entered mate. I think there are a few people from your way who are entering I believe Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi Andy Sorry for my lack of presence on Ukaps as of late, I've had a couple of health issues ( sorted now hopefully) which took precedence and bee getting bits ready in the background for the next big tank which starts a week on Saturday. I have brought this up don't worry, hopefully get it...

No probs if no joy with Eheim give me a shout I'll pop one out to you Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sadly they won't do that due to the age of the filter which is a shame, John Allen are usually really helpful even if your past your warranty. I'd ask them to see if they can look at it again. I have used these faultlessly and no many who have them with no problems at all. Both thermo and...

Thanks mate, that's the one right their. All photos should be viewable even from as far back as my first co2 set up :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think it's a brilliant opportunity for someone to jump in on this, and extremely generous for Karol to seek out people from within the hobby itself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here he is the man himself At Cardiff Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hello mate, thanks lots for that, this was quite an old one but one which I learnt everything possible about keeping plants healthy and vibrant before getting into scaping properly Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lovely mate, given me some inspiration for my massive viv. What's the fern above the bolbitus???? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi Ghosty, They are brilliant t5s, I used them in my chocolate puddle journal and the colour they give off is perfect. As long as your co2 levels, flow and ferts are at the correct levels you've nothing to worry about. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've attached crypts to bogwood, rocks you name it in many a tank. Looks brilliant. Frenchi, it's available from dennerles in vitro range mate Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Hi sorry for not replying sooner or getting this done. The photos are definitely on Flickr, I'll check they aren't set as private and if so will change it and add them back onto here too [emoji6] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cryptocoryne flamingo red will be ideal for what your after. It's real nice Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hello mate, the first WK is beautiful, love the height in it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Are you making an appearance Paulo?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi all, Not sure if many of you know even via Pfk, but next weekend Dennerle along with Chris LUkhaup are doing seminars on shrimps at various locations over 3 days. Maidenhead Aqautics are selling there products now and Chris is doing 3 live events which sound awesome. I myself am going to...

Riccardia chamedryfolia :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Have had chance to take a couple of shots of the tank as it currently stands, it's a little overgrown by the H.Tripartia which hasn't had a trim in the last two weeks, but will be doing this weekend. Also, I've no idea how but what appear to be orange cherry shrimp have started appearing in it...

Hiya guys, it was really nice to log on and see these comments, it's given me even more motivation to want to get well, thanks loads. And thanks to Brian for updating my post. Few freebies on the way to you Monday with your light etc mate [emoji6]

My wallet hates me Rich so don't worry about it haha. I was a little gutted to be honest, as a scale could have been running in it by now, however fear not, it was a good thing as I now have this beauty ready for scaping in two weeks E

Here's a quick update, the Monte Carlo has finally shot off, and seeing it grow more each day, and the pogostomon helferi is growing bigger in the centre. I'm adding some smaller crypts behind them possibly, or may leave behind it open so it looks like a cave. I've dropped maintenance down to...

Thanks Tim, glad you like, thought it would be right up your street when you saw it. Cheers Iain, couldn't agree more, I loved it and new I had to have it. Not sure what I'll do with it when i come to stripping it down ha ha. thanks Filip, my pleasure Thanks iceman, I hope you'll follow it...

Sorry guys/girls, this has been something I've been meaning to do I just need a full day to try and work out which photos go where. It was an error on flickrs side they broke the links. I will do it this week [emoji53]

Beautiful paludarium. Really jealous. Do you have a link to its journey from beginning to now

I found mixing both glosso and H.tripartia to look stunning. The glosso also helped the hydrocotyle keep very low.

I think it looks very well, the only thing I'd change or adjust is the position of the far right rock.. Look forward to seeing this grown in

Amazing mate. Even as grown in as that. Ps if you rescape and need wood I've loads you can have

I'll look forward to it. Should be good. I've just thought too I think you meant the massive tank as in the BIG one in a year or so. Got confused then sorry Sent from my iPhone 6 plus using Tapatalk

Hi Ryno, Yeah it's a tough one, the sawn off bit at the front is in a really awkward spot to cover, too high for maidenhair fern but I have a plan. It'll give the remaining woodlice something nice to hang out in anyway. Great dimensions for your tank. What plans do you have for it??? This...

Hi ed, There will be a stem plant put in shortly I just want the Monte Carlo to catch up otherwise I'll be trimming stems every other day. [emoji53] Thanks Darren, I hope you had a great Christmas too. Will pop the detail shots up shortly. Ha ha, those roots can be yours once it's grown in to...

I've a 90 optiwhite you can have dude. 90 x 50x 45 height. Bivarium polished the lot??? Sent from my iPhone 6 plus using Tapatalk

Hey ryno Sorry for that, had a few things in the pipeline get in the way of photos etc. Anyway I'm free now to get posting regular updates again on all my journals. This one is growing at a huge rate, esoecoslly the hydrocotyle tripartia which has a trim each week. Monte Carlo is now finally...

Shame on this one mate, I'm sure you'll bounce back with a high tech of some sort. Don't forget you've got a whopping high tech in January ;) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have a Fluval g6 you are more than welcome to buy mate, it's almost brand new. Comes with extra prefilter cartridge, box and all accessories if you have no luck mate. Cheap to you Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sorry for the late reply back Ady, been mega busy the last couple of weeks. Finally got time to get back on and post again. It was great to catch up with you too mate, time went a little too fast and not many scapers up this way to mingle with. Sorry for keeping you from getting into your car...

Hi mick It's a sure thing when adding co2 to any tank no matter tank size or plants. Just be sure to add a little nutrients too. If it's a low tech, just have some surface agitation which will bring in atmospheric co2

Hi Martin Testing it in a bucket is completely different to being in the tank. You'll find it would be a wider spread depending on the device. The new eheim power heads have adjustable flow and are in various flows Ps lovely tank

Hi No, the corridor or corner piece inside the filter is where the flow is pulled down before being pumped up through the trays bottom to top. If you go removing the corridor that flow isn't going straight down and back up, also if you remove the two other trays I'm sure the prefilter has...

Those two tiles will easily be enough on that tank mate. Easily. I ran only 4 on my 1300 litre with no issues. Looks good so far. Didn't ady get marks 120 tank??

Hi all I'll be taking some photo updates with my camera tomorrow, plants are really taking off. I haven't added one specific stem plant as yet as I want to have everything else how I want it then grow the fine red stem for its final shot. I've changed the flow layout now, the spray bar in a...

Thanks wick. Kind words. Love the wood alot. And my final plant layout once fully grown in should look good.

Yup. As is the Anubias leaf tear story too.

I'd be a little careful with it as it says leaves a pleasant scent, which glutareldehyde certainly doesn't

Brilliant Karol, your store gets better and better along with your customer service. Free delivery on plants too just tops it off. Great products and great looking plants.

Hi, Lovely layout using the various pieces of wood etc. One thing I'd personally do, is start the tripartia off attached along the bottom of the mesh on the back wall then it will climb. I doubt it would grow downwards like moss. Look forward to seeing it grown in with the back covered...

I too have had a pretty big tank, and also a new one built too which I'll be starting a journal shortly, plus this time next year......I'm hoping I save VERY hard to have my whopper

I used it previously on high tech, worked fine

Big confidence boost their cheers Stu. Plenty of updates starting to come from this weekend. Still having a bit of a problem with Monte Carlo not doing much though. Really strange

Hiya Bill, Of course I can yes. Every other day I'll do roughly ten percent water change, but it's done whilst I'm siphoning water through air line into a bucket. This means any detritus or plant matter can be gently taken away, especially any under areas of the wood that have a lesser flow...

Couldn't agree more. These are stunning plecos. Really are. I've had a few and this is my fave. Definitely go down and have a look, I know they have chilli raspbora, celestial pearl danios, chocolate gourami and vaillanti gourami coming in amongst others this week. I can't wait :)

Lol thanks sanj. Your right on that one. Hoping for the 7000 litre tank to be ready this time next year.

Hi Martin For the flourish you'd need to dose 46ml over the whole week. Or in your case 23ml per each day. That'll also give you your 0.5ppm iron

Will look great when it grows in. Very nice, and love the pygmies

Hi You don't want too much surface agitation as you'll offgas your co2. You want it to just gently ripple

Thanks Richard. It's not or doesn't seem too far for me, I'm now living on hyde/broadbottom border and although it says 34 mins drive it's far from that. It's well worth a visit though definitely. They're growing slowly and investing in extra space etc. I'm even turning one of their big 6foot...

A small brief update, I have a few photos but off my phone they don't look great due to the tank lighting, I'll get some with the camera tomorrow, but for now I hope these will do.. IMG_20141120_115128 by Mr-T-, on Flickr I have all my choccos, vaillanti and pharosphromenus in now, looking...

Hahaha thanks pal. I'm glad you like it mate really am. Just hope I can keep you liking it. Could have been in yours this thing months back too ;) Hello there Bill, great to hear from you again, really good. I hope your on to stay more often now mate?? How are you? Yeah i moved house, it was...

Andy mate your too kind, I'm greatful that you follow my work the way you do and comment when you can, that's enough for me in itself it really is. I'm surprised and shocked to become sponsored but it's the right company for me and one I have a very good relationship with. Their freshwater...

Hi Mark, thanks for the comments. I knew I'd found a keeper when I saw it. The wood has holes in where the roots cross (pic will follow) so lights spreads through these, plus it's mainly Marsilea Hirsuta which is growing directly under the wood and is actually growing fairly fast. Thanks as...

Hey there Phil, hope your well :) The big tank arrives in two days so will start a fresh journal for that as soon as it's in mate. Thanks ;-) Thanks for the help Andy. Kind of you as always

Hi mate, I used them a number of times, the latest was the big tank I just took down, and even though that was a whopper of a tank and had black silicone the workmanship was great, silicone was neat etc

Just a couple of pics of the tank after 4 days of planting, next lot of pics are due Saturday so I can compare growth. I'm using lots of co2 and ferts plus two water changes a week... Does anyone have a Fluval G6 spray bar they would happily sell on???? Day 4 'back to my root's by Mr-T-, on...

Hiya mate. Long time no see. Good to see you posting and following me again. How's things??

So, it's about day 3 or 4 after full planting with as much as I could get in but leave room for it all to grow in. Planting the Hydrocotyle tripartia leaf by leaf took ages, but hopefully front right and all the left rear quarter will be thick with it in a month. Amongst this I've placed...

Hey buddy Thanks for the kind words, I knew I couldn't leave it amongst all the foliage. It's funny to think how many dog walkers ramblers etc would have walked past this and not batted an eye lid. Saying that it did need a but of elbow grease to pull it up. And.....there's more of the stuff :D...

Haha cheers Darren lol

Many a person has told me that Darren ha ha. Thanks mate. true words Andy. This will be a tenth of my big one, and 35 times smaller than my big big one next year. Ha ha there all in mate. Every bit of them. Photos coming shortly

Cheers mate. Co2 is at massively high levels now, should be grown in well enough for when your over. Thanks Brian mate. Thanks Faizal, always kind words from you. Ha ha it is really, kind of. I've tried not to make anything too bold, I want it all to look natural. Just hope it works. Fair few...

I'll be keeping it for them eventually lindy. I want separate out my choccos from the paros. Thanks Ed, it was initially meant to be a biotope but changed my mind as I have my blackwater tank down stairs. I've used the spray bar that comes with the fluval g6 along with the co2 art inline...

Thanks Michael. The minute I saw it I knew I had to lug it all the way back. Worth every bit of sweat ;) plenty more of it if you need any sanj Cheers Vazkez, hopefully it'll look much better covered in mosses etc I thought the same thing at first lindy. I fancied just doing it for all my...

Alot of the distributors also seem to be koi and pond related..strange

Love the planting either side Andy. The ikea lights do take a little getting used to but after a while the colour doesn't seem so bad.I love them. Great journal mate

Looks brilliant Andy. Filled even better. I take my hat off to anyone who can stare at their tank empty for 5 to 6 weeks. Look forward to it

Never experienced any trouble from them at all, not one bit. The lights run on 4 channels. The main 10000k on one, the reds greens and blues and others on the rest. It's far more power full than two t5s.

Hi roy It's a brilliant light unit. Par levels are phenomenal and you have multiple control over channels. I have a spare 80cm still boxed.

Hi all, With the new build optiwhite currently underway for my new big tank, which I'm hoping will be a good one again especially as Dan George Stu and Iain are all getting stuck in too, I thought in the meantime, it would be nice to have a small Hi tech set up going. The title may give it...

Peat moss will be fine under the substrate. Looks very dusty

Sounds very interesting look forward to it. Just a side note, in this picture Is there a specific reason you chose to use the circular pipe to attach, as the part that the cable threads through should screw into the bar itself anyway

Thanks for the kind comments. I always always wanted one of the profiles, and it's a shame they stopped producing them. The only downside to them is that they have side opening doors which means fitting in an alcove could be tricky. Beautiful tanks though. Really well built too. That was my...

Hats off to you trying to work away at the plants In such a small space. Looks tricky. The scape is lovely though

Hi I had it and do have them on the outlet of the filter as putting on the inlet makes it become dirty very quick and restricts flow coming in as the fx5/6 aren't gravity fed. I occasionally got the odd bubble but not lots. Did you build it to the same Size? What size tank is it running on and...

Alfa grog is perfect

Yep, they love the stuff lindy

Easy life have brought out a brilliant potassium and phosphate test kit. I've used both in little test pots and readings are spot on

Beautiful Andy. Stunning light unit and looks the part mate

Here's the post I mentioned, where Clive has shown people that changing bulbs or plant growth will be reduced is a myth http://www.ukaps.org/forum/index.php?posts/90900

Wow I never realised how many members tell porkies just to prevent ear ache ha ha. At the end of the day, neither partner should have the say over what can and can't happen, should be equal. I'd just do it anyway, what's the worst that can happen?? She finishes you, packs her bags and...

It's been proven that tubes don't need changing like manufacturers state, it's makes very little difference to aquariums other than how it looks to our eyes. Clive has proven this theory I'll try to find the link

Welcome to ukaps Stephen Well worth having a good long read of the sections on co2 flow ei dosing substrates etc, there is tons of information In each section that will help understand some more and then there's plenty of us here who can also help with any questions you may have

Well I've opened box 1 today, thought I'd just pop up a couple of photos I've taken on my phone. I've also had a fiddle with the intensity and colour and the 360 freshwater tuna is really bright, really really bright and almost whisper quiet Kessil 360e Freshwater tuna by Mr-T-, on Flickr...

Looks brill mate well done

I have these and will pop up some photos and a small review this week

Your welcome Glenn

I have used them in the past with my 4ft square and waited around 8 ish weeks but build quality was worth the wait. but I know that a couple of months ago they had a problem with the suppliers of their cabinets and with how many orders they have that lead time is around 10 to 12 weeks...

Yep. Remove the light casing, and with a pair of wire clippers or something very sharp cut through this little box cleanly And then carefully re attach the light casing without overtightening or it'll crack the casing

Hi Glenn The 05 series was one of the best range of their smaller filters. It just depends on whether the one you are looking at is genuinely really good nick. Check seals etc

They weren't doing to great and got bought out and I believe the range will just get better. Oh and the white edgeline is stunning in the flesh. Really really nice