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So on my current tank, I'm having great success with EI dosing. My plants are healthy and have minimal algae (just a bit of brown algae here and there). I'm setting up a new tank and I want to try and grow more red plants. This includes plants like Rotala H'ra, Rotala Orange, Hygrophilia...

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Hi @Shinobi i just got the Ada garden stand for my 90P , but they don’t sell the fittings parts anymore for the Ada solar rgb arm , but i do want to purchase the solar rgb arm stand. so i guess i will just some fancy double clamps! Do you have any idea what is the diameter of the solar rgb...

Made a picture from above this afternoon. You can see some gaps within the plants. This is because i made some room for what the postman is going to bring this week...

I’d have 20ppi Poret and a boat load of K1 media driven by a power head and an air pump in that sump. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks great, keep us updated as it grows in

In Post #7 Ian claimed that someone has done a C13 tracing. Whether it is C13 or 14 tracing is no simple task. Glut can take a pathway of naturally degraded into CO2, uptake and thereby incorporate C13 or 14 into plant tissue.

Nice tank. Needs way more plants.

Very nice scape, if you want more epiphytes go for it. Why not think about attaching them yourself? I'd consider not using a UV steriliser, and think about your fish bioload. Planted tanks work differently to ordinary fish tanks. Plants and associated microbial communities will do a lot of the...

Thank you! This is the tank when it was freshly planted about a month ago: The area behind the sandy foreground is quite hidden at the moment but for reference it's about 8 bags of aquasoil and filled to the brim with Echinodorus and Cryptocoryne. I hired someone to scape the tank (I...

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Go with the cheapest option then, Tropica Premium. But even with a high fish bioload I'd still be wary of N and K deficiencies, especially if you intend to plant heavily. Which incidentally is usually recommended

I came across the Solufeed thread last week and tried to source for it locally but couldn't find it. Gardening and hydroponics are not popular in my country, as it is an urban jungle with not much space or greenery so the products are limited, and our consumer laws also don't really require...

Guess who's back... Warts and all 😆

No worries, quite understand. But might be worth mentioning all in one horticultural dry fertz. We've been looking in to Solufeed for instance. Or are they difficult to come by too...

I would of course do it cheaper if I could, but as explained above it's really hard. I used to dose EI using salts purchased from hydroponics suppliers about 15-20 years ago in my earlier planted tanks, but my government clamped down completely on potassium nitrate back in about 2007 and during...

Yeah pancur worked for me as well in the past but I had to remove all my nerite snails cause it would kill them Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk

Unfortunately I'm located in a country where salts are not easily obtainable, especially micros. I can get calcium nitrate, Potassium dihydrogen Phosphate and potassium sulphate with some effort (though not as cheaply as in America or Europe), but it's really hard to get micros/traces except...

Anyone who can afford 3 vivids a 7 ft tank and ada amazonia for that 7 foot tank, i think its safe to say they can afford any of the fertz mentioned above 😆

Not sure I'd use either in a tank that size, unless cost isn't an issue. Have you thought about using dry salts? https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/ei-dosing-using-dry-salts.1211/ https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/ifc-aquarium-fertilizer-calculator.63045/...

Welcome back. Good to see you've both decided to finally take the freshwater plunge, and share your new journey through a journal :)

Yeah agreed, so no point looking for.. By the way Greg suggested C14 isotope tracing. $$$$ 😆

I will bear this in mind. I had thought the box would make observation easier but I think it's probably stressing them out a lot. Will have a hospital tank set up for them in a few days and probably release the healthy ones into the main tank soon. I would also be grateful if you could let me...

I completely agree with this

Hi all, That is brilliant, they don't flower very frequently and then it's curtains, so it is along time before you get another chance . Cheers Darrel

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The tracing of atom pathways in biochemistry is very complicated and could cost a lot more than $thousands. The scientist who took lifetime to identify the pathways of Calvin cycle earned a Nobel price. There is no financial justification for Seachem to take up the task, besides, the...

I recently set up my 7 x 3 x 4 ft tank as a planted tank with mostly simple plants like echinodorus, cryptocoryne, anubias, bolbitis and Java ferns. Lighting over the tank is 3x Chihiros Vivid 2 (10th Anniversary Edition) at about 70% power raised 6 inches over the water line currently at 6...

Welcome :) Nice rock and nice start. Spend some more time messing around with it. Try different orientations, not just on the edges. These rocks have multiple interesting sides and shapes. And also see what it looks like with some of them pushed together more. You'll be surprised how well they...

Thank you Darrel Perhaps I shouldn't have kept them in the box at all then and just let them all loose. They will probably be happier. I'm running a little corner filter right now and I think it will be ready for a bare hospital tank in a couple of days. The only spare tank I have is very...

That's mad, I bet it doesn't get out of 1st gear

I'd add some smaller pieces in the foreground, to create scale

Also i dont think you have any fast growing stem plants in there so 8 hours of light at start up is just asking for trouble , i would go down to 6 and then increase weekly after 2-3 weeks 15-30 mins at a time

The sand settled down within a couple of hours. Filter is running full of activated carbon it came with. Will change out in a month or so.

@dw1305 note the huge Agave stork in the last picture, got my eye on that one for a didgeridoo!

This just might be sand dust and will settle down in a few days , do you have filter foss in your filter?

Hiya I recently decided to try another tank but try and aquascape it properly or just the inclusion of more hardscape, since before I have mainly been growing almost dutch style tanks as a way to learn plant health and maintenance, this tank is a dennerle scapers 35l with a twinstar light. I am...

I already have the anubias. I have two corbo roots that fit together to look like a large hollow tree root. I have it planted with large java ferns and anubias that I grew on in another tank. The mature anubias are years old, about a foot long and flower regularly. They came from someone...

Hi all, I'd definitely put them in the tank, I don't like "breeding boxes"or bare quarantine tanks. I particularly wouldn't keep a bottom orientated fish, like a Corydoras, in a breeding box for any extended amount of time. When I say "extended" I mean more than a day. I quarantine new fish...

Thanks Bazz, Picture below. I have a layer of Tropica substrate in the deeper back areas topped with WIO Wetland Artist. I used Prodibio startup after filling and parameters as below. Ammonia - 1.0 Nitrite - 2.0 Nitrate - 40 PH - 7.5 Currently 1 bubble per sec on the CO2 and 8 hours on the...

Yes, if you can give us some more information and preferably a photograph we might be able to identify, be more specific and help you through it. https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/please-read-the-guidelines-for-plant-help.60671/

Least Killifish can work in this size, in my experience; they are rather slow and sedentary. Beware, they breed precociously. In my experience a Cory is much more mobile than one of these. I find Otos quite hard to be sure about as they have unusual behaviour and feeding habits, and seem very...

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Hi All After the endless tasks required to maintain our 750XXL RedSea Reefer as a marine aquarium, We relatively recently decided to downgrade to a smaller marine system and convert the now empty 750ltr tank to a freshwater planted system. We've been keeping saltwater for over a decade and it...

Hi all, The females are attracted to light, so you <"occasionally get them in fish-tanks">, even inside. Most Mayflies need really good quality, highly oxygenated, cool water, but the one species (the <"Pond Olive">) is a lot more <"tolerant of warm water"> etc. cheers Darrel

Did maintenance today. Big water change and a tiny bit of re-arranging. One of the CW51s in the box seems to have injured his snout. Not sure if he got that during water change earlier as I had to move the box around a little. I feel really bad for him. Will start running a corner filter in the...

Picture of tank from today: 20240512_163240 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr 20240512_163417 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr 20240512_163511 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr

I realise now your in Singapore, some members manage planted tanks in warm countries successfully. look in at the journals may help . BBA can be stubborn a small wire brush as you water change may help as done by Green Aqua,the idea stole from George Farmer years back l think

We were back to our summer man cave at the Terrace, so nice to be back in the sun, eating Thai food and listening to the weekly bands. The best thing is the bands have a sound check at 530pm (we love sound checks and banter) and go live at 7. So no late nights and at my age that is a huge...

We were hit by the locally called ‘Southern lights’, not so good last night but Fridays light show was spectacular from the coastal vantage points with so little light pollution. Not my picture but a good one…..

I think Tom Barr and Greg Morin had some discussions about isotopic labeling of Glut but don't think Seachem were prepared to shell out thousands of dollars to fund such research, or if they did then we would have to ask why the results of said research aren't in the public domain.

Hello everyone, So I just set up my tank yesterday which is planted and overnight the bacteria has bloomed. I'm aware this will settle in time, but would you still run CO2 during the bloom? Thanks

Hello back from Hampshire!

It was visible again last night, but sadly only lasted 30 seconds over my area. (Ascot) There was a website that my wife was using to track realtime sightings. We ended up missing it anyway and then gave up checking around 1am. I imagine there’s a few holiday operators who will cash in on...

Welcome and look forward to seeing a few snaps of your tanks.

Both circulation (convection) and diffusion distribute gases in air and water, but convection plays a much bigger role. But what we are comparing is how slow plants uptake CO2 in water than in air due to enormous difference in diffusion rate. If plants had gills like fish that can...

ppm by volume or by number of molecules in gases is equivalent due to Avogadro's law that states that "equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of molecules." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro's_law The discussion is relevant in that there...

I’ve just been out to look and …noting. Then read in the paper that tonight wouldn’t be as bright and not cover the whole of the country either.

Decent. I hope my analogy helped some of the other simple brains like myself.

Good explanation and analogy.! You would have passed an exam paper I once had to write up for first year students on a very similar topic …. If you would have said that ppm is a dimensionless unit you would have gotten an A from me :) … Cheers, Michael

Um... well that sends the conversation sideways. ;) Although the result of the calculation is on the face of it unexpected, upon reflection it is not too surprising that the density of gasses is going to be lower (generally) than the density of liquids. True fact that diffusion in gasses is...

I suppose some confusion comes from the fact that PPM is just “in 1,000,000 x, how many are y?” In one million marbles, how many are red marbles? Ten red marbles would be 10ppm. This has nothing of course to do with mg/litre. The weight of the marbles or the capacity are not relevant to what...

But… will it fit a Betta fish?

Yes, apparently: Couldn’t help myself. Sorry - I will show myself out, thank you sir! :) Cheers, Michael

Welcome to UKAPS :) Cheers, Michael

While there might be a minuscule boost to CO2 availability - say the oft quoted 2 ppm in total over the course of like 8 hours after the recommended dosing of say Excel - but no one seems to know what the availability curve is... Is it blown off in 2 hours or 6 hours ... in which case it will...

Well he’s come out of my algae and detritus filled, fish free nano and is now in my pond with swarms of minnows. Oops. 😖 Weird, when you google damselfly nymph and dragonfly nymph you get lots of results that look just like this one. Mayfly nymph however is a better search that shows exactly...

It is a swimming Mayfly Nymph, almost certainly the "Pond Olive" (Cloeon dipterum). This one is harmless, but fish really, really like them. Cheers Darrel

If you find the right Betta, one that is peaceful you could add it

Eight cories and 4 otos will do well in a ten. No other fish

Cheers for the insight Gill. Sounds cool.

I used to do this @ coalville aquatics. I'd setup scapes let them settle and then sell them as seen. Let the person buying take lots of pix and videos incase stuff moved around. So they could put it back exactly. Stuff with bubblewarp to help keeps things inplace etc. This was very popular when...

He’s in a Pyrex dish currently, on his way to the garden pond to live his life to the fullest. 👍🏻

Evening shots. All the moss from forum members have come. They are just floating for now. I will attach to the skulls when back. Lots more fry venturing out from the dense planting in the far left corner.

That's correct, the ppm unit is misleading. In air, it is parts (CO2 molecules) per million (million air molecules). In water, ppm means mg /l. So we can not compare directly the two ppms. The calculation seems to be right, I also get 0.83 mg/l for CO2 in atmospheric air. The diffusion rate is...

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Damselfly or dragonfly larvae. It will eat shrimp and small fish. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s about 1.5-1.8mm long. Living in my heaterless, low tech nano.

Apparently tonight is going to be even better. But don’t hold me to it.

And this relates to glutaraldehyde because...?

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Thanks for the perspective Simon. Very interesting 👍

Hello everyone, my name is Ant and I'm based in Hampshire. I have a few planted tanks to my name and I'm looking forward to exploring the wealth of knowledge there is on website, as well as discovering the illusive 'sales' page as there are not many aquarium shops around me.

Hi Tim. I admit i had to look that up, but you have hit the nail on the head with that one! I have a massive one already loving it in the tank, so i could take a new cutting. Or get another kind? Great! Any excuse to buy another plant!

I wouldn’t buy a completed scape as a lot of the pleasure for me comes from choosing where the plants and hardscape will go. If that’s all done then it’s just cleaning algae and water changes. It’s possibly a problem when people over value the set up. “I’ve spent hundreds on plants and rocks...

Probably :) ... If I am not mistaken this is a Tidal 35... I have two of those in each of my 150L tanks + some internal circulation filters. I have them on the back of the tank located towards each corner and by themselves they provide pretty good flow throughout the tanks (densely...

Thanks for the reply 👍 I have yet to stumble into sellers as am still quite new to the hobby. I’m not keen to sell. Just a thought process from not being comfortable stripping down something with so much time and thought invested. It’s interesting to hear how people feel about it.

It's not uncommon, so there is a market for it. But I suppose it depends on the appeal of the scape. I know Dave at AG sold one of his scapes lock stock and barrel to a customer. And I 've seen them up for grabs on eBay. I guess it's worth a go. You can always sell it stripped down if there are...

Do people buy / sell tanks with a completed scape? I’m referring to tanks that have well grown in, established and matured planting. I’m approaching the point of my tank where I am considering something bigger but do not like the idea of stripping down. Additionally, when I see some tanks...

If it's another epiphyte you're after try Buces. They are also rheophytic.

Spectacular, must be one heck of a solar storm to see the Aurora Borealis this far south

Enzyme based cleaners arrived and worked great. Really Scrubbed the floors. Sprayed it neat in the heavily soiled areas. Also used spray foam on the carpets which has helped alot. I've spent most of today cleaning the house and tidying up his areas. As he is at the kennels now till the 18th...

Hiya Have not updated on this tank in a long time. I really neglected the tank after my holiday in Tokyo last year. The tank became a mess and my fish stopped coming out so I completely stopped feeding them for months. I don't think the ruby tetras made it. It really makes me feel terrible that...

I would kill to have your tap water. Nutrients you can check or stop dosing for maybe 2 weeks do an extra WC. Clean the filter media if you haven't already and see what happens

I mean Green Aqua and ADA are lean dosing. I have been to Green Aqua. They don't have a lot of flow. BUT they seem to be doing a lot of maintenance and use highly nutritious soil. So maybe that's their trick. For us who rely on water column fertilisation flow might be more important. I fully...

My tap water is the same as before. Tds: 80-100. KH=O GH=3. Very soft water with virtually zero buffering capacity. I am using an in tank diffuser thinking the co2 will dissolve in the water in the hose/pipe making it much more efficient. I genuinely think it's excess nutrients. Most of my...

This is cool!

That's what I initially thought as well. But the setup you described is what I have on my other tank and most of the bubbles flow towards the front of the tank instead of the back. This is why I'm contemplating to do the opposite on this new tank because the bubbles will flow towards the back...

I'd be tempted to push it as far back as you can on side it is on now and to try and get a circular motion going with it being an island scape, but the obvious answer is move it about and see which position is the most effective including flow and aesthetics.

I know, I know, I know this isn’t a baby amano - but it looks very similar 😱 A couple of bits of wood were a bit salty, but still…