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Yes! Shells are much better though I do still lose a snail here and there (with a translucent shell). But I’m seeing many, many more with much more solid looking shells than before. The grit that I put in the tanks a few months ago is mostly still there. Very little has dissolved. I’ve also...

You will probably understand what I mean more in these pictures. The leaves of these plants are not normal and I don't know where the problem comes from.

MAINTENANCE - 1 WEEK OLD Water Change Near 100% weekly Plants Significant Crypt melt (expected) Dead leaves removed Fertilizer None as yet Either Sea weed fertilizer or DIY fertilizer mix will be used in a few weeks Substrate Tropica Aquasoil topped up as some sinking occurred Sand...

Gotta love cryptocorynes. Never a dull moment. I have this C. Spiralis 'tiger' for several years and ALWAYS the leaves have smooth edges... Except for the newest leaf ofcourse ...🤪

Hi All, I’ve recentle rescaped my rio 180l and would love to stock it with primarely inverts, oto’s and maybe after some time very tiny rasbora’s. I’ve added some pictures of the scape, the aquarium is divided by large lava rocks, in front there is sand and in the back it is filled wit laca...

Thank you, I understand your recommendation but I'd rather keep the UV on 24/7 to absolutely minimize the risk of parasites or disease in the tank. Not everyone would agree with me on this and I respect that, but I'd rather risk the plants than the fish. In addition, I also think that with...

Thanks! That was definitely one of my aims with this one.

Here's my experience with flow, CO2 dist., and algae: I love flow and I refuse to rest until every plant is moving in the current. I generally run 15x turnover. However, don't confuse flow with CO2 distribution and well distributed flow. You can get by with almost marginal flow provided it is...

Well somethings I life just takes a turn sometimes, wich you all the best and I think your tanks inspired lots of folks. I really hope you wil come back to the hobby and that you will come back to the forum now and then. 💚

Just read the whole thread. It's an beautiful tank indeed. It had pretty high dosage of nutrients. Just wondering how my tank is doing, never had an test kit just a ph pen. Now I mixed up a batch with nitrate and phosphate and dose it manual daily I will see if it improves. 🙏

For what its worth. Before i started my thread here on ukaps last month i was a long time lurker and for some reason the handle 'CooKieS' and your threads became for me very inspirational just like some other oldtimers here. I learned a lot from you guys reading your journals for hours and...

Its hammertime! The new wendtii tropica leaf is getting more and more bumps and dents. Seeing also bits of new leafs at the other two tropicas. Cool! In other news, i took my reactor and put the blue foam higher in the cannister and filled it up with water to the roof. No more gurgling sound...

What is the cause of brown and even black spots on the leaves? It seems that the original color of the plant is lost and a black spot remains on it. But the growth of the plants is good and they are sprouting.

Hi @MichaelJ It's not that old (less than half a year). I'm at about 450ppm out of the tap, so coming down to 25ppm after the membrane gives me about 95% efficiency. Which I think is kind of ballpark what's expected. I decided not to use the DI element that came with the system. My tank is...

Aww that’s a shame. I thought all your scapes look amazing! Hope to see something from you again in the future.

The hardscape materials are: Yamaya stone… and Talawa wood… Yamaya stone is a new material to me but gives me a nice a ‘stream’ feel. I have used Talawa wood before in my Re-education scape. Its linear structure and bark offer a nice tree feel. I will use a sand and gravel substrate, and...

There is an overflow in the mizukusa wall where any overflow streams down the rear of the wall back into the tank 👍🏻

Hi @LFNfan How come your RO water is that high? How old is the membrane/cartridges ? Cheers, Michael

Hi all, Welcome to UKAPS. HOB filters normally sit outside of the main tank (traditionally on the back glass). When you say "integral" do you mean above the tank? Like an overtank trickle filter? cheers Darrel

i'm reall tinterested about building a hob integral filter.

Really nice; is there a chance the water can escape behind the wall? It looks like a custom setup? Chilli rashoras are such a cute fish.

I’m really enjoying the JUNGLE PUDDLE mizukusa wall riparium, so have decided to do another Mizukusa wall project in my ADA 60f tank. This will be more of a paludarium as the tank has a slightly different perspective and allows for greater underwater focus. It’s in the very early stages as I...

Raising amano larvae is something you cannot improvise. It needs careful planning. Your salt water tank should be set up a good 3-4 weeks in advance prior the female even releases her larvae as you need the tank to have grown proper amounts of phytoplankton. Even then the survival rate is...

Take a break from aquascaping Thierry, and/or just keep a simple planted tank and enjoy that for a while. Either way, keep the best of your equipment, and store it out of sight, and out of mind. There'll come a point you'll want to return and you'll be glad you did :)

The tank looks beautiful. I am quite tempted to recape my tank now to give my fish more swimming space.

Great - thank you!

RO 25ppm will be fine. I used tap water boiled and left to cool at times

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Hi Can I use RO (25ppm TDS) to mix my ferts, or is pure RODI 'needed'? Many thanks!

This little poor looking scape will now end and I will probably sell the whole setup since I’m stopping aquascaping, we can close this journal, thanks for following!

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Fwiw, I've experienced Ludwigia repens taking forever to fully acclimate to a tank, I'm talking more than year without supplemental co2, even when everything else is in full swing. Then when it finally gets its act together it's easy and beautiful. I would encourage you to hang on to that one...

Quick cell phone pics update for the Edaphotron... I didn't see them much through the winter, but now that the room is warmer the soil fauna is active again. The organic matter is refreshed with some new things. I thought they would go for the Turkey feathers first, but the Roaches, Isopods and...

Thank you very much. It’s an Aqueon 40 gallon breeder, and for filtration I have a 20 gallon sump.

Honestly no regrets and no changes. I’ll argue that the best tool for using soil is to use a barrier of some sort, whether you do it @Tim Harrison ’s way or put it in media bags like I did. The soil will never reach the surface. And you’ll never get any mixing of the substrate even when pulling...

Welcome. Which part of London?

Nice progress! Yes, the Ludwigia (Repens?) are withering in that shady area. I would move them out to a brighter area to give them one last chance to bounce back. Cheers, Michael

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Just a little update on the tank. Thank you all for your previous suggestions and as lots of you have said patience is king! Really feel like it's starting to take shape and since changing from Seachem Flourish to APT Fix the algae is almost under control. Only thing that's a bit disappointing...

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Cool, then i am sure they are flamingo's then hehe. Kinda jealous cause i cant seem to grow them in mine tank ;)

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Well, the question was asked in 2021, there were 3 of us who contributed at the time, the other two no longer post :( drum filters as you speak of are not that popular in the U.K. (I see you are from the U.S.A.)

Thank you. I hope so and the pink crypts are flamingo. According to what maidenhead aquatics sold me anyway.

Yes they are flamingo! I've dotted 6 younger plants in the mix. Add a bit of colour and difference.

Thank you! Have noticed a couple of crypts have popped up in the middle of the other crypts but not in the monte carlo yet! I'm sure they will in time lol.

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A lovely tank. I like the combination of sand, larger pebbles and stones, and the healthy ferns in the middle. I might have missed, but what’s the size of the tank? And which filter do you use? Just curious, doing research for a similar size tank.

After consulting the local community, I was pointed towards a seedpod-like structure which forms the fruit of the sapucaia tree. It looks like a dried coconut, but with an opening. Apparently, people use it as a cave for dwarf cichlids, and it releases tannins. So I managed to acquire on of...

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Cool! Yeah i like these types of tanks as you might know since i have one for myself. The land part is an cool extra addition :) Only problem i have is that i can't really have carpeting plants since my riparium is double the height and that means a lot of light... But well, cant have it all ;)...

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So here a global update regarding the stuff that is going on. Very pleased with the new reactor. It dissolves the co2 bubbles completely so no more 'fog' in the tank and ofcourse much more effective. Im pretty sure the new waterfall is also the cause for degassing the co2 from my water lolz...

Had a quick peek a fluval gro + and it's mainly iron although it does contain NPK its in minute amounts. Like Darrel mentions approx 98.6% water.

As my current layout approaches the 2 years mark, that itch to rebuild it once more starts to grow. Some things worked well, others not so much. I see some of my choices from the current setup as a bit daring for my skill level with hardscape and layouts overall, and they didn't work so well...

Just kidding - here it is. Beautiful tank, and somewhere in the thread there is a battle between emersed and submersed plants. Not being able to find it was driving me mad.

Hopefully things get sorted out soon. There was a tank on here (I think?) or might have only been on TPT - I think it was from MinorHero, but I can't find it anymore - Whomever it was had a similar setup with to yours and could not keep algae away because of nutrient competition from emersed plants.

I think it must be fairly systemic throughout the industry, and a bit and miss. But yes perhaps that would be the best course of action.

Thank you Walt! It small ''nano'' size. Dimension in inches: L13.78 X D13.78 X H17.72 [Overall] L13.78 X D10.63 X H17.72 [Paludarium] L13.78 X D3.15 X H17.72 [Chamber]

Thanks, no recent foto's, well I could make it but it's just a mess 🙁

Hey Mike love your riparium! What are the measurements?

Well that's exclusive all the tetras, Cory's, otto's.. With nitriet limitation the rotala should get red it just gets orange, it grows quite well and pearls, but no reds and I have the skilights blasting at full power.. 😅 I left Ei after always struggling with bba and tryed apt lean dosing style...

I see. Do you think I should buy my anubias from a different seller then? Sent from my SM-S918B using Tapatalk

Haha, sure has John. I might stick to the Blond @5.0%, and role out the Ale for special occasions :)

I bet it's got a kick to it too Tim @7.4%

Agree w/ @Wookii . I would increase N & P, especially if still seeing GDA. Any recent photos? This tank is so enviable.

Hi Everyone I'm starting my journal for my Foresta 35e Paludarium. There is a backwall filter with a pump and an Atomizer which creates fog. The filter water trickles down the plant mats on the back wall. The fog flows out the top and down the backwall, keeping the plants moist. The back wall...

That is true for especially iron and something to be aware of when applying UV light... Instead of potentially overdosing traces I would opt for just running the UV on a timer - say 8 hours a day and dose the micros when the UV is not running... say at the beginning of the photoperiod...

It's probably Anubias rot or melt. There's a few older threads on this somewhere here; one below. It's happened to me too fairly recently and many other members in the past. It's probably infected nursery stock and I don't think there is very much you can do about it, except perhaps try again...

Thank you - it's far from a showstopper, but always gives me something to tinker with. That's what I'm thinking, and it seems to be true from the trends I've been seeing. pH seems to be rising a little bit each day.

New one to the aquascape world 🙏 I've had a planted aquarium for 18 months now with co2 but fancy a change up and interested in making an integrated filter unit this time round but somehow with an intake at the bottom and not the top 👌🏽

I did, I bought 3 in the end (still to setup the one for my larger tank). No complaints, all running well!

Yeah, I also use floats. I like the shade they provide and how you can adjust it with different kinds of floating plants This is my 100L low tech But I will keep an eye on the lights in the new setup, because it is way shorter in plant mass. I'll be posting updates on how it develops Cheers...

Nah - not if you’re still injecting CO2, fish load will provide no where near enough N and P, that and the very high light from the Hyperspots will be contributing to your algae woes.

Okay struggling with this tank alot lately. Had a gda outbreak that went on for more then a month. Changed the lights to Skylight hyperspot FL I must say the colours are amazing and the light spread from 3 to 8 spots is way better. I love the light alot but it made my plants grow better and the...

Visited Mount Saint Bernard Abbey today. It's a Cistercian Monastery set in beautiful Charnwood countryside. It has its own brewery and produces two types of beer, blond and ale, both are superb.

So I have had two types of Anubias (Anubias bonsai and Anubias nana Pettit) planted in the exact same spot and in both instances, the rhizome starts to rot and the leaves start to die. I didn't glue the plant and I didn't bury the rhizome I just placed it on top of some wood. Nothing was...

True, there is always something going on... That is why we probably love our hobby so much :) Could be that you have a small drawback with your plants due to to forgetting to turn on the co2. What could it be else. Anyways, just wanted to say that i like your tank a lot. Really cool scape...

Further to my post above. Visited Mount Saint Bernard Abbey today, accompanied by my wife. Beautiful place, very well kept and very peaceful. Picked up a few bottles of beer. Both the Blond and the Ale are full bodied with distinctive flavour. The Blond is like an IPA, and the Ale a malty stout...

A few things I should apologise for, but I doubt I’ll ever find the posts in which I made such claims. 1 - Sun light doesn’t cause algae, i am sure sunlight helps algae grow but this aquarium is getting 4 hours of sunlight and there is minimal algae. 2 - m.hirusta does put out 4 leaves under...

Love these! and i'm about to strip my planted tank down to make one as i have a aps 80cm x 45cm x 40cm tank.. but all of my filters always filter from the bottom of the tank.. will this set up not miss the waste at the bottom? could you not make the filter intake at the bottom of the 1st...

Plants are waiting at my door - luckily a nice day here so no temp concerns. Over the weekend I pulled some things out and opened up the scape a little bit. pH is slowly rising and seemingly equilibrating since I’ve upped the light a bit. Running it at about 70% now. Removed the background and...

That's good to know yours has held up. I'm afraid I'm too much of a worrier though, and just ordered a steel clad stand from www.aquariums4life.co.uk. More expense :rolleyes: but at least I will be able to sleep at nights.

I can understand your concerns with the stand, I felt the same. However, it has held up well so far, I wouldn't dare put it in a spot though where the tank could be accidentally knocked allowing the tank to sway a little!

Hi all, It is <"really difficult to judge">. That is partially why I like a floating plant, it performs both <"nutrient reduction"> and <"net curtain duties">. cheers Darrel

Hi all, They do. You can use them, but they really are <"just glorified tap water">. That is <"beyond shoddy">, even for our <"privatised water companies">, they managed a magnificent "one sample" for both calcium (Ca) and alkalinity. You can use any <"all in one">, just <"dosed at a low...

Now that you've had this substrate system up and running for a bit, is there anything you regret or would change if you could do it again? I'm considering a very similar mix of components for an upcoming build. It's nice to see that you've managed to pull off exposed white substrate with a dirt...

so it does not have phosphate or nitrates which is what you want , but i cannot see what the cleator is for iron you might have to do some research on that and your ph . Because you are injecting co2 phosphates might need dosing, if you have any GSA (green spot alge) then you definitely need to...

Those plants really good 👍 I might just do that with tnc complete too. So would easylife profito not be enough as a fertiliser as fish poop and water change would give the nitrates + phosphates? Or would I need to supplement some? Like the potassium? I'm still very clueless about what and...

Today I have a update on the 200L tank Let's start with a picture, that my sister kindly sent me because I am out of town. This picture she took yesterday, five days after the set-up. I think the light may be too bright. What do you think? The total volume of this aquarium is 200L, Which...

I have the same in my tap water and i have stopped dosing nitrates all together, i am only dosing tnc complete one 2ml pump every 2-3 weeks(because i bought it),rest i only dose columbo fert which came with superfish set ,it has no nitrates and phosphate. For phosphates i bought monopotashim...

Yeah I guess something bigger would give you more options. I'm just starting this journey, so this size will suit me for a while. One thing that I'm really worrying about though, @Ash J is the stand. Now I've put it together and filled the tank with water, I can't help but think it isn't very...

...to back that view up. Once people could search for the genes that <"coded for ammonia and nitrite oxidation">? <"The past is a foreign country">*. You might be interested in our thread with Dr Tim Hovanec: <"Dr Timothy Hovanec's comments about Bacterial supplements"> & <"Tim Hovanec's...

Hey all, Have a bottle of easy life profito currently and a fluval gro +(expired in 2022) which I believe are both micros. I have a 20 gallon main tank that I've replaced with aquasoil with CO2 and soon a week aqua430 lighting. I've been dosing tnc complete prior to this about 20ml 3 times a...

what species is the lily?

Hey yo I think it may be, Last week I was asked to set up a aquarium for a friend, and suggested using some of my old substrate as starter, at first he thought it was nonsense, due to some dangerous stuff coming along, which is a valid point. But after I told him about that your...