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Condolences Courtney. Tank, plants, shrimp and fish are looking good!

https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/ifc-aquarium-fertilizer-calculator.63045/ @Zeus. is a sound method for raising kH but I personally would not even go as high as 4, I run mine at less than 1 although I would not advocate this for a newcomer to hobby but 2's plenty. You can also feed additional...

Nice looking tank, I'm surprised those Crypts haven't started randomly popping up all over the substrate.

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Have you seen this? Journal - The Mermaid’s Rockpool Garden, not solely macro algae but well worth a read.

That's the most important thing! For me it's nice to see small fish hiding in the plants just coming out occasionally, makes them more interesting when they do, I'm sure before long though they will recognize you as a food source (not personally). That tank looks perfect for those fish (and...

It's possible that their journey did to a degree take it's toll and weakened them, it looks from the photo that they had already dropped a few leaves, it wouldn't be until they started growing some new ones along with new roots that you would be back in business. As long as they are provided...

Always like to see this and having a pictorial history with all information in one place is a boon!

Tut tut John!

Hobbit looking nice, still fairly small in comparison to the other plants.

I agree with everything @Scaperinc has said, looks like it could be sand dust and should disappear in a few days although I can't be 100% sure at this stage. Moving forward, as also mentioned and if you can afford it, would be the beneficial addition of a couple of bunches of fast growing stems...

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/

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

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.

If you haven't bought them already I'd also hang fire for a month or two until your tank is a little more mature and any risk of a high ammonia level has been removed.

Probably due to the fact LostMud lives in Singapore.

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Welcome, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Hi, What's the name of the plant on the bottom right with the red stripes on the underside of the leaves please? Cheers!

Not sure what the gH is but appears to be perfect tap water in my book, many people use RO/rainwater to reach this value.

Welcome! For a start I wouldn't believe the Nitrate test as the results are notoriously inaccurate. Secondly looking at the contents of your fertilizer it doesn't appear to contain any Nitrate or Phosphate which are two of the Macro salts required for healthy plant growth AQUADIP Plant Food+. I...

Hi, I'm no expert but I would imagine this becomes more of a problem the smaller the tank volume but the simple way round it is to just trim one or two plant species per week (depending on size of the tank) rather than decimating all of the plants in one foul swoop. This has always worked for me...

You're soon going to need a bigger cupboard!

Looking at your next post with the Coral Reds I suppose they could be Pencil Fish but I noticed a lack of the Adipose Fin 🤷‍♀️

Looks good my friend, what Rasboras are they please?

As @hypnogogia says above, not to trust your Nitrate test and dose full Macro, I see no mention of Potassium here. Being high tech I would also up your water changes to at least 50%/week slightly more would be better, a couple of back to back changes would be a good to begin with and while doing...

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At least your membrane will have a good lifespan.

They take a bit of trial and error to get going but once running on song I don't think you'll look back.

I suspect flow and distribution to be the main culprit here, have these problems arisen since reverting back to using the duck bill outlet? Could also be due to the plants growing in restricting flow. Looking at that BBA I would imagine there's a build up of organics too, I assume you are...

I was just wondering if you ever find the time to sit down?

It would not be difficult to overdose CO2 in a 30l aquarium, as already mentioned take it very slowly and only make small incremental adjustments when you are at home for the day to keep an eye on proceedings. I personally don't think you need to be dosing towards the higher end of the scale...

Hi, As well as a deficiency there appears to be quite a lot of detritus built up on the leaves. For starters I would get in there and trim off any dead or decaying plant matter, have a good hand waft about/manual swirling of the plants and then water change ensuring any detritus on the substrate...

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Are you going to be using pressurized or one of the home brew methods?

Could you not clear a small space for it at the front, from your photos it's a lovely little plant that would be worth it?

As all of the above have said, I just have Crypts and Buce (with a tiny bit of Anubias and Coral/Phoenix moss) and in tank maintenance consists of removing the odd dying outer leaf, occasionally pulling up a Crypt runner to stop to stop it from taking over, having a waft about/turkey baste...

I'm sure there would be similar branded with the same function thermostats available to you, a little Google work should do the trick. I'm not sure without researching again (getting old) but I think there's a basic model which has one socket and variable high/low temp setting, but the one I...

Morning, How is your Hobbit doing, I've just been talking about it in another thread, I struggle with it but need to find out why? Cheers!

I've tried again, I split the pot into three, put one in high tech which has practically disappeared and two in a small low tech which seem to be just about holding on at the moment, I can only assume (probably wrongly) that they need high light and lots of CO2. I would imagine it would fare a...

How is the Hobbit faring?

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Cynics! :rolleyes:

Hi, My personal take on it is to fertilize from day one just as the photoperiod commences. It will take the best part of a couple of weeks for the plants to show noticeable signs of growth (from initial planting) and I can't really see the point of stressing them out all over again by vastly...

Yes, also looking forward to seeing some more photos!

How long has it/they been growing in your tank? Mine grew as a large rosette but it was planted singularly it also developed a reddish tinge. I had to brutally attack it as a mother plant in the end as there were plantlets appearing all over a 90 x 55cm footprint I think it would have taken over...

Yes, be a lot easier to identify in a few of weeks when they have transitioned and are actively growing, not that I will be able to tell then either. Good to see you back!

Looking good, the plant above I believe is Hygrophila Polysperma 'Rosanervig'.

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Welcome and I look forward to seeing your endeavors!

I put one in my tank at start up but could not tell as to whether it made any difference or not, and similar to what @hypnogogia experienced above, I think it took 3 or 4 months to disappear from view.

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Welcome, and I look forward to seeing this!

Tank looks nice though!

Consider setting up a biotype aquarium where the the fish and plants come from the same (or close by) location, this will help for fish Seriously Fish — Feeling fishy? and the Tropica website for plants.

https://www.jbl.de/en/products/detail/7319/jbl-proflora-direct?country=us#6334100 I've got one of these (16/22mm) but never used it, but I'm sure @Zeus. used to use them at high velocity so I would think they are half decent. If I do ever get around to using mine I'm going to strip it down and...

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Way to go!

Personally I wouldn't, Gold tetras are capable of growing over 2" (5.5cm) and as such would at least require a tank of 60cm length, longer would be better. https://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/hemigrammus-rodwayi/

If you're only changing 4l in a 30l tank I can't see any problem going with 50/50 straight away, You're only replacing 2l of tap for RO, it will take quite a while to reach equilibrium but that's OK.

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AquaSys 315?

Nice to see floating plants on a Iwagumi, good for the fish, good for the ecosystem, can be temporarily removed for photographs and basically just looks so much better/natural. To me anyway.

Any commercial glass cleaner, microfibre cloths are the key, just lightly spray onto the cloth to avoid overspraying into the tank, JBL amongst others sell non toxic cleaner with the same characteristics.... https://www.jbl.de/?mod=products&func=detail&id=8775&country=us&lang=en#6460000

Welcome and I look forward to seeing what you produce!

Welcome and look forward to seeing the advancement of your aquarium!

North American Rainbow and Red Shiners, Bitterling if you prefer something slightly more local.

I'm no expert but I wouldn't put Flourish Excel in with the Macros, I don't know the possibilities of potential reactions just instinct tells me. Potassium Sorbate is cheap enough.

Morning, In your circumstances I also wouldn't be daunted by (and I have done it myself several times in the past) draining the tank into a large receptacle (I use these Red Gorilla Polyethylene Tub Black 75Ltr - Screwfix) put fish and plants in and run the filter/heater, completely replace the...

The only problem I can see is your gravel looks quite large diameter so anything smaller will eventually slip through leaving your existing back on top. The only possibility I can think of at the moment is a covering such as jbl ProScape Volcano Mineral 9L although I have not seen it in the...

Looks like a JBL one which I use.

How long do you think it might be before this reaches fruition?

Good morning Mitchabbots, Hey my friend, I'm not trying to sell you anything or advise you to do this or that, you can do whatever you want, I was just merely trying explain a little bit about flow and the dynamics of water in an aquarium the same as yours. No two aquarium systems are ever the...

I'm with Darrel, a very thin sprinkling of sand on the bottom, it doesn't matter if some gets sucked up during maintenance, occasionally just add a bit more.

On the plus side, more room for plants! ;)

This might sound crazy but on my AquaSys 230 I'm running a 1200XLT full blast (through a lily pipe), a Nero 3 running at 15% during CO2 period and 1% when off and a 2000l/h Eheim Compact+ running a closed loop CO2 reactor which is timed to activate 30 minutes before and after the CO2 period...

I'll second that!

The Screwcumber of course! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266444267997?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338757644&toolid=20006&customid=9b0f42b6b323e4070023cc9d1da4f70e

Keep us posted as to whether any of the Crypts start sprouting, I've lost plenty before now only to see them appear six months later after thinning out a patch of real estate.

What about the Planeria?

Good advice above and I also think that it is beneficial to take some time acclimating these initially fragile fish, your LFS may be using the same tapwater but I can well imagine it containing a lot of other compounds that are raising the TDS. I also think they stand more of a chance being kept...

A man of my own heart. I enjoy trimming an odd spent/unwanted leaf off of an odd Crypt now and again but two hours of trimming, removing trimmings and replanting per week is a thing of the past for me, that is after initial start-up and the gradual replacement of most of the stem plants.

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I watched the George Farmer video from their headquarters last night about the update of Tropica's display Aquaria for the Interzoo exhibition and was surprised to learn of the amount that even they have trouble with of which I think all were TC.

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Do you have any full tank shots you could upload?

Looks good to me, I can't help feeling all the Aquasoil will end on one level like mine has though.

What are you going to replace it with?

Have you got a full tank shot to get an idea of scale and what is the green on the right hand pane in the second photo?

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I would have thought that is a pretty good survival ratio, especially as the fish are doing the hard work for you?

Welcome to the world of stem plants! Tank is looking really nice with good clean plant growth :thumbup:

I'm afraid I don't mate, certainly not for a 100l tank and you would be locking yourself into a system that requires you to pay £46.99 + P&P for a replacement 800g cylinder. Sure you can get adaptors/find cheaper alternatives but you might as well begin with a decent Regulator and work backwards...