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Having been inspired by the light in this natural pool: and in need of a summer project, I've used this tutorial to build my understanding on DIY LED lights: After a couple of days procrastinating over where to buy I went with...

if your looking for a source of fallen leaves for aquarium during summer I added some dead "holm oak" leaves at the weekend, it's an evergreen oak that sheds dead leaves in summer, they kick off loads of tannins and look great because they are smaller than beach and standard oak. I gave them a...

hi there, this has to be the best video of the sumida gallery as the scapes are maturing into perfection. check out those rainbows in the fantasy lilly tank...pure art

i've been slowly building a mixed community of red fish: ember tetras, ruby tetras, red phantoms and espei. they all get together and shoal which i never thought they'd do but looks awesome. Do any of you have different species that shoal together?

Crossed my mind it would be cool to have some flyers for UKAPS at MA, local fish stores etc...next to the plants. Something like "love planted aquariums? You're not alone! contribute and learn with UKAPS," etc, it could have 5 myths busted etc...and 5 steps to success, shopkeepers could put a...

Hi I've been running CO2 constantly 24/7 along with strong surface agitation to maintain a constant amount of dissolved CO2, just to see how you could interplay gas injection with gassing off. I kept the ph stable and down from 7.6 to 6.6 for about six weeks this way. Pros: you maintain a...

Hi Was wondering if you could replicate the halide / led shimmer but with t5 tubes by dividing up and spotlighting the light from the tubes in someway...anyone tried this? I've thought about fixing a row of lenses to the reflector or something? cheers

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ADA view - YouTube about 5 or so new scape videos posted, each one typically awesome. Check the established tanks in the background!

(a bit of background...) I inherited an API nitrate test kit about a year ago. A few weeks ago I decided to test the test kit and was surprised that after following the instructions to shake the bottle like a maniac for 30 seconds I got a colour reading that tallied with the water company of...

After watching a bored bleeding heart tetra eat a passing bit of vegetation the other day, it made me wonder whether my fish were getting their 5 a day. I also think I overdid the free live food from my water butt this summer - novelty of having tons of daphnia and mosquito larvae. On a...

Think I've just pimped my powerhead... I noticed that where my koralia 1600 is placed it has a tendency to drag water borne detritus through some willow moss, creating a rather ugly and inefficient storage of tank gunk that gets dispersed back around the tank through the powerhead when the...

Hi all Thought I'd take 5 mins to sign up to Channel 4 / Hugh's Fish Fight...Hugh's Fish Fight - Home It's the Marine Conservation Zones that look like an awesome idea. 127 were proposed, government seem to have back tracked and now only looking to create 31 and missing a great opportunity...

Hi All Just joined photobucket in order to put up some photos of a few "swimming with the fishes" type of shots of my scape. It's a work in progress but I'm pleased with where the scape is going so far... now for a couple of side shots... A profile shot... too shy for a full...

Hi I attached peacock moss to coconut shell fragments ( i removed all the husk fibre...a mistake?) with superglue blobs, all looked pretty as a lawn and thought that in time the moss would kind of attach itself with new growth, as the glue wore away. The peacock moss does not seem to show any...

To avoid the drastic on / off of my t5 lights, is there a dimmer type gismo that can be attached to the timer switch? I'm guessing I'd need to switch/check my ballast / tubes are the dimmerable type? :?:

Hi there, I'm looking to get a slight shimmer accent to my lighting setup. I have a tank hood with 2 39w T5 Osram 965 HO cool daylights for growth, but wonder if I can compliment this with a touch of shimmer from a point light source. (still at the hardscape stage...) Again this is not for...

Hi i have a Eheim 2028 cannister filter for a 270l aquarium, I've bought a maxmix CO2 reactor I wish to put "inline", aswell as a Vecton V2 UV steriliser. Would I be adding to much to the filter workload if I went and bought a Hydor 300wt Eth to place inline aswell? I'm attempting to set this...

Hi All Is it the done thing to ponce a few surplus cuttings off each other via the forum? Do we do that? :D I'm all for tropica, but £7 for a pot of E Tenellus is pushings things for me... If so I'm looking to get my hands on some Echinodorus Quadricostatus, E tenellus and some Sagitaria...