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Well, I'm about to strip down the tank and start again! So I thought I'd post this. It's not the most well thought out scape, in fact it's not thought out at all, I just chucked everything in and waited for it to grow. I quite like it though. Spec: 12 litre optiwhite 11watt arc pod...

It's my birthday on Friday and my lovely partner Pete just got me my present... A MARINE TANK!!!!! It's a 20 gal, and has everything in it - skimmer, filter, lights etc, plus live rock! I'm so happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never had a marine tank before, anyone have any words of wisdom for...

What do discus eat? Mine are eating frozen food at the moment, a mixture of stuff like bloodworm, daphnia, brine shrimp etc... and something called 'discus food' - I don't know what it is but I suspect beef heart and some type of greenery. But guess what? After 30 years trading, my lfs has...

Hi Everyone, I'm looking for friends on facebook who are interested in fishies, plants etc. Whenever I post something about fish, none of my friends comment. Even if it's something REALLY COOL like the other week 'new discus are here' No comments. Nothing. So, is there anyone nerdy like me...

Is it a good idea to dose nitrates in a discus tank? Normally I'd be dosing EI, but I'm a bit worried about my fishies.

One of my discus (I have eight in my 100 gal) has gone darker and has a little bit of cloud in his eye. I've never had discus before so I don't know what to do, I got three about 2 months ago, and I got five more this weekend. All the other discus are fine, and all of them are feeding well. I...

soooo... we have a spare tank in the attic, it's a Juwel rio 180 litres. My four year old obviously needs a tank in her room... but what sort of setup?

My Tetratec ex2400 is leaking!! So I need to buy a new filter. I'm not getting another tetratec 2400, because to be honest, they are crap! They make tonnes of noise and they're hard to prime and like I said, now the thing is leaking! I do like the flow I get from it though. I have a...

Does anyone know a good place to refill a couple of fire extinguishers near Brighton? Or Newhaven to be more specific... but Brighton will do! Thanks!

heeheheh!! I just moved house and the previous owners left me a gift of a 5kg Fire extinguisher and a 2kg one! Hurrah!! Oh... and I own a house :D

As the title says... which one? It's a 100gal tank, so a big expense and I want to get it right. I know Aquasoil is better... but I don't want to deal with the ammonia issue. I'm moving house in a couple of weeks (for the last time hopefully!) and I have a 100gal fully stocked with fish...

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I am thinking of setting up a chocolate gourami tank. It's going to be black water, low light, possibly without CO2 (although I'm open to suggestions) with a pH around 5. Off the top of my head, the tank I'm looking at is a cube, around 220 litres with 2X18watt (I think) T8 lights. Ideally...

Are there any rules for treating white spot in a planted tank? Usually I would use the 'Esha' copper based treatment (good stuff!) but this is the first time I've had white spot in a planted tank, so I don't know if that's the right thing to do? I also have kribensis fry (typical! They...

how come word association got locked? I was enjoying it.

My lace plant has stopped producing new leaves and the existing leaves are slowly starting to get old and rot. I know aponogetons go through a dormant phase. Is this it? I've had it since last September, and it's consistantly produced two or three new leaves every week until about a month...

Sometimes my two SAEs (definately SAEs, the black stripe goes right down the tail) do a little shimmy dance, while nibbling at each other, and their colours go really dull so you can hardly see the stripe. Is this breeding behaviour? Usually they're best friends, don't fight, and have a...

I've decided to grow some HC emmersed, on my window sill because I had a small amount left over when I did my nano tank the other day. I'm growing it in a tupperware box, without the lid, on waterlogged aquasoil - should I put some clingfilm over it? Or will that restrict the light?

I'm dosing my new tank with TPN+, it's 12.5litres but has a very big rock in it (see my journal: http://ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4224 ) On the bottle it says dose 5mls, per 50litres of water, once a week with a 25% water change every two weeks. I'm doing a 50% water change every...

I just set up my Mignon 260 and it's making a huge amount of noise! Anyone else get this? Can I fix it? Other than the noise, I'm very impressed with it.

Well... today my new opti white nano tank came in the post from Aqua Essentials. So the journal begins! I've never had a nano before. My current tank is 100gals! This one is 2.5gals I think. This is also the first time I've used and opti white tank, Aqua Soil, kept shrimp, used a HOB, or...

The RO water in my water butt outside has frozen!

I think I have a calcium deficiency because i have deformed leaves on my c.wentii and my nesaea crassicaulis. None of my other plants appear to be affected though. So I'm going to get some calcium sulphate from aqua essentials. I'm currently using PPS pro mixtures: And I'm dosing a bit extra...

does this light look good? Would you buy it? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/11W-MARINE-WHITE- ... 240%3A1318 I like the arcadia arc pod lights, but they're expensive. My only issue with the above light, is I don't know if I can get replacement tubes for it. I was going to get two of them -...

For my new nano (12*8*8) I'm wanting a plant that's grass like and tall (although not that tall, being a nano) to go in the background. A bit like vallis but preferably thinner leaved, shorter and with a liking for easycarbo! What about Cyperus Helferi? Does anyone have any experience with...

How many kilos of mini landscape rocks would I need for a 2.5 gal tank (the 12*8*8 aquaessentials are doing) if I'm doing an iwagumi type scape like this one: I've never done a nano before...

I just gave my neglected Juwel Rio 180 to my neighbour. She's going to turn it into a lovely planted tank! I'm very excited because I'm going to get involved with the planting/fish choices etc - but she'll be doing the water changes! The thing is, the light unit is broken so she needs to...

The tips of my java fern are see through. It's only affecting the new growth. What could be causing this? It's been going on some time now. My tank is 100gals I'm running pressurised CO2 at 30ppm (I have drop checkers at both ends of the tank and I'm running off two canisters one at both...

I think part of my problem is I have the wrong substrate? It is just normal sand. I'm moving house in a year, so I didn't want to fork out for aqua soil, if it will all turn to mud in a year when I move it. My tank is 100gals, so that's hundreds of pounds worth of AS. My problem is, when...