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  1. ADA

    Where are people buying from now?

    Hi guys, long time no see, after leaving the tank hardscaped sitting dry for a year I've decided to finally get back into the hobby, looked on TGM............crap, looked on Aqua Essentials but they don't have much stock, where is everyone buying their plants now?
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    Resolved! Paid up and not working

    I swear it was this forum lol
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    Resolved! Paid up and not working

    Guys I paid up for full membership and it worked for about 2 months and now none of the members forums are showing???
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    Steve's ADA 120P - NO.2

    Cheers mate :thumbup: Hoping so, taking my time on this one so its done properly for a change ;) Will do ;) Hi mate hows things? Thanks for the congrats, yeah its been a while, been so busy, I'm really taking my time on this one, well I kind of have too as I'm that busy with work and I...
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    Through The Red Mountain

    Nice work, after you moved the left tallest rock from pic 3-4 and added substrate it really has taken shape nicely. :thumbup:
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    Steve's ADA 120P - NO.2

    Thanks
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    Steve's ADA 120P - NO.2

    Thanks, not thought about plants yet, lots of mosses, low growers, poss microsorum or two plus MC, so yeah just thought about it lol. Thanks very much :). Cheers mate.
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    Oliver Knott Betta scape

    Looks like an ADA 45P
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    Steve's ADA 120P - NO.2

    After a brief time out of the hobby with getting married and going self employed I've decided to get back into it, re done the 120P over the weekend, just playing with hardscape right now. Its all gotta come out so I can add the power sand, but I'm happy with it so far. My last scape was two...
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    How much is too much?

    Got a box of Toms manzi to sort through yet too :(
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    How much is too much?

    lol Such a pain tho! Wanna do a re scape but I'm coming up short right now, might have to get the hammer and bolster out
  12. ADA

    How much is too much?

    Got scapers block lol https://flic.kr/p/L5d1KD
  13. ADA

    Algae on silicone and TGM

    Empty mate, doing re scape next couple weeks
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    Algae on silicone and TGM

    Any good tips for getting algae off the silicone? Also what's happened to TGM??? Their website runs at dial up speed!!! Done a complete order on Aqua essentials before one page loaded???
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks very much :) Cheers mate, yeah it's doing great now :)
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Cheers mate :)
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    Ohko Ocean, now 'Peaks'

    What did you use to hold the rocks together?
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    Ohko Ocean, now 'Peaks'

    Loving this, great depth and perspective. :)
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks :) Cheers mate :)
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    I'm gonna mate but after a spray of water/co2 mix it browned a bit so once it grows in nice and green again I'm gonna give it a good hack :)
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    Amano RIP?

    An inspiration to generations, a pioneer in the quest for aquascaping perfection and a legend who's work will live on forever, RIP
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Hi guys, bit of an update, Im just waiting on the stems to get the final pic. Slight new addition too, back lighting, it's more yellow ish than white in the pic. Emerald Isles by -hayleyyoung1984- Emerald Isles by -hayleyyoung1984- Emerald Isles by -hayleyyoung1984- Emerald Isles by...
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    Windswept Eternity

    Grab yourself an electric toothbrush from Asda for £10 mate, you'll be on those rocks every other day.
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks mate Cheers mate, not long now, carpet is still filling in and there's paulustris and macrandra still growing up in the rear corners, plus tomorrow is maintenance day so it's a bit dirty for a FTS lol.
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Quick pic from the back door :) Progress Emerald Isles by -hayleyyoung1984-
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    Shy Embers

    I didn't change anything really, just switched filters off for maintenance and they were out, the more the stems grow at the back the less places they'll have to hide soon plus the stems will limit the flow soon so hoping they'll venture out more often
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    Windswept Eternity

    Very promising
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    Shy Embers

    Thanks guys, defo the flow, 4 hour clean/maintenance session yesterday and after the filters were off they were schooling at the front the whole time lol
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    Shy Embers

    Anyone had this? Bought about 30 for my 120P and they're all hiding and have done since day 1 2 weeks ago.
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    How to grow a red carpet

    I'll buy a load if ya want rid
  31. ADA

    Scape that s#@t!

    Lots of shrimp ;)
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Not a lot at the moment mate, swapping the lighting out, just bought an APS T5 unit, not willing to pay out for tile no.4 so selling the TMC set up and going T5 till next year.
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    "Temporary Insanity", 60 gallon build

    Looking forward to seeing this progress :).
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    Om Shanti - bonsai

    Looks great, I done one like this from a dead Chinese Elm bonsai a few years back, bark did rot and caused problems, if it was dryed when you got it I'd strip the bark mate.
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    First attempt at aquascaping - took long enough

    It will take a little while, norm about 3 weeks, I knew you were using Amazonia as my water has the same brown tinge everyday lol
  36. ADA

    First attempt at aquascaping - took long enough

    Looks great, using ADA substrate by any chance?
  37. ADA

    New substrate wc's?

    Everyday for a week then every other for couple weeks be enough?
  38. ADA

    New substrate wc's?

    Changed my substrate this weekend to ADA Amazonia, filter is cycled, would you be doing wc's everyday like a new set up or every other?
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Think I Think I need them everyday or every other after new substrate? Filter is cycled.
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Well the reboot went ok, bought a few extras after bunching up all the plants quite densely, now have Limnophila Aromatica, rear right, all the Stellata is rear left, also some Ambulia rear right and Hygrophila mini dotted round the low light areas, way too cloudy for a pic, didn't realise the...
  41. ADA

    Stu's 120x45x45 tank sponsored by Tropica

    Looking great, can't really see the right path anymore which is giving a great balance, less symmetrical ;).
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    Hobgoblin's Cave 240L

    Give the diffuser a soak overnight in bleach/water solution, rinse and dechlor and hook it up, should speed it up.
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks :) It won't be much different mate don't worry lol :).
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    New 40m Amano Tank

    I'd have defo filled it with discus.
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    It's gonna be the same mate, just couple different plants and ADA substrate. :)
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks mate but I think it was all gonna go Pete Tong from the silicon going. :) Yeah but I'm sure a fresh start will help, should have soaked the wood first too and got rid of the crap that came off it after it was submerged a few days, cheers mate. :) Cheers mate :).
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Ok new plan, been syphoning this brown fuzz out for weeks now, CO2 is stable at 4bps, dosing daily Neutro + and Neutro CO2, filter is cleaned regularly, ammonia is zero and water changes regularly. Only thing I can think that caused this is moving all that substrate from one tank to another wet...
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    I did consider that but it's so slow growing and the only fast growers are the rear stems so tbh could prob do with some fast growing foreground plants, plus already ordered them lol, the Eleocharis will go in the missus 60. :)
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    After careful consideration and a losing battle I'm ripping out the Eleocharis and replacing with Monte Carlo, it's collecting all the debris after swapping tanks and the substrate swap that it keeps growing this light brown fuzz and it could really do with a fast growing stem in foreground so...
  50. ADA

    Windyhead's "Introduction"

    Stunning tank
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    Colisia Vallem (90L)

    Love this tank
  52. ADA

    Dragonstone scape

    Great start, looks promising.
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    Omega's Nature Aquarium

    Looks great, I'd consider moving the far left piece of wood so it's not touching the glass as it kind of draws the eye, apart from that looks perfect. :)
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    Pro 3e 2078

    whwn I got this pump the instructions were a bit hazy, does anyone know if I put it in manual mode and hit the plus button a few times will it stay at max flow rate?
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    blender method for moss?

    Two weeks ain't enough time mate
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    blender method for moss?

    In that case I'd just tie it to the hardscape lol
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    blender method for moss?

    Tbh you don't need the yoghurt, I done mine with just RO water and painted it on, misted it twice a day and put a heat mat underneath, after 3-4 weeks I flooded it thinking it had all died and vanished, now after being flooded a month I have Fissidens and Mini Pelia growing everywhere. :)
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    Tank1

    Not showing up on iPad/iPhone
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    Tank1

    Looking forward to the pics. :)
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    Island Shore - 60 x 30 x 45 Rock, grass and hopefully class!

    Looking good, yeah it's always a pain when the algae causes melt which in turn causes more algae, I had it in mine but slowly getting on top of it. :)
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    Is it just random luck?

    Have you been to the green machine? I went up a few weeks back and their tanks are all the same, low flow, CO2 going straight to the surface, and awesome growth. It's due to the fact that the tank is so mature and with ADA filters they never lose flow rate so small amount of flow that gets...
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    The Journey

    Very nice, what's planted left rear?
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    Aquanano 55 'Pride wood'

    This is gonna be good, love a cube tank :)
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks :) Cheers :) Thanks :) Cheers mate Thanks, I'm hoping so :) Thanks :) Just when I thought the dry start had failed, I was taking a closer look into things as I'm battling little problems bit by bit and working my way from the obvious to the undergrowth I noticed the Fissidens...
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    Crystal CreeK

    Here mate. http://ukaps.org/forum/threads/steves-ada-120p-emerald-isles.34918/
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Quick update, couple of xl in vitros added and stems hacked down and re planted, will give it a week to grow in and should be looking more full. Emerald Isles by -hayleyyoung1984-
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    One or Two?

    Bigun, I had two 60's, two 100's, various small tanks from 1 litre up to 180 litres, best tank I bought, 120P! Increased layout options, fish options, space to work in, plant options for the scale of the scape, there's loads of pros. My fav is having the room to make a twin island scape, a...
  68. ADA

    Brown surface scum

    Well substrate is Florabase black which does look dark brown once wet but I will keep up wc's and see how it goes
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    60P - The Shimmering of Light

    Looking good, 120P all the way dude, much more space for future scapes. ;)
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    Brown surface scum

    It's not oily lol I do remove it every day and do wc every other day at the moment so hoping after adding some media from the missus tank tomorrow it will help speed things along a little as it's only been flooded few weeks so might be as its new tank.
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    Brown surface scum

    Yeah but is it brown tho?
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    Brown surface scum

    I wonder if night oxygenation will help via air stone or something
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    Brown surface scum

    Yeah, it's brown on my tank and comes back after a couple of days and I'm about to up my lighting by 50% lol hoping it will help the plants out compete the scum growth as they're growing very slowly at the moment, may up my CO2 a bit too but last time I did the fish were gasping.
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    Brown surface scum

    anyone know if its bacteria or algae?
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Cheers mate, means a lot esp as your moss in your scape was quite inspirational for mine :). Thanks mate :) .
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Fingers crossed lol
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Way ahead of Ya lol, frosted backing in the post with the new light, will be adding more pots of foreground very soon, buying some XL in vitros. :)
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    CO2 on at 1300, lights on 1530, ramp up from 1500 for 30 min, CO2 off at 2130 lights off 2300 inc 30 min ramp down, I don't use aeration but prob will as I'm getting some brown slime surface scum at the moment. DC is green before CO2 on but goes very lime green in about an hour. P.S. No patience...
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    I'm using a generic cheap bubble counter, UP inline atomizer, 4bps roughly, getting lime green DC pretty much 24/7, slow growth now and over shadowing is causing some melt so hopefully with another tile I should sort that problem. :)
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Well after staring at it for 10 days watching it grow slow I got a bug and bought another TMC Grobeam lol, should turn up tomorrow hopefully so this weekend the faster growth should start :).
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    Extra lighting???

    Any ideas?
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    Extra lighting???

    I currently have two 1500 Ultima tiles running 100% over my 120P, I'm after another tile but dunno whether to go with a colour plus or another daylight, do you think a colour plus between the two daylights will make the tank look stupid? Thanks, Steve
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Cheers fella, looking to get another tile for it now, lights are at 100% and not much pearling so gonna up it.
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    Blue in Green

    Some puffers would love that, awesome wood work.
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    60P - The Shimmering of Light

    I'm running two 1500 ultimas on mine mate, not that expensive. :)
  86. ADA

    Vipasca

    Lovely start, looking forward to more this one.:)
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    Disobedience

    I love this tank, will be even better once the stems are thickened up a bit more. :)
  88. ADA

    Dark Land (300l) - Now with FTS of the first days.

    That moss is looking awesome
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks :) Steve
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks, yeah I only bought it as its to promote bacteria :).
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Was a bargain actually lol.
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Sorted ;).
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Right guys some photos of the last couple of days :) had a great time at TGM Gaz was very helpful and we ended up chatting for 3 1/2 hours and getting through quite a few cups of coffee lol, anyway here's the pics. How it stood Thursday night. Emerald Isles by -hayleyyoung1984- Trip to TGM...
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Pmsl my buddy said that too lol
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks for the concern guys, it's not too bad, pics this weekend lol. I'm off to TGM in the morning, spoke to Gaz & James and they have a nice ADA 120P waiting for me to collect along with a nice cuppa after the 4 hour drive. Gonna be a job to fit in the missus fiesta but hey ho I'm driving on...
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    DISASTER!!!!! The silicon went today while I was at work and it's emptied half it water over the kitchen floor throughout the day, never buying 2nd hand again!!!!! Off to tgm Saturday to get another and keeping this one ratchet strapped till then :mad:.
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    60P - The Shimmering of Light

    I think your on to a winner there with that rock already :).
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    Stu's 120x45x45 tank sponsored by Tropica

    Updates!!!!!!!!! :)
  99. ADA

    GlasGarten Mini L "Nemesis"

    I always full dose from day one and don't really suffer with it so might be worth a try.
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    Steve's ADA 120P - Emerald Isles

    Thanks, yeah the floor isn't level lol pain as if I knew I would have done something about it lol.
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