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Yeah twin fluorescent. What root tab you recommend? I think I will find something that I can just insert rather than changing the substrate. Easy life or Seachem?

What do you think of juwel multilux led light unit? I have a juwel 180 litter with normal t5 light at moment. Not sure the one suggested quadruple would fit or not?

Thx. After using co2 for 1 months now. I can see the plants are growing again. It’s not there yet, but the trend looks okay. I might consider to change the lights as well. Thx all

Thank you Simon. Very informative. I bought the co2art co2 kit. Will try it on first. Changing substrate sounds a big pain to me. Any tricks to do it?

Since 3,4 months ago, I found that my plants stopped growing. See the picture 3 months ago and now. You can see some of plants have almost completed vanished. They simply stopped growing and eventually unrooted. I am not sure what has caused the issue. Since a month ago, I started to putting TNC...

hey all, I have this female apistogramma panduro and since 3 weeks ago, she had infection over her mouth and head. She is not as active as before. The first week, when the white spot on her head was small, I treated with king fish white spot control and it didn’t help. 2nd week, it got worse...

Thx for all your reply. Unfortunately that fish died today. Such a pity. Had for nearly 1 year. Now I have to get another male for the already yellow female.

Thanks. Going to a holiday in a few days, have to decide whether to take him out or keep it.. :(

Has anyone experienced this before? Should I start treating as infection? Thx

I did a 50% water change yesterday. The water looks fine. I didn’t add any new fish recently

i had a pair for half year now, until 5 days ago. I noticed the male stopped eating and started with a small grey on the upper lip. Now the whole mouth is grey and opened all the time. No luck with feeding. Anybody know what this is?

Thanks all. I had them since May last year. They were all fine and very active at the beginning. I think there are some diseases only impacting the Dwarf gouramis. Interestingly it impact one by one. I just bought salt as chubbs suggested, will give it a go! It seems that once it get to the...

hey all, I had my fish tank 180l for nearly a year now. I have 4 dwarf gouramis 2 pearl gouramis 3 zebra danio Many platy 5 tetras Nightmare started about 2 months ago when I bought a Betta. Betta didn’t get along with every other fish and he stayed for 3 weeks and died. I applied Api...

Hey all, It seems something wrong with wrong with my water, the plants are slowly melting, but not all of them. Java fern is always show blacks spots and it doesn’t grow much. Lily used to grow madly, but now it started to melting. I can’t upload photo in this forum now. Is jpeg format not...

Hey guys, I was on holiday for 2 weeks, so no water changes for 2 weeks. When I come back, this stuff is all over the places, they have grown so much into almost every leaves. I have trimmed all the plants down and did a 80% water changes, but still there are lots of this kind of algae in there...

Yes that's right. Low tech and no co2

Hey guys, after a few week, the situation didn't improve. I got 2 amano, but they seems doesn't touch these. Any ideas plz. Thx

Thx. I clean the filter and trimmed the plants a bit. Hopefully it will be better. Thx

Thx. How shall I deal with it? Thx

i got a 180 l planted tank, recently I noticed this kind of algae is slowly growing everywhere. Can someone plz help to identify what it is and how can I stop it taking over ? Many thx Kai

you are right about dwarf gourami. The first week, they seems fine, now, they are a little bit aggressive to each other. No damage done yet, but I will have to keep watching them. I have 2 flame red and 2 neon blue, they are beautify; but they also like a pig. Not shy at all (maybe because they...

Hey alto, Thx for commenting. Yeah, I did lots of water changes when platy and Otto died. Then seems everything goes well. The platy had new babies again and we end up to have 9 or possibly more platy frys now. Three remaining Oto seems doing okay, not eating any feeded food but seems happy...

Thx. But I don't have another tank. Can I apply the pimafix to the main tank? Will this impact other fish? Thx a lot

Hi guys, Need your help again plz. I bought two three strip Cory catfish last week. Just noticed today one of them lost the tail mostly and seat on the rock most of time. I have a planted 180 littre tank. Have lots of platy - 4 big ones and loads of fry, 4 dwarf gourami, 4 zebra danios, 1 crown...

So I came home tonight and that Oto is died now. The other three seems happy. The water parameter is all good, no sign of nitrate. I did a 15% water change anyway just to give some freshness. Thx for all your advise.

Just a quick update. After daily water changes, seems the fish are much happier, except one oto. It stuck on glass near on the top and it doesn't move much at all. His belly looks much smaller than others. It's actually really sad to watch him suffer like that. Not sure if anything can be done...

Thx I will try. 25 c I have

One of Oto is definitely dying. It sucks on the glass near to the top. Not eating at all. Just a general question regarding oto, how are you guys feeding them? I tried algae wafer, cucumber, pepper and a few other vegetables. Oto never interested, whereas platy is almost like everything...

So nobody think the high water flow could cause any stress for fish??

Thx for your question. i have a TetraTec EX800 Plus External Filter. Actually the night before fish died, I opened the filter and washed the media in the tank water. I changed the white cotton media to a new one as well. Could that be impacted? I am really not sure about tunze, it is quite...

Very nice tank! Thx for sharing

Thx a lot! In terms of feeding, I only feed fish every two days, but oto never eat flakes. So I tried different vegetables and only cucumber they seems interested. I leave cucumber there for 24 hrs, I don't know how much they eat, but platy on the hand are consistently eating. They just eat...

Thx for all the suggestions. I did a 40% water change and put safe star in. I tested the water this morning. The nitrate are gone; however one of oto is not moving much at all. It just rests in a pepper. Could it because lack of oxygen? Thx Kai

Change water first? If so, what %?

Picture of oto

I think the Otos are dying too. They are just lying around and not active at all. I just tested the water. Nitrate is 0.25 ppm. Shall I do water change??? I have an unopened bottle of tetra saftestart, shall I use that?

Nope, substrate is tetra complete and capped with black sands. No ammonia was added during the cycle. Just overdosed the plant food.

I have quite lots of easy growing plants growing in my tank for 5 weeks. I have also tested the water with ammonia, nitrate and nitrite periodly. I noticed the spike in nitrate and nitrite during the cycle. Because of plants, I thought I won't notice as much spike as non-planted tanks. Even last...

hi guys, I have a low tech 180l planted tank and it has been cycled for 5 weeks. Last Sunday, we went to shop and we bought 5 platy 4 Otto 4 zebra danios 2 bamboo shrimp Everything got on really well until yesterday. I found a trace of nitrate in water test, so I did a 40% water change. This...

I had them for 4 days and they been either hiding or digging substrate. I haven't feed them anything yet, but I have bought some spirulina and I will spot feed them, but they are not moving to outflow at all, I have plants which they can easily get the flow, but they are not interested at all...

Hi guys, I want to buy a powerhead for my 180l tank. The reason I need to buy one is that I got myself 2 bamboo shrimp and they seems look for food in the substrate all the time, which means they are starving. They should be fed from flow, but my outflow from pump is right on the top of the...

Thx a lot! I guess I am just a little inpatient now after 4 weeks.:) I will sit and wait until my little bacteria fiends eat up the NO2. Do u think I should do a water change now or better wait? Thx Kai

Hey guy, The brown algae seems is under control. It does come back but I just scrub it off when it started building up. However, I have a very strange reading from my water. It has absolutely no ammonia and nitrate, but some nitrite. This is really strange. Does anybody know why? I did test...

I checked the lights and it has two tubes and each is 45 w. I have 180L,So that means it is 45x 2/180 = 0.5 W/L. It also has a light reflector installed. I don't know how I can quantify that. Sounds like I am in the low light zoom. I have cut my light hours to 6 hr from 8 hr now and I increased...

yeah, got a replacement now. Won't make that silly mistake again! :banghead:

Thanks a lot! I don't know my light as I got it with my 2nd hand tank. Will check tonight. In terms of option 2, if I understood you correctly, are your saying feeding more nutrition to the plants, so they can grow better to absorb food sources from brown algae; hence compress algae growth...

Wow. Thx a lot! I don't have co2 I bought all my plants from acquiam garden and something called tnc complete. According to them, they suggest me to overdose to battle this issue. I dose everyday. http://www.aquariumgardens.co.uk/tnc-complete-250ml-228-p.asp I have tetra complete and cap with...

Sorry guys, very ugent question. I did a 80% water change, but then the heater I found is not working after that. I happened just fill the tank with cold water from tap. It's about 18 degrees at moment. Do you think the plants will survive for a day until I get a replacement? Thx Kai

Thx a lot! Very informative! Other than water change, scrub it off, reducing the light to 6 hrs instead of 8 hrs, can I put some shrimp or oto in? The tank has been set up for 3 1/2 weeks now, I was thinking to add 4 danios next week coz they are more hardy or I shall wait and fix this algae...

Hey guys, Just when I thought the plants are doing well, some of them has grown new leaves, but slowly seems some black things starts taking over on leaves. Can you plz help? What are there? Thx a lot!

They loo thx a lot! I will definitely go down to local fish store to check. I will stick with my plan, start with danios first and then bottom feeders and the forktails... hopefully it works out fine. Thx

I like rainbow as they are quite colourful, but I intend to have some small species and also I like gorammis at some stages maybe...

Thanks. These looks lovely. Are they easy to look after? My water ph is about 8 I think. Thx a lot!

I am thinking to buy 4-6 danios first, can I introduce shrimp or bottom feeders at the same time? My tank is newly planted tank. Been running fishless for 4 weeks now, plants are growing, some leafs have melted, so I guess some ammonia has generated from there. What you guys thinks? Am I ready...

Thx for reply. Do you know any other types of centre piece I can consider? Thx Kai

hi all, I am new to the hobbit. Have set up a low tech planted 180l tank and it has been cycled fishless for 3 weeks so far. I am just started to research what fish I should have. A few fish I definitely like to have, Zebra Danio (as first type of fish to introduce) bristlenose-plec Some sort...

Thank a lot! Darrel. What a relief!

Hi Darrel, thanks a lot for reply. I cropped the photo to be more specific, you mean these things are roots? My substrate is tetra complete substrate and capped with black sand. I dosed the plant fertilizer from aquarium garden each time I change water. Thx a lot!

Thank you so much for your reply. Everyone. Very informative. My first post! Mike, your plants looks nice. I will try this next time when I buy plants, I was thinking if I should keep them in the pots for a bit. But I am very new to this hobbit. I haven't got fish yet, so still have time...

Dear all, I am new to this hobbit. I have set up the tank with plants two weeks ago and trying to do a slence cycle. I have changed water 3 times so far and I put the full doz of fertilizers each time. I put the light time to 5 hr each day. But since 2 days ago, the plants are melting. I put a...