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With certain things it's safer to wait for the second (upgraded) model in order to avoid some initial first edition problems. At Ikea's you better be fast and get the first model asap .... At release the engineers are busy dismembering the construction to the bare minimum for the massproduction...

I have the same cabinet. Two of them. The first i bought long ago and i had a 1 meter/180 liter tank on it for years with no issues. A few years ago i decided to buy a second one for a simular tank. Came home with it and first noticed that the base construction and the feet were different then...

:rolleyes: Yeah, I know... :shh: I guess it will remain a mystery... ;) The truth can be so brutal! :) But again: his nonchalance and swag in handling, trimming and (re)planting UG all the time was hard to read and harder to accept, I have to admit that. I believe he even described it as a...

UG was the plant that drew me to aquascaping, i fell in love wit a tank covered with a waving, lush and vibrant green UG carpet! I instantely wanted (not wanted but needed) that. Needless to say that my first try was an eyeopener... It's been a while since my last attempt. I've tried 3 or 4...

Happy to say that the Bactopur treatment did the trick! All fish back in full force! They spot everything and when they do they swarm like little orange bee's! As usual: All eyes on the price! :lol: Gotta love them! :clap:

Hi everybody, this week i suddenly saw this mysterious "blob" appear in my tank. It was bright bloody red, looked like a jelly consistency (with a few hair like strings on top). I tried to take some out to have a better look and it seemed to shrink at the touch. ???? It shrank to half the...

Yeh, it was very sad to see. Indeed, difficult to be sure about the diagnosis. And also true that every tank contains pathogenes that a healthy fish should be able to fight off. At first i tried to add Voogle in the hope that they would be able to fight it off easier but when i saw it...

Yeah, i know... That is one of the reasons i never had them before. The shop owner actually ensured me they were there allready a couple of weeks and accepted food/were all eating. I reserved them one week and "prepared" my tank somehow by upping the light in order to have some algae. My tank...

"Sad to say, things have gone astray..." :(:( About a month ago i bought a group of 9 Otocinclus to complete the tank. A few days later i noticed one oto had a rather big, white spot. Further inspection showed he also had a "popeye". Little later i found one Paskai with popeye and a second oto...

Looks great! Nice scape! The Kessil fits the tank perfectly. Must be nice to have so much time on your hands! :p That might explain the thyme on hands thingie? ;)

:clap::clap::thumbup::lol: I owe you 4 more likes! At least! ;) Great post BTW! Made me laugh whilst i was still feeling the suffering a few times! That's how it's done!

This tank has been running for exactely two years so i figured the tank should be cycled enough to hold some fish... :rolleyes: I recently ran into some Pseudomugil Paskai "Red neon" and i was instantly fan of those little buggers! Decided to buy a big group so i have 15 of them in my tank atm...

I've used the proflora for 2 years and the diffuser filled completely every night. When it starts up the pressure builds and the water is pushed out (enough water stays in the bubble counter). Nothing to worry about.

Disappointing indeed! :lol:

I have to love the fur-like algae-scarf that seems to be draped to perfection around your diffuser! ;) Do you have another tank to put them in (for a while)? I hate to be the one responsable for them going homeless but i have to admit that my AR-mini looked pretty simular to yours when they...

Newyear tends to make me a bit melancholic. One could say it makes me feel -Kind of Blue- Aha! This calls for some quick snaps... :) A view through the eye of the beholder

Nothing dramatic. I run quite a high BPS on both. It happens that the filters burp once or twice by the end of the day but rather sporadic and small burps. I lied before (more being lazy): it's one eheim classic and one eheim Pro3 and not two classics. I noticed when the classic burbs, it spits...

I wonder: do you happen to have some Amano shrimp in the tank? o_O Mine used to cultivate it: never killed it to the bone but always seemed to leave just enough for the plant to bounce back. Just when it started to look like a plant again they ate it and back to square 1.... They literally kept...

I'm slowly adding some color to the tank. Rotala rotundifolia "Orange Juice". Took a while but since a few days the submersed growth is getting on track and starting to show color. And the second one i recently bought as Myriophyllum mattogrossense but i guess it's more likely M...

I have two basic, classic eheim canisters on my "high tech" tank to get an over the top flow rate (together rated at 2.000l/h on net 140l of water). Inside my tank i only have two sets of lilypipes, a heater and a dropchecker. All placed against the same side panel so not really disturbing...

It's a bit strange to me to stress that much about a possible leak to that extent that you avoid any inline equipment..? Especially because you say it yourself: If you want to show off the tank you don't put it in the basement, i agree, but for me the same logic applies for all in tank...

You could try to put a bag filled with sand under the canister combined with a flexible weight (ie a "jute"-ricebag) on top of the filter to weigh it down. I don't know if the ecco pro will react the same but I have a eheim 2217 running completely silent with a bag of rice on top (filter is...

LoL, sweet picture!! Hard to imagine the scale of the tank when looking at the pics... A beast indeed! I missed that... I'll have to think about that, didn't dislike te vallis actually, just thought the flow direction was a bit "off". You could consider Hygrophila pinnatifida, they can grow...

Take him out then, no? If i compare with the first picture that fish is just slowly disappearing... He has to be active to avoid the biting i reckon... I mean, i can't/wont comment on a scape when a tank is clearly overstocked and a betta is being eaten alive... Sorry for that. :(

:clap::clap::clap: Klasse Nigel!

With a tank of that size a try-out scapebox was probably not really an option... :lol:

Or you could consider banking up some extra soil up and around the rocks so they partly disappear and protrude from the soil? Then you can soften/hide them even more by adding more plants in that soil/stone mountain... Okay, the color looks a bit stark but now they jump out even more since they...

Incredible! None of the three tanks above seem to have a visible dropchecker. I checked all pictured tanks on previous first page and could only spot one. Made me wonder: Did they remove them because of the ongoing festivities? Are they very well hidden (possibly hangon type)? Or maybe they...

Nice to see the evolution through the thread! Sorry if i missed it but what lights are you using? What are the spec's and how long do you run them? Can you dim them or are you planning to add some floaters or ...? I ask this because i am always a bit wary when introducing (newly bought)...

Great thread! Very nice pictures, what a thrill to be there! Enjoy. Thanks for sharing! (However, you could have provided some towels. Not even a fair warning in the opening post... So loads of keyboards and smart phones were (unnecessarily) drool-damaged i reckon...:wacky:) Nice service...

Great band, class-A musicians and an amazing composer produce a splendid live version of a grand tune! But that guitar solo by Marc Ribot, that is really special to me, sounds out of this world! Ribot masters this unique and amazing "surf sound" like no other! Even John Zorn and the band were...

Recorded in 1927! When dopeshops where still around the corner! ;) Lost for words...

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They did seem to love being on the sill. :thumbup: They were just cuttings from the rug in my tank. Took a piece out and placed it in a soup bowl and topped it up with water. The waterlevel dropped as i forgot about it for a few days and it began to flower shortly after.

A long overdue update on this tank. It got a little out of hand as i skipped some trimming (whilst still doing the WC and ferts dosing and such). Anyhooo... Slowly but surely the plants were taking over! Blyxa went crazy and formed two huge bushes in the back corners. The thin carpet became a...

Are you sure those numbers are right? I only read and hear different stories concerning otocinclus actually. Here, in Belgium (and also in Holland) they have a different 'reputation'. It is fairly common here that they arrive in pretty bad shape in LFS (very skinny, malnourished and rather...

Hmm, you have a point but you have to take in account that these birds were kept in 30cm/30cm30cm boxes all the time. They had only one stick to sit on (the lucky ones had two) and the food and drinks were always at the same spot. On the other hand birds are quite smart and have a good memory...

I'm sorry to break your heart but unfortunately the blinding of these finches was more then real. I'm not the parable kind of guy. ;) It was done for quite some time. At first being "mainstream practice" amongst this (in Belgium quite big) fanbase. :mad: After many complaints, efforts and time...

That's right! You know, somewhere in history someone "discovered" that some birds sing better when they are in a cage with low light and blinded windows. Subsequently another "birdlover" had great succes in the popular "Most songs in one hour-Contests" ( :( yeh, i know) with his birds after...

Come on now, that statement is too bold to make! :confused: I was in an LFS today and saw about 30 betta in little jar-like containers and i can honoustly state that none of them looked happy. At all!! There is a huge difference between "(vegetative) survival" and "living happily". So, a bold...

Time for an update. Last time i stopped mid june 2017 so today we go back exactely one year to cover end june-mid july. I'll make it short this time before i get known as: "That ranting guy, you know who i mean!" "Who that?" "Well, that fishless 'plants only' tank dude! Now and then he starts...

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I have some HC growing emersed on the window till and it's flowering. It's the first time i see this so i thought i'd share some pics here. Very tiny but pretty little flowers. :geek:

Nice tank! Very nice coloration on the blyxa! :clap: Don't know your fertilizing scheme but i read a few times that lowering the nitrates could make some plants show their reds better... For instance here https://www.advancedplantedtank.com/fertilisers-how-to.html Planning to try it myself...

Not completed the read yet but am getting there! Hehe, nice journal, good stuff! :clap::thumbup: Maybe a quick update with some pictures. Again smartphone quality so do not expect to be blown away by pixels, details, sharpness or any photography-heroics. I don't have the gear nor the skills to...

Thanks for your reply! I thought i replied on your post last week but obviously didn't... :cyclops: Sorry... I kinda followed your opinion (because it looks simular but also based on your (obvious) knowledge in such matters (and way beyond!) ;)). So i posted your answer, some people agreed but...

Ouch, your roots feed my fantasy and trigger my brain... hehehe (being a Jordskott fan and all...) :D But i'll take your word for it, no worries! :) But anyhoo: i kinda like trolls actually so your secret would be safe with me... Just saying... ;)

Troll avenue here we come! Or maybe Roy is merely trolling us all? After all he seems to be in the ideal position to do so:lol:

Anyone has an idea which critter this is? My money is on (some kind of) amphipod ATM but not sure. Mainly because the "owner" is not convinced... this implies that the bugger is not in my tank so I only have these images for identification (for now... hopefully detail shot of the underside...

Hehe, thanks for the tip! Just saw the first pages for now but i already like the writing. Pretty long journal (31pages!) so i will have to take some time for it. But it's going to be a fun read i expect so once i start the read it will go fast probably. Cheers again! I'll try to update...

They really seem to love A. Reineckii... I had some healthy A.R. mini before introducing the Amanos. They devoured the leaves in less then a week. But it almost seemed like they had a greater plan, beyond the feeding frenzy. They never ate the top leaves or the stems. After 'trimming' all...

Hello again! An update of the second month. All pictures are made with a, rather shaggy, smartphone so i am sorry for the bad quality... (Note for the extra observant readers :): at that moment the second filter was still to be installed so only one filter (one set of piping) is in the...

I don't see why not... It's actually slightly easier than "high tech all the way" imho. You'll have lots of the benefits of CO2 but less of the risks that come with high speed growing conditions. Plants will always appreciate/benefit from having access to CO2, even when lights (and/or ferts) are...

True, but depends strongly on your neighbourhood i might add... Otherwise we would see quite some tanks with strange hardscape i guess. :p:D

Hi all! I'm starting this album pretty late since this tank has been running little over a year now... About time to start a journal i guess... Hardware - 100cm long/50 cm wide/35 cm high, open top - Opti white glass, 8mm - I tried to be as realistic as possible about the water content of the...

LoL Thanks but really: that is not the intention at all, it's like I said: I have the choice to ignore whatever i cannot cope with so no worries about my sensitive side... I mean: it's up to me to decide to look at it or not so i don't want to scare you away. That's no solution. Please keep the...

Nice journal and beautiful tank! I love the buces! I am currently considering Stiphodons too, just have to love them! Was doubting a bit myself because i also inject co2, but like you say they should be ok with enough surface agitation... It will be interesting to see how things go in your...

After my last post in this topic i didn't really open Ukaps for a few weeks. I was a bit busy but the main reason was the discussion above. You see, I descided a few years ago not to watch the news anymore because i really hate animal abuse, the way we are f*ing up nature, the way we treat...

Thans for your reply. Sorry for my late answer but wasn't online before. I'm glad that you don't take it too personal and that you mention me being "civil" :) Like you say: their still was some emotion in my words but that is mainly because the dying snakeheads really got to me. Even though i...

Okay, so being a maverick implies housing fish that are known escape artists in an open top tank? An open tank that is btw way too small for a group fish (even for a single fish).Better be there and have godspeed when they start to fight in there... Too small a tank but also a tank that is...

A very little reading shows that a "channa"-specific tank needs (I leave the completely unsuited size out of it) -temperature should not be constant. They need seasonal variation in temperature, a summer and a winter period is important. -Dimly lit tank -loads of surface vegetation -they need...

This is an aquascape tank, not in the least build for those fish. They even look out of proportion from day one. From the word go it wasn't adapted to their needs because OP used soil which is not done for the sake of the fish. The size is way to small, filter doesn't suffice and the stones are...

Hehe, you might be right... I saw a video of an UG-carpet being trimmed once (never saw anybody handle a pair of scissors more gentle and careful than that) But i don't remember/think the guy made an update after that... :D So i guess i have to keep dreaming of a gracefully waving carpet... Ugh...

Okay, so this is different than a "usual" fish tank... And is one of the differences than that with this fish it IS a GOOD idea to add a healthy fish (after you weaken it for two weeks in a tupperware dish ofcourse) to a crashing tank with melting fish? That is very special to me... When this...

I'm sorry to rain on your parade but it's stronger than me i guess... Sadly enough: I did read (most) of the journal and i have to say that I was shocked a few times… First of all: In case you don't know by now: that tank is to small for five (!) of those fish, even for growing purposes...

Uhuh 5 of them dying a horrible death wasn't enough i guess... :confused:

Thanks for your great reply! Nice information and sweet pictures of your experiments! Looks really nice. And yes: that last picture with the carpet of UG is the stuff that my dreams are made of... ;):hungry: But you might be right that those are mostly short term setups... Food for thoughts...

-5 for putting fish like that in such a small tank... :banghead:

lol Meh, UG must be my holy grail... Currently i experience my biggest success yet: three leaves (yeh, three individual leaves, 3!!) seem to survive buried in my Staurogene repens. They got stuck there during the big UG meltdown and are still there now, three months later, as a silent witness...

Yes, with co2, ferts and planted in amazonia soil but rather dimmed lights. But I also assumed/heard that it can thrive equally well in low tech/low energy setups. The leaves will have a more reddish colour with a lot of light though and growth might be faster but to my knowledge it is a pretty...

So even though it is not the reinvention of the wheel one could state that it's a new kind of tyre that somehow gives the good ol'wheels more grip and control... I knew there was more behind it when i applied this method! :lol::lol: Thanks Nigel... :clap: My man, my man!! :D hehe

Great site indeed! :thumbup:

It is possible... :rolleyes:

I suspect this was the case here actually. I checked the tank yesterday when lights were on and i noticed some more shoots. One of them, really small, just sits there on top of some moss, with it's roots growing above substrate... I was gifted a few plantlets to start so it's in my tank almost...

The Dutch aquascaper @work! :thumbup: ;) Goed bezig!

Cheers! When i doubt just check oldskool botanical drawings...:clap: I should have known that! I have to add that i first noticed the new "rogue" growth after i did a huge blyxa trim, that is why i thought it might have been caused by small plant fragments floating around in the tank that...

Hi everybody, i have a question about the growth/propagation of Blyxa japonica. I have got some Blyxa in my tank for about a year now. Until now i mainly noticed growth in height and in thickness of the bunches: After a while you get "new plants" with roots growing on top of the original...

I consider myself less a smurf now! Thx! ;) Thx for the link, it will take some more reading but very interesting! I totally agree on the importance of floating plants at kick-off!

Since i think i am the one that Cor is referring too i step out of the dark with a try to clarify. :lol::p Having said that i'd first of all like to add that i just stated that i do it like that with aquasoil, everybody should do it the way they like best. Honestly: i don't want to suggest...

Exactly what i do now and then with algae-"damaged" bucephalandra and it works great like you say! Algae covered Bucephalandra are easier to clean manually then Anubias ime because they are more easy-carbo-resistent then anubias. When the damage is big i take them out of the water. First...

It's a very easy plant imo. You can grow it floating, attached to hardscape, emersed or rooted in the soil. When it grows it will form 'airroots' in most cases. Edit: Ryan posted while i was typing...

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Oh no! :inpain: That is quite drastic... You've just started. Did you do the waterchanges as advised by ADA? Anyway, I hope it goes better this time. But what did you do with all those nice bucephalandra??? :nailbiting:

Baffling indeed! But not even the oldest one apparently: https://www.bonsaiempire.com/inspiration/top-10/oldest-bonsai-trees Might be a cheaper option to go to Italy for the bowing... :lol:

That might be a possibility aswell... Thanks, good tip! No livestock yet, except some snails, so that is not the problem.. I'm not sure if i can get to those temperatures with the heaters i got actually but i'll look into that! But are you sure the plants can take that? I have quite a lot of...

Thanks for the answers Neil and Zozo! I would like to avoid the use of chemicals in the tank as long as possible, i have ada amazonia soil in the tank and prefer not to possibly contaminate the soil with medicine residu for a longer period... So i will try adding some of the 'right' fish for...

Hello, I'm reading and nosing around here for a while so decided to make an account, but this is actually my first message here so: Hi there! ;):wave::wave: I will start with a question, I hope that's ok... I am currently cycling a tank for shrimp so no livestock yet. A week or two ago i saw...