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What about adding watercress? It grows in my pond, in London, through out the year, even when the pond is iced over! All you need is a bag from a supermarket - just throw in any leaves on stalks. You can always pull it all out later in the year when you get plants you prefer. But don't eat it!

The fish all seem fine! Perhaps the fact that the tank has been running for 20 years and presumeably has a good colony of bacteria in the gravel may have helped. But I'm going to keep a close eye on them And write a checklist for the next waterchange!

Bradders I was worried the bacteria in them would have died. Ian_M I'm glad I'm not the only one! Simon Luckily the tank is fairly heavily planted and the sump pump keeps the water moving. Thank you!

Brilliant! Thank you all so much! I've plugged them back in!

I did a fifty percent watwer change on Sunday and left the filters unplugged! The tank is 850litres including sump where there are two Schurans fillled with filter floss. The disconnected filters are an Eheim Pro 3 and an Eheim Pro 4+. The fish are 9 Congo Tetra 7 Hatchets 4 Angels 1 Ancistrus...

Only scientific back ground is one physics O-level. Then scraped through French and Maths A-level, failed English inspite of my grandfathers being journalists and both my parents and my brother being writers too. Three years at drama school. Then fifteen years acting - mainly on tv in corsets...

Love this!

Just stunning!

I have a 6 foot tank (Having had 4 x 110 - 300 litres plus multiple fry tanks). I can only keep fish that can tolerate London tap water. (I used to have Altum angels and bred farlowellas) It takes 4 hours to do a water change - even using a python and draining straight into the front garden...

I'm in East Finchley too!

I'd love to do this! And even host - got to get the tan k a lid first though!

I keep meaning to start a journal! But it would mainly be an account of my battle with the Clown Loaches who have very strong views on where I can and can't put plants - so far, and for the last 10 years, they are winning!

This is very much on my mind at the moment. I have a 200 x 70 x 60 cm tank that is over 20 years old. In continuous use but with waterchanges. It's not just the tank that worries me but the mdf stand it sits on. I think it was made by SeaBray.

Beautiful tank! What lights do you use?

Half my Fluval Plant 3s have died and I have been recommended these as an upgrade. Tank size 77"l x 30" h x 24" d. Plants are ordinary, Crypts, Hygropylla as they have to cope with 7 Clown Loaches. Thanks!

Houttonia palustris grows really well in my pond and sends up tall stalks with pale purple flowers.

It certainly has!The tank is not looking great at the moment, half my lights have expired.:mad:

How did I miss this?:arghh:😢

Dwarf neon rainbows? I kept then in London tap water. Beautiful creatures.

So sorry, but I 'm not going to make it tomorrow. I 've got Covid brain (just flooded the living room doing a water change -aagghhh!) and shouldn't drive with my lack of concentration! I'm really sad, I was so looking forward to it!!!! Fingers crossed we will have another gathering very soon.

Exquisite! What an absolutely beautiful tank!

I think the second one is creeping jenny, Lysimachia nummularia. If it is, it's brilliant for covering the edges as it's terrestrial but survives happily in water too. And it makes yellow flowers.

I'll be there. Exciting!

I live in London and have a female Bristle nose plec and 6 cory Sterbei all happy in tap water. (I also have hatchets but they are jumpers. )

I have 7 clown loaches, 5 are adults and big fish. My tank is plagued with MTS!

Looks absolutely amazing! What a fabulous challenge/ opportunity!

I'm definitely in.

Thank you for keeping up with your journal. I am someone who has never had a quarantine tank and has been lucky enough to get away with it over the years. But after hearing what has happened to you, and knowing how well you care for your fish, I'm not going to risk it any more. No more fish...

My issue with a quarantine tank is that after the fish had been moved to the main tank I would put some nice wood in it and some interesting stones. And then a few plants. Quite a few. And it would look a bit sad without anyone living in it. So I'd get some shrimp - I've never kept shrimp. And...

@shangman I got a stunning Echinodorus with spots but I've forgotten what it's called. It's loach proof so far! And a Microsorum sunrise too - just beautiful. I also got Blyxa jap. Ludwigia mini red and a couple of other things which, if not chomped on or squashed, may grow enough to make me...

I went up to Wild Woods today to collect the plants I'd ordered on Friday. They look fantastic! If WW appear to have run out of something you want, it's always worth asking as they have more plants both in the quarantine room and another storage room. ( I will post pics of my tank one day but...

I voted high tech because I do have CO2 but nominally I suspect in a 100 gallon tank. But lots of floating plants and 'easy' plants in gravel. (it would definitely be low tech if it weren't for the CO2)

It's been epic! Thank you. Can't wait to see the vivarium!

I got mine from Blackwell's Aquascaping. It took few days to arrive but that's the weekend sorted!

I use a Python attached to the kitchen tap ( but you could just use a hose from a garden tap ) to fill plastic dustbins next to the tank and then a cheap pond pump to pump the water in. (500l change on a 1000l system.)

My loaches don't seem to damage the leaves. I feed them JBL nova tabs and Spirulina tablets. They live behind a large piece of wood covered in Anubias. Sounds like it depends on the loaches!

I have 7 clown loaches in a 1000l tank. My main problem is that they dig up anything that gets in their way - they have routes around the tank. I use a lot of wood with Anubias attached. Crypts do well, so does Tiger Vallis. My other battle is with the angels who eat Aponogetum and anything...

Beautiful! Thank you!

Stunning! Are your angels Altums?

I have the same tank and put 3 Amano shrimp in on Friday. They seemed perfectly happy but had disappeared the following day. I didn't know they could escape. After reading this, I searched under the chest of drawers and found them dead. I feel terrible! I have used draught excluding strip to...

My tank is 76cm deep (198 L x 60W). It is still a work in progress but I am growing plants successfully with two rows of fluval 3.00 Plant, with Co2 and feeding three times a week with TNC complete. My 'carpet' plant is cryptocoryne which is about 15cms tall. I have tried and failed to grow...

One nano for fry and a 1000l planted (thanks to UKAPS) fish tank.

I'm not sure that this is quite relevant, but over the years I have found tiny fish fry in the sump under my tank (Diamond tetra and Corys), in the bottom of external filters (Corys), and in what I thought was an uninhabited breeding tank (Praecox rainbow). I've reared them and when they were...

Thank you!

I have been lurking on this site for a while and have learnt loads! I have small wildlife pond in my garden and a 1000 l tropical fish tank, where I am finally beginning to grow some plants!