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Thanks for the help guys! Clive I lol'd when i saw you wrote the article on APFUK. It feels like I knew a celebrity from before they were famous :D I noticed my tests reveal plenty nitrates in the water column, which is why is used to dose phosphates, traces and other stuff from easy life. It...

Greetings kind ladies and gentlemen of UKAPS. I return to you today after reading ceg4048's article on EI and all of the info available on the aquariumplantfood website. I have several low tech tanks as follows: 3 fluval spec Vs 2 dennerle 55l cubes 1 ciano 80L all heavily planted and lit low...

Looks nice man. All slow growers. Remove the carbon from your filter. All it does is soak up your ferts. Seems a bit high effort for the plants you keep. For me those grow with weekly ferts and 20% water change every 2 or 3 weeks. Low tech. I keep shrimp and endlers.

You forget ammonia is plant food. It's toxic for fish and inverts yes. Once you fill er up, you'll be going through quite a few water changes before u add fish.

Sup Greg!

Yeah, most of what I read confirms it's safe. Well glad to have my fish protected from demons.

Hi fish bros! I just picked up a few pieces of tourmaline at the museum. I intend to give them a proper wash and scrub and soak and use them in my tank as hardscape. I couldn't find much info to indicate it's a bad idea so I thought I'd ask around here. Tank is a low tech planted with London...

Yeah. Same happened to me. I was sold one and then found out it's a bog plant for paludariums or terrariums. If you keep it submerged it just dies slowly. Usually 1-3 months. Took it back and asked for another plant double the price for wasting my time. It even said "For Terrariums" on the pot.

Easy Carbo has damaged my anubias in the past. But not in the same way. My leaves just darkened at the stem and got diformed. You sound like you have a deficiency but you dose EI so it shouldn't be. Could be the sign of toxicity. Are you seeing dark lines in your fast growing plants? This is...

From my understanding, if you get a big bottle 2-5kg and a dual stage regulator (dual stage just means there are two stages where the pressure is reduced and regulated - this spreads the wear&tear over more parts and there is less chance of failure and less fluctuations in the gas flow) maybe...

Thank you all for all of your input and resources. This thread as a whole was very helpful to me. Hit me up if you're in London and want some free endlers

I lost a few nerites after I fixed my gsa issue too well. Did it by dosing phosphates so the nitrates disappeared, repositioning some plants (highlight plants in direct light and low light plants in shade) and feeding less. I think I starved the nerites.

I have witnessed my amanos being shy for weeks. I have a dozen of them and they were first in my tank. Then I added tetras and corys. All fine. Then I added gouramis. Still fine but more shy. I think it's when I added some swordtails that i stopped seeing them. Also about that time I used big...

Gouramis and the mollie will harass shrimp and eat baby shrimp. Pleco might accidentally beat up some babies as well. Tetras will also go for shrimplets when they are very young. If you buy bigger amanos they will be fine, but the will need a place to hide. Adult cherry shrimp will most likely...

A few months back I got some Endler's Livebearer breeding pairs from LFS. I decided that I'll try to get colored females as a breeding project. I thought this was possible after seeing strains of regular guppies where females are fully colored and also have fin variants. One of the females I...

MA Wembley said they take them but give you no money. Pets at Home Camden said they won't because they have no quarantine tank. LFS in Bethnal Green (stay away from Lee. Talk to Chris) buys pairs at 40% but you need to call ahead and then they will haggle you down hard, usually with "bad math"...

What I decided to do to keep things simple, knowing that I have certain tap water parameters, certain livestock, certain lights, time and money, was to put in ALL the plants I like in one tank in a spot that would suit them (shade or direct light). Some grew, some died, some were shredded by...

If it's not a huge plant, no need to worry. Just trim off leaves that are starting to die. As long as there's still new growth, you're fine.

Well something has actually changed hasn't it? You have more plants. Therefore more "mouths" to feed. Try an extra squirt of ferts every other day for a week or two. Careful not to change many things at once. If you do, you won't know what works. Since it's your first planted tank, it may be...

I ran into this issue. Sometimes for a proper trim, i need to remove all my floaters. This will break roots and leaves off in the tank and they're a pain to collect. So I get a bowl and use an oversized comb, like a massive afro pick, to scoop out all the frogbit into said bowl. After I'm done I...

Last summer there were no amanos because of a monsoon where they farm/capture them. maybe something similar happened now?

Diatoms are the first algae 99% of us see. I personally cut some straight patterns into a diatom stain to see if it spreads or if it's dead, cos dead and living diatom colonies look alike. After diatoms green algae comes and goes when plants take over. CO2 is usually the bottleneck in any tank...

A huge problem I see is people thinking that if a plant has long roots, then the plant can be moved and the roots still work. Well not really. The thick roots that we can easily see are conduits. They don't do much nutrient absorption. Nutrient uptake happens through almost invisible capillary...

Ok OP please listen. Alternanthera is a fickle one. Alto gave you solid advice. STOP MOVING THE PLANT. Stick to a low photoperiod at first and only dose CO2 1 hour before lights on and stop 1 hr before lights off. Alternanthera will have a long period where it adjusts. It will look dead, all...

I did a rescape recently and some of my plants were outside water for about half a day. I tried my best to spritz them with tank water periodically to keep them moist, but some dried. Besides losing a few leaves, everything is good. I noticed this discoloration however on my java moss bonsai. I...

Got rid of mine with dwarf gouramis. Not sure how useful that is to you. £3 for a gourami though.

I thought it's ridiculous to keep paying retailers stupid prices for plants and fish that we already keep and breed, while chucking out bucketloads of greenery in the bin. So I looked for a club. Found this. Good enough.

Sweet! I'll bring a bag of frogbit and bladder snails. Message me or something.

Ian, I love you bro!

Oh look at all the Thames Water people here! We should seriously grab a pint and discuss this. I have so many questions that might not benefit the community. But still: 1. Dosed potassium and all my amanos stopped eating. Why? 2. Can't get rid of GSA? 3. Nitrates out of the tap are around 50...

Most substrate systems trap nutrients and have a softening effect on the water. The ability to soften water goes away with time, usually a few months.

All setups are different. I recommend patience and logging activities. If you're using soil capped with gravel, you have a good candidate for a dry start, but you seem to have plants available to you. Thing is, you have amix of low/high light plants. Make sure low light plants like anubias stay...

If your sump, which I assume holds a lot of filtration media, had an oversaturation of CO2, I'd assume a lot of your aerobic bacterial colonies were killed. This would result in an ammonia spike AND hight TDS AND pH change AND toxins AND low oxygen water being pumped into your tank at once. This...

I floated the bag for about an hour or more while pouring in some tank water in 10ml increments. I then scooped them all out with my own net and threw away the LFS water. Also, one of the 4 guppies I got that day has recently passed away as well. 2 neons are still alive.

Thanks everyone for your helpful answers! I got some spare airline laying around but I also like the fishing line idea a lot!

Why yes ma'am that is my Ciano80. It takes the same lights as yours. But I got some el cheapo submersible lights off amazon to supplement the lights. I'm still dialing in nutrients to fix a greenspot algae problem and my amano shrimp seem lazy. Otherwise, no issues. Best advice I've ever heard...

Looks like this with the pink and white together

It's marginally better for the plants and it makes colors pop when used in conjunction with a white strip. If used on its own, it makes the tank look pink and purple. I don't regret buying mine, although I feel it's about £10-15 overpriced. *Sorry for the double reply, i thought the first didn't...

The plant light on its own makes your tank look like a stoner's apartment. Combined with the white light it really makes the colors pop. For both the plants and fish.

Hello. I'm currently growing some righteous floating herb in my 70 l Ciano tank. Amazon frogbit. I'd like to figure out a way to reserve some open surface area for surface agitation and for the light to penetrate to my high light plants (ludwigia rubin, s repens, hairgrass, elodea, bacopa -...

Hello Miss Pepper. I currently have a planted Ciano 80. Please be aware that the lid on this tank comes with an LED light and a slot for another. You can and should buy the ciano plant light compatible with this tank for an extra £30. This will bring your lighting to medium to medium high-ish...

You could read up on the siesta method for photoperiods. Also the dry start.

Update: Amanos still hiding. They used to forage and pick at things non stop. They used to shred blanched spinnach super quick. Now they just chill around the filter together or under certain plants. I haven't seen one die but since they don't come out for food, I could only count 8/12. Seem to...

I got a dozen neon tetras the other day from lfs. As i was there, a young member of staff was doing maintenance on all tanks at once, including a 20% water change. As he bagged the neons for me, one went belly up and he replaced it. Should've stopped there but I was optimistic. For some reason I...

If you go shrimp only and are willing to put in dome time in the setup, check out diana Walstad s article on shrimp tanks. No filter needed. Almost no water chnage either

Hello! Welcome!

Hello!

Buy Diana Walstad s book. Worth a read!

As promised. Just did a water change, unclogged the filters, trimmed some plants, threw away a square foot of frogbit and tested the water. Phosphates are down and shrimp are mostly coming out. Still hiding a lot tho. Haven't been able to properly count them for a while.

There is a maximum nr of snails that will live in your tank if you feed your fish properly .When they cap off they will stop breeding. Meanwhile, they are useful in breaking down detritus and clearing plant leves of dirt when you disturb substrate. To control numbers just dip a few large lettuce...

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My amanos stopped coming out after I dosed EasyLife Fosfo. Females also have eggs now. They stay behind a rock and do nothing but groom themselves. Will do a water change today and let you know more but I'm also worried. Hopefully this is breeding behaviour.

Hello. A few days ago, to fix some plant problems, I've started dosing EasyLife Kalium and Fosfo. I had almost zero phosphates and tons of nitrates. I also got a new batch of plants from an online supplier. The plants had mould on the rockwool, but I washed them well. I put a really large...

I also noticed a few dozen hydra after adding in some new plants. It was just before I was going to go on a 2 week vacation as well so you can imagine how I felt. The tank was in its last stage of cycling. And I had added some amanos to wreck some algae while I was away. (They shredded my...

The pieces you have are pretty good imho. They are clearly from the same rock formation and they have a natural grain flow to them. If you set the condition to only place the grain perpendicular to the aquarium bottom, you can adjust the position with substrate and prop them in place with...

Maybe if you can find a way to have the grain of the rocks face the same direction?

Pictures as requested Thank you for the warm welcome! Hairgrass is newly planted (and cut to size by shrimp) and the old leaves on Bacopa have been nommed by amanos since they had a gsa infestation. crypts seem to be doing well. Loads of gsa on some crypts, s. repens, buces and a bush of...

Hello everyone! My name is Mihai (Romanian for Michael or whathaveyou) and I live in London. I have a 71L Ciano tank that my partner got me for my birthday in July after she heard I used to keep fish as a child. Decided to go for the planted tank approach since I like the idea of having a...