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Hi everyone, My low tech tank is over a year old and has been doing fine but recently the bog wood has become covered in mould. Does it point to anything in particular going wrong? I have also had a couple of fish deaths and lots of shrimp deaths. Could they be related to the mould? Thanks...

During a water change I noticed these eggs. The tank has been set up a week and I haven't deliberately added any creatures. So either the eggs were on the plant when I bought it or there's something lurking in there that I haven't seen yet. What could they be?

Thanks for your reply. Is "dosing manually" exactly matching the fertilisers used to the amount added so everything is used up? I'm trying to dose to excess but have significantly reduced the recommended dose and the plants don't look deficient? When you delay the water change by a few days do...

It's the day off important in the EI schedule? I'm not very consistent with water changes and usually i skip a day of fertiliser with the intention of doing a water changes the next but something comes up and i don't actually do a change until a few days later. That means i end up not dosing for...

I have used Pro Shrimp a couple of times and the plants have arrived in really good condition. There seems to be a shortage everywhere at the moment though.

Sylvania also seems to grow longer roots in poor conditions. I have taken some photos to compare. These are Tropica plants. In my main tank (no CO2, EI ferts) the leaves grow very small and the total length of the plant never gets more than about 7cm. Roots max out at about 1cm, but the plants...

Thanks for the advice. I have found a local shop who will have rock in next week so I should be able to go and see the pieces which will make it easier than buying online.

I added extra Tropica soil a month or so after setting up my tank and didn't have any problems. I just upped the frequency of water changes.

Hi, In an effort to improve my aquascaping skills I have decided to get a nano cube so I can re-scape it often and try new designs. I have bought a cheap 20cm cube and am going to try to recreate this: How much rock will I need? Given it's such a small tank I'm planning on buying a bit more...

I really feel like in the last few months this tank has improved a lot. I suppose things take a long time in a low tech tank, especially a deep one. The heavily trimmed moss seems to be growing more densely on the wood and attaching better this time. The Java Ferns are ready for a trim. One...

It's been a while since my last update. Looking back through the photos I can't believe how much the plants have grown! I've just removed most of the moss. It was getting really long and straggly and while trying to trim it I realised that none of it was attached any more. The bottom right of...

New Inhabitants: 4 red cherry shrimp added last weekend.

I'm feeding them spirulina at the moment which seems to be working and their numbers have exploded. Rather than keeping the water green and adding more food when it gets clear, I'm adding a drop in the morning and a drop in the afternoon. I don't fancy a bowl of green water on my desk. I also...

I started a culture of Daphnia to feed my fish but I didn't like having a boring empty container in the house, so I've turned it into a mini aquascape. I bought the Daphnia online and although there were plenty in the package, there were also some other things in there so to be safe my son and...

Thanks. The Crypts only go slightly past the Echinodorus, to just before the height of the wood suddenly rises. Then there is a small patch of Hottonia. Directly behind the cave is some Hygrophila Siamensis. Then some Bacopa Caroliniana and finally the Limnophila Sessiliflora right up to the...

I've made quite a few changes this week! As well as adding a lot more plants, I've also raised the substrate level at the back. I was a bit unsure about changing that in an existing tank but it wasn't too hard. I just made sure to move things very slowly. I've added some floating plants...

Thanks, I'll bear that in mind and avoid moving anything else for a while. The bits I moved seemed to have lots of new roots despite not growing much above the soil. I'm going to order another batch of plants and some other bits this week. The Bacopa was a 1-2-Grow version but it is growing...

The tank has had fish in for about a month now and they seem to be doing well. At the moment I have 5 Guppies, 2 Dalmatian Mollies and 24 Neon Tetras. Although the plants are growing, they are growing very very slowly. The Anubias hasn't changed much but has grown some long roots along the wood...

Thanks. There's so much to learn vs just sticking fish in a tank with some plastic plants. But it's really interesting and I'm glad I found this forum in time and went down this path. I've just ordered the EI starter kit so I will give that a go. Given that I have a low tech tank at the moment...

Thanks for taking to the time to reply everyone - that's really helpful. So it looks like there are options, I just need to see which work locally (Yes, it is St Annes near Blackpool). The flow in my tank is pretty terrible with just the internal Juwel filter and having read more it sounds like...

Hi, I've had my tank set up almost a month and am looking to start adding fertilisers which I'm probably going to use the Estimative Index. But there seems to be conflicting information about the nutrients in the tank, so I think I'm missing something. On the one hand, all the information...

Hi, I'm thinking about adding CO2 to my Juwel Vision tank but it doesn't have the original cabinet. The one that came with it is quite a bit shorter and the cupboard's internal height is only 46cm. Is it possible to fit a CO2 system or is the space too small? Looking at the dimensions of a fire...

I only put two snails in and both are fine. The two shrimp are doing well too so it must have been something that came in on the rocks, I don't use rain water but I did leave the rocks soaking outside for a couple of weeks and then left them on the floor to dry so a slug could well have crawled...

2 Week Update I'm surprised by how well it's going so far! The bigger of the two Echinodorus Reni had a few brown spots on the leaves that appeared in the first couple of days but seemed to stop and now there are lots of new leaves coming up from the middle. The smaller one melted quite a lot...

Thanks for your advice, that's really helpful! If I added another carpeting plant like Hygrophila what would I do as I haven't got much space on the substrate left. Would I just pluck out a patch of the existing grass and move it in between other clumps of grass, and plant the Hygrophila in the...

After adding the new filter, this is how it looks. Day 1 of the full set up: I'm really happy with how it turned out and very glad I found this forum before I started. Now I'm looking forward lo learning how to keep everything alive.

Hi, We've been renovating our house and one of the first things we decided on was that we wanted a big fish tank in the hallway so we had lots of plugs fitted during the re-wire ready. Almost 3 years later we've finally got the tank - a cheap second hand Juwel Vision 260 with a bow front...