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  1. Swampy

    Plants: holes and spots

    Ancistrus, yes a pair, plus some young. I suppose it's possible and it's the fry doing it. Lighting, two Aquasky 33w, so yes they could be lowered and as for BBA, it has had that from week four kept in check by an SAE ever since.
  2. Swampy

    Plants: holes and spots

    Hi all, My new low tech set up has going for some three months and growth with all plant species is good. Recently I've noticing Crypts with holes. Dosing is daily using Easy-life Profito and Ferro, I'm thinking maybe a potassium deficiency?
  3. Swampy

    Black Ruby Barbs... how much!?

    That would be the retailer, Maidenhead in Maidstone.
  4. Swampy

    Black Ruby Barbs... how much!?

    Purchased some this afternoon, they around 3.5 cm in length for £3.00 per Barb although I did have drive 25 miles for them. Locally no one seems to have any available in stock and like all of you, normally they are everywhere, even a humble pet shop with a few tropical tanks. At the price I was...
  5. Swampy

    Black Ruby Barbs... how much!?

    I have just been quoted £10 per barb and was told well they are quite rare, the retailer is the main aquatic dealer in the UK. I know these barbs are on the Red List at IUCN as their habitat is under threat from deforestation in Sri Lanka but £10 per fish bred for the pet trade more than likely...
  6. Swampy

    Green Shallows... 80g/300L rimless frag/shallow

    Great looking aquarium.
  7. Swampy

    Scarlet Fighting Badis

    Check out Rachel O'Leary's species spotlight on Scarlet badis, AKA ''Dario dario'' on Youtube.
  8. Swampy

    External - options

    I've read that too, but never heard of anyone complaining of lack of growth in their plants nor greater use of gas on this type of set up.
  9. Swampy

    External - options

    Sump filters work well with CO2 injection. Many like to use an inline CO2 set up installed above the return pump, giving more CO2 time to dissolve before returning to the main aquarium. Other benefits are much more room for bio media, removes equipment from tank and place in sump IE; heaters...
  10. Swampy

    External - options

    I'd be thinking sump, so much easier to hide equipment that way. I did use to know someone who ran a 600 lt planted discus aquarium with a Eheim classic style filter with a single 300w heater in a old inline glass heater housing on the filter which ran very well for many years and discus do like...
  11. Swampy

    Separating substrates

    I would be a bit dubious about what that plastic product could leach unwanted chemicals into the water column. I have seen some aquarists use clear acrylic siliconed to the bottom of the aquarium but this can be hard to come by in small quantities and somewhat expensive. I have used slate in...
  12. Swampy

    Red tail black shark

    Tiger barbs are fine in planted aquarium and don't do any damage in my experience and mixed with Harlequin Rasboras would look great in a planted 300 lt. Labeo Bicolor, great while young until they get to sub adult. My shark, years ago grow to six inches and terrorised the inmates of my 55...
  13. Swampy

    Looking for boraras micros (EU)

    I've just had a look around the net and no one seems to have any in stock. I do wonder if they maybe seasonal, in which case you'll have to place an order and wait for these fish to be imported from the far east.
  14. Swampy

    My wabis

    Little gems, fantastic.
  15. Swampy

    Fish for Planted Nano?

    Endlers, don't forget about the family planing issue. I'd suggest a bachelor pad might be a good idea!
  16. Swampy

    Sterilising nets etc.

    I use boiling water for sterilising equipment, and have done since the 1980's. Always worked for me.
  17. Swampy

    So who has the best aquascape right now on UKAPS, and lives in the UK...?

    My non CO2 low tech might be worth looking at around about a years time, once it's grown in bit! :smug:
  18. Swampy

    90 l cleaning crew set up.....

    Presumably your taking about Angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare) and in short no, your right not a good idea. Most Crustacea are seen as something to be eaten unless their built like a Sherman tank. My suggestion would be Zebra Nerite Snails (Vittina coromandeliana) and in a 90 Lt aquarium two or...
  19. Swampy

    Aquascaper 600 update + Q&A + 25K

    Fish stocking, if you can find some, Boraras urophthalmoides, the Least Rasbora.
  20. Swampy

    I have returned...

    My problem is I have had tropical fish since I was 12 years old, ever since still can't help being engrossing by anything aquatic.
  21. Swampy

    I have returned...

    After just over a four year absence, I have returned to a planted aquarium. Some of you may remember me from the PFK forum, which on my return I have found has disappeared? You see it's all George Farmers fault, his video ''How to AQUASCAPE a NATURE AQUARIUM - The Easy Way!'' popped up on my...
  22. Swampy

    UKAPS Members' Full-Tank Shots

    Juwel Rio 240.
  23. Swampy

    Low maintenance Jungle set up

    Hi all, hope i find everyone well, and with good growth in their aquariums! Update; I've since shut this set up and now stopped fishkeeping for the foreseeable future. The set up ran very well with little or no problems, if anything the only problem I did really have was keeping control of the...
  24. Swampy

    Low maintenance Jungle set up

    That just my luck, now where did I leave that tin of red paint? :D Martin.
  25. Swampy

    Low maintenance Jungle set up

    Phosphates. As a separate dose or the NPK dosing, if so much do you all think? Martin.
  26. Swampy

    Low maintenance Jungle set up

    Yes, very proud of it, this aquarium the best one I've ever had running. Thought I'd give a go when read online someone in the states was using it in small doses on a Walstead type set-up to control the algae. I give it a try starting at 2ml per day till now its up to full dose of 10ml a day...
  27. Swampy

    Low tech tank pictures

    Nice set-ups, I'm jealous, their all a lot cleaner looking than mine. :eh: Martin.
  28. Swampy

    60cm - Shallow

    One of your best George, keep safe. Martin.
  29. Swampy

    Low maintenance Jungle set up

    Update... well growth is good as ever and I have started to use easycarbo since I last posted as an experiment and increased the easycarbo from 2.5ml (end of Jan 12) from I last posted to 10ml per day now. Inmates show no ill effects and plant growth has increase. Once a week 2.5ml NPK and a...
  30. Swampy

    Just a quick peak at a new setup...

    Very nice, like the hardscape. Martin.
  31. Swampy

    Low maintenance Jungle set up

    Before everyone jumps in, the pictures were taken before I added the Hydor 300w. The heater in the images has since gone to heater heaven. :wink: Martin.
  32. Swampy

    120cm - George of the Jungle pg.5 new pics

    Lovely set-up George, but I like the first one better with the giant Vallasneria. Martin.
  33. Swampy

    Low maintenance Jungle set up

    Hi all, I've just up graded for a Juwel Rio 240 with a TetraTec 1200 filter and Hydor 300w. Lighting is a T5 Arcadia Luminaire. As before no water changes, just top up with filter maintenance once a month. At the moment dosing is once a week with 5ml Trace, 2.5ml Easycarbo daily. Fishes...
  34. Swampy

    New filter old media

    Sorry, I should have said, any filter aid product, there are many on the market. Martin.
  35. Swampy

    New filter old media

    No reason why not, just drop as much of the media into the 304. If it was me, I'd dose FFM daily for a week after changing the filters over. Martin.
  36. Swampy

    How/Where did you hear about Ukaps.org?????

    Mike C told about this site.
  37. Swampy

    Blue Iris

    Black background, light reading taken from the flower using a hand held lightmeter.
  38. Swampy

    Blue Iris

    Thought Id put something up of mine, taken last year. Nikon D50 Compressed RAW (12-bit) Lens: 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 G Focal Length: 35mm Exposure Mode: Manual 1/1.6 sec - F/22 ISO 200
  39. Swampy

    Mike's 1st Journal

    Ill have to pop up next weekend to see it mate, shame about the Blyxa, it looked great when it first went in.
  40. Swampy

    Martin's replanted puddle.

    Back in Feburary, I decided to reaquascape and replant my 130 lt. I had a few hic ups on the way and was'nt happy with the layout... Its all your fault you lot, your aquascapes look better that mine. :lol: The Cabomba caroliniana had gone wild, but for some unknown reason the Bacopa australis...
  41. Swampy

    Tomato fertilizer

    As listed on the back of the can... EC fertiliser NPK fertiliser solution 4:4:8 Nitogen (N) total 4.00% of which nitric nitrogen 1.8% of which ammoniacal nitrogen 1.4% Phosphorus pentoxide (P2Os) soluble in water 4.0% (P1.7%)...
  42. Swampy

    Tomato fertilizer

    Im trying a concentrated Tomato fertilizer on my 900 gallon pond and results so far are looking good. Within a week of starting the water has completely cleared and new growth is already apprent. Baskets in the pond are Variegated Japanese rush, Marsh Marigold, Nymphaea Perry's Baby Red lily and...
  43. Swampy

    Breeding nuisance!

    That's a good idea, ill try that.
  44. Swampy

    Breeding nuisance!

    Sorry if this question has already been asked... I have a 900 gallon pond full of over sexed goldfish, in the past Ive shipped them on to LFS, e-bay etc. Ive been thinking of adding a species of coldwater fish to keep the numbers of goldfish down. I had even thought of using perch, as an angler...
  45. Swampy

    Martin's replanted puddle.

  46. Swampy

    Martin's replanted puddle.

    This is my newly planted set-up having never post on here before, thought it was about time. The revamp came about due to an attack of the slime! Also I wanted to use a plant substrate. Ive used 4.8kg of SERA DEPOT with normal aquarium gravel on top and will be dosing with Easylife and...
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