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Times come for me to shut my tank down now the fish are gone and slowly trying to break the rest of the set up down. I've always brought plants from the for sale section and never been good with plant names and although I kinda know what type of plant these are I don't know what the actual names...

Hi I've got a rusty rear wheel arch that in in the process of sorting out so far I've sanded back the rust filed and sanded and primed. The car is a Toyota celica 2000> matallic silver. You can see from the picture I've drawn where I've repaired so should I be blending to a certain...

I have very slow growth slight browning/dirty look only just starting to form on foreground plants. I think I have enough flow as I have a fx5 going into a spray bar on the width of the tank and as the circulation goes around snd comes back towards the spray bar on the bottom of the track is...

one on the right has a much thicker stem and bigger leafs. Just got these from a friend but never seen them before and I just want to make sure these are aquatic plants lol

I have been offered as many Kribensis as I like from a friend who's closing down his 8x3ft breeding tank. I love the look of Kribensis but not sure if they will be ok in my 4x1.5ft tank with 2x bolivian rams (not a pair) 5x corys 2-3 rummy noise tetras If there ok with these what do you think...

I have a 4' long 12" wide 18" high tank and have just tried to plant the tank as much as I can but I desperately need to sort out some sort of planned planting but have no idea what I should keep, sell and move and was hoping you could all help here's a picture of how it is at the moment. I...

I've got a fews clear Chinese take away boxes with 3cm of potting soil in with HC planted in single plantlets around the tub. I keep the lid on with a little air gap and spray once a day with tap water. The tub sits on top of my tank under my t8 lights Been about three weeks and although nice...

My plants never really grow or if they do at such a slow rate. I haven't trimmed any stems since Xmas and they've not grown very much. I thought it was flow problem so treated myself to a new filter fluval fx5 but this was day after new year and still no change 125lt tank (4ft long) 2x 4ft T8...

Just noticed mine has just run out and looking on eBay for a CO2 FE cheapest I can get one buy it now is £25. thought there must be someone in Hampshire who has had this question before.

wondered what this is called so I can sell it on under the proper name. thanks

I am not getting the growth from my plants Infact there not as healthy as they Should be and been advised to up my flow, I have a 125ltr tank 48" long 12" wide and 18" tall, 1200lph external filter with spray bar that runs the whole 4' length at back of tank I have just picked up two 2300lph...

just purchased some hydrocotyle sp japan but doing a search on here and google I can't find any info on what to do with it when first plant it, do I just plant the roots? cut it into short pieces and plant if so where abouts? or so I plant the roots and also try covering some of the runners with...

I've owned planted tank for over a year and in that time have brought lots of plants but Don't have any success. the tank is 125ltrs 2x38w T8 6" above water surface 7hrs a day 1400lthr external filter dose EI on weekdays and 50% WC on weekend temp 26-27deg pressurized CO2 to green when lights...

Whats best way to grow this out of the tank? At the moment I have put itin a clean Chinese see through box with water from the tank and it's sitting on top of my tank glass under the lights. Is this best way to grow it or would I be better to empty the water and keep it moist/spray each day to...

pretty much as above looking to buy more fish but not sure how to go about introducing them to my planted tank without gassing them right away. I already have fish in the tank but obviously these have been established a while and have got used to the co2. any help on what to do would be great Tom,

I've been trying for AGES!! to get my co2 where I want it (lime green on lights on but not go too much into yellow) but I can't seem to achieve this. its either lime green on lights on but yellow and fish look like there struggling a little just before lights off or lime green towards lights...

pictures speak a thousand words so here you go both my discus have this and have had this for the past 2-3weeks, which I've done more regular WC in hope it would sort itself out but still like it. not sure if it's some sort of parasite or some other fish attacking the fins.

not sure what info you need but I'm wondering mainly if I have enough light. I have a 125ltr tank 2x38w T8 6" above water surface 7hrs a day 1400lthr external filter dose EI on weekdays and 50% WC on weekend temp 26-27deg pressurized CO2 to green when lights on and turns off two hrs before...

come home tonight and noticed this on my loach what is it and will lots of W/c cure it? I have a tank with two discus in it along with tetra so I can't add meds to the tank as it will effect the discus. thanks in advance. Tom

hi at the moment my tank stats are as follows 125ltr tank which house my discus breeding pair, corgys x6 tetra x 16 and two bolivian rams. have two 4' t8 40w cat litter substrate 2" deep CO2 lights on checker is green-light green on at 12pm off at 9pm lights on at 4pm off at 11pm dosing EI...

hi I have been dosing for about 4months but nothing seems to be changing in regards to plant health/growth, my main concern is I have discus and dosing the EI is pushing my TDS right up from my target 140TDS to around 260. currently my set up is as follows 125ltr tank which house my discus...

hi I have a pair of adult blue turqs. I brought them a year ago and was breeding for 6 months on and off, but about 2-3 months ago they stopped and the male kept nipping my female when ever she cone close to him so I divided my tank up and introduced them this weekend again after 2 months apart...

Hi ive been trying my hand at a planted tank for the past 6 months now but it looks pretty much like it was when i first started, no rapid growth and if anything a decline on health of plants. currently my set up is as follows 125ltr tank which house my discus breeding pair, corgys x6 tetra...

I'm off to Florida for three weeks this Friday and currently am dosing my 125ltr discus tank with EI. I am getting my dad to feed the fish while I'm away cutting down on food to once every other day so the waste dosent build up meaning he would only have to clean the tank out once while I'm on...

just added some new fish to my tank (9 rummy noses and 8 cardinals) let bag get to temp in tank by floating for half hour, put a bit of tank water in bag then let float for another 15mins I let them out and they all start swimming funny trying to stay upright but sometimes laying on there backs...

I've had my Pogostemon Helferi for the past month which was really healthy when I first put them in now they look like this what I want to know is why have the leaves started to turn curly and back under themselves? I have pressurized co2, EI dosing two T8 38w (I think or 44w) on 7hrs a day

this is another cheap alternative in the plante tank I'm trying to get my head around so I can use it. a few questions I have which may be already answered but looking through so many pages I didnt see then. in first post it says "The other choice is to pre-treat the Akadama with a strong GH...

I just brought the wave regulator and fitted it to FE working pressure shows around 1.8 but looking at the up atomizer I have 1 bubble coming through it about every 20sec.. I have the needle vale fully open for that aswell but something isn't right any ideas as I don't want to leave the vale...

Hi I have been doing alot of reading up on the FE setup. ive just been given this 5kg Chubb FE for free from a friend but it's black and only says carbon dioxide on rather that co2. I believe this is the old type cylinders but is this still ok to use? if this is the old cylinders will the new...

i have been using EI for 5-6 weeks in my 125ltr tank two 40w 48" T8 tubes on for 7hrs a day using co2 injection. i have a sand substrate but ive made sure ive littered the bottom with grow tabs. i have my co2 up so that my co2 checker is on a very light green almost yellow (working through a...

hopefully you can tell by the picture. I have a pair of adult discus one male one female, this is the males tail but the female is fine and the rest of the males fins are fine so has the female had a go at him or is this something more? tom,

i have just started using co2 and wanted to know if i should use something like this http://www.aquariumplantfood.co.uk/spec ... 250ml.html or should i do this EI daily method? the only reason i ask is i am a beginner and reading the first page or so i don't really understand the ingredients or...

after being advised on here to buy this atomizer I've installed it and the first day it seemed to work fine produced small bubbles and was pleased with it, now it's been on the last few days I've noticed I dot see anything coming from the outlet of the external filter for at least 3-4 hrs after...

hi can anyone tell me what's going wrong here, I've had these plants about 2-3 weeks which turned up lush green nice and healthy but now turning yellow and brown I do a 25% wc a week which is a TDS o 150 dose with a weekly ferropol jbl have pressurized co2 which puts a bubble in every 3rd...

hi recently brought a secon Hand jbl proflora m500 kit. went to connect the regulator to the bottle last night but although I've done the nut up as tight as I can by hand the regulator is still loose and loads of movement in it. I thought this is normal as it was tight so turned the bottle on...

just brought some nice new plants from plantsalive.com which are really green healthy highly recommend, im not sure how to go about putting the plants in the tank though and not spread any snails or other problems that may be in them, is it just a case of soaking them all in a bucket of cold...

hi i have a 125ltr tank which house my discus breeding pair, corgys x6 and two bolivian rams. temp 28 D sand substrate with jbl root balls weekly dose of jbl ferropol 5ml fluval 204 exsternal pump 1x t8 40W power-glo 42" long ive just brought 5 tubs of Sera CO2 tablets but am unsure how to...

hi i have a 125ltr tropical tank which has been running just over a year now and have had plants growing. its come to the time now where ive benn looking at others tanks and have noticed for the time it has been running my plants are not as healthy and nice as everyone elses. so i want to do...