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do all larger echinodorus species leaves change shape in the aquarium?.they look beautiful when placed in the aquarium then change into floppy leaved monstrousity's and lose the shape you originally bought them for.

does anyone else have one?. in the last few weeks the missus as banged her head numerous times,badly sprained her ankle at the same time gave herself a fractured skull(unknown at the time but she needed an mri scan for epilepsy) today she's gone and broken her colar bone and last year she got...

if you could set up a money no object tank/scape what would your item list be?.

my first 2kg fe lasted for aproximately 3 months using a ladder diffuser and now i'm using an inline at 4 bps i'm only getting a month out of them,i've checked for leaks at 1 bar pressure and found nothing is this normal? i'm just about to order my 4th :crazy: .

with the end of the month aproaching what do we have planned for our tanks come pay day?. me i plan on replacing a lot of my substrate,doing a rescape using a lovely peice of wood that would'nt sink and adding a few new inhabitants....may even start a journal. :D

would a plantlet from a flower spike of an ozelot green revert back to the shape of the original plant as supplied by tropica if grown emersed?.

i have an edge set up in the kitchen and to be fare i'm really disapointed with it,the filter is pants and the lighting is also very poor(halogen bulbs),the lights can be sorted easily enough but the filter is a different matter.i have a fluval 106 waiting to take over from the standard...

a while ago i bought an amazing piece of bogwood that has the appearance of dragon stone with all the holes and craters in it,and in the quest to get it to sink it has had more hot baths than me in the last week and it was held down with a wrecking bar and anything else i could find :lol:.but...

......or are they all like mine and beat a retreat whenever a water change or maintainance is brought up :lol: .

do you need to supliment metal halide lighting with any other lighting combination or is it ok as a one stop shop so to speek?. :?:

i was wondering does anyone mix there own dechlorinator up instead of purchasing the rather expensive branded products?.i found an article that suggests a mixture of 0.1 to 0.3 grams of sodium thiophosphate to 10 litres of water is around the correct dose and at just over £9 for 500 grams would...

after keeping fish for quite a few years i never encountered staghorn algae until i started using ferts and c02.Is there any specific reason that the combination of the two should cause a problem that never existed before any enrichment was introduced?.i do frequent water changes around 12.5...

i'm not new to keeping fish but i am new to the whole planted tank scene,recently i have been getting a lot of brown algae looking deposits on one species of plant hygrophilia polysperma and after reading through as many articles as possible the term"detritus" came up.so for the last couple of...

i'm setting up an automated c02 system using an inline defuser and thought this link may be useful for other members as usual the equipment we use may differ but the principals remain the same. http://www.drsfostersmith.com/pic/article.cfm?aid=527

does anyone have any idea where to have a fe refilled in the west yorkshire area?.

after looking at a thread in the planted tank section on the "aquarium of the future" i was wondering are co2 generators worth the money or should we stick to diy or bottles,after reading the bumf on this one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CO2-GENERATOR-CON ... 1c1c70f797 i was in two minds as to...

every time i clean my tank my adult female cory goes around depositing eggs everywhere,i would'nt mind if there was a male to fertilise them but she just sticks them everywhere.i have just recently added some juveniles that i hope may breed at some stage... i'm not complaining but it just seems odd.

what recomendations do any of you have as to the amount to dose without the use of co2(only for the time being),i'm relatively new to the world of aquarium plants and i've just overhauled my tank,new filter lighting etc.so cash is a bit a short for a week or so but i want to give them a good...

is there a discount to pf for members of ukaps ?.

hello peep's i'm not new to fish keeping but i am new to planted aquaria......well i would be if my lights ever get here. i had a mental attack of snails in my tank so i nuked it and kept a few fish from my tank(5 black widows,two pristella's and a peppered corrie) in a bare glass aquarium,no...