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Sorry yes ei. Tank was rio 180. Standard t5 bulbs with reflectors on for between 6 and 8 hours a day dosing macro and micro alternate days. I now have a vision 260 currently as a mbuna set up but thinking about going for a low maintenence planted tank with discus. Doesn't matter what mbuna I put...

Hi all. It's been a while since I used the forum. I used to have a planted community tank. Growing the plants was never the problem. I used to do ai feeding and had a fire extinguisher co2 injection system. My problem was I had all this fantastic growth but the bottom half of my plants were...

Has anyone ever tried using either of these? They look superb and I have read about them in a book but looking for some first hand experience. Any advice appreciated.

I know the green machine are awesome and there is a degree of you get what you pay for, but I just can't bring myself to pay their prices. Does anyone use another shop/website that they recommend for plants that does not charge the earth?

Anyone experienced this kind of issue?

So I noticed after a few hours of my co2 being injected into the tank the drop checker wasn't as light green as normal. I checked my set up and I am now getting a problem with my reg I think stopping it from maintaining a constant working pressure. This makes for very irregular injection of co2...

I am really fancying getting a few amano shrimp but I am worried that they may just become expensive dinner. The angel and yo yo loaches are my chief concern I know they grow to about 2 inches but am assuming they are normally bought much smaller. Chances of my shrimp becoming dinner? All...

I have a 405 which I plan to use with a spray bar along the back of my tank. I have a rio 180 so would say the spray bar will need to be about 90cm long. I was wondering how long the proper fluval kit is and if I can add more to it or if I am going to have to make my own. Any advice greatly...

Re: Glass non return valves. Hoggie, you are awesome!!! You always find exactly what I am after you are a superstar!!!!

Re: Glass non return valves. Will that fit on standard co2 tubing?

Re: Glass non return valves. It's a up inline atomiser

Re: Glass non return valves. Running at about 3 bar I think

Re: Glass non return valves. Easy aqua duel gauge with built in solenoid. Yep it goes both ways but that must make me the most unlucky person to buy 2 co2 nr valves and have 2 faulty.

When I first set up my co2 system I bought a gush glass non return valve. When I set this up I had canister, reg and solenoid, tubing, non return valve, tubing, bubble counter, tubing then atomiser. Every time I filled up the bubble counter the water would just leak out of the valve. I gave up...

Yea I have the new era pellets too. Cheers man I will get some prima in the week

Tetra prima is now called tetra discus correct?

Thanks. I have tried cucumber and I will get some courgette and tetra prima. I have also tried hikari sinking wafers and frozen bloodworm also. Figured it may well just be grumpy after move etc

my l134 :). Tis only a baby. Anyone have any experience on best food for them. Struggling to get him interested in anything

The tank with LEDs in action

wouldn't mind aslong as I saw him eat something or evidence of such

I was just looking at them:). Also like these. http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/rainbow ... urumoi.php

Another update. The guppies have now been moved to a fluval edge so looking for some new additions in the tank I am thinking a group of medium size rainbow fish, open to suggestions of both rainbows and other 3-4 inch medium/ top dwellers. I am thinking between 4 and 6 of whatever I get so as...

So following a conversation on what makes red plants red I thought I would try upping my co2 injection rate....... Apparently I took this too far as some or most of my fish started either going to the top for air or going extremely lethargic on the substrate. The Pakistani loaches seemed the...

Thanks guys. Hopefully the stronger trace mix will help then :)

I have just upped the concentration of my micro ferts so maybe that will help. May knock a teaspoon or so out of the KNO3 too when I have to make more macro

I am fairly heavily planted and change 50% water weekly and had no nitrates in tap water last time I checked.

I am dosing estimative index and have a nutra soil base. So I am surprised it could be an iron deficiency. When you say nitrate issue do you mean high nitrates or again a deficiency?

The plants in my tank are growing well even the moss has started to show new growth. The problem is the new growth on my red plants is green ...... I thought that reds going green was down to insufficient light but from the par charts I have looked at I should have high light or at least...

If you look on aquariumplantfood.co.uk Jonny has an all in one fert that people get on well with. You can get 10% off using code ukaps10. Alternatively it's a bit more work but a lot cheaper in the long run you could check out EI dosing

Looks ace mate

So just a little pic update to show how it's filling out. Particularly impressed with how well the lotus is coming on after my last lot of photos (6 weeks) seeing as it came as a little bulb. Not a lot else has changed really. I have bought a fluval 405 which will be running a spray bar along...

that's what i was trying to suggest however sometimes i struggle to write those thoughts down clearly lol :)

I just checked and I don't think so. Sorry I didn't even think to check that. It's about 32cm. If you are modding the cabinet would it hurt to shift the back panel along so the filter could sit out the back?

definitely. The cabinets on each side are around 25cm on their own so you will have acres of space

Lol afraid to say I too thought female. Amazing how people will make assumptions from the first three letters of a user name. Apologies jen

I think this has got a little out of hand lol. I said in my op that I know it's hard etc and I know it isn't going to make me loads of money and I am more excited about just having them. All I was asking was if it is a struggle to actually sell them seeing as they are rather pricey if you sell...

I know where your coming from. And I would have no problem selling them at £50....... Except I know that some people. Will take advantage of that, but 3 of me at 150 then sell the for anything from £300 and double their money. There is nothing wrong with that it's just good business. If this...

Cheers guys. The tank is filled and wot be being stripped for the foreseeable future. I don't need a bigger space as such I just want to put my second external in the middle section and hide it. I am going to buy the slab from b an q that hoggie found cut it to size then just get some magnet...

At £50 a pop I would have every other zeb breeder at my door with pitch forks Lol! It will probably be in hinchs range with a bit of discount to the lovely people of this forum. That's if it comes off anyway. Fingers crossed!

I have recently purchased a second hand fluval 405. Meaning I can stash the powerhead away for a rainy day and clean up the look of my tank:). I was just going to get a eheim compact but this came up and was cheaper and gives me extra filtration too. Now I still have the juwel internal in and...

My mother in law has recently got a tank (and roped me in to look after it) and has since fallen in love with the zebra plec. I have potentially found a place selling some at a reasonable price and she is now mulling over setting me up with a few and a tank to try and breed them. Now I have told...

How I understood it (no expert at all) is they produce o2 during photo period and co2 during lights out so I would I though with little surface agitation gas exchange the majority of o2 the plants consume is used as it is produced as the tank is being injected with co2. So if the plant produced...

Re: New centre piece fish Lol this won't happen I'm afraid. I separated the 2 angels from the community tank and stripey died :( went all drunk like crashing into anything and everything then passed away. I monitored blondie (original names hey!) for 3 weeks and put him back in the tank. Since...

Don't you have to be careful about the plants producing co2 in an already co2 saturated tank with minimal surface agitation/gas exchange?

I recently purchased one of these second hand and don't know if I am being dumb but is there a knack to getting the pipe tap to click into place in the filter head? I push the pipes into place as far as they go then try and push the silver tap down to lock them in place but it always pops back...

Re: New centre piece fish Nah that project is on hold for 12 months or so. Money needed elsewhere.

Re: New centre piece fish I am afraid the new tank has been sold on turns out was 4x1.5x about 15" so way smaller than I wanted. Made a profit though :)

Think I am going to try get some credit for them as I am not a big fan o them anyway was more to appease the mrs. Silly me!

Recently I noticed one of my orange guppys tail has almost been bitten in half and am not sure what has changed recently to start the tails getting picked on. My partner bought some blue and a black guppy yesterday and already one of them is missing a section of tail and the other blue one I...

Like I say it was top notch service. Has anyone tried ordering something specific from him that isn't listed on eBay?

The speed at which some of you guys prove me wrong astounds me every time :). I will stay with black. That way the mrs may not notice I have spent money on the cabinet, then open the new door to find the 406 I am picking up today :o (shhhh it's a secret)

Will have to check it out as I have the black one and doubt there is a lot of call for black cabinets for kitchens etc :)

I have all I need for now but thankyou :). Just wanted others to know this lot aren't overly great

When it came to buying plants for my current scape I learnt a valuable lesson. If you want decent plants cheaply the only places to go are; last trading post on eBay (I bought 20 plants I would say maybe 3 stems were a little straggly everything else spot on) or forums. However of you have a...

Has anyone created a door/removable panel for the centre compartment of the juwel cabinets? If so could you point me in the direction of the thread(if you made one) of some pics. Also any idea where I could get a panel of the cabinet from to use

Do you think the 405 will produce enough flow to give a decent output with a 3ft spray bar? The pipes are quite big on the 405 aren't they?

I was looking into a eheim compact 3000 to run a spray bar along the back of my tank as my crystiprofi e700 doesn't pack enough punch to have one more than 30cm. I have seen one cheap but I have also seen some fluval 405s going cheap. I know they are only 1500lph but would that produce a...

this is exactly the sort of thing I'm after but it says maximum height 70cm. Does that mean 70cm total or 70cm into pump then x cm out of pump?

Can anyone recommend a small water pump so I don't have to keep on lifting 25l of water at a time and trying (and failing) to pour it in as carefully as possible needs to be one with inlet and outlet as a pose to some of the submersible ones which draw water in through the body of the pump...

Cheers. I have some moss attached to the top ATM going to see how that goes first as there Isn't many flat surfaces on it so any plant would have to placed on one of the vertical faces and I was worried that would look odd. Hopefully the moss will spread over it a bit

Here are the pics

So had another planting session tonight and this is the result!!! Just a bit more wisteria to go when it arrives Monday for round the back

May have to reconsider then as Recently made tank hi tech with injected co2....:(. Do they cope ok with things like excel and easy carbo?

Right I am getting serious plec envy now as I still don't have one and can never decide which one I like the most. I have a 1m long tank so I don't want anything bigger than 6" max size. I have a top 3 ATM but open to suggestions as there will be loads I have never heard/seen before Flash...

Well best of luck bud whatever you decide to go with

That's cool. So end game what are you looking to do?

all I can say Harry is stay focused! I always wanted to be a vet when I was younger but I got a part time job doing cooking which I enjoyed at the time (and enjoyed earning £100+ a week at 14 on summer holidays even more!) so when I left school I carried on doing it as i enjoyed the money so...

Started in the kitchen part time at 14 finished school at 16 went into work as full time chef got c and g 2 and 3 did this till 18 (fed up with getting underpaid and overworked at several restaurants) started roofing for my dad in suffolk and got into lead work (meant to be groomed to take over...

Well after the second email that was a little new forceful and to what I think was the top dog I got a reply. He has assured me the plants are from aquadip in holland and is sending me some new hygrophila difformis I am hoping to get it this week but have not had this confirmed. He said if this...

Well here it is tonight. I have heard from the plant people and they are sending me some new hygrophila difformis this week after my ordeal which some of you may have read about on a different thread. They have assured me all plants come from aquadip and not from far east so we will see how the...

Right well I have now sent a second email direct to someone rather than the generic support email address as had no reply at all today. So to add with poor plants goes bad customer service!

Cheers dude. Dont worry too much about the plants like I say I have managed to use most of what I ordered other than the difformis which I will get replaced. Thanks for thinking of me though. How's your tank coming on?

Well I emailed last night and so far no reply......

From what I could gather they are supposed to be European

It was plantedtanks.co.uk. Or mine was anyway I am assuming Darren's is the same

I ordered some plants from a certain website. (will remain unnamed for now) only to find out the only place one order a week with their supplier and I had missed the cut off point by about 6 hours. Therefore my plants weren't ordered till the following Tuesday. I didn't find this out till after...

Wellno plants today:( hopefully turn up Monday.

I am thinking of getting these for my 180l community aquarium. Has anyone had any experience with them and can tell me first hand what they are like. I am doing some research but I prefer to talk to someone who has actually kept a fish rather than something written online

Turns out my plants won't be here till Tomorrow even though I ordered em two weeks ago. Something the website failed to mention or at least I failed to notice which means it must of been hidden well is they only place one order a week to their european wholesaler. This is done at 3pm every...

Lol I figured was a Clive question. Unfortunately we don't yet have a "questions for Clive" sub-section yet. (although I think there could be call for one) ;)

As above really. I understand that some of the plants we grow would die away of we didn't inject it but how do said plants survive in wild. Do certain streams/rivers have a greater co2 concentration or something? Is it because we cycle the same water through our tank for upto a week before...

Nope next project will probably be 2014. We will of moved house, our first girl will be at full time school and our lil girl due in November will be nearing nursery age and we will of had the wedding so hoping finances will be a little less strained. I really want a garage along side the living...

Right well apologies for this non starter. The tank has now gone. It was not what I thought I was buying it looks like neither angel is going to survive as one has passed and the other one appears to be ill too. And tbh the set up cost was going to be more than I have available right now. There...

Right well tbh I feel a bit cheated but I think I still got an ok deal just not what I expected. Contemplating a negative feedback on eBay. The ad said the tank was 4x2x2 so I assumed(tell me if I am being thick) that this was the size of the part of the tank that held water. So I get there and...

Some of you may read that my angels turned killer the other day and were moved temporarily to another tank untill we came up with a permanent solution. Well we have done that now and bought a 4x2x2 tank I am picking up tomorrow but the most serious offender is now swimming like a complete drunk...

That's true I was thinking of adding either another tetratec 1200 or make if it looks real sorry the fx5. But if it's purely in tank flow rather than filtration powerheads would work wouldn't they. I will know more by Sunday once it's filled up and running. See what the flow is like then and...

It will have a black background I think black rules! It comes with a tetratec 1200 but personally I feel that alone leaves it a little light filtration wise seen as its not even 3x turnover. Or am I worrying over nothing?

Lol stanley knife blade it is

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewit ... cmd=VIDESC

Just won this beauty. Thought was a steal with some of the bits I get with it. Thinking my angel pair, discus an l plec or 2 and maybe some medium cats probably sand sub with moss covered roots.

Re: New centre piece fish http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewit ... cmd=VIDESC Just won this thought it was a bit of a steal

Re: New centre piece fish I was reading the article in pfk and got the impression that ro wasn't essential. Especially if you get discus bred in water parameters similar to your own. Haven't done a huge amount of research yet got to win the tank yet lol

Re: New centre piece fish Yeah I'm really liking the pearls. But I have a feeling it's more they have just decided to try and eat everything smaller than them but I may be wrong. We are looking at getting a new tank. If we win the one I have seen I am after its 4x2x2 so 450 litre. Thinking of...

Re: New centre piece fish lol 71cm catfish in my rio 180 with all them lil fish. Disaster!

Re: New centre piece fish lol not Gunna happen man I love fish keeping but my partner and lil girl and second lil girl enroute are my life

Some of you may of read that my angels have turned demons in another thread and my mrs wants to keep them. As much as I want to get a second big tank we just don't have any room for one :( so I would like to trade them in for a little bit of credit and get some other large centre piece fish...

Fire extinguishe connected to easy aqua regulator with build in solenoid and needle valve with co2 tubing going to non return valve, co2 tubing running to bubble counter, co2 tubing to inline atomiser<br />Picture of tubing leading to atomiser which is plumbed into external filter outlet.