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my 2078 has just done this as well. might go for a JBL greenline

thanks alexander. I have eco complete substrate so that shouldnt be to much of a problem. thanks for the encouragement. I think I will buy some new plants and rocks and see how that goes! will post some photos when its done...

Hi all was posting on here a while ago and was more active in the hobby. due to family illnesses and the like I have been away from my house for a good while and neglected my tank. my dear wife has done her best with water changes etc but things are bad... while some of the plants are still...

I wish I did live in northern italy. I would be out on my bike much more than I am over here in the uk!

too true, I was suckered in by a cheap price and getting some limophilia aromatica which is a stunning plant but seems difficult to come by. hey ho I wont go off reservation again :)

not been on here for a while but new babies and work have got in the way of my hobbies so with a spring in my step I fancied getting my tank back into some kind of shape as it had been neglected bar water changes since the birth of the little one. so pre xmas I ordered some limophilia...

I am interested in a couple bits if there are any spares

amazing there is no way in a million billion years I could ever get something like this past the wife we need more pictures of it in situ!! i would much rather have this in my wall than a TV

I used this without problems but its very very easy and cheap to mix your own...

looking really nice have you thought about entering it into one of the scaping competitions?

damn my replacement tmc grobeam has failed again. I would not recommend this product as I have now had 2 which have both failed.

cheers gary. I do think the shape of the trigon makes a jungle type scape easier. a more minimal scape like yours is much harder to achieve successfully. That is my next goal with this tank, but I am enjoying the scape at the moment and am a bit too busy for a complete strip down.

not much change other than growth got rid of the hygrophilia polysperma

how much is more than enough light? and how big is your tank? Like foxfish says "more than enough" is too much free your mind from the wpg mantra trotted out by manufacturers of expensive lighting systems. you need to concentrate on providing enough carbon and nutrients to grow a carpet...

boc 8500 | eBay BOC 8500 multistage for £50 burkert 6011 about £30 from RS you will need a needle valve and connectors should cost about £30-40

looks great dave

I dispensed with test kits, planted heavy and did regular water changes and waited for 8 weeks before stocking. No fish losses no obsessing over test results and a happy healthy tank.

EI DOSING USING DRY SALTS | UK Aquatic Plant Society have a read of this thread which explains EI dosing with dry salts there is a little bit of a learning curve getting the head around the concepts but it is cheap and easy once you understand TNC EI Kits : FluidsensorOnline.com, The...

just realised you have shrimp so liquid CO2 is a no no as far as I know (disclaimer I know nothing about shrimp)

when you talk about temperature I am assuming you are referring to colour temperature. there are several good posts on here discussing this the short answer is that broadly speaking colour temperature makes little difference other than how the plants look Spectrum...doesn't matter...does...

I would respectfully suggest that you shouldn't waste money on new lighting till you have the Co2 and fertilizer situation under control. A good analogy would be that lighting acts as the accelerator in a car. the CO2 and ferts act as chassis and fuel of the car the more light you add into a...

why do you want to change the lighting? i would concentrate on getting CO2 and fert dosing sorted first before messing with the lighting...

I second what Ceg has said. I didn't realise that many of my fish were supposed soft water fish I just use local tap water which is very very hard my fish are fine with weekly 50% water changes

My Rummys live very happily in 100% local tap water which is very very hard

added Blyxa from the big tank

little bit of pearling

a quick update flooded the tank and have added toxic levels of Co2... hopefully the HC will stay happy...

thanks Dan appreciate the comments

wow you are the master of the corner tank! your rescape has inspired me to take stuff out and use space more carefully in the trigon.

this is a bit of a how long is a piece of string question... are you going to have pressurised CO2? the TMC grobeams and grotiles are good as they can be controlled with the aquaray controller Control

I meant reflections on the sides I cant seem to get away from having mirrored sides...

Any updates gary? p.s. how have you avoided reflections?

Minor update got rid of swords added new co2 reactor moved some stuff around and added new red plants from LFS

I had a similar problem with my tetras I got sterazine to treat it on the recommendation of the LFS which seemed to work obviously YMMV

I would prefer a yearly donation but in principle yes I get a lot out of this forum and would gladly give something back. but would prefer if it was anonymous as not to have a divide between donators and none

Thanks for the kind words everyone it means alot

I plan to pummel the plants with as much Co2 as I can get in there for about 5-6 weeks while the tank cycles before adding livestock then a gradual dial back on the co2 levels till it is hospitable for the critters but all suggestions are gratefully received...

a couple more weeks I think then its flooding time experimenting with some extra bits of mini landscape on top of the bits already there...

thanks guys! what a surprise to login to facebook and see it this morning

what a nice surprise to log into facebook and see my scape! thanks guys!

have a look at the TMC grotiles with a aquaray controller. the controller allows good management of the intensity which is the cause of much woe in high tech tanks... The MMC mounting system means that you can screw into the hood or suspend over the top as you prefer.

you have a lot of light there First thing I would do is reduce that and up your Co2 injection rate as high as you can without disturbing the fish

my cabinet is very full

TWIN BATTERY OPERATED PERISTALTIC CHEMICAL DOSING PUMP | eBay I think it was a homemade job but it seems to do the job

measured the output from the peristaltic pumps bang on 30ml per pump! its dosing this once a day at 4 o clock there is an electronic timer and clock which allows a variable dose once a day the dual pump was a bargain from ebay £40 I am well pleased now for some auto water changer action...

I would appreciate some advice: the Amazon swords on the right are starting to take over this tank... Can someone suggest a replacement plant that has a similar leaf shape that is not quite as virulent. I am also not happy with the Pogostemon stellatus on the rear left. A suggestion for...

having started from scratch recently here are a few considerations from a noob perspective read all of Cegs posts about CO2/EI dosing as this really is the key to success EI DOSING USING DRY SALTS | UK Aquatic Plant Society CO2 MEASUREMENT USING A DROP CHECKER | UK Aquatic Plant Society...

new dual peristaltic pump fitted I have mixed up an all in one mix and have liquid carbon in the other

thanks buddy much appreciated the mix will be sitting in the cabinet so no worries with light.

is there any guides to doing this? cheers

thanks for that I already had some of this stuff so no extra expense until it runs out. I approve of the thrifty sentiment though...

thanks mate thats what I thought... it does beg the question why make two different mixes up? surely its just easier to have the all in one mix

is there an obvious disadvantage to using an all in one mix vs macro/micro mixes? I have built a dual peristaltic pump and would like to automate dosing, but would have to shift from using macro and micro mixes and liquid carbon, to all in one and liquid carbon. using EI principles is it...

here is my completed build in action

sunifertechllc | eBay I bought it from this seller on ebay but It did take a while to get here

gary you are setting the bar very very high with this rescape looks amazing now will look even better when the carpet has grown in!

noticed the pearling today still cant shift this moss/wood mould/algae

you can see the algae/mould? here on the moss

looks really nice what are you planning to put in there?

in my limited experience it does depend on the plant. I have 2 corys and they made merry mischief with the HC when I attempted to plant that. the dwarf hairgrass seems to have been abit more resilient to their rooting. something like blyxa japonica could work and makes a nice carpet if...

thanks mate I am hacking my way through the jungle this afternoon so hopefully things will look a little neater soon I am getting the impression that planted tanks reflect a lot of the owners (hence why mine is such a mess!)

I am going to attempt a go at one of these. I was wondering if it would be possible to inject ferts into this via peristaltic pumps thus getting all pipes other than inflow and outflow out of the tank?

ada amazonia powder

not sure yet some CRS maybe

the last picture show some of the mould/algae that refuses to die despite pummelling with co2 and glut

new camera arrived and I am having a little play

week 5 update its oh so quiet...

sorry for the poor quality any thoughts on best way to deal with this? I have turned up the co2 as far as I can. I have cleaned filter and done a 50% water change I am double dosing liquid carbon anything else?

urgh really struggling with a white fluffy algae on the moss and the wood around the moss. I have cleaned filter done a partial water change turned up the co2 to maximum

Bubble-Magus Dosing Pumps It seems to be designed for reef setups but has anyone tried one of these for EI + liquid carbon dosing? cheers J

good work fella it takes a bit of time to get used to the pace of growth in a new tank (well it does for impatient buggers like me) but once you become accustomed to it I found myself surprised by how quickly things can grow

added moss and testing out black card behind the glass

would love to see a rasp pi controller.

just as an aside I sent my JBL back to zooplus and swapped it for an ehiem after it developed a fault

this is what I used Buy Solenoid Valves 2/2 way solenoid valve,1/8in port 230Vac Burkert 134094 online from RS for next day delivery. excellent service from RS I damaged one wiring it up wrong and they sent one out to me foc for next day delivery.

a minor alteration after some sage words on here Jack sent me some lovely plants which are very happy at the front left and the blyxa is starting to recover

I have it propped on a shelf up at the moment so it shouldnt fall over. I am getting a monster 10kg cylinder that will fit in a cupboard which will not fall over

all working and seems to be ok BOC 8500 Burkert 6011 and parker 2F-H3L-V-SS-TC to jbj bubble counter.

week 1 12 hr photo period + 2 x spray with aquarium water

thanks for that it looks really bad but hoping it recovers given that the first lot of blyxa looks ok it should do alright...

i have recently added lots of blyxa to my tank I have already grown some successfully its nice and green and happy. this batch has been put in next to it but is massively melting... is it likely to recover once its adapted to the new tank?

blues? :)

added lots of blyxa today which is looking a bit scruffy as you would expect there is a marked contrast in green between the new bits and the stuff that has been there a while. starting to feel a little bit more settled with this tank. I feel that perhaps some wood on the right might balance...

really like these jack these tanks made me want a nano

yeah I think so I have lots of kit left over so I am going to rig up a disposable co2 system

plants Tropica Hemianthus 'Cuba' 1-2-GROW! Pogostemon helferi Tropica Staurogyne repens 1-2-GROW! once submersed I will add some blyxa Hardscape some mini landscape rocks Filtration (to be added) fluval 305 (turned right down) Lighting Ikea 3 w clipon led. CO2 disposable Co2 setup

my daughter has been bothering me about a fish tank for a while so together we have planted up a small 25cm optiwhite cube

nice work gary. can I ask how you fitted it? I have been given a replacement tile from TMC and I am keen not to ruin it again?

popped into TMC today and got a replacement the 1500 not sure what I am going to do ...