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Lovely set of tanks. How long has the drip wall been established?

Needs more detail shots!

Could I ask where you get your dry ferts? And what amounts / spoons you dose?

Some interesting ideas here. http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/learning/resources/Mycology/Habitats/aquaticFungi.shtml Aquatic mycelium eating the leaves and creating food for our shrimp and fry.

Ive got a couple of tons available if anybody wants a bagful. :)

I've got a couple of ottos and around 5 cpd's in my ever expanding cherry colony. Plenty of moss and leaves give plenty of hiding and keep the cpds well fed.

*pulls up a chair and orders some popcorn*

Right then! Off with a bag :)

Have found a lovely turkey oak dropping leaves which have the same waxy polished feel as the Indian almonds. Are you thinking this is the same Mediterranean Oak?

Mmm doesn't sound good. I'm going up in a couple of weeks so ill report back :)

Mixed with 20 mm leca and osmocote in a heavily planted (stems, java and floaters) low tech it's been fine for a couple of years. Got some slight blue green cyanobacteria on the east facing window side of the tank over the last summer but it's receded now the days are getting shorter. Never...

Got mine from oasis aquatics in Salford. Bit fiddly when first plugged into the mac but soon addressed the order in which things should be done to keep the browser from failing. My one reservation is that it is cloud based and if the sites down or your Internet connection is, no programming...

Lovely shots. My exact stocking as well! Although my tank doesnt look quite as... refined. Must be something in the water up here. Ive spotted fry from the CPDs. Hopefully theyll survive. Have you had a look around the aquarium at Bolton Museum? He's got a tank full of cpds in there.

Ha! Snap! And I just bought 30 C. Pygmies a couple of weeks ago and haven't lost one. I'll have to have a trip upto WyeVale.

What about Daves Aquarium!? The smells a bit much but theyve started to get some interesting fish in recently. Mudskippers anyone?

Will it have the same effect if I get my good lady to scream at the tank?

Was really more interested in the theory of how it works to remove the algae rather than the cost.

Ooops didn't check costs...

Would this application work in our tanks? http://www.ultrasonicalgaecontrol.co.uk/

Radion xr15fw timer and dimmer and as the man says 5 years ago would have been 600 quid!

Well worth the wait for the raindance to take effect.

O2 produced during the day (pearling) and consumed during the night, so yes, it's for the livestock as the co2 could theoretically could rise above the controlled injection rate. Watch for fish gasping at the surface after lights out.

Plants consume co2 during the day and produce it at night. Aeration, esp if you don't run your co2 on a timer solenoid, helps to get rid of the excess co2. Or so the theory goes.

I've tried a combination of leaves and horse chestnut seems to go down the best with the shrimps. Stripped to a skeleton within days. Why do we want leaves that take along time to breakdown?

I thought exactly the same thing. You could film a convincing documentary in there. It makes such a refreshing change from the manicured and clipped ADA tanks.

*starts doing a raindance around the lounge*

We need video. I've ordered the popcorn.

Oooohhh don't do it! Terror will rain down upon the Kingdom of Peace and Impossibly Small Fry.

I'd take the string off.

Swap dead shrimp for live shrimp?

Cut the top off a small plastic bottle and reverse it into the body creating a small trap. Pop the half eaten shrimp in there and leave it in the tank. And cross your fingers.

Personally I find all the ADA stuff a bit cliched. I read Amano's books in 94 and was amazed by what he did. But taking his recipe and adding nothing apart from a massive dollop of cash is a touch boring. Keep on making your own path Gary, thats the way to creating something original.

Theres also another view that closed systems can become self sustaining if there is enough ecology.

Oh Hello, fancy meeting you here!! (its Warren off FB :))

I was thinking the same but thought about how I view my small breeder tanks 1x1x1 (hence the larger display format). I tend to have certain angles i return to, accidentally grown out, almost like a sketch. I wonder if a modular approach would work? split it into 6 x 1x1 blocks... mmm...

Any pictures / threads? Could do with a little help on the visualisation front...

I've got an ideal space for a 6x1x1ft tank just behind the settee dividing two rooms. Viewable from both sides. Any body had a tank with these dimensions? I'm searching but not having much luck...

I've got a couple of ton in a few trout based aquaponic beds. Theres a low percentage that floats so I just chuck that back into the beds and use the stuff that sinks. I've got two sizes <10mm and >20mm. 20mm is better for the trout beds and 10mm looks more 'scale' in the planted tanks. I use...

Nice one!! :)

Do you have a link for buying a copy? I've looked on Amazon and it seems out of print.

Just read your link Darrel. Excellent stuff.

I use LECA as a substrate in a few tanks. Which is a clay fired when still slightly moist which causes it to expand into a very porous material. Best result was when I mixed it with peat with an under layer of osmocote in a low tech. My wife is a silversmith so I still have access to a small...

Just dug my 15 year old 2213 out from behind the shed after a couple of years in the wilderness. Cleaned out the snails, mud and woodlice. Filled it with peat and LECA and turned it on - it works! Bombproof.

Not quite local, I'm in Manchester!

Where are you Steve? I'll go halves if you are local to me.

Wouldnt fancy doing a 50% water change on that. I wonder how they feed the whale sharks. Quite specialised filter feeders arnt they?

Yeah I got a new one from Tankscape and that lasted 2 weeks. I just run co2 24/7 now and have an air pump on a timer for after dark.

I got the last six from Flow Aquatics in Heywood, North Manchester (ish) They were about 3 quid each I think. I'm sure if a few of us mithered Fran the owner enough he'd get another tank full. He had a tank full of little fat ottos as well.

Looking forward to this one. I have a small vertical viv that I'm looking to go high humidity with. Co2?

Well I live in Manchester and if it's not raining and a bit dark then something's not right. There's ambient light in the kitchen during the off period and I've observed the fish and they seem active so they must think the suns clouded over. Although I'm not a fish mind reader. Antipofish I've...

So I need to cut back the lighting on my tank. We're out from 8 till 5 so it would be nice if we could have the tank lit for breakfast and tea times. The tanks in the kitchen btw. Is there a problem lighting for 3 hours in the morning and 4 in the evening? I suppose it's only like cloudy days...

Laser cutting acrylic is perfect. It even flame polishes the edge for you. The only problem is on very thick pieces and the angle created by the focusing of the laser beam. I've already made a smaller version as a prototype. I'm yet to water test it! I Might try tomorrow and take some pics. I...

We've just had a rather large laser cutter installed at work and I'm thinking of building a 2ft cube to half fill with water and grow emerged in the other half. In my smaller tank with a lid I was getting 95% humidity. I'll install a door in the upper half. Has anybody any experience or...

You'll come down one morning in spring and he'll be 6ft tall stood at the cooker making a bacon butty. mark my words!

I wonder if they'll send me a new needle valve too. As this one is pants. And not very regular at all. I should know better really. If it looks too good to be true it usually is...

Only flaw is that I can't tell if it's working as there's no mist or bubbles!

My brand new a165 solenoid lasted all of a week and now it is deceased, it is no more. Tankscape aren't interested in supplying a replacement or even answering emails about spares and after waiting a week for delivery I've lost interest in dismantling and returning the reg. My question is, can I...

What day is it ? :roll:

Slightly different model to mine but mine goes the other way around. If thats on your inlet, water travelling from bottom to top, my co2 insert is at the top. Try it, it might work?

Any chance of a quick pic of the diffuser?

I cant see anything from mine. Unless I turn the needle right up and it then sends bubbles out, but also so much co2 that it would gas the fish. I do it every now and again to keep the fish on their toes. Nothing quite like a complacent microrasbora.

A lovely Sunday morning read and a real eye for detail. I bet you get lost in that tank for hours!

Re: Co2 regulator and solenoid Can you get me one? Or several ;)

Re: Co2 regulator and solenoid Go to Tygas in Bury - £13 for a refillable 6.35kg. It's a tenner for 600gms for thedisposables. Dinn 477 fittings.

Re: Co2 regulator and solenoid They live in a non Internet world as far as prices go. Lol. but... They've been there for years and have started a couple of planted tanks downstairs recently. Things stirring?