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Thank you all for fantastic replies! I've been doing some research elsewhere and it seems that hygrophilla sp. seem to do very well in drier air. Anyone had much luck with H. pinnatifidia emersed?

Anyone had success from any plants grown emersed that would work well in a lower humidity? I would like to run my next tank without a lid. Thanks

Hi all, Purely for your interest... Whilst studying/revising for my Science Degree, I discovered a technical video that shows what happens during photosynthesis in our plants on a molecular level! It's a bit technical if you are unfamiliar with the biological terms of photosynthesis but...

If only I was allowed to use the chromatography/mass spec instruments for my use where I study and I could compare purigen with the polymers that Clive has previously mentioned to see which would be most/exact similar? Anyone who works with chromatography/ mass spectrometry able to use it for...

Who made your tank? I'm still looking around for someone to build mine, do you mind If I ask how much you paid for the glass?

Which light are you going for? I've seen your thread with the tiles, is there a reason for changing? To be honest, I've never liked the tiles... Seem cheap, plasticky, and not that reliable.

Well well, We've fallen in love with the tiniest little mbu puffer who will need a nice big tank! I am planning the tank at the moment and would like LED'sfor a number of reasons but mostly for 'coolness'... The tank will be approx 6 feet in length and 3 feet from back panel to front. I like...

I use a Switch box with timers built into it for each 'channel/electrical aplliance'. Made by Evolution aqua, it's da boi! although a bit pricey if wanting to just time one thing...

I might try a dose of chloramine-T, that stuff stinks of chlorine and is used for internal bacteria in fish. I don't think the shrimp in my tank liked it that much last time I added it...

I tried picking them off with five tweezers but it seems when I get near they disappear... Is gen-chem no planaria made of the same stuff as panacur do you know? (Fenbendazole)

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Yes I'd say mine looks very similar but have not seen it move around like that off the shrimp. I did see that guys post and wondered how tap water killed it off...

It could well be a leech, looking at others who have experienced them... It seems panacur or similar knocks them out also.

The only thing that strikes me is that these planaria on the shrimp are brown rather than white. Can planaria be brown?

Thanks for your replies. Kirk - I'll poke my head into the vets tomorrow but if I can't find any I'll take you up on your offer. These planaria are definitely attached to the shrimp. They seem to have their 'head' stuck between the exo skeleton plates of the shrimp..

Panacur, not heard of it.. Is it safe to treat with shrimp? It seems my problem that most anti-crustacean treatments will harm the shrimp.

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Yeah its pretty gross. I don't think I'm adding him to the tank as I'm just too worried that it'll spread to all my other shrimp or fish!

Hi all, Not sure if in right section, I brought a 'blue shrimp' back with me today and noticed some little wiggley worm things on its underside at the base of its legs, they seem attached. Is it part of the shrimp? I seem to think it's some sort of nematode... They are brown in colouration...

I'm looking for a heater that will be able to heat a little 6.5 litre to about 28 degrees. A lot of the nano heaters around are pre-set to 25 or so. The aim is to have something as least obtrusive as possible, of course. What do you guys have experience with? So far I've seen.. Aqua one 10W...

Sorry to dig a little bit of an old thread but does this tank come any larger? Say, 70-90 litres?

An easy idea would be Congo tetra's but again, iffy on the shrimps...unfortunately small shoaling fish from Africa are few and far between..

You wouldn't believe there were 16 pencils in there from the picture ha..

Yeah pencilfish. Got beckfordi in there too.

Having to accommodate my tank to breed Nannostomus mortenthaleri, the tank now looks a bit different and I got bored of the old plants ha! I'm yet to take the tetra out due to the fear of predation. Pogostemon erectus and Echinodorus 'ozelot' at the back are yet to grow on a bit! The Riccia...

Some Nannostomus species (I am breeding mortenthaleri) would look good in there. But definetly some angel/discus would look ace!!

My current tank is with the same idea as yours but much smaller! I have a 130 litre extremely soft water tank (GH 2, kH 1) for breeding my '10 strong' group of Nannostomus mortenthaleri. I too am trying to get maximum filter flow through with absolutely minimum tank water movement... I also...

Do you mean the New Era stuff? If so then yes it is very good and fish love it and it lasts a long time. However, it does make your tank incredibly cloudy for about an hour due to the potato starch used in it as the binding agent...

Hi folks, just bought the hobby tmc disposable set for my 12l but want to change the diffuser to a very small glass one. I've seen the tmc nano glass one but didn't know if anyone knew any better.. The plastic one supplied is utter crap and let's lots of large bubbles out..

I can only imagine the nightmare....lol I can also imagine your feeling of 'Thank the lord it's done'

First and foremost, i am now richer Lol. No I didn't use the marine tank in the end as i wanted something that was better suited for a freshwater set up. External filter, twin t5 built into an enclosed lid, something a bit smaller too with not so much depth. Went from a 2ft cube marine tank to...

It's funny to see someone in my shoes only a couple months ago... I too have just left the world of reefing..

Here in my journal Rio de Jungle(iro) | UK Aquatic Plant Society I used 3 pots of Eleocharis sp. 'mini'. It's on either side on a 125 litre tank. I also used just 2 pots of Staurogyne repens..

sorry to dig this old thread up... I'm looking to get the Dennerle kit but want to be able to use FE's too.. Did you manage to find a way to convert dennerle to FE's? Thanks

Well, to be fair I think they are F1's rather than the actual caught fish. But still very lovely!

Thanks :-) it's how I like it... It always takes lots of time to make sure I've seen everything! I love it. Yeah not a bad pair for a tenner!

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Yeah lol, managed to get a snap of one today though!

Ha yeah, I did think it was sketchy but for some reason these 3 shrimp are like 'He-man'...I scooped them out of a tank that had two musk turtles and adult angel fish! They lived in there for about 3 months!

The idea of my scape was keep it natural looking. I like the whole 'Amano' look but I never think to myself "That looks exactly how it does in the wild". So my scape is more of a picture 'slice' of a tropical river. I didn't spend too long placing my wood but still had some thought about it. The...

First day after planting... I'm currently dosing the aquavitro plant range as follows.. Synthesise (nitrogen source) 0.9ml, twice a week Activate (Phosphorus & Potassium source) 0.9ml, twice a week. Envy (Micro and trace element supplement) roughly 5ml, three times a week Propel (Iron source)...

Hi all! :) A wee bit about me.. My name is Tom and I currently study Forensic Science with Biochemistry at university, I have been in the hobby for quite some years now but have mainly kept marines up until now. I also work part time in a fish shop called Acres aquatics, 13th in the country on...

Green neon tetra? Slightly smaller than standard neon tetra..

What this guy said! the softer your water though, the better the pencil fish get...:)

personally I think that you have adequate flow now, as for me, for some reason I really don't like the effect loads of flow gives (i.e everything dancing in FF with fish on a mission to get somewhere but going nowhere! But only experiment will tell! give it a bash for a week or two then take...

Assuming you want to make the water a bit 'softer'. The cheapest (free) way to soften water is to collect rainwater from a water butt. It is safe to use as long as the roof that rain has run off of isn't lead.. Check your guttering for anything nasty too just in case. If you solely use rainwater...

And that fits inside the drum opening of a 25 litre drum?

As above, Anyone know of a pump that will inside a 25 litre drum but have a pump head greater than 1.5m? there are many like the tunze mini, hydor pico etc.. but they only pump to about 50cm. Which is useless as I need to go from the floor to the top of the tank. If anyone else has some...

Ha! Thanks. I'm just waiting on my redmoor wood to sink before I can start setting the tank up properly!

Got my new plants yesterday... They are so dang juicy! Keep an eye open for my journal within the next week!

Staurogyne repens is a nice foreground plant that is relatively easy to keep. Keep your eye open for tropica's 1-2-grow pots of it...

Thanks, well the aim was that I'm going to run this tank without co2 but instead with flourish excel. However it is inevitable that co2 will become strapped on one day..

Thanks! I'm hoping it's going to fun more than anything

Keep an eye out for my planted tank journal in about 2 weeks or so..

Hi Rob! Didn't know you were live on here! That Discus is a beaut... My mind keeps playing on Mike's pair of apistogramma veijita's. I think i'll have to reserve them lol!

Hi all, Just excited and wanted to share my new purchase. A Rio 125 in Dark wood, internal filter out and eheim external in! At the moment the idea is that it will be a 'mid-tech' no CO2 tank. I work in a shop called AcresAquatics and will be posting up videos on youtube of the tank. Mostly...

Ha very good. I'm kind of the same. Except it usually involves a tree for the garden and she ends up watching me try to dig a tree up and then drag it the whole way home...

Managed to get some sweet looking red moor wood. So soaking now and going into a jewel Rio 125.

Maybe it's because in the bottom quarter of the tank, all the wood is linear along the substrate... I don't know. Someone will be able to advise better than me!

To me, I personally like how you have it now. There is something that isn't quite sitting right though and I can't make my mind up on what it is...

things must get pretty hectic at feeding time..

hello all, I want a darker substrate in my tank and this seemed good. But I am concerned with it being too large of a grain.. If the grain size is too large, would I have trouble planting some plants? i.e stems / eleocharis? Has anyone had trouble with stone sizes being too large?

What a beautiful tank. Reading from the start it's clearly visible how you learned as you went! I love the end result though.

You would be correct! there are no charges/barriers or import taxes when buying from within the EU

Luckily I am in the trade, I work on the Reef/marine department so have only ever used sumps, hence the lack of knowledge in externals! lol. So this means I can get things significantly cheaper.. If however I did buy from zooplus.de, would I not get euro style plugs?

do the pro 3 range come with the green pipes or grey pipes?

ok.. so it seems people prefer the pro 3. I just quite like the ecco pro in the fact it has smaller, less obtrusive piping. The tank is a low tech including mostly anubius and java fern. I feel a slower flow may be better for me in keeping rams/apisto's also. Another thing, the pro 3 doesn't...

OK guys, I need a filter for a 125 litre. Its either the ecco pro 200, or the professional 3 '250'. The ecco pro is a bit cheaper but am I missing out on something by not getting the pro 3? surely the pro 3 must have some sort of feature/catch that makes it more supreme than the ecco pro...

Not that there is anything important going on here but just wanted to share it with those that are interested :) We're Just saving up some last pennies now for a new tank and equipment including; Juwel Rio 180 (Dark wood) Eheim ecco pro 300 Hydor 200W inline heater Probably going to use...

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Thank you everyone. It's nice to jump on board. Hopefully I will get as stuck in to all of this on here as I did with marines on a UK marine forum.

Really really like this tank. The hardscape I like very much. Where can I get hold of this 'manzi' wood? I have Red mopani wood but I think I prefer this manzi wood you are using..

Plus one on Acres aquatics, Corsley.

hello all, My name's Tom, I've been keeping fish now for quite some years. I think about 8 years.. I have been on the salty side for the last 3 years. However, with that all gone due to University commitments, I am back in the freshwater game. This time I'm going planted.