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Re: A very English Spring...happy with the wood! purple haze!

The hardest thing i found with my corner tank after getting the flow right was getting the light to penetrate to the substrate (and i`m talking t8`s here, not sure if its the same for t5`s) and getting a good spread of light , i ended up fitting an extra 3 t8 tubes to my trigon about 6 weeks ago...

Re: Hare Hill - the shrimp-scape project Love the look of your hardscape , waiting with baited breath to see what plant`s you choose.

Just found your question chilled, was hard to spot in the monster quote ! All fauna were fine , i put the mix in a spray bottle and sprayed it straight onto the affected areas while the water was low, and prob only added around 20 ml of easy carbo to the tank in all.

They are called ""clown" angelfish , and arn`t all that common, and these particular ones also have pearlscale aswell , found them in my LFS and just had to have them !

Re: Trigon 190-Learning curve *updated 10-11-11* Quick update , changed the layout around a bit , and the plants are actually growing !

Long time without posting due to a promotion at work which ended up with me working a lot of long days to brute force my way thru to make up for my lack of experiance in my new role , subsequently hobbies took a back burner, with me getting my hands burned with the tank due to the co2 running...

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner New pics!! My female BN chilling After a nice discussion on these here forums and playing about with my CO2 and flow i`ve seen a few of my plants pearling now: I`ve added some crypts behind the wood on the far right, but predictably all the...

Re: 10 Liter AquaEl Sounds painful tom !

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner I`ll give that a try , currently messing with some powerheads to try and get some better flow to the rear corner anyway ,and yeah theres some moss on the main piece of wood , but barely visible as i`ve just hacked it back to try and encourage it to...

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner Co2 is still on so its shed loads of micro bubbles floating around (coupled with my awesome *COUGH* photography skills and reflections makes for a bad picture :P ), no snails! the stick is separate.

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner Quick updated photo , all the java moss as been trimmed back hard aswell as the DHG and the camboda had to go as i couldn`t get it to grow nice and compact (tho i wasnt keen on the look anyway) got a few more plants on the way to try sometime this...

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner Yeah it got returned and replaced.

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner External filter added now, old juwel internal is now removed , think i`ll need to rescape soon :P

Looks awesome :)

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner CO2 is now up and running , i`ve been slowly increasing the bubble rate until the drop checker went green, got a good mist of micro bubbles from my AP diffuser all over the water colum :).Going to leave it like this for a week or 10 days and then...

love the look of this tank :)

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner :evil: :evil: :evil: Everything arrived today for my FE co2, after fitting the regulator to the bottle i had a major leak , regulator has a large crack in it where the gauges are connected. Will have to wait a few days now :(

Such lush growth! If i can get my tank to look 1 tenth of that i`ll be a happy newbie :P

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner My co2 system should be here and setup by the weekend as just got everything ordered. Need to get my flow sorted out now. I`ve made a DIY spray bar i made for the PH as the flow from this just kept uprooting my hairgrass :twisted: Has anyone got any...

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner Plants were purchased from javaplants , They arrived in fairly good condition but some of the dwarf sag had gone a bit mushy in places, but nothing a good trim didnt sort out so far. Found time to get rid of that horrible background today and...

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner Well, my plants finally arrived 2 hours of planting later we have Should hopefully have everything for a FE co2 setup with the next few weeks aswell , and no alage to speak of bar some diatoms yet .

Looking nice again after the nuking :P

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner Yeah its a monster , must weigh at least 25 kg dry, scape wise i`m finding it very hard to come up with a layout that looks right at the moment , but i`ll probably not worry too much about it yet and focus on learning how to grow plants succesfully first.

Hey all, complete planted tank newbie here to share the learning experiance!! First off a little about my fishy past, I`ve been keeping aquriums for about 14 years , getting my first tank (a 60l ) at the age of 14 , progressing on to a keen interest in angel`s of which i`ve had a breeding pair...