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I have Danish aquarium books in triplicate now that I buy every time I see them, the pictures are just so charming.

Eheim sell one in nearly that size braceless and Ada and many of the German outlets have 120x60x60 but they’re not 10mm. I have rounded corner tanks but always use them backwards so there’s no visible seams at the back of the tank and the front is nice and crisp.

^ that.

I have both, I like the uns better for finish at the mitre but in a blind taste test I would take the one that had the dimensions I like best and would be unable to tell the difference were it not for the mitre.

“you pays your money, you takes your choice”. If you want a guaranteed purchase, you are normally best going with the big name and putting down the extra coins. If you want to pay less then I suppose you have to accept there is a risk that the lesser price is due to lesser quality.

They aren’t available in Europe so I don’t think you’ll get much feed back. That said, they’re generally well regarded. These days it’s only really the cheap stuff that is of mixed quality - all the good stuff is pretty much the same in terms of quality, clarity and finish.

Oh yeah. Yeah if it really is 90 at substrate will grow basically everything that an entry level hobbyist will want to grow with some semblance of control.

I have, the light will grow stuff but it feels and looks it’s price point - I’d think it’s rather low in par but can’t say for certain. If using co2 I’d probably risk it. Haven’t seen the hob working, the tanks I’ve seen have eheim in tank filters being used.

Much like Blau tanks, they are “only” okay. If you want one sort through them and pick the best made one, the panes are rarely aligned well and the silicone work can be good to sloppy. All the equipment they come with is hard meh.

It doesn’t help exactly, but I used a job with a skimmer from ista for a long time and was very happy with the result, it just looked a bit clumsy.

Perhaps I’m expecting more? They’re fine for the money but I looked through maybe 10 in my lfs before buying my uns and it wasn’t many that I’d call 10/10. Silicon being a bit sloppy and the panes not meeting squarely. Blau are the same actually and come in at a similar price so I could just...

As someone who only recently moved to using hosepipes because I have to do 110l out/in between 4 tanks I will still use a watering can and buckets for all the <60l tanks if I’m changing water in only one. I use a 20l bucket and a 12l watering can. Takes more time and is more physically involved...

I’d go for a 55l scapers tank or a standard 60p. I don’t much care for the dimension of the 70l scapers tank as you can’t use a “standard” sized light.

I would try/risk cherry, Malawa or Pearl/snowball shrimp on account that if you can get a good colony going they breed so vigorously that you ought to be able to have some always. Mileage varies though, I’ve spoken with fish keepers who have shrimps with angels and they are always in surfeit...

nothing better than free hardscape.

It’s a type of basalt from my research. If you have a garden centre near you can often find nearly similar by looking for “black river cobbles” and searching through the gabian to find the best ones. Alternatively, go to north wales and collect water worn slate, with effort you can find...

You could. Co2 diffusion tends to get a bit doofy the bigger the tank though with hobs. You don’t need to buy an Oase though shop around and there are options from tetra and jbl for less or even trawl the sales sections, second hand stuff pops up from time to time at a bargain.

Eheim and tetra offer the same tanks for similar money in their starter sets and are often very cheap. (Look for the play mobile set from tetra, that’s often 30€). Otherwise, clearseal’s 24x12x12 was very easy and cheap to find in my part of the country and was usually available braced or...

That’s actually a very sensible suggestion, especially if you’re not adding mineral supplements via food. Cherries can be prone to failed moults if deficient in minerals.

If I won the lottery I’d have a 2-3 metre sand bar shallow tank for corydoras.🤔

It’s my understanding a lot of the bigger plecs are from insanely high water speeds too.

Do you have any activated carbon you can run for a week?

“If” I were buying a setup from scratch where I anticipate things to go smoothly and to stay in the hobby I would purchase: A dennerle scapers tank 55l or a 45x30x30. I would buy a chihiros slim or twinstar, I forget the range name but the most powerful one. I’d run them at 50% for the first...

Yeah they’re a bit like kabutai, where there diminutive size isn’t really a guide for the tank size. 45cm having kept and bred them is about the minimum with a 60cm being preferable. They’re also fine with higher flows and seem to actively choose higher flow areas to spend the majority of the...

I have grown a carpet of hc in a 30cm cube with a single Leddy led lamp, lots of nutrients, lots of co2, not a lot of light is a good recipe for a very stable tank provided you’re over the minimum light threshold.

Up to about 1cm then they could fall victim. Above that size they seemed less vulnerable though I have seen 15mm or so to be attached immediately post molt.

Yeah. Good luck. I had a colony of cherry shrimp with galaxies for a few years and they twice caused the colony to collapse through predation needing me to dump in another 100 or so from another tank to get the colony going again. They are a very predatory species and are not really shrimp safe...

That was something I noticed only very recently when a big name was spouting some tosh or another about only one type of fish and this and that and I’d just that day had NAW2&3 in my hands and did a “nah mate”, that was rare in fact upon counting. But it was also era dependent when we talk...

I mean, (make space, hot takes and big swings coming through) in my experience when we talk about biotopes they’re either not a biotope. “here’s my Amazonia biotope with anubias and bolbitis and ignore the hara cats”. Well. I mean buddy, the Amazon is pretty big and varied and last I checked...

Wood. Tangle.

Diorama is missing from the list, this is what most competition tanks are. I’m a Nature Aquarium guy myself but I aren’t adverse to an iwagumi or a diorama if it doesn’t look like a model railway. I think iwagumi are good for a flash in the pan scape, about a month is usually what they take...

There aren’t many temperate fish that also do well at that temp that’s what makes them temperate. The only one I can think of isn’t really a temperate is the green neon which has a huge 10c temperature tolerance but going from 30+ back down to low 20’s will stress them no end in my experience...

Don’t go for cpds if you want shrimp, they will even collapse a cherry shrimp colony they go after the babies so throughly.

Off topic I know but how big does it get, I put one in my 60x45x36 and now think it might be a bit “robust”. I dunno if this helps but I trim moss like a hairdresser, pull it between fingers and then trim and put the held part in a bucket, afterwards I then hoover up with my patented precision...

Perhaps if this is to be the new normal, it will see a push for greater efficiency pumps and leds? Remember when leds came out and it meant 24w ish of led seemed like it was going to be the new normal for lighting?

It’s good stuff

I would point you to the 2hour aquarist on low tech - marks video is something like a starting point but is somewhat misleading as soon as you get to larger/deeper tanks and doesn’t deal with the problems that show up long term. Basically his experiment stopped before the majority of low tech...

I asked this of Dennis Wong recently for my new tank of similar dimensions and was pointed towards the week aqua over the chihiros but they are a nightmare to find info/get a hold of in Europe.

I used one of them gravity fed auto top offs to keep water level stable while away for a week (my tanks have shelving above them) and for the amount of evaporation, the ph change was negligible using tap. I came to this conclusion by monitoring the gh/kh/ph the week before I was to need it...

Shills gonna shill. Lord knows there’s plenty of them in the aquarium hobby.

It’s a bit of a how long is a piece of string question. Adding “a lot” will undoubtably stress lifestock, the filter and plants with the high amount of leaching. However if it’s just “some” if you keep up extra water changes, then in my experience spikes can be minimised as the filter is...

I had to leave the hobby because of landlords. Given the state of the world, I suspect it’s the same for an awful lot of us without the ability to purchase.

Really best is relative to your tastes and the quality of the aquarium. Quality wise the spendy options ADA etc are going to be “best” in terms of finish. The dimensions however might not be to your taste or suit the scape style you have in mind. I just bought a dennerle 55l white glass and...

Is there room for someone enterprising to offer a non-blue tooth control for all these lights for us ludites who like things that clunk and pop and have steam and levers and gears. In my mind a separate hard circuits dumb controller has to be more reliable if all it’s doing is ramping up and...

No idea myself either, but would be really nice to know what a lot of the common rocks actually are so we can hunt them down in parts of the planet with not much quality hard scape in the aquarium world. If I knew what hakkai stones were to find them without paying ££££££ for example. There’s...

Yeahhhhhh… I’m guilty of mts. I have 3 hi tech and 2 low tech and would really like to get to just 2-3 bigger tanks all hi-tech the intention being to have an iwagumi a traditional nature and something more experimental or 2 slow tanks and one topiary tank. The gardening side I really enjoy.

Having kept both, bazz is correct in saying ideal conditions for each fish are at the opposite ends of the scale but also the temperament of the fish I suspect would stress each other out given that when I kept chillis with honey gouramis they would go to where ever the gourami wasn’t as if the...

https://youtube.com/c/DanOlsenPhoto https://danolsen.dk/ My local fish man also does videos and photos. I highly recommend taking a flick through and maybe even subscribing, I know he’d like that.

Looks real nice, John. Time to thin them buces soon I’d think. I have to think to try new plants more also, it gets very easy to fall back on “the classics”.

Shots fired.

I’ve done whole system water changes when I’ve had co2 disasters and monitored the tanks after and had no detectable spikes to indicate that the biological aspect of the filtration has also crashed.

I only recently had this thought after spending 15 years measuring out 50% of total system (including filter) and I’m glad to read someone else had the thought to ask.

Depends on the sp to some extent but I think it’s largely anecdotal that it works long term. I would use as many crypts as I could get my hands on if I were you and have a really rich substrate. When I look at my low tech tanks it’s always the crypts that don’t seem too bothered by the lower...

Has anyone studied ikeas catalog? They had light panels on their displays last time I was in.

Tall tanks with shallow depth front to back are the hardest to scape. A 60x45x45 is an analog to 45x30x30 which is one of the nicest tanks to have to scape because you have both height and depth to work with. At a point too much depth can become a hindrance if it is not balanced, the hyper depth...

No gaspers. Seems it really was the filter.

No gaspers this morning. I'll take the Hob off and monitor, I'm thinking we've got to the bottom of it. Clogged filter floss.

Cleaned the filter and gave it a really good once through, the floss I'd put in only 2 weeks ago was black, can't believe how dirty it had gotten so fast, good job the 150's are an easy filter to clean. Added a HOB for extra night time agitation, will drop the water level to increase it more at...

I'm convinced co2 is the red herring here - something else has to be at play for no injection to still be resulting in gasping. High organics could use up the o2, plants respiring... Something is off somewhere.

Gaspers. Again. No co2 was injected during the afternoon/evening yesterday and the drop checker was very dark green at lights off. At lights on it was still very dark green almost blue. Only thing I can think is a dirty filter and a trip to get a test kit rather than strips to see if there's...

WELL. I thunked I'd got to the bottom of it when the timer appeared to be still on 2 hours after it shouldn't be. Another big 50% water change, check the drop checker, yellow, fish gasping again. Check the bubble counter, co2 going like mad. Checked the regulator, empty. My speculation is that...

This is true, but I did a 50% water change and hadn't injected any more co2 - I went straight into lights off. In my mind I'd reset the clock so to speak by doing the water change before adding fish?

Kh is around 23 last time I checked. It usually gets harder in the summer and is more like 28dH then.

Surface agitation is so so, not insane but a nice spin, I have no film so I hadn't really worried to raise the lily. O2 I worked on the "everything's pearling" notion but you're right o2 would be my first point. Mass taken out would be 2/3rds of the stem plant mass roughly. A really big trim.

I present to you a mystery who done it. My green rasbora's have been in quarantine and fattening up nicely since just before Christmas and I want to shut that tank down, so I did the same as I do when I add shrimps to the tanks. I did a 50% water change before co2 comes on in the morning to...

I'm pretty sure the distribution is handled by the german office for all of europe, that's the case here in DK.

Planaria is a japanese sp. apparently, the concesus is that they are "in the water" of many dealer systems so they end up in the store, then in your tank as hitchhikers.

You can tell when they've caught a shrimp because they go the same colour as the food, in my instance I would see blue and black ones happily skirting about, they obviously made a huge dent because it reached a point where I had an entire missing generation of shrimp and I would see them berried...

My nano uses lillys and has no side holes, it makes it a touch harder but it's not impossible, and drilling holes in would be easy!

Sorry Jack, just to reiterate, my tank is/was a 60x45x45 not a 45cm cube but still I'd be interested to hear back from you and I'd certainly like to know where Posidion got the safety tolerances from... Perhaps it's mixed messages or people set in there ways that is the reason why pilkingtons...

Jack, what is your specific knowledge, is it based on suck it and see or is it coming from the maker of your glass? I'm not saying that you couldn't build it in 8mm or thinner, but that it might not be clever to do so because it makes the tank more prone to fail. I contacted pilkingtons direct...

They're meant to be nice but the glass strikes me as thin? I have a 60x45x45 and it's got 10mm glass and was told it wouldn't be safe to make it any thinner, something I contacted Pilkingtons glass about and they confirmed.

I hear you there, very little has that wow factor like a tank at reasonable distance and all you can see is the scape, I've been saying it for what seems like forever, the hobby is crying out for some clear plastic hardware!

For the first few months I personally never stray much over 6 hours light until I'm happy the tank is stable, after that point I will add some hygro polysperma or some other stemplant if I haven't already got a mobile leaved plant in the tank and will increase the time over a period of about a...

Ahh well in response to your question directly, it's largely impossibly to say as every tank is different, you would have to find the sweet spot by experimentation. That said, when I've ran two filters in the past I find that having an outlet in each corner tends to give really good flow...

Nope, like I say, I've owned them all, Cal aqua, ada, gush, PM, Aquatic magic and one or too other "non brands" too I took a risk on them and saw no better in terms of performance from the cal aqua's than any other brand for the money and personally found the plastic jbl lilys to give the best...

The problem is related to you having no co2, the plants melting is it's way of telling you that it needs more co2.

Have you used them in the past? They're not as obvious as you'd think. If you do go for lilys, I've used all of the big brands with the exception of do aqua and I would say that though cal aqua is the best, there's very little in it between them and the much cheaper powerman lilys, I've not had...

I wouldn't stress about lily pipes overly, I personally found that the JBL triangular jet outlet gave both better surface movement and over all spread of flow than any type of lily pipe I've owned ever has. Lily pipes look nice and aren't made of green or black plastic and that's about all they...

Not working for me, Morgan?

Mid tech as a definition is generally medium light but liquid carbon dosed with ferts, they don't have any other form of co2 other than liquid.

Because money is harder to come by than it ever has been? The whole issue here stems from knowing you can get it cheaper from abroad, blaming tgm isn't going to change that but perhaps understanding why the price difference is so large will finally put a death-knell in a topic that's been...

And people in the US deride AFA for being more expensive than the Senske brothers' ADG...! I've been reliably informed ADA is actually cheaper in the US than it is in Japan, which I find very hard to believe. I have to agree, it's hard to see where the additional cost is coming from but when...

For me feeling I got my moneys worth is far more important than a shop that I can't get to but then I'd say I'm an A-typical consumer. It depends on what you want, I prefer to buy after research and this isn't always possible in a shop and is certainly easier online plus, you pay what you feel...

It's about a 40% mark up on ADA. What I do find strange is even at that mark up the price to the distributor is about the same as the retail price of ADA in the US. I attribute this to shipping but I've been told there's very little difference in it. I don't know what the tax levels are like...

Danny, I was merely suggesting that clearseal would be cheaper. I've bought tanks from them in the past and though not optiwhite the silicon work is as good as the Do aquatanks I've seen. It depends on what you're after at the end of the day. If you want cheaper ADA, buy from Germany or...

TGM are also the company that distribute ADA in the uk, you're unlikely to save much, perhaps approaching someone like clearseal might be better?

I know, right. I've been saying the hobby is contracting and sort of not wanting to believe it, but this sort of confirms what I've long suspected. I suppose. Lets just hope it's a stepping stone to bigger things.

http://www.aquascapingworld.com/threads ... more.7047/ Awaiting more details from them but sadly, CAU is no more.

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Girl* But yeah, I loved that post, when I walk to uni there's a footwell full of ferns and I always thought how nice it'd be to look out onto. Turns out I was right.

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No. Nothing worth visiting. I visited planted tanks incognito and found it to have mediocre selection of everything and staff with very little knowledge of the hobby, the south Leeds maidenhead aquatics has better quality stock and hardscape materials, paws for thought aren't a plant specialist...

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Hello everyone. Can anyone help me with contacting Aquariums ltd, have they gone bump or something? I've emailed them and called but I'm unable to get an answer, the phone's either engaged or it never gets answered. Unfortunately my 60x45x45 that I'd lent to my grandparents front pain failed...

Glad to see this is still going, regrettably some pretty horrible things from people I thought would know better have gotten back to me about my position on this forum in addition to being threatened with legal action from PFK and as such I will no longer be posting, clearly I haven't been...

Yeah Oryzias latipes, rice fish, most likely I understand they're used quiet often in Wabi kusa for their muted colours.

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... M7Hn3VZhSA Thanks NeilW, a little refresher on Wabi kusa, some very nice little tanks. See also: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=17732