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Hi Sanj, Thanks for coming back after so long. You'll be happy to hear we have a new fence now :-) but that's got naff all to do with Co2 or EI or any possible GSA on my Anubias leaves ok. lol The tanks always changing, and I guess is looking more natural rather than showy as time goes by...

Does anybody ever go from High tech to Low tech?????? :-/

Thanks for your pointers there, much appreciated. Although it sounds as though Low Tech could prove higher stress!? I've actually watched our 2ft thrive with hardly any effort. No CO2, rarely add any ferts and waterchange every 2 weeks or so. Plants do take longer to grow new leaves, but they're...

Thanks for the kind words :-) The tanks going ok actually. Had an attempt at a spawn from my Geos. The largest 2 fish paired up, but as is often the case they messed it up. Let's see how they go next time around. I'm having thoughts of changing things a little though. Hi all If I chose to go...

Much more of a challenge than the initial setup which is after all, always going to be down to your own personal taste. I can see you love the Aquascaping though so with this passion you should find it easy to persist with everything going forward and create stable longterm scapes that move and...

Lovely looking tanks! I have to ask though, what is the longest period you have had a tank set up and running? Gavin

Hi Mark Thanks, I'm glad you like it. The wood was found over a period and I searched and advertised to find large pieces I liked. It's funny but my initial ideas of how the wood arrangement would be, changed completely. You have to work with what's available, and in this case I'm very pleased...

Clive I do smile reading of your matrix theory. Yet again the good old Internet has provided me matrix information :-) I'd have went ahead without worrying too much on the substrate, but I'm glad I asked. The basket would have been ideal for jamming between rocks in the tank. As this is down...

Clive, Cheers for the pics, they're all nice but that splaying out of big leaves might be the look I'm after. What do you think? It's for the front right of my tank. The area with a mound of boulders. I was thinking of leaving it in it's basket, or transferring to a larger basket then hiding the...

The gas goes off way before 8.30pm when the 2nd light goes off. CO2 goes off at 6pm. This points out how slow the plants I have use up the CO2 I guess. I'll have a look at those 2 echindorus. What do you think about E. Schlueteri? Cheers

Clive I will look at those suggested plants. It's always nice to have a reason to add more plants :-) This is the end of the tank showing where I've mounted the aponogeton. It was a little further over and in a strong flow which it obviously didn't like. When i moved it toward the corner more...

Hi Darrel If your suspicion is correct, then what would the fish be doing? Would I expect to see rapid breathing, fish hanging near the surface? Or would all look normal? Thanks Gavin

Hi Darrel, I tried the timer with airstone overnight but it raised PH and it meant that when the co2 came on it took longer for the drop checker to reach Green/Yellow so I needed a longer co2 period and used more gas. The other thing which I'd read of other people suffering, was I got a sudden...

Hi Nicholas, Thanks very much. Great to hear you're setting up a Geo tank. Give me some idea of what plans you have in place already. I went against the norm to set up a high tech planted display and keep a group of cichlids, but I do not regret it. My Pindare have coloured up nicely of late...

Clive So if you were to recommend a faster growing, good oxygen producing plant for this tank, now you've seen it, what would you suggest? And where would you put it? I'm all ears when it comes to adding more oxygen. Before I went high tech and I was on the right track with the plants after...

Clive I think I'll try doing exactly that starting from Sunday for a week and see if there's a noticeable difference. It's amazing the growth the anubias in the centre has achieved. I had loads of java behind them and ive removed much of that now and brought one lovely bunch forward that was...

Here's the initial planning pic of the main parts in the wood arrangement

Here's a few shots of the fish My lovely L123 plecs. I have 4 of them and I still haven't spoke with anyone who has kept these. small algae cleaners. Ancistrus Claro. 4 also sub adult Geophagus Pindare (x6) huge bleeding heart tetras (x16) Peru gold laser (or orange stripe)...

Thanks Tony :-) The sand is swimming pool filter sand. Excellent stuff. Not too fine, so doesn't compact like other sands. It's inert, so has no affect on PH. And it's heavy, so it doesn't get washed around and end up in the filter. Chose it for the Eartheater Geophagus cichlids more than...

Here's my plant list:- ANUBIAS:- Caladefolia Barteri Barteri Nana Barteri nana petite stardust Lanceolatta Afzelii Hastefolia Heterophyla Java fern Java fern narrow java fern needle Hygrophila corymbosa Aponogeton crispus Cryptocoryne balansae Cryptocoryne green gecko Tried some Xmas...

Thanks BigTom, the two tall leaved anubias to the left are lanceolatta and afzelii from Left to Right. The Lanceolatta is on a limb behind the forward limb of wood and I recently removed a few large old leaves that had too much algae on them. Since then I've not been happy with this area and I...

Thanks guys, The tetras are enormous, yes. I never really cared for bleeding hearts but when I saw some adult ones I bought them immediately and mixed them with the lemon tetras I already had. I've not seen or heard of them larger, and they are eating machines, so being in with cichlids they...

Hi Thanks, my dosing I put in 2.1tsp potassium nitrate 3/week O.7 tsp potassium phosphate 3/week And the other days I add Trace 0.7tsp 3/week. I add nothing on a Saturday and 50% waterchange on a Sunday morning. That's my usual routine and dosage. Any recommendations? Cheers Gavin

Hi It's 5x2x2.5high. And the algae creeps in occasionally near the surface and on the old leaves but I try to keep on top of it. It's a delicate thing though controlling algae. It doesn't take much, like a day without CO2, or a filter in need of a clean to start it off. Cheers :-) will write...

Hi, I've gathered so much information from many folk here and from trawling through and reading everyone elses tank threads, well I thought it's about time I showed how my own is doing. It's been running now since April last year and after alot of stress with algae etc I've now been running it...