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Looking forward to it! :)

https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/twinstar-nano-issue.62176/post-613056

that's a very good question! I'm afraid its been so long since I wrote that Ive forgotten! Ill do some searching and report back

That silicon work looks pretty dire to me tbh

They did say they will do their best to host it again

I’m praying not

Should be a good one. Thought it would sell fast and apparently sold out within 4 hours! See you there Ryan :)

Theres one by me that Ill probably use for my shrimp tank. As above they were previously trade only so Im glad they've changed now.

Nick Chan at Aquarium Cabinet Solutions does some very nice custom tanks and stands

I’ve already done it! [emoji23]

Have you thought about getting some Ada hornwood from Tgm now it’s half price? You could probably fill a 60cm scape for a hundred quid at the moment and it will be cheaper than shipping manzi over

Tom bar is in the US. Prices will vary depending on the size of box. I’ll have to look into the oase. Sounds like it has some good features

There is but it only becomes visible after so many posts. I’ll check with Paulo

Try his forum directly if you do t have Facebook. https://barrreport.com/threads/manzanita-this-year.14278/ Re filter I’ve always fancied getting a g6 for the handy cleaning. Not tried an oase filter sorry

You could contact Tom Barr directly on Facebook. He sells and ships big boxes of Manzi. You could probably make your money back by picking the pieces you want then selling the others on eBay. If you are after a custom tank near to 60p then have a word with Nick Chan of aquarium cabinet...

Cubes are a pita to scape. Go with a mini-m Re scaping the nano tanks. If you’re going low tech you’ll need to reduce the light output from the big leds. I usually smash loads of co2 into my high tech nanos at the beginning and keep them unstocked. Shrimp seem to do quite well in high co2 if...

Welcome back Dean. I am also back after a bit of an outage at home. Currently designing a Dennelle scapers tank in my kitchen which Ill be putting pics up of soon. If you want a Mini-m from the UK then sadly they are sold out at the main distributer Greenmachine. There may be some in the...

Innovative marine Sr-80. I'll be sticking a build thread up soon

The deadline for the AGA entry is tomorrow (sept 18th) so if you're thinking of entering then pop over there to register and get your scapes in! http://enter.aquatic-gardeners.org/?&op=showpage&name=index Ill be entering this (with plants in)

They'll be fine in the box in a cool room as long as they are shipping in good condition. Just give them a spray and seal the box

what settings are you using on the camera? Can you see the lights above the tank through the lens? (if so try and fix it so you can't, i.e. flag it with some card or something)

Im going to see if I can get down one of the days. Need to check the train times and prices :)

TGM blue stone is a schist so you may get some in a garden centre or quarry or they do mail order. Manten is very rare (and expensive!) in the UK and the only place Ive found is TGM or theres a guy in stafford sells it on ebay as Mantens stone. If you want anything like big boxes of seiryu or...

Terrible news. Far too young to go :( rip amano.

just to note make sure you use the correct ratio of vinegar to water as mentioned above. I used too much vinegar in mine and killed the probe :(

akadama tends to suck all the minerals out of tank water. Just wondering if its the case here or have the crypt roots taken over the substrate and clogged it up? Definately add ferts and change the water more often to see if it makes a difference plus all plants need some sort of carbon whether...

Yep it will auto sense the connection

Just use a converter for the plug pins and check the transformer is 230-240v and should be ok. Was it bought online?

My 120x45x45 is optiwhite in the front panel only and I dont notice any green in the back panel. If I was buying new though Id go all optiwhite (mine was second hand)

Hmm good point but Ive done it personally before and its not caused any problems and you've got lots of plants in their to gobble up some of the ammonia. Hopefully someone with better chemistry experience than me will be able to chip in. If in doubt then delay the fish another week as it...

Its just pumice so should be fine but as you say you may want to cap a bit more soil on top if its quite low. If you are re-planting you can try and lower the water level quite low which makes planting easier if there are no fish in there yet.

Ill leave these links here from the search. By all accounts you will get a good quality tank its just the "when" thats always up in the air with them :( My 90cm was from them before they went bust the last time and changed their name and I had the same problems with delivery. (The tank is...

Fair enough. I thought it was judged at Telford :)

Great that there's a UK comp but I wont be entering due to this. Keeping a new scape under wraps for several months just stifles the hobby in my opinion. Fair enough to not show the final image of the tank so it can be used for J&K's promotion but to not show any setup and progress with others...

What Vink said above :) I usually keep my filter running through a bucket of water when I re-scape so it keeps the bacteria alive ready for the new tank. I read an article from Nathan on PFK a few years back that suggested a lot of the bacteria still survives even after you stop the filter...

I'd go open top with some LED's Paulo. They give a lot less spill that t5's or MH

looks really nice but as you say they need a dimmer and somewhere to hide the wire coming down the side which flaps about :(

Ive got 50 odd kilos of Seiryu in there so Im guessing thats the source but the unit has been in there running since the beginning of the year with no problems up until about a month ago and hadnt fuzzed up before and water is really soft as im in wales :)

i think mines goosed. To be fair it does seem to work when its running but mine started collecting calcium all over the diode and blocking the metal part. Ive had it in de-scaler which removes it overnight only to find it re-grows all the deposits within days after that :(

Tap but our water is very soft. My tanks full of seiryu though so it will get the deposits from that I expect

mine seems to work but its covered in calcium at the moment so doesnt do much :(

Is anyone from UKAPS entering? Ive put my IAPLC tank in to see how it gets on as theyve been advertising it as a European competition. Deadline is tonight and quite easy to enter if you've already got a pic ready. www.gaplc.eu

I think ND will be your best bet if you dont want to spend on an ADA (lots of dollar!) then a cab from somewhere else. It looks like aquariums ltd have started up again under a different name but others have had problems with long build times and deliveries in the past (including me) plus they...

green machine are getting them in the next container which is arriving soon I think.

pity they dont do a 120cm yet in the TMC

anubias dont like easycarbo, same with some vallis, mosses (if high dose) and liverworts. Riccardia hates it as it goes grey and dies :(

It wont look like that in real life although there will be a green tint. The NA-green bulb is very hard to photograph as if you dont get the white balance correct on the camera it will look odd like it does in Juris photo.

Thats great news then and Ill prepare my paper hat now :) I was thinking they had moved the operation over to the states so would be liable to the usual taxes and import fees but if its still in portugal then great :) Here's hoping they also consider selling separately as I quite like their...

The thing with the prices above and saying the ADA is double is a bit misleading. If Aquavas do a straight $ -> £ conversion depending on the current exchange rate Ill eat my hat as historically in good ole rip off britain $4000 in the US means £4000 here. PS, ADA cabs must have gold brackets...

Doing mine now. Nothing like last minute

sort of :) http://instagram.com/p/obUl3GpH8S/ havent worked out how to embed instagram images here.

Cheers Al. Not entirely that confident with it this year as its a plain old mountatin scape but we'll see

im just trying to get my stems in order before I take a final pic.

i have about 2cm clear on mine. and fill it up for photos ;)

Yep :)

lol, its alright, theyll miss quote it to get the grammar wrong!

quote /// They are killing the nhs single handedly. //// unquote ah, youve already supplied your next headline for the article :D

This shall now be my one goal in life. To get you in the fail :)

and Im not from bloody Cheshire! lol

i Was thinking of trying some gtechniq c2v3 or DLUX on my glass while its empty. hmmm wonder if ill bother now.

congrats mark, very well deserved :)

buy her a VAX for her birthday, problem solved :D

i think andy is on hols at the moment which is why he hasnt answered. it was from tom barr and as above he's a member on ukaps as plantbrain. cracking service he provides all the way from the states :) Ive been eyeing up some of the quality pieces hes got for sale on another forum.

balls :( I was really looking forward to this and had already booked leave so I could help out on the friday. we need to look into getting a national meet together somehow. Ill miss watching Iain fall flat on his face again after many many many alcoholic drinks!

lol! yes there is that. I was just thinking for people who didnt want to spend $200 on wood. We must sound crazy to our other halfs!

its got more exposure now though ian but I expect the markup was pretty high and thus the price. you could get a massive box full off tom barr for $200 a while back. Use what you want and sell the rest cheap to make some money back.

it doesnt grow here unfortunately. only place ive seen it in pictures is high altitude mountains and Tom Barr in the USA kindly collects loads of it each year in his truck and sells it. Dont really know why any uk retailers havent cottoned onto it

ha ha! im in competition for the title geek

geek :D looking forward to the new scape!

stop right there! ive spent enough on stone recently! ive only got one kidney left now!

looks super knarly! are you the first to use it in a uk scape iain cos ive not seen it in any yet? im quite surprised about the params as it looks like something that would leach like mad! lol

Get some pics up of that maple leaf Iain. Wouldn't mind seeing what it looks like

If hes using the easycarbo as he mentioned then it "should" be possible to grow these "glossostigma, pogostemen helferi and HC". Co2 would help of course but its only an 8 litre tank. Although Ive never managed to grow glosso in any tanks whereas others find it a weed so I may be missing...

god thats an old thread! In answer to the ops question then yes it is possible to grow those plants in there but you'd be better off with a filter attached. You really have to watch your water doesnt go icky too with the small volume in there so you have to keep on top of water changes...

huge crappola! zero surface area, squash all your small fish in the baffles when you a squeezing it down and... suitable for marine.. really!??

:(

maybe theyve changed procedures then. hopefully they have When I ordered mine the order stalled for two days then they sent me a mail saying they were refunding the stone amount and they had despatched the filter :( maybe they were just out of stock!

zooplus.de wouldnt ship stones to the UK when I ordered my filter. if its andy aquatics that youve seen the 10kg and 20kg stones in then it will be varied in the box. the 10Kg is used to be made by splitting a 20kg so its the same stones. I used a 20Kg and some existing to do my 90cm in the...

If Id have put crypts there then I may have had problems but there was a good few inches of aquasoil above and I dont tend to move plants around anyway as you just end up with amonia spikes. Also it was just stems planted above this which dont root deeply :)

heres some pummice in mine 90x45x45cm Planted Tank by Stu Worrall Photography, on Flickr

what he said. or put rocks underneath

Cracking weekend full of great aquascaping, good friends and nice food and beer! The level of the scapes stepped up again this year and we all commented how great it was that not one scape was the same as any other. Me and Graeme nearly didnt get home on the Sunday night as our 19:16 train got...

Lol. Me and Graeme are hopefully on the right train. Been going since 4:55 yawn!

yep and hopefully theyll learn from it for next year :)

lets hope they sort out the voting for next time as I'd like to see the real outcome from real votes, ie logged via IP at least or as above registering to vote. I was tracking this through the voting stages and if anyone thinks it was legit they need their head testing, lol

yes there was stuff on sale there but also some suppliers were there with all their gear which wasn't for sale as they had distributers there they didnt want to upset! was very confusing looking at stuff then trying to buy it only toi be told it wasnt for sale! Think aquajardin will be there...

Cheers Paulo, staying in the hotel around the corner but thanks anyway :) Got the train tickets booked now for saturday morning, first class on the way home was only two quid dearer than standard!

lol, yes paulo, bet it was heavy too! I should be down for the two days. Not much point in coming all that way for a single day.

Ha ha! nope, it was too dear to get in and I'd spent all my money on aquascaping! Yep should be down this year for another chat :)

:lol:

is the glamour/porno show on again next door? interesting tube ride home to Paulo's on the saturday night last year with all sorts of "products" sticking out the customers bags!! :lol:

its still there :) 23rd is the deadline http://www.ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=23077

boo :(

lol! you bugger :)

theres a great interview with that one here http://peleblogs.blogspot.com/2012/02/en-el-foco-delicate-world-de-long-tran.html?m=1 he used steel bars to build it :)

I thought they might do. Ill pop in next week and check, dread to think how much it will be coming from ada though!

Really want to get me some of that Unzan stone!!! Anyone know if its just really knurly black lava? have a look at these two videos of them setting up a massive tank in the ada gallery. Notice how they use what looks like coir matt at the back to stop the aqua soil from spreading into the...

from http://imgur.com/gallery/Lvtqr

Just to check but did you know that seachem flourish excel (and easycarbo) can damage (and melt) vallis? Just wondering if this is one of the reasons you're getting the biofilm from them melting? Also, I don't think that the liquid co2 can be affected by the surface agitation at night as its...

we won't laugh, I've got a yoga matt under my 90cm :lol: