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Aslong as the fish aren't ripping the plants up or eating them they won't be bothered at all.

If you JUST keep plants then no you don't have to cycle the tank but you will have to cycle if keeping fish. Plants don't produce ammonia but fish do. You can add ammonia to do a fishless cycle and then stock to the full load almost immediately or add the fish in small numbers slowly building...

What about diseases from fish though? I don't have many fish yet but I will be getting some soon I hope when I see something I like.

I saved the 90 odd litres of water from my last water change and weve been using it to water the vegetable patch this last week. I've used it for house plants before and they look a bit perkier, esecially the ones that need their compost changing. I don't forsee any problem but is there any...

I've got glass sliding covers on mine but I still see evaporation on a lesser scale. I don't suppose you can do much on an open top rimless tank without making them look naff apart from topping up.

That's a nice bit of BBA you have there mate. :lol: Personally I don't mind it on rocks and stones like that but I'd remove any leaves with it on. You could do with having a major clean up and a good trim which would help to increase flow and help sort the bba. The yellowing is either iron or...

The way I see it you are after getting the water flow to all the places in the tank it needs to go. If you can do this with 10x turnover then why add more?

Mention powercuts to some of the people over at PFK and they go into spasms of fear that something bad will happen telling you the filter media is going to die off after an hour. Really you don't need to worry unless it's going to last for a long time, like days. Aslong as your room stays fairly...

Worth a bookmark that is. :wink: