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Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea im waiting for the crypt to lower its leaves as it is advertised to lay its leaves on the substrate, also the valis should hopefully fill out in time creating the effect you described :) eleocharis still not doing well though

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea New iphone so new camera at last! Here are some pics from about 3 weeks ago: During a water change something very weird happened. I usually siphon out 4-5 buckets of water which is roughly 35-45% of the water. After i...

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea All fish are now in apart from the cories so they dont dig up and uproot the eleocharis. Also added 6 ottos which are doing great and much better than my last batch, they are even schoaling with the harlequins from left to right which...

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea Haven't posted in a while as i've been very busy with the olympics (working in excess of 60-80 hours in a week with only 1 or 2 days off). I decided a while ago now that i want to rescape the whole tank. Reason being it's been running...

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea Thanks Ady, i've noticed a steady decrease and observed some of it go red/pink the other day so hopefully fingers crossed it's going!

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea the other 1 is doing absolutely fine though, very weird! and still can't rid this stupid staghorn

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea Monthly update, ottos and corys are doing great and had no issues with them so far. I am however trying to battle a case of either BBA or Staghorn, not too sure which 1. Either way though both have the same symptoms and both are due...

2nd May Bought some shrimp from LFS 5 x crystal red. They have settled in well and so far so good, they are always cleaning the substrate and plants. I think i will pick up a few amano shrimp soon and then look toward getting a small shoal of fish, maybe some celestial pearl danios...

Re: 90x75x45 optiwhite. So what is plan B?? great vid thanks easer

Re: Transparent Tank - reborn brilliant post :)

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea Cheers for the advice Ady ;)

10th April 20th April Can see a large difference between the two sets of photos, the rotala, tenellus and tripartite are all growing very well. Unfortunately the valis nana hasn't really grown so i may have to purchase another batch. The HC isn't spreading at all which is disapointing...

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea My monthly update The CO2 is all set up, i haven't had any major issues with it so far. I haven't fiddled with the flow rate since setting it up as i'm scared it'll adversely affect the fish. The DC is showing a deep green so it's...

absolutely amazing, well done :D

23rd March Plants arrived, i filled the tank so the substrate was submerged and started to plant. I was so focused on trimming the roots and getting them in the tank that i put the echinodorus and tripartite in each others places by accident. Once they were all in i slowly filled the tank. I...

Re: 125L First tank, low turned high tech, plant and pic hea The only things i changed were getting rid of the melting xinguensis and the unknown moss which was in front of the bogwood, everything else has stayed but been trimmed a little. Once the barclaya has grown with the loniplumolosus the...

Re: Rio 125 Low tech, plant heavy, first tank (lots pics) Did a huge tidy up the other day because i wasn't happy with a few things which had been niggling at me a long time. I also found that removing the juwel filter was very difficult with water in the tank. I took out the fish and put them...

looks really good so far micmath!

Thanks for your advice Tom, i'll rejig a little :)

amazing for a first tank mate, lots of growth and no melting, big congrats on a good job

I can definitely say that i am now addicted to fish keeping and aqua scaping! Managed to persuade my g/f to get a nano tank for the spare room so i can try my hand at a high tech iwagumi. Please let me know of what you think of the rock formation i made. I played around with different ideas...

Re: 259L bookcase tank - planted up! definitely, i have 6 in with some harlequins and 3 golden honey gouramis and they can be a little overpowering by nicking all the food, very very active fish but lovely

looking good mate

how is your tank coming along green?

Re: Rio 125 Low tech, plant heavy, first tank (lots pics) Thank you very much faizal, your comments are much appreciated and i hope people will learn from my mistakes. I'm hoping i can rearrange the plants a bit better once they grow more after i add a CO2 set up, at the moment i'm still...

Re: Rio 125 Low tech, plant heavy, first tank (lots pics) I can still only count 1 MTS so the population is either being controlled (somehow) or they are all hiding and will swarm the tank en mass at some point! The loniplumulosus is doing fine, i think it is now properly secured to the...

Re: First ever tank Unfortunately i had to get rid of my cardimine lyrata, it was growing so well i wanted to let it establish so i didn't cut away old leaves and roots and during a water change it became entangled around the filter outlet pipe and the only way to get it free was to rip it all...

Re: First ever tank Couple of vids and some pics I eventually found my missing danio, you can see from the below pic where they are starting to huddle. I can only imagine that whilst huddling in this tiny corner 1 has jumped through the tiny hole next to the filter and ended up in here...

Re: First ever tank Thanks for the advice all, i am using the 4dkh solution callum (i bought it with the drop checker off aquaessentials) but i guess that doesn't matter for the mo (i wish i knew that before purchasing them, but i'll most probably move onto pressurised co2 canisters at some...

Re: First ever tank A month has passed so i thought i'd make another update before i get some more fish next week some time. I bought a CO2 drop checker because i was concerned at the lack of growth in some plants. I've had it for about 2 weeks now and the colour hasn't changed at all and it...

Your algae is very similar to the type i get, i've had mine for about 2 months roughly and get brown patches of algae on the glass and i have noticed some brown bits on some plants but i haven't got anywhere near as much as you. I also dose aqua CO2 and ferts daily so not sure why i've still got...

Re: First ever tank I may look into swapping the substrate at some point but because i've just started i'll leave it as it is at the mo. I have noticed though that most people use ADA aqua soil amazonia in their tanks and this doesn't require a top substrate.

Re: First ever tank Popped into Living waters this morning and spent about an hour talking to the owner. It looks like Valis doesn't do too well with aqua carbon and will eventually die altogether which is why i've been having problems with it over the last week. I ended up buying 3x golden...

Re: First ever tank yep about 40% a week

Re: First ever tank Quick vid of the danios hugging the front glass and especially congregating in the top left corner, dunno if this is strange behaviour or normal? sometimes they swim and explore the tank but often they just stick to this front glass. Video taken from the side. It's on...

Re: First ever tank Quick update, whilst ordering the aqua carbon from AE i got sucked in browsing and bought a small piece of bogwood with (i think!) christmas moss covering it. I've put this just in front of the valis and will hopefully buy something small to go next to it. I also bought an...

Re: The Transparent Tank Challenge Your journal is fantastic, just spent 20 minutes reading it from the start and i've learnt a lot from it. I thought puffers were strictly brackish water, how come you're keeping them with tetras?

Tank is looking good, i also have echin ozelot and it's a fantastic plant. It's constantly producing new deep red leaves which slowly turn green as they develop but keep lots of red spots on them; it's very hardy too.

Re: First try - 65L planted really like the moss you've grown on the wood, looks fantastic

hi ghost, i love the tank, how are the harlequins? im still pondering whether to get them along with my zebra danios or lemon tetras

Re: Tonys 'Triassic Hollow' 420L - Altums in residence lovely tank and your fish look great

Re: Slow Cave [First photos] looking good and very promising

Re: First ever tank Just bought my first fish and put 6 Zebra Danios in the tank, they seem to be settling in very nicely and are all darting around exploring the new environment. I fed them a few flakes but they weren't overly interested in it and now they are all searching the gravel and...

Re: First ever tank Did a 50% water change and cleared up as much dead leaves and floating debris as i could. Also installed my new Hydor Koralia 900L/H circ pump to help remove dead spots in the tank and counter act the plants from dying. This is directed from the rear left towards the front...

very nice tank mate

Re: First ever tank Will look into some liquid co2 solutions. Viv did you mean this product? http://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/ae-desi ... -2988.html Your link shows results to a search for "aqua carbon." RD i've used a small gravel substrate, i also put a larger gravel substrate containing...

Re: First ever tank Haven't used any fertilisers at all, after posting under the plant section for some advice i've just bought a Hydor Koralia circulation pump to reduce dead flow spots and also tropica plant nutrition plus in the hope to revive some plants. I'm not planning on using any CO2...

Hi all, i'm totally new to the aquarium scene and stumbled across the site after joining LFKC. Thought i'd make a journal in the hope of gaining much needed help and advice from the experts and hopefully see the tank grow into a well established habitat for my fish and plants. I went with the...