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Since we're here... this is my superfish Aqua Qube, heavily planted, growing out under the Dry Start Method (taken from on top - in the end, there'll be a path of Hc and taller plants on either side - probably a moss wall at the back) light came with it - 18w Got a Tetratex ex600 filter and...

The clip-on lights from plantedbox.com are pretty good - they do 9w, 11w and 18w - I haven't worked out what your total volume is, but would have thought one of those would be ok? filter - a lot of people go for Hang On Back filter - they have the Azoon Mignon at Aquatic Essentials if you...

This is a whole thread of different low-tech tanks... might be useful to look at: http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum/showthread.php/11044-Low-tech-%28non-CO2%29-tanks-post-your-pics!/page11

Thanks Clive... was on my way to get fish food this morning - seemed the best option - have already chucked some plants into the bucket - now sit back and wait.... me hero, as ever ta mx

I know - but this way I"m learning more - like, for instance... part of the point of DSM is to create a bacterial soup in the substrate - for which reason, I should have been using tap water (dechlorinated) from the start - which would have kept pH, GH and KH up. If I hadn't read the links...

So.... I'm doing a DSM start on the 90x75x45 Optiwhite -details in the journal. While researching DMS on Tom Barr's site, I came across this: I don't have filter from another tank and the four closest LFS (Maidenhead Aquatics, PAH, two garden centres) have all refused to give me some. I could...

ah heck... I left the ICU to become a real human being.... I hadn't realised I was slipping back down that slope. Low Tech it is, then... pity about all the money I just spent on fire extinguishers and a regulator/solenoid... :) maybe I'll just give them a go to see. But lots of patience and...

Clive - thank you - see journal in my sig for pics of the tank.... or see here: Front view a week ago, just after planting - by now, by far the happiest and best-growing bits are the HC on the large dragon stone - which are thoroughly thriving and growing fast. The rest isn't dying, which is...

OK - the people I talk to in real life haven't done this, so there's a degree of insecurity - the main problem is that, because I didn't understand what I was doing - I started moss at the same time as the Hemianthus cuba, Pogostomon helferi and Staurogyne sp. - and there's a suggestion that...

In the old days (which is to say 5 years ago, when I last had a tank), we used to soak all incoming plants in a weak solution of potassium permanganate to make sure it killed off all the snails... does nobody do this any more? is there a good reason why not? mx

Thanks, guys.... first rule of aquascaping... 'Learn your method'... and nobody mentions sand, and whether it'll go into some kind of horrible sulphuric mess while we wait and watch the grass grow... /sigh me? Impatient? :) m

Dear all I'm going mildly mad (madder?) trying to find Tom Barr's original article/FAQ/Sticky on DSM (Dry Start Method). I've found his article on fusing DSM and low-tech/low CO2 which is interesting, but nobody, anywhere, gives links to the original thing. I've searched the Barr Report and...

I suspect it's not very human-friendly either and might go some way to explaining why we've both had headaches since we got here... looking into proper filters as we speak... Neil - you are immensely inspirational and also immensely valuable for the clarity of detail - and the artistic...

Thanks Ceg Confusingly, the Local water authority releases details of water content (see below) plus a pdf in far greater detail, but no mention of chloramines. However on their website, is an entire faq about Chloramines and why they're lethal for fish - tho' no mention of how much. SO I'll...

Ceg & Neil - thank you - Neil - it was your journal that started me looking at this, but I wondered if the scale of a nano vs a 300 litre might change things - but if capillary action keeps things moving, then this could be miraculous and fun and wondrous (and I might never get around to...

Cegipedia, you are my hero... can you tell me where the bacteria come from that will start colonising the Florabase? I have no existing tank - so perhaps I should beg some mulm from The Green Machine when I'm there? Or will the roots of the plants carry enough with them (assuming not 1-2-Grow...

Dear all I know there are threads here referring to DSM because I read one last night - but the search facility doesn't like it, so I apologise if this has been done to death already but... I'm thinking of using DSM in my tank - partly because this is my chance to learn how to grow aquatic...

sooo - already I need a spare tank to be the 'Cory tank' with lots of deep rooted things and endless black limpopo sand. Oh, this is going to go down *so* well with my OH... :) m

IS ADA Amazonia supposed to be Cory-safe? In that case, presumably Columbo Flora base is too? (and it's cheaper...):)

Sorry, the only 2009 results I can find is buried in a massive pdf file... It's in the book, tho', if you happen to have it as nightly bedtime reading...:)

Veeeery interested in anyone showing setups with black substrate. There's *one* that I've noticed early on in the 2009 winners of the Aquascaping competition - it got silver, I think. I'll try to dig it out later.... I fell in love with the UniPac Limpopo Black Sand that I saw when at TGM the...

Re: Evaporation prevention (and lighting) - idiot newbit que Thank you! - bookmarked RO-man and looking at the faq as we speak. Scary stuff, but doubtless will cease to be so in time... I'm seriously considering a Lake Inle biotope tank just to make the best of the current water chemistry, but...

Re: Evaporation prevention (and lighting) - idiot newbit que Thanks, both of you - my tap water is truly revolting too (am angling to move to a part of the country with nice tap water - but oddly enough, my beloved doesn't think that keeping fish more easily is a good enough reason to up sticks...

hmm... yes but anatomy labs and the like use it at handlable solutions - or at least, it seemed so in the days when I was doing dissections... but that was over 20 years ago, so things may have changed.

Re: Evaporation prevention (and lighting) - idiot newbit que Indeed, but have you seen the lids they make for commercial tanks? That said, I do like the aesthetics of open top tanks, just hadn't thought about the implications for evaporation until now. But it's an old cottage and damp hasn't...

It's used in a lot of other processes - I'd have thought it should be fairly easy to get hold of (try university anatomy labs?) but I haven't tried myself. Do you need it to be diluted? Is it not possible to use a higher concentration and simply dose with a smaller volume - your tank will do...

Re: Evaporation prevention (and lighting) - idiot newbit que Thank you - a good temporary solution if we get stuck... found the Hagen Glo lights too - hadn't known about them (the value of reading the tank journals) - might try them instead of the Luminaires - cheaper and can be turned into a...

Dear all My new tank has arrived at TGM.... picking it up tomorrow. 'Exciting' doesn't begin to describe it... (how sad am I?) anyway, I still have some planning time left, because brother-in-law is making the cabinet a) because he made the rest of our furniture and it'll fit in with it and...