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Re: NeilW's 30cm nano - 'Mono' [Planted 25/05/10] Still looks stunning, tho', Neil.... how much longer are you going to wait before flooding? m

OK - this is fast because I'm half an hour past ETA for leaving (blackpool, library reading, bizarre, but apparently worth the drive...) Lights on the big tank - 4 x 39W T5s - two Grolux and two others that I can't remember just now but were recommended on James' Planted Tank blog - got them...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white New pics - this is 5 weeks into the DSM - hemaianthus is growing out nicely. Sand looks crap and I'm going to reduce it and increase the area of florabase. Staurogyne and Pogotemon doing nicely, as are the anubias and the mosses are in emersed...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white Pictures after tomorrow night when my partner's daughter brings the camera back from holiday... the hc has almost grown to a complete carpet, the moss is doing interesting things, P.helferi seems happy and Stuarogyne is thriving - sand looks...

I've been avidly reading Tom Barr's 'Non CO2 Methods' thread on The Barr Report... http://www.barrreport.com/showthread.php/433-Non-CO2-methods well worth a read on how to manage a tank *without* the hassle of CO2 Saintly also had a nano that did very well indeed without CO2 - the key, I...

At the risk of hijacking OWW's thread - PM - what kind of 'minimal light' have you got - how minimal? And what kind of slow growing plants? I'm still in DSM phase of a tank, and can still change a lot - so keen to know how to minimise the work load and still get something looking good. I...

I'll be fascinated to follow this - partly because I'm lazy and want a low maintenance tank eventually - but also because part of my reason for going to a planted tank was to reduce the maintenance - as I understand it, the combination of (bacteria in the substrate and the filter + well grown...

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner where did you get your plants? They look lovely - and neatly done... be good to see it in a few weeks. m

Stunning dog - is he a Viszla? he looks the right colour, but not the right head shape - more like a gsp, but then I've never seen one that pale before... or something completely different? gorgeous, anyway. mx

Chris- what a gorgeous, lush-looking tank... wouldn't worry about the photography, seems spot on to me...I really liked the little scoop of wood with the gravel and the (no idea what) in the middle... welcome to the world of plant infatuation :) mx

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white Nope - all over the sand... :( can't wait to get snails in, but it's another 2-3 weeks, at least. pics to follow asap

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white omygosh... I'm in the midst of a quiet fish forum and someone says the words (whisper) Caesar Milan.... argh :silent: argh :silent: argh :silent: Don't you spend your life trying to tell people he's a raving maniac? We try saying...

Re: Swamp Creek - established 20/04/2010 Wish I could answer your questions re: flow or photography - but haven't the experience... but wanted to say how impressed I am with your tank - and the fish look stunning - good to know they shoal well thanks for posting. mx

Re: My first planted tank Trigon 190 corner Wow - that's some log.... very impressed - it's always hard to scape these corner tanks and get them looking good... watching progress with interest. nicely done mx

That's gorgeous.... I'm just struggling with a 40l aqua-qube, trying to work out a scape that feels right... so very impressed with what you've done on far greater surface area... what heater do you use? mx

Can you disclose what that matting stuff is under the moss? Would it make a good moss wall, d'you think, if it was hung up at the back of a nano? (loaded question... new nano on the way and thinking of moss walls - need something on the desk while I'm working) :) m

Try AllPondSolutions - That's where I got my Luminaire. Can't remember the price, but it was *way* less than an Arcadia, and they fitted a second plug for me ... And put in nice bulbs... (which I took out, because I hadn't realised and thought they'd left in the marine bulbs. But they're...

at least double.... ah well, I'll keep my eyes peeled. well done - lovely tank m

Definitely like that....supergorgeous... can we be rude and ask how much the tank/light/basic setup cost (more or less)? You can PM me if you like... tx m

Re: Swamp Creek - established 20/04/2010 Definitely time for a picture.... :thumbup: m

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white Top left corner will be taller stem plants. Not sure exactly what yet. Maybe rotala sp, maybe hygrophila, maybe something more adventurous. Fancy a clump of Shinnersia rivularis (Weiss-Grün) for contrast somewhere and some java fern on the...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white So.. planted it out last night and this morning bearing in mind I'm trying out the Dry Start Method (partly because I haven't sorted CO2 yet, partly because I haven't got my head round the filter and didn't have time while I was trying to...

Re: Johan's 30 cm cube - Updated with more pics! I'd go for the last layout too... fits the tank nicely, be gorgeous with HC carpet, maybe a little Staurogyne... but that's because it's currently my favourite plant. Not that I've grown any yet - tho' just planted some... :) I, too, need more...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white OK.... so got tired of playing and decided to jump in. We can call this 'Learning Curve, 2.04' or thereabouts... Initial outline: Trial 1: (apologies for crap lighting) Trial 1 side view: Trial 2: Trial 2 side view: In the...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white She's a working cocker spaniel. She's a star, I'm just a bad trainer... and I have a new question... will Hemianthus grow on sand? Without a Tropica Substrate? I'm harking back to the Amano image that Samc referred to...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white Cool... but I think I may have been a tad over-ambitious with this idea of a river and an island... I finished the first draft an hour or so ago ( :thumbup: ) and just took out all the rock and wood (and cleaned all the grotty bits of dragon...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white Thanks James/Neil... all... I spent an hour or two moving stones before I read your posts, particularly Neil's, so maybe I'll resort to the plastic lawn edging stuff. Plan A for tonight was to tie/superglue/whatever moss to the slate to...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white OK - so.... I'm looking at the Amano stuff, and at this http://showcase.aquatic-gardeners.org/2008.cgi?&op=showcase&category=0&vol=2&id=102 and thinking that they don't seem to leave barriers in holding the two types of substrate separate, and...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white Day two: Diffuser on back and left, sort of. Lights on, but need to change bulbs. Two leads are on the wrong side for good aesthetics, so have turned the light round. Looks OK, but may not shed enough light over the tank First efforts at...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white Thanks, all - pics soon of the interesting (but perhaps useless) attempts to sketch something out last night. Tony - the lamp is from AllPondSolutions who rewired it for me with an extra plug (nice people) Tho' I realise late that it might...

Re: Swamp Creek - established 20/04/2010 They sound cracking - where have you ordered them from? Can't wait to see how they look in the tank... I nearly went for your lighting fixture (that is, one like it) but decided I couldn't afford it - also don't have facilities for pendant lighting -...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white Perfect timing, St George... thank you... everything takes so much longer than I'd imagined... even fitting the extension leads in the cabinet was a nightmare, but that was mainly because Herself's daughter had nicked the drill and taken it to...

Re: Magpie's 'Learning Curve' 90 x 75 opti-white Oh, wow, Sam.... That's amazing. If I can create that kind of depth... I just yearn for a carpet of HC... but maybe it won't work. I"ll keep thinking. and JamesM - thank *you* - will keep posting as I go along -bound to need help and...

So.... The cabinet's here, and painted. The tank's here and we found one strong man and three less then strong women and we carried it in from the car and didn't drop it. Miracle. The Columbo Fluro Base is here, as is the sand. The bog wood (pauses to hear groans, but it fits what I want...