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One contributing factor to keeping the 75p running was a visit to @Horizon Aquatics and a show grade betta that caught my eye…. My previous betta Vega unfortunately contracted dropsy a few months ago, and after a long treatment battle he finally succumbed to the illness. It really affected me...

Hi all, The problem is that they don't have stomata and they take nutrients (and oxidising agents) directly through the "skin". This makes them much more prone to damage from <"oxidising agents"> (like glutaraldehyde). cheers Darrel

I think you’re right. The estimate jumped up to 125 minutes earlier. I assume the estimate is based on the current power draw and that will change based on the room / tank temperature. Looking forward to a proper test tomorrow.

You can probably assume that the heater won't be running full time during the power outage, so the total duration could be much longer than in the worse case scenario where it just stays on.

Hey Richard, The day will start at 10am and we expect to run through till 3pm. Tai’s workshop will start around 11am and should last approximately 90 minutes 👌

In my experience vallis won't die instantly with water column glutaraldehyde (Excel) but isn't very happy about it.

@Geoffrey Rea what's the expected end time for the day?

Awesome stuff

Another engine room post. Added a UPS for power backup in the event of a power cut. The room gets very cold in winter at night (1930’s detached house exposed to wind across fields). This should keep the heater and pump working for about 2 hours. See post in thread 'Non DIY Backup Power for...

Finally had time to set this up: I did go for a multi plug on the non battery side to maximise run time. Screen reads 116mins backup running time. Weirdly capacity shows 0%, maybe it only shows when on battery mode. Will leave it to fully charge for the 8 hours the manual suggests and try...

Beautiful build as usual. Both fish species will love it in there. I think you could get away with a few more rice fish. They'll perhaps be a little less skittish in a larger group.

Thanks very much! I think this is enough fish. It has a nice footprint for swimming around but this tank is only 5 gallons.

I've seen some mixed opinions on whether I can use excel with moss but more specifically Vallisnera sp. Is it okay to use with these plants or not? Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk

That looks great. What are your future livestock plans?

Update! The plants are growing in nice. I added a single Spathiphyllum to the arrangement. I think the layout looks pleasing with this simple botanicals combination to decorate the underwater area. I've also added fish and they look happy in there so far. 3x Daisy's Rice Fish (Oryzias...

I was looking at the tank today thinking about fish and was wondering if I have too much flow. In the last iteration before tearing the tank down I only had shrimp and a couple Otos. The otos got used to the flow and it didn’t seem to bother them but I am planning to go with more fish this...

Ripple Tank - Plane Waves I might have put this discussion over in the Hardware & DIY section, but I think the aquascape evolution might be interesting, so I'm posting here as a journal instead. This project is a continuation in series of setups incorporating physics principles and mechanical...

Only about a quarter of it is about the product, and most of that is telling us what it doesn't claim to do. :)

Hey guys, welcome to the journal of my self build riparium! After many many years of lurking on this awesome forum finally my own tankthread here :) Just for all you to know i'm dutch so english is not my main language. So it can be a little bit 'challenging' for me and you from time to time...

You need to register for a government gateway ID to begin things Then register to use IPAFFS Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS) Fill out the IPAFFS online import form, if not sure on something like what airport put a best guess You will need to upload to this IPAFFS...

Here’s some RRF I left in a bucket. The lighting is poor. The nutrients even more so. You can see the older growth still has a little green tint to it but the newer growth is more red. It’s the same across the bucket. It looks almost brown in this photo because the lighting is so terrible. 😄

https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/please-read-the-guidelines-for-plant-help.60671/

About £120 by Dhl, i would very much recommend delivery by EMS it is quite a bit cheaper and goes through customs quicker, Dhl always say theres a proplem because you have no Peach notification, (IPAFFS is needed ) they don't even know what is required.

I didn't experience aggression between males, but I did keep them in a slightly bigger footprint. It's always better to stay on the safe side of things to prevent disappointment.

Hi everyone. Thanks all of you. I have removed Betta and one the crossocheilus siamensis and I will replace them with shrimp. my aquarium condition looks good after two weeks of starting it. But recently, these green spot algae have appeared that are firmly attached to the glass. And there are...

@Aqua Hero My take on this is if you are doing regular water changes you don't need to at the start-up stage! Caveat.... it depends on what's in your Tap-water. hoggie

Cynics! :rolleyes:

Hi, My personal take on it is to fertilize from day one just as the photoperiod commences. It will take the best part of a couple of weeks for the plants to show noticeable signs of growth (from initial planting) and I can't really see the point of stressing them out all over again by vastly...

This is interesting, I don’t know how significantly this will be a factor, however perhaps those plants under the light are not red directly due to the intense spectrum, but perhaps due to the lighting intensity driving the rate of growth? A very close to the surface light offers little surface...

I've not been to a convention in the hobby before, so I wasn't sure what to expect, but I felt like it had a lot to offer for the size. I don't feel like I paid enough money for it, honestly. Obviously if you have to travel then it wouldn't be a cheap weekend, but as someone who could drive from...

This post completely caught me off guard, I was happily liking away before I realised the date of the OP 😂 Like others have said, liking old posts simply highlights there validity 😁

Hi all, They are really nice, elegant fish <"Splash tetra - Copella arnoldi"> . <"I kept them for a while"> (in the lab. at work). It all started well, but there were some issues with both keeping them in the tank and <"with aggression">. I've kept a <"few different Copella sp."> now and...

Jeff the copellas are awesome! I am interested in smaller species (kubotai/glowlight rasbora, pygmy Corys, green neons) - I think the rough estimate for tank size is between 80-100L so I don't want to overstock/add fish that will compete/harass eachother. These are so gorgeous though! I may...

Coarse foam that blocks the whole filter opening with a tight fitting lid around it?

Hi all, Would the Eheim one work? <"EHEIM Vorfilter"> These would help to some degree, but I'd really want to stop the external filter picking up the saw-dust etc. I definitely don't want that inside the filter. It doesn't matter that the saw-dust etc. doesn't have a high <"Biochemical...

Hi Darrel, As I don't have the ability to run a pre-filter on my external filter, would you suggest that the arrangement you have shown; power head and foam block, would be an alternative to a pre- filter, or work as a pre-filter? I currently run a skimmer in my tank and the foam within gets...

Here’s a Vanda orchid flower… I added this plant to my Jungle Puddle in the hope it would do well. Once I got back from the garden centre the flowers went a little limp and faded and I thought they would drop immediately. To my surprise they became reinvigorated and lasted another 6 weeks which...

So glad you got to go to the convention, I wasn’t able to work it out with my schedule otherwise I would have been. Sounds like it was an awesome time.

I used to have that but on Amano's. I guess be careful on your water change temperatures. Also best way is to keep your waterline a bit lower. Good luck.

They're curious little climbers, alas!

Can’t imagine much better than what you’ve got there. I have lots of plants growing above the water line so a lid wouldn’t work for me. None of my shrimps ever jumped out though. Didn’t know they were likely to escape.

Coming back with another question - has anyone had success escape-proofing it, or is this just not a tank for Amano shrimp? I found these sad dried-out shrimp during a deep clean of the living room. I'm currently using the polycarbonate lid method but evidently that wasn't good enough! (Excuse...

There is about 8 weeks between the two images above. You can see the difference in growth habit.

Thanks but that doesn't really answer my question. I'm asking roughly how long it takes for the moss to transition? Weeks or months? Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk

I guess it does transition through to a different growth habit. Below is mini Christmas moss, for instance, it stays fairly compact emersed but submersed the leaves and stems elongate and become a bit unruly. I've grown a few species emersed and then flooded and they all seemed perfectly happy...

Great journal, very inspiring :)

I attached weeping moss to parts of my hard scape but it came in emersed form. Some moss is on the wood which is closer to the light whereas moss on the lava rocks is partially shaded by the java fern trident hanging over it. How long roughly does it take for it to transition to submerged form...

My pussy willow, not an easy or low maintenance tree to keep small. I have had this one for a long time. I keep it in this lilly basket in a half filled bucket of water, I have to trim the roots every few weeks and repot every year. It has been more of a challenge than a beautiful tree but I...

Hiya small update. The chiller is working fine. How the chiller works is that it will cool the water until it reaches the target temperature and then go into standby once it reaches the target temperature. When the temperature goes up 1 degree greater than the target temp, the chiller kicks in...

Hi, That's a great looking tank you've got there. Wonderfully done and I'm sure you'll have your moss wall sooner or later. Have you considered other gouramis? Also, Copella arnoldi would flourish in a tank like this. They have some of the most interesting behavior and the males look...

This was my starting point and I guess it's my end point too! ;) Thanks for the science trip though, today I learnt something!

You don’t need special bio media. Your filter sponges will host the bacteria needed for biological filtration. Take a look at: https://aquariumscience.org/index.php/7-filter-media/ And https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/is-expensive-bio-media-worth-it.67468/

Im asking this question as I know bacteria will be on pretty much all surfaces inside the tank (plants, hardscape, substrate) and in the filter on the media (sponges and rocks). But do I really need to have bio media (eg lava rock/seachem matrix etc) in my filter and instead just run sponges...

Hi all, That may well be where the problem lies. The build up of organic debris is likely to be <"inside the filter">. I'm a <"great pre-filter fan">. It <"was some issues"> with Panaque spp. keeping that originally led me down thinking more about <"the oxygen and nitrification">. I've gone...

Well yes, but you describe the same thing without the benefit of negative pressure drawing fluid into the system under normal operation. Also ‘drilling a hole and gluing’ sounds a little easier to get wrong for someone. I personally have an open ended pipe above water level. Sometimes the...

you could stick a powerhead in the sump and keep some hillstreams or plecos

Nice work!

Hi Unfortunately not - straight into trays!

This might offer some inspiration..

Hi all, I honestly don't know, he starts by saying that they (as a product class) are something that he is sceptical about, and then that he had a disagreement with the man he interviewed, who failed to give him any technical details, but dependent upon the way he thinks they are produced they...

I don't see a reason to have a venturi to inject into the filter outlet line. The autodoser should have enough pressure and the venturi doesn't prevent tank water from draining out to the fertilizer reservoir. If the filter turns off for whatever reason, the pressure in the venturi goes back to...

Short answer: no, you don’t need to add ferts yet. Long answer: Please read the guidelines for plant help!

I planted my new scape about 4-5 days ago but I haven't dosed it with any ferts yet. Most of the plants were grown emersed so there is a bit of melt in some plants (eg monte Carlo and hygrophilia) but it's not excessive. But at the same time these plants are showing signs of new growth. Due to...

Essentially, yes. The Venturi effect is when the fluid pressure drops as the velocity of the fluid increases as it passes through a constriction. The relationship between fluid pressure and velocity is a fundamental law of fluid dynamics. As the pressure drops in the constriction, the negative...

Lolz. Im truly enjoying your replies 😋

Hi all, not much to update on other than everything is growing well. I've been dosing with small amounts of chelated iron + solufeed 2:1:4. Aquatic plants are growing well, bladder snails, daphnea and asellus are flourishing, moulding on the moss wall is dying down a little. I think I'm just...

Probably has nothing to do with the fact that his old mate and mucker, Jeremy Gay previous PFK editor, was also Marketing and Business Development Manager at Evolution Aqua. No siree Bob, nothing to do with that at all, no way Jose. Definitely not a conflict of interest. Definitely not snake...

Okay thanks, that's helpful. How is this set up in an aquarium - isn't it a 'constantly on' attachment which will want to draw the APT through the pump/outlet pipe and from the reservoir? How is it connected to the pump outlet? Apologies if these are dumb questions but it seems in principle...

Apparently, what the table says is that at a pH of 7.25, half of the EDTA iron was lost after just 1 hour. My guess is that, whatever validity that may have for our tanks, it shouldn't be extrapolated for other micros. It is a study on Fe only, other metals could behave very differently.

After 8 years of reef keeping I've decided I want some a lot easier to maintain. I was just on the verge of converting my tank to freshwater when I discovered vampire crabs. So instead I sold all the reefing equipment I had and bought a small paludarium. Set this up Saturday. At the moment it's...

Hi all, Possibly a little bit nitrogen (N) deficient? cheers Darrel

When you know that you'll be away from the tank for a while, so you put the sword plant in charge of nitrate removal... Total height is just over 1m, with 30+cm long leaves (excluding petiole). It certainly deserves the term "background plant"...

A day after maintenance. Thinned out the plants a little and rearranged the java fern. Wanted to have more space in the front so i pushed the scape back a little but there's only 30cm of width for me to work with unfortunately. Pretty satisfied still. 20240422_222938 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr

“I’m very impressed. I never thought I’d be saying that about a bacterial product, but the science is sound, the product makes realistic claims, and in the flesh it has positive effects. Good effort, Evolution Aqua!“

One issue though is flow through the filter. Someone on here was carefully stacking their ceramic or glass tubes vertically, perhaps to maximise flow?

Welcome and nice tank. You seem to have most bases covered. The M Cuba are difficult to grow. They need high light and CO2 blowing directly on it. Your hard water may be as issue as well. Good that you replaced the foreground with something more resilient.

...Pure Aquarium review">. I'll stick with <"interesting">, although I have to be honest and say that that wasn't the first term that came to mind**. The author (Nathan Hill) writes: *I'm not entirely sure how he came to this conclusion, as there is absolutely <"no sound science in the...

Hi, it just so happens I have recently acquired the same Dennerle tank as you. I am into the first week of my Dark start so your experiences are going to be very helpful to me. Can I ask where you bought your cabinet, it looks just what I, err and the wife of course, would love.

Thanks everyone. I have turned outflow so as to agitate surface. Fascinating this stuff.

Hi all, Moler clay is diatomite based, but has clay minerals as well, details are at <"Moler">. cheers Darrel

Hi all, You can use a horticultural fertiliser, <"it is a lot cheaper"> and a bit more <"plug and play"> than making your own complete mix from the base chemicals. This is a nutrient calculator: <"Nutrient Dosing Calculator">, we also have super-duper UKAPS one <"IFC Aquarium Fertilizer...

Hi all, Do you have a pre-filter on the intake? cheers Darrel

Hi all, That would be the general finding on this forum <"Is expensive bio media worth it?">. As planted tank keepers we have the advantages of: <"plant / microbe nitrification"> and <"a substrate">. This means we aren't interested in the denitrification of nitrate (NO3-) <"in the filter">...

Seachem matrix is just fine as well, you could easily use that if you want to. I find that filter media is filter media, so just use whatever you think will last longest and be the least hassle to clean.

No, I'm running one on a 84L tank, and one on a 160L tank. Both optiwhite glass rimless tanks.

First lumens is one of the least measurements to use to determine brightness to plants. This is a graph showing what lumens measures and what plants " like" in general. Point is the lumens of a RGB led and the lumens of a 7500k white LEDs have very different meaning to plants. Now as to...

Hi, Agreed, although I do try and leave the cannister alone as long as possible so not to impact bb

Hi Andy, A baster is part of my aquarium maintenance tool kit. I generally clean the glass down first, then waft out any waste material from under the woodwork, and then finally give the whole scape a gentle blast to clear detritus before changing water/hoovering up 😂🤣 - a handy tool indeed 👍

Indeed. I understand the importance of flow..and this unusual shape I want to make sure there is good flow all around. I have a Sicce 5000 L/H return pump that will be used in the sump. Hopefully I won't need any wave makers

Got em, sunk the plant too and more physical removal of algae.

Thanks for your helpful responses. In the end I didn't add soil, but I did use a black overlay on top of the liner and added sand in the shallow area underneath the cobbles. I'm planning to start a proper journal of it, but here is a preview ... It was dug and filled a few weeks ago but is...

High Tech typically refers to the use of CO2 in the aquarium and a suitably intense light to complement that. It's nothing to do with the level of technological sophistication of the light unit itself, such as blue tooth connectivity etc.

Hi Please fill out the below template so we can get the complete picture of you setup: Tank details below: 1. Size of tank in litres 2. Age of the set - up 3. Filtration + Media/Sponges 4. Lighting and duration 5. Substrate 6. Co2 dosing or Non-dosing 7. Fertilizers used & Ratios 8. Water...

Also water 'hardness' i.e. the amount of Ca and Mg ions present in the water column and phosphate concentration. Also UV though for most this will not be a factor. I dose Fe EDTA on alternative days after about three hours of CO2 injection and just as the lights come on. My assumption is that...

Filter cleaning of sponges and media will help!

The instructions suggest it's entirely up to you. But I think it's always best to rinse through. Pre-washed for your convenience, can be use without rinse. Please, fill up the tank without stirring the sand bed by pouring the water carefully in a surface. You may rinse it with water before...

I am a luck man, my wife loves plants both aquatic and terrestrial. She has taken visitors to task when they comment 'there's nothing in my tank', with cant you see the plants!

Hi there Just few observations. if plants were growing and then started slowing down or declining then it’s not lights to blame adding new lights will make plants to adapt/transition to new light strength and new CO2 demand. I would wait at least a month to see if everything can manage to...

I guess its on wattage and light spectrum. I think 120 Watts is the top end i have seen. But i dont think wattage is solely what makes a light hightech , its all the fancy add ons which come with it. I.e. Bluetooth connectivity, app ,multi spectrum led diodes. Chihiros wrgb pro is only 74W...

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