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Hi everybody, new poster from kent

Lloyd Parkes

Lloyd Parkes

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Hi everyone, I did join up in March after lurking for a few months and have finally got around to saying hello! I had good intentions to start a journal but just haven't had the time to do so. I recently got back into the hobby after taking a 10 year break as whilst becoming a teenager I discovered girls and beer and lost some interest in keeping fish. Having now got married and buying my own house I wanted to get back into the hobby and see whats changed over the last few years... I had kept some plants with limited success and always wanted to have something heavily planted so bought a 5 footer having told the wife I was getting a tank. I don't think it was quite what she was expecting for the lounge :lol:.

I set it up on 24th November and have now gone down the high tech fire extinguisher route having tried diy co2 for a few weeks to begin with which didn't go very well as you could imagine with such a large volume of water. Some plants have done well, other not so much but heres how it looks today.

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As you can see the Echinodorus Harbich has sent out a few flowers that I let grow out and over the last few weeks have started turning into what looks like their own plantlets. I will be creating a separate post about this as having searched this and other forums can't find out much information about this and have various photos throughout the different growth stages.

I look forward to contributing to the forum and reading others expertise about this fantastic hobby :)

Lloyd
 
It's like swimming, isn't it.. :) Noone forgets once you now.. The proof is in your tank.. Still got the knack.. Nice!
 
Not with the harbich, but i have always had swords. Look at the 400 gallon post. Most make flowerspikes under water (maybe because in my tank i can let them grow to their max, i rarely prune them) , just leave them submerged and the plantlets get roots. I never fertilized the flowers (you only need a small brush for that) as i wasn't into that. But you can get new platns from spikes easily. I just have had one (i think it is a uruguyaensis) wich only made spikes once in the ten years i have it in my tank.
 
I too kept fish as a child then stopped through my teenage years!

Now I'm settled with kids I have for the past year been working on a new aquarium!

Where in Kent are you? I'm in Maidstone.
 
Mark Nichols said:
I too kept fish as a child then stopped through my teenage years!

Now I'm settled with kids I have for the past year been working on a new aquarium!

Where in Kent are you? I'm in Maidstone.
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Hi Mark, i've lived in Whitstable nearly all my life and now moved to Broadstairs last year. Hows the new tank going? You'll have to show us some pics soon :)
 
I've just planted the tank up with Dwarf Hair Grass - it's an experiment and all new to me but It does look good at moment. I'll send some pics over later.

Broadstairs is really nice - my wife's family are dotted along that coast from Broadstairs to Birchington.
 
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