Miss-Pepper
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- 6 Oct 2012
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Hi everyone 
long time lurker, new poster.
Thought I'd just give myself a quick introduction. Well, my name is Coral and I'm a student who recently got into fish keeping, much to my loan's discomfort haha. On a whim I went into a pet shop and fell in love with black moors, so I went home and did some research and realised I couldn't quite afford a big fancy goldfish tank so I ended up with a 25l tank that was intended for a betta. Long story short, ended up with 6 neon tetras and 2 peppered corys. I then spent a long time researching all manors of fishkeeping and now have a second-hand planted 180l tank. I tried to use the Walstad method, thinking I understood it but clearly I did not and have had to add ferts and diy yeast CO2 and am still having a few problems. It's all a big learning experience for me, and I've only been keeping fish since August so I hope things can only get better while I stalk the forums and learn lots from you guys and gals
Had algae problems, reduced my lighting by a few hours but it hasn't stopped growing. And my echinodorus ocelot has got lots of yellow pinholes and the echinodorus on the left gets lots of big ugly crinkly leaves and melting leaves. I've been trying to find some otos for ages with no luck I know that's no solution to my algae but I wanted some anyway and they'll have something to eat!
P.S. I have since hidden the filters better but there is quite a bit of flow in there, not sure the tetras enjoy it as they're always at the bottom of the tank might look into an external after Christmas.
long time lurker, new poster.Thought I'd just give myself a quick introduction. Well, my name is Coral and I'm a student who recently got into fish keeping, much to my loan's discomfort haha. On a whim I went into a pet shop and fell in love with black moors, so I went home and did some research and realised I couldn't quite afford a big fancy goldfish tank so I ended up with a 25l tank that was intended for a betta. Long story short, ended up with 6 neon tetras and 2 peppered corys. I then spent a long time researching all manors of fishkeeping and now have a second-hand planted 180l tank. I tried to use the Walstad method, thinking I understood it but clearly I did not
and have had to add ferts and diy yeast CO2 and am still having a few problems. It's all a big learning experience for me, and I've only been keeping fish since August so I hope things can only get better while I stalk the forums and learn lots from you guys and gals Had algae problems, reduced my lighting by a few hours but it hasn't stopped growing. And my echinodorus ocelot has got lots of yellow pinholes and the echinodorus on the left gets lots of big ugly crinkly leaves and melting leaves. I've been trying to find some otos for ages with no luck
I know that's no solution to my algae but I wanted some anyway and they'll have something to eat!P.S. I have since hidden the filters better
but there is quite a bit of flow in there, not sure the tetras enjoy it as they're always at the bottom of the tank might look into an external after Christmas.
