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for plantsalive.co.uk I've heard good things about their plant collections, but I, and others, have had a bad experience with buying their individual plants. (wrong plants, plants missing, bad condition) I would go with Aquaessentials.co.uk, greenline (aquaticplants.eu.com)and birstall.co.uk +...

poor shrimp! :lol: he's going to get munched! I love the gar! colours are a amzing! don't even need to mention the rays! :huh: :drool: greg

no a "plain black" one. They help loads imo instead of 'picture backgrounds'. greg :good:

great job there!! It looks absolutely huge in the first pic. But it's actually about the size of your hand! :drool:

I was on tropica anyway...copy and paste job! :lol: greg

how does PH propogate? I was just goind to start withe the one pot and see how it does before ordering more. Just in case it doesn't do well, and a £6 each! The Hygro is starting to go a really nice red on the new shoots since I changed the lighting from the 15W hood to the 22W of IKEA...

looks good! One thing: I would replace the background with a plain black one. It really makes your plants and fish (esp neons!) stand out more. :good:

I got a piece of hairgrass too! I tried planting it...but gave up! I'll be sticking with AE and Birstall now I think! Greg

Here are other pics too that I couldn't fit on: http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n166/14...ngabout0007.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n166/14...ngabout0012.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n166/14...ngabout0005.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n166/14...ngabout0003.jpg I...

Hi everyone. I thought I'd post this up as I hadn't taken any pics of my pretty new 15 gallon lowish tech tank! LIGHTING: 2x 11w compact flourescent work lamps from IKEA (£8.99 each) SUBSTRATE: Playsand+laterite CO2: I don't inject CO2 but instead dose flourish excel veryday/other day (1.5ml)...

I knew you'd go back to planted :D:P looking good, even better once it's filled out. Are you still going fo the same stocking? greg :good:

Utricularia graminifolia and Hemianthus callitrichoides ''Cuba'' :good:

3-fingers, after looking at the "marsilea quadrifolia" i ordered from plantsalive and comparing it to pictures of Marsilea Quadrifolia on t'internet, I realised they look rather different! Today I bought bacopa australis from petsathome and the plantsalive marsilea looks incredibly similar to...

ye, for larger plants try to remove as much as possible. For the smaller ones remove a fair bit of it (so roots are sticking out of it), but just keep enough on to 'anchor' it in the substrate. greg

ye, looks like a bamboo shrimp to me too.

anyone??

I would go with marbled hatchets. great looking fish :good:

fish get "posted" to your lfs anyway. I recieved an order from trimar.co.uk last week and all the fish arrived ( and survived) very well. I don't see a problem with it. It's really up o you. :D

ordered 2 lots of plants and a C02 ladder from them before. I think I might place an other order pretty soon. It's so cheap!

I'm looking for a hob filter in the Uk. What companies make them? Are the good? I hear that they're popular in the US, why not here?? greg :good:

crystal red shrimp: http://www.petshrimp.com/images/crystalred4.jpg do they look like that?

read the pinned stuff in the planted tank section. imo heavily planted tanks look amazing, so if you like that idea have a look in there for ideas etc. Malawi/Tanganyikan tanks look great too. Have a look in the (old world cichlids section). A medium sized "new world" cichlid tank would look...

:rolleyes: oh, sorry! just saw the links to aquaessentials and snailsshop (uk sites) so I gave you that one. Quite good prices for uk though :P

nerite snails on here: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/gogosnails_W0QQco...0QQftidZ2QQtZkm

I'm led to belive rotala rtundifolia has round leaves when in its emergent form, but will gradually turn to its submerged pointed leaves when underwater. Not !00% on the redness bit though. :D

if you set up a tank JUST for local fish I would say it would be fine if you kept small fish in it (not bass etc) , but I wouldn't mix with your prize guppies:P -

the plants'll have only been submerged maybe a week at max. LFS are notoriously untrustworthy/unknowledgeable when it comes to somethings. Some lfs will sell anything to you if it'll make them money. Have a read of the pinned topics in the planted tank forum. Well worth it. :good:

nice tank, read up on this forum. it's unbelievably helpful for new guys. btw those plants (well the one I can see) is non-aquatic. It'll eventually start to rot and die submerged. greg :good:

I know you'll be anxious/excited etc, but it really is worth it! Even if you do get the tank read up in this forum before buying ANY fish. Read all of these: http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=88643 greg :good:

This is what I go for too. Around 20% just cold water. Over that I try and match it to original tank temp.

tbh, I would do alot of research on here and then get the tank maybe a month down the line. i did this when I started not too long ago and I feel it has saved me ALOT of money and problems. greg

Just thought I'd let you know that I emailed plantsalive last week about the poor quality of the plants I recieved and the apologised greatly and promptly sent me out a new batch, which was alot better! Maybe they just had a busy week before :\ :D greg

Northern Ireland...it says in his profile thing. You could try trimar.co.uk but i don't know if they deliver to NIR.

when you say piralis, do you mean the "spiral" shaped vallis or the long, straight vallis? You could try the "mini-twister" variety of vallis. It really depends on your light levels etc etc first.

170 litres: 37 Uk gallons or 45 US gallons...same size as my tank. :good: and the other one is 60 US gallons and 50 UK gallons. ...all done on google!:D

I love the whiptail cat! Looks amazing! ...and the botia! :good:

this is unbelievable! :rolleyes: you've done it again aquadreams! :lol:

is it not a marine tank??

...still would say no. I found a lovely piece of old driftwood (from a really old ship(still had the brass pins in it)) and I was going to use this. I boiled it 3 times, baked it and soaked it for ages, but it was still really salty, as if it was leeching out constantly. So it's a no from me...