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I think live plants look a lot better, although some tanks can look good with plastic if done right!!

Thanks, I will have a look in some shops for those this week. I need to have a look at a reflector because i'm not sure that there's enough space in my already limited hood to fit them in.

It will be obvious, see here... :)

Thanks LL. This is a pretty good representation of the lighting supplies I can get hold of. I was considering 2 of the Hagen Life-glo tubes, as they claim to be full sun spectrum.

I've had my current tubes in my tank for a while now so I think they need replacing. I was wondering what were the best to go for for growing plants. I have space for 2 24" tubes. I read somewhere that some tubes reflectors built in? This would be ideal as i'm not sure I have room for a...

Did you use the Tesco brand you mentioned in my other thread Dubby?

:-( You could even see the holes in the fish where the needle had gone in. The shop was OATA approved although wasn't very new. I didn't say anything at the time, but I can only assume that the shop keepers don't know they are dyed. They were being sold as jade tiger barbs, they look nothing...

Thanks for all the advice, I will see about getting some sand and then change it this weekend, need to find some buckets that haven't had poisonous stuff in them, only have the one at the moment. Dubby: where would I be able to get this clay or vermiculite? Will the LFS carry it along with the...

I currently have quite a thin layer of mixed gravel in my tank, it's all random sizes. I want to change this for sand for the benefit of my plants and corydoras when I get them. For ease of cleaning too! I was wondering what's the best way to go about this. Shall I just remove most of the...

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I threw my first bit of bogwood out because it was covered in it (regret this now), just left it on my other bits and it went away after a while, no harm to fish or plants.

Ahh ok, that's slightly better then, still not much though, sounds like a very expensive shop to me!

You bought 7 neons, 4 barbs and a red tailed shark for £70?! Please tell me you bought something to make up the price, hehe ;)

I'm not sure that it will be safe but if I were cleaning it I would definatley boil it.

It all depends on your mix and how much you get dissolved though. I thought I was making a relativley slow mix, but I was getting on for 30ppm of CO2, which isn't good when you're trying to keep fish in there. Daveb, thats a one way valve, I didn't use one of those but I just put the bottle...

Lovely tank rain, it's going to be brilliant when its fully established. Any idea of the scientific name for this plant, wouldn't mind some for my tank?

Have a look in the sticky at the top of this forum - planted tank links, there are a few plant id sites in there. A good one is tropica. :) Welcome to the forums by the way! :)

You don't really want to be putting any backpressure on your bottle by slowing it with valves or anything. Too much co2 can be detrimental to the fish (over 25ppm according to sites i've read). I think I am going to try just an airstone on mine rather than the powerhead, because i'm getting...

I've also succeeded with it, I fed mine into the bottom of a little powerhead and sat it on the bottom of the tank. However I was getting a bit too much co2 from my last bottle so i've made another that hopefully will go slower. I suggest watching your pH to make sure you don't over do it. :)

Gorgeous tank Hazmat - how long has it been running now?

Thanks for all the suggestions. Lateral line: that one looks very nice, I like the kind of cushions it makes. I need to find somewhere to get hold of them now, anyone know anywhere in the UK that stocks any of these?

I'm after a plant that will cover the substrate in my tank. Fast growing would be nice. Something like the top tank on this page: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/2...7/amanopix.html Been trying to find out what it is but no luck.

I'd say some corys of your choosing, a few of those would liven up the bottom of your tank.

Is there any way to remove a scratch from the inside of my tank while it is stocked? -_-

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Got up this morning and there were a load of bits of leaves on the surface, netted them out and most had more of the caterpillar things inside, got a better pic:

TOTM seconded! I hope my tank looks as good as that when the plants have had time to grow. :)

I think it's definatley more orange than the gold tetra. Looks nice! :)

Good idea! You don't want this lol. ;) Will try the lettuce and bottle tomorrow as I can't find any lettuce at the mo, hopefully they won't get eaten too much more in that time. Looking forward to the moss CS, will give you some cuttings of mine too if they recover! :)

Nope, I can see half eaten leaves still on some plants. The plants have previously been growing well. :( I'm just annoyed as I was expecting to come home and find a nice lot of new growth, but instead I found this! Thanks for your help so far by the way. :)

Well i'm not certain that it is the snails eating the plants but something is, my vallis is like completely gone except for a few leaves. Some are just stalks (bacopa monneri or something I think it's called), and some are relatively untouched. My tank has only been running nearly 4 weeks so I...

I went away for a week and now my tank is overrun with snails and these things: It's pretty obvious that whatever they are came in on the plants but how can I get rid of them before I don't have any plants left! My tank looks awful! :-( :-(

Details here: http://lcdgallery.net/?f=view&lcdid=241 They are standard units that you can buy, had to modify it a bit to get it in front of the CD rom tray though! :)

Cool this orange tetra sounds good, can't wait to see pics! :D

I like to mod my computers, been doing it for years, although I prefer to think of original things to do rather than going out and spending money on side panels with windows and what not. :) Here's mine: Second pic was taken before the first, hence the lack of glowy power button mod in that...

Another vote for natural here!

Worth a try isn't it? Most will do what you're asking.

CFC what UK online retailers have you found to be good? The only one i've found is in Cambourne (can't remember the name) which isn't that far away anyway so I may as well drive there.

LOL @ mining charcoal ;) I used to change all the water on my first goldfish every couple of weeks too. I had a Fluval 1 in my tank which was just a bit of sponge, I used to rinse that out under the tap when I changed the water too, as I presumed, being 5 or so, that it was only a mechanical...

On the only online fish retailer i've seen they explained how the packed the fish and it seemed very good to me, they were also shipped by overnight courier and guaranteed before 12 the next day. I intend to buy all my fish from shops because then you can see the condition of them and the tanks...