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As the title suggests, I have a rekord 120 tank and I am thinking of upgrading the standard 30 watt standard fit light. The bulb is 895mm in length. Has anyone modded the lid to take two lights or should I just upgrade the bulb to something aimedmore at plant growth? Thanks in advance Stu

Do some research down in the planted forum. It takes as much research and knowledge to keep plants as it does fish. I have set up a planted tank and keep researching. You don't have to spend a lot of money on lighting or Co2,you just need to know what plants will work with yor setup. Stu

Might try the cucumber tonight. I left half an algae wafer in last night, but my corys ate that! I'm still hoping he has just buried himself in the sand. No rise in ammonia yet, so thats a good sign, either he;s still slive in the tank or out of the tank and dead. Living room doesn't smell yet...

Still no sign. Have stripped 2 internal filters, he's definatley not in there. If he did jump out the tank he could have been eaten by a cat. All water parameters still fine, Hes been MIA since Wednesday evening.

Just checked ammonia again, and its still at 0. Looked behind the tank, under the cabinet. Nothing. If he did jump out, my cats may have eaten him. He was only 1 inch long. I have had an additional filter running in my tank for a week now. I am setting up a planted Nano tank for a Dwark puffer...

I added a BN catfish to my tank 2 weeks ago and all was going well until the other day, when I noticed him missing.He was in the tank (juwel rekord 120) on wednesday morning. When I got home I couldn't see him, by Thursday night I was very worried. I took the bogwood out of the tank, and...

I've just bought a 5.5 gallon, My stocking plans are 1 Dwarf puffer and 2/3 ottocinclus. Heavily planted with Co2 and lots of light. The filter is in my other tank cycling. I'll leave it there for a few weeks then fil the 5.5 gallon. Lots of snails breeding in my main tank to feed a DP! Or...

The biggest barrier I think my family will have moving there, is the fact that you have zero credit rating when you arrive there, so a mortgage would be a problem. Hopefully by living in my dads basement for a year should help us out. You hve to take enough money to survive for three months, for...

I'm literally just starting to fill out the paperwork to go to canada. I'm moving to St Johns in Newfoundland, my father moved there 10 years ago. I'm moving there first to get a foot in the door,then looking at moving West to earn some money. I spent a year working in Alberta and eventually...

I have a Tetra plant Co2 system, it uses a diffuser in the tank connected to a Canister outside. I fill the diffuser with gas in the morning and leave it, there is no way of turning it off. Plants only use Co2 in during the lighting period. Stu

well, I would put pics up if the attachment bar opened??

Just noticed today that one of my Flame Tetras is mighty fat, I thought at first it my be an illness. I've been at bit busy over the past week and haven't had a chance to have a good check of my fish. I had noticed that 2 of my Tetras (6 in total) had been hanging out together in the bushes at...

Me too, I have 20" of danios, guppys, and flame tetras in my 30g tank. Looks pretty full in the mid and upper levels, but empty on the bottom. Will soon be upgrading crappy Juwel internal to an oversized external filter, and will be adding around 10 Corydoras of some decription. That will take...

Well that answered a question that I didn't really want to ask, Thanks. :thumbs:

What the footprint of your 8G tank? You said its quite tall. I am eventually going to add some corys to my tank and have numerous q's running aroung in my head. Depending on the type of cory I get, I may be over the 1"per gallon guideline, but with adequete filtration surely the footprint of...

Going by those measurments, 120 lts, 32usg, 25ukg

I was in Maidenhead Aquatics yesterday and they had an offer on Fluval externals, I can't remember the exact price, on there website, the 205 is £59.99 and the 105 is £49.99. I'm sure they were a tenner cheaper in the shop. Assuming your tank is UK gallons, that works out at 96 litres, the 105...

ok, one of them, other one

My two favourite pics

PMSL :lol: no, because they all want your money now, not in 2 weeks time when your tank is cycled, and when your fish die they can get more money off you. I'm just cynical today towards fish stores, I politley pointed out today to an employee at a large chain of pets at home stores, that two...

Check your tap water to get a nitrate reading, I know mine is 10ppm, so I will never get it below that in the tank

Education for the people buying the fish, I am new to this hobby but am researching all the time, I will check if i'm unsure of something. There is a huge amount of information around so there is no excuse for buying a 'tank buster'. Proper practices for the LFS, I visited one today, and the...

Did you mention it to the staff, what did they say?

For cucumber leave the skin/rind on then it sinks, remove the it when the 'flesh' is eaten Zucchini, don't know only found out what this was the other day :blush: we call them courgette

Check your readings after your first fish. From what I understand if you fishless cycle you can stock quite heavily as soon as it is cycled. If you stock very lightly some of the bacteria in the filter will die off because there is not enough ammonia to feed them. This is what has happened to my...

All tens, you are generous! Love your tank, but minus 1 for the white sucker thing on the front, and minus 3 for the extra pics. So 6 ;)

thanks for looking, the plant to the right in the close up is an amazon sword plant, there is some valisneira back there too, not sure what the one to the left of the picture is though, i'll try planted section, thanks for the advice Stu

Some more pics. I managed to get some filter media from a friend so didn't have to worry about cycling. I've only put 6 danios in so far, just keeping an eye on water stats to make sure the filter media is ok. All going well so far. Tank water is nice and clear, Have been doing 40% water change...

I have just cleaned my tank, did a 40% water change, cleaned the glass with an algae magnet, vacced the substrate. My tank has only been set up for a week, I have a sand substrate, I shoved the vac right in the sand and there was a lot of air trapped in the sand. I lost a tiny bit of sand out of...

My wife has lots of ways to persuade me to buy her stuff, can't really post them here. :o When I need to buy stuff for my jetski, I do the usual, flowers, wine, dinner, then casually drop into the conversation that I just spent £400 on a piece of metal for my jetski engine to make it go...

how do they know their own colour? how does the peppered cory know he's peppered and to chill with his peppered friends? maybe they see the reflection in the glass. :lol:

Thanks for the input, I allowed 18" for the tetras and danios 1" each, 6" for the gouramis, and 6" for the corys. I may have been a little genorous with the 1" for corys, should have been an 1 and a half inches. So I will be 3 inches overstocked. But the rule is more of a guideline so as long as...

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