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hi there, they came from my tank and were living with some cories and diamond tetras and neons and were totally fine with that combination. They were fed on flake and the odd catfish pellet and live food and frozen live food so have been used to a total variety. I am also at a loss why they...

Great, thanks for that info. They are currently in a 180 litre tank and so far the apistos (only one pair) have totally ignored them, so hopefully they will be ok... It's quite heavily planted with fine gravel subsrate, but I heard that C121's can be sensitive so just wanted to get it right...

Hi Everyone, I just got 6 C121's and they are great :wub: ! They were just labelled "corys" in the lfs, so got 6 for £19 - is this price right? i thought they were adolfoi but I am pretty convinced they are C121 now. I just love them! Will post some pics soon, They are a 180 litre tank in...

well, all good now - added some more rainwater when I got in from work and shrimps all seem happy before I went to bed so not moved them, CO stabilised I think - stopped adding it overnight and this morning no more shrimp deaths :good: So only lost 2 out of 10 which I think is reasonable...

Hi Nero, Yeah, thanks! My CO2 all seemed fine until last night, ie 30ppm - dunno what I did! Anyway will transfer the shrimp to my other tank tonight - I recieved them through the post yesterday so it may just be that the two that died just did not like the travelling etc! Thanks for your...

Thanks, I was not wanting to let the CO2 drop below 30ppm as I don't want an algae farm, but don't think thats gonna be a prob..... :unsure:

Doh, yep thanks Squid, you are correct! I'll measure it later on (it was measured this morning with CO2 running overnight - do you recommend switching it off overnight ?- I have a one way value on my DIY so air would not get into the yeast mix) I'll measure it tonight and see what happens...

Hey Nero, thanks for fast reply! Yeah i reckon there is no way I can have CO2 that high, unless I am using some incrediable yeast! Thing is I think the drop checkers use the relationship between KH and PH to calculate the CO2 so this would also show a way off CO2 reading... I have a JBL...

Hi there, I am new to the high tech planted tank stuff but set up another tank with the aim to go high tech 2 weeks ago with substrate fertiliser, DIY CO2 injection, 3wpg (although running only 1.5 at the moment) and a filter from another tank that has been running for a couple of years, so...

wow I have not seen that either, it looks pretty good...!

Yes, I was looking for diagrams on the net to post and could not find any that were that useful! I have a IN 800 and a IN 1000 which are slightly different from the one in the pic you posted, the 800 has one bucket, the 1000 has two buckets, neither of which have slots in them at all, the water...

Personally I really like the Tetratec internals - I have a IN 800 and it's great! Really quiet, easy and far less messy to change the sponges etc than the fluvals I have had and, due to the design of the filter "buckets" you can fill them with activated carbon/peat etc. without it going...

It has definitely darkened with age and some other pics on the web show it as quite pale. I guess they also tend to pale if they are stressed? Not sure. Thanks tho!

BRILLIANT :hyper: ! Thanks Nmonks, it is indeed a Somileptes gongota although, looking at the info onthe web for it, mine lives in hard water and seems very healthy, I have had no probs at all and (s)he will come to the front of the tank if food is coming! It actually turns darker at night as...

I have this fish that I have been keeping very successfully for nearly a year with 5 dwarf puffers. He (She?!) loves filtering gravel and burrowing and munching on catfish tablet/excess bloodworm that falls to the bottom. I have asked several people and trawled the net to no avail! Thanks...