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The first two pics are different varieties of small anubias. I forget the precise variety but I think one was called mini coin and the other barteri var nana. The biggest leaf you can see is about 2cm. The third pic is a vallisneria shoot that has come all the way from the back to the front, up...

Don't worry about the fact it has two caps. the same stuff comes out of both caps, it's just for convenience of dosing. If you have a very large tank you open the main cap, for small tanks just use the cap with the small bubble underneath it. the bubble fills up when you apply a slight squeeze...

marble is a form of limestone so it will raise the hardness of the water, although to what degree I do not know, but best not to have it in there imo. The unidentified plant looks like a type of vallisneria. It's a good plant to have in an aquarium but may struggle in the substrate you have and...

get some liquid fertiliser like tnc lite Take the weight off the elodea and try and push the ends of the elodea stems down into the gravel, they may stay they may not, but grow foating if it won't stay put. I can't see the hairgrass growing at all in the ceramic media but you never know. A pic...

Lots of plants are good generally speaking but they won't grow if there isn't enough light. Don't worry about it, we all make mistakes when we start out. The pics I've seen of the biorb flow show a small round light in the middle of the lid. Some led lights have a higher angle of dispersion...

Slow down. You've gone and got more plants without having any success in growing the plants you already had. No idea what the biorb light is like but lights that come with packages, particularly "lifestyle" ones like the biorb are often not up to much. I would advise trying to grow the elodea...

That anubias is too big for your tank. You are looking for varieties that contain the word mini or nana or petite. I steer clear of marimo moss balls. They are actually a type of algae that grows in a ball form, and I am convinced that having them in my tank seeded it with algae and I had...

That's a good option.

I'm not familiar with the biorb filter design but personally, I'd remove the carbon and zeolite from the filter and put something else such as sponge or small gravel or small ceramic filter media in it's place to add a bit more surface area to the filter. Carbon is useful in certain...

Stock wise, given the tank dimensions (38cm wide?), you aren't going to have a great deal of choice. What is the hardness and pH of your tap water? Oh, and do a fishless cycle before adding creatures. This does not mean just running the tank for a few days with some bacteria additive (which is...

I'm not very familiar with biorbs but from what I've looked up on the net the substrate you've got is quite large ceramic "gravel"? It will be a struggle to grow anything in that, so I don't think that your hairgrass and alternanthera will grow. I also have no idea if the light unit is any good...

They should snap out of it after a few days as they settle down. They can be a pain at water change times though. I've sucked one up accidentally quite a few times as they seem to find the end of the siphon tube fascinating and I find myself having to really be on the ball and shoo them away...

No idea about external filters, but I am totally with you in not wanting to see the equipment in my tanks. You can try arrangements of wood and/or rocks and/or plants to obscure them or there's something like this...

Perfectly normal in my experience with chillis. If there is any current back there, make sure any gaps are covered up. They will gladly swim frantically against the current, and once through, their momentumm can see them come straight out of the tank. If there are any gaps you may wake up to...

Looks like it. The fibre cartridge is recommended to be replaced weekly, and the cartridges are about £5 for two on amazon UK! So that would be £130 a year just for that.

I don't use carbon either, and you are probably right on the clay balls, but the foam, whilst it would last for years, would defo need to be accessible for cleaning, so if they are sealed then that would be a problem. I could just cut some foam to size and use it without cartridges of course.

Admittedly, quite a mix of unusual stuff there. I am 50 and have an 11 yr old son and a 13 yr old daughter, so I've been through quite a bit with music. From growing up listening to the likes of human league and adam and the ants in the glorious early 80s period of british pop, to finding my...

The music that I listen to comes from pretty much every genre, but there is one band that has been a constant in my musical landscape since the late 80s - Faith No More. I also regularly listen to the following, just as a very small sample Air Brian eno Buckethead bill laswell brian eno The...

Hi. I've been looking at these filters and I'm just wondering if anyone has one and knows if the cartridges that come with them are sealed, or if they can be opened and the media replaced/cleaned. I suspect that they are probably sealed and disposable, but the website isn't clear, so would be...

I understand your worry about transitioning from the current hard water to softer water and the effect that the fluctuation may have on your fish. It wasn't a concern for me as I sourced my fish from a supplier in a soft water area rather than an lfs, so I made sure I had reasonably soft water...

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This is true, and it's very annoying with nano tanks that the packaged heater and filter are almost always too big/powerful. The included lights are often not up to much either. And it annoys the #### out of me that the basic tanks don't come up with a top frame, even as an optional extra...

to not believe anything that lfs staff say.

or allpondsolutions. They have a few basic tank only deals, eg, 4ft for £300.

check out Diversa on ebay.

That sort of set up would lend itself very well to a donut tank.

I'd like a donut shaped tank 3 metres in diameter. The inner ring a metre in diameter as a place to stand when carrying out maintenance. Full of south american dwarf cichlids and huge shoals of corydoras and tetras, heavily planted with fairly easy plants such as jungle val, jave fern, anubias...

You can't change your water...without changing your water. If your tap water is pH 8.2 then it is likely pretty hard as well. Peat pellets, oak leaves etc aren't really going to do much because the water is likely highly buffered. I've never used water softening pillows and the like so can't...

Not sure that the Anubias is nana coin, but it doesn't really matter what type of anubias it is, your tank is big enough so that you don't need a nano anubias. I'd superglue it to something though, rather than have it in the gravel. Over time it will most likely get algae growing on the leaves...

Java fern turning brown is something I have experience of and have seen it reported quite frequently on various websites. One thing that I have seen suggested is that potassium supplement may solve the problem. I never tried this, I just got rid of the java fern as my other plants were growing...

Sometimes they just take a little while to settle down. I wouldn't worry too much after only a month. I've not kept caridina, but the neos are pretty easy to tell the males and females apart. The males are more slender with a tail that thins out a lot more toward the end. They are often a bit...

I found this to be good. 14 individual slots so you can precisely measure how much in each slot and you can use different foods in one slot or different foods in different slots. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BRCWP16K?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Seems better than the rotating...

I found this to be good. 14 individual slots so you can precisely measure how much in each slot and use different foods if necessary. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BRCWP16K?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Seems better than the rotating barrel types. I would echo seangee's comments...

check out nacd aquariums on eBay. Might be what you are looking for.

looks like you’ve got some surface film/scum. more surface turbulence can usually sort this out, even just running an airstone for a few hours a day can get rid of it.

They are very cute. Last week I put in two pieces of bogwood, both standing upright with a flat bit at the top. The pygmies love perching on the flat bits. There were three huddled Together a second before I took the first pic.

I recently went on vacation for two weeks and left a lone neon tetra to fend for himself in a tank full of loads of red cherry shrimp. I did feed him up before I went away and he was fine when I got back. He was on his own because I rescued him from a friend who was throwing his aquarium out...