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Okay, thanks for your replies. I’m gonna get some ro. There is a chance that it’ll rain tonight or tomorrow so we’ll see, but I’m not holding out for it.

Do you mean distilled or deionised water? I can get 25 litres of RO for £5 from the LFS. Worth it as a stop gap until it rains again.

I use a mixture of rainwater and tap water in my nano tank in a 3:1 ratio. Tap water in London is pretty hard and I find that this mix has worked very well for the last year with my shrimp and fish doing very well. I collect the rainwater in a water butt which is connected to the downpipe of a...

That’s exactly what I’m looking for and I had actually come across that listing in my search. But can’t find similar in UK…well, I have found it wholesale but min order is way too much. I’ll keep looking.

Exactly. 6ml of prime isn’t going to be exhausted by 54ml of tap water. Or maybe my shrimp, fish and filter bacteria are immune to chlorine.

Get a small bottle, use it to dilute the conditioner down. I had a spare 60ml screw cap lying around so I put 6ml of neat prime and 54ml water. 1 ml of this to every 4 litres. I keep the diluted stuff in the freezer and take it out for an hour or so before I need it. I only use 2ml per water...

good suggestion. Will keep looking.

I can assure you that British people don’t view Americans as rebel scum. We view you as a friendly nation with much in common with us, and we (particularly the younger generation) lap up your cultural exports. whilst US/UK relations ebb and flow, it is hard to imagine a World where US and UK...

Hi. Anyone know what this stuff is called? The grooved bit clips onto the top edge of the tank and the bit that protrudes out at a right angle supports a glass sheet. Am looking for more of this.

You should be able to scrape it off the wood, pick the bits of glue out of the moss and try again with thread. Superglue is good for gluing things like anubias or Java fern rhizomes to wood/rock but thread Is much better for moss imo.

Okay, thanks for your replies. I am feeding mainly micro worms so far. I have tried frozen cyclops but the cyclops don’t seem to freeze very well and it just seems like adding a load of mush to the tank. I’ll try and get hold of some mini bloodworms and bug bites. I have other micro granules...

picked up some of these the other day. I’m trying a few different foods but can someone recommend a specific product that they use with success as a staple?

I'm really not sure, but freeing may work. Freezing does not kill bacteria, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll be good to go in the filter when defrosted. I've not heard of anyone doing that personally, but a quick google finds this which may be useful:-...

I have also long suspected it might be my cherry shrimp making the holes but had read somewhere that there is no way that cherry shrimp would eat live plant leaves. I’m still suspicious of them though. I’m not going to be putting my shrimp in the new tank straight away, so I’ll see how the hygro...

I have same problem in my tank with h polysperma. I had assumed it was the freshwater limpets doing it. No other plants are showing any signs of any deficiency, although I did used to have Java fern which I gave up on due to it turning brown. I’ll soon be transferring everything from my nano to...

This is a pic of my nano with the rooibos added. I also have some mini Catt appa leaves and alder cones. It’s not usually this dark but I think it looks nice. Too dark for the plants though, so I will leave the rooibos out at the next water change. I know the lone neon shouldn’t be in a tank...

Hmmm. Signals coming from an alien civilisation….or interference. I’ll go with interference.

I use rooibos in my 18 litre nano. One tea bag lasts for at least 2 water changes. The first one I just let the bag float in the tank for a while. Second time round I microwave it in a small mug of tank water and pour it in once cooled. Think I overdid it last time though, will post pic later.

My take on it is that given the vastness of space and the countless myriad solar systems and planets out there, that intelligent life has/does/will exist elsewhere in the Universe. However, it is that very vastness that ensures that no two intelligent races will ever inhabit the same temporal...

Happens to us all. I recently had 6 chilli rasboras jump out through little gaps around the glass cover. The only thing I can put it down to is that my filter was sounding very odd so I took it out to clean it and put another filter in for a few days. The new filter had a higher flow rate and...

This is what I suspect and is the crux of my question. As I say, not an issue for me, but I was just curious as to why so many air driven filters seem to have this fundamental design flaw. I’m not saying they don’t work at all, but it seems pretty obvious that a filter with an uplift below the...

Thanks for your replies. I've made 4 air driven filters of differing design, all with 90 degree bends at the top of the uplift. I've tested them all out and all of them work just fine with the top of the uplift above the waterline so I'm happy with all of them. I still don't really understand...

I may have posted a similar question before but can’t seem to find it in my posting history. Anyway, I am in the process of setting up a new tank – Aquael Leddy 40, 25 litres. It came with a 300 lph ASAP filter but I really don’t want that sort of turnover in my tank. I know you need to take...

Okay, next time I’m at the lfs I’ll get some fresh blood.

Hi, I started off with about 8 red cherry shrimp back in September and now have Too many to count but I would guess at least 100. One thing I have noticed is some colour changes going on amongst the population. the first one I noticed was a prominent light stripe down the full length of the...

Hello again. Latest pic attached. As I said I got rid of the Java fern at the back as it was just going brown. I’ve now attached the Java moss to some bogwood arranged into a little cave whereas it was previously growing on a plastic frame. I’ve also added some elodea rear right and some vallis...

yeah, freshwater limpets. I’ve got loads of them. they are pretty harmless although I suspect they may be making little holes in my h polysperma leaves. my other plants are unaffected. They can get very numerous though unless controlled. I’m trying to get rid of them with genchem no planaria...

I'm in a hard water area and I use rainwater mixed with tapwater in a 3:1 ratio for my tank. I filter the rainwater through a small micron sieve to remove any particulates (there are seldom any of note actually) and then mix the rainwater with tapwater in a food safe bucket and run a small...

Anyone got any of the following and able to comment specifically on the lighting and whether or not it will be sufficient. Ciano aqua 20 Super fish home 30 Super fish start 30 Aquatlantis explorer lisbon Not looking to grow anything demanding, h polysperma, vallis, elodea, b monnieri, Java...

I did think about just leaving them but chickened out. I guess they'd probably be okay on reflection. Still, I'm away for two weeks in August, so will have to come up with a plan for that. I repeatedly expressed to my neighbour that only tiny amounts were needed and I broke the vast majority of...

An automated feeder wouldn't really work. I'm only keeping 8 chilli rasboras and the amount of food they need is so tiny that any autofeeder would be overkill. I know that you can adjust the serving size but the amount of food these guys require is miniscule. I have also had problems lately with...

Good idea

I was on vacation for a week and asked a neighbour to feed the fish for me. I returned to what you can see in the attached pic. The stuff that looks like sand in the foreground is a mass of rotting algae wafers. The water had a foul smell to it and there were bubbles coming up from the...