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My tank won the last competition.. it has not changed .. yet 😅

Thank you for the suggestion! I just had to google it to find out what it looks like 😅 very similar to guppy grass but the leaves look a little thicker. I will have to see if I can source any locally 😁

Oooh ok thank you for the advice on that. I wasn’t aware of anaerobic gas pockets. But I will probably just be adding new substrate on top and build it up from how it is now and the layer I have down already is fairly thin. Plus I do carry out a gravel vac about once a week so the gravel is...

Handy to know that about the mixing - thank you! And hey, there’s no harm in playing! I might even invest in a white lab coat just for fun! 🤣

I’ll start moving stuff around and my fish are gonna be like “oh FFS what now?!” 😂 I’ve just created a rudimentary sketch over the top of one of my pics of the idea I have… hopefully this will look as good as I think it will haha Does anybody else do this or is it just me??? 😂🙈 Thank you 🥰

He’s Beautiful! I was thinking, just Blue.. like the velociraptor in Jurassic World 💙 But @Seisage ’s suggestion of Azureus is a very powerful name - I love it!

Today I will take a trip to my LFS and pick up a new water test kit. I’m intrigued to start using the the water kits in the tubes rather than the test strips I’m currently using. They look like they’re way more accurate, and the strips make me worry necessarily when it’s telling me my PH is “in...

Agreed! I already have an aquascaping kit which I got from Amazon, £15 I thought was a great price! This actually looks like a great method, in the video it looks like the bottle caught any murky water as well so that’s actually a really good idea.. perhaps I’ll have to give this a go if I...

I’m also in Kent 🙂 When I first started out in the hobby back in September 2022 I bought a batch of neon tetras and a batch of guppies from that “home” “pets” store… all of the neons died within about a fortnight. The guppies probably lasted about 6 months but they all died eventually too...

Ok great, thanks for the tip. And I can leave the fish in the tank while I do this?

Hi all I’m thinking about re-scaping my 30gallon. Why? Because I feel the substrate is not deep enough for the plants, so the main thing I want to do is add more substrate and have it kind of sloping up to the back of the tank. The plants are mainly located across the back so this would give...

Haha, me too! 😅 Luckily I have laminate flooring 🤣

It’s quite low to be honest, it used to be around the 7 mark but it’s now around 6.4.. I was actually going to ask on here about how to raise it back to 7 which would be better for my reed fish and my mollys. I didn’t know that was because of the wood, I guess every day is a school day!

I have had to place a rock on my driftwood to keep it from floating. I’ve had it in my tank for 6 weeks now, if I removed the rock it would probably still float 😂

Congratulations! Beautiful puppy 😍

I’m glad you managed to save it, it looks good!

Happy Birthday! 🥳

Welcome along 👋🏻 love the tank!

😍 How long between each picture??

After googling what gonopodium actually means, you have rendered me speechless 😶🙈😂

He doesn’t I’m afraid. He’s not a forum kind of person. Anytime he spends online he’d rather be either scrolling through social media reels 🥱 or gaming 🎮 and he just relies on me do any research required 🙄😂

Welcome along 👋🏻 I agree with @Naughts get more of your current fish, I’d say definitely more scissortails. They are a schooling fish and the one you have alone is probably feeling pretty stressed, they are timid enough as it is. I know this from experience, I too have scissortails - started...

👀 … I’ll let hubby know…

Wow this sounds like a fish horror story. I can’t give any extra advice from what’s already been given, but I have to reiterate frequent water changes and gravel cleaning is a must. Fish keeping/care has probably come a long way in 40 years, I’m sure your father thinks he knows best and...

Hi @CassCats welcome back to the forum 👋🏻 I’ve only been on here for a few months, and have been inspired since I arrived with natural looking tanks that I have completely changed the layout of my tank. And now looking at yours, my mind is blown 🤯 absolutely beautiful tanks and beautiful fish...

Thanks for the tip! I do have some aquascaping tweezers and that’s the method I used, although I didn’t know about the cutting, I will be sure to do that in future 😊👍🏻 I’ve also subscribed to those YouTube channels thanks 😁

Ahhh ok that’s good then. Maybe I’ll use the excess as a floating plant in the bigger tank, it took me over an hour to plant all this, not sure I can stand to plant it in the other one as well 😂

My best efforts to plant the trimmings..

We had some guppy grass arrive in the post today, hubby ordered it online. Now, we are still quite new to planted tanks, and what we received were what looked like cuttings, or trimmings, not like the sort of plants they sell in the store with roots etc.. is this normal? Will the plants still...

That’s so cute! 🥰

Yep, they’ve got three massive clown loaches in the display tank at my LFS! Massive! 😱