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Hello,    If the bog wood you have has not been pre soaked it will leach tannins when you put it in your tank, this will turn the water a tea like color. If you want to help prevent this happen you can soak the wood in a bucket of very hot water, change the water when it cools down for more hot...

You should be fine with just one external filter as long as it has a flow rate of around 1000lph

You could sprinkle a small amount of shake and vac on your carpet before hovering it.    I do this and have not had any issues with my tank, but when I set up my open top tank I will stop using the shake and vac.

Hi,    Can you tell me if the Flora Base is new or if not how long has it been in the tank? I guess it has been used in your tank for 10 months but want to check.    Cheers

Hello and   to the forum   Even though the U3 filter is provided with the Roma 125 as standard I would recommend upgrading to either a stronger internal or even better if your funds allow going with an external would be the better option. Especially if you want to stock your tank to its limit.  ...

Its not that I don't like them, they just look unnatural.    But a big shoal of these would still look immense 

Some info I found on them;   They are selectively bred forms of regular Neons, After centuries of inbreeding, freaks will occasionally crop up, breeding 2 together will create a better ratio of freaks to normal ones, Gradually the freaks are line bred with the longer finnage being chosen each...

JBL Cleany makes cleaning pipes a breeze.    Plenty of other ways to clean them but for around £7 you cant go wrong IMO

I have been using New life spectrum pellets for a while now, this food is made from 100% natural ingredients and is one of the best  dry foods you can feed your fish IMO.    Not had any experience with the Cichlid formula but looking at the ingredients it is not much differenct to the Thera A +...

The media you use from your existing filter to add to your new filter will mean that you can stock the new tank with around the same amount of fish that you had in your old tank.    So your new filter will be instantly cycled because it will hold all the bacteria that was in your old filter. 

  You are probably right if the fry are eating the roots, IME frogbit does best when the roots are left to grow long.    PM sent to OP offering some frogbit for the cost of postage.

  The rate it grows in my tank I reckon it could reach the OP withing a few weeks! 

Hello,    Your substrate will contain some bacteria however the bulk will be contained within your filter, you should be able to change all the substrate at once. As a precaution monitor the Ammonia/NitrIte levels for a few weeks and if required do water changes to keep the levels as close to...

Just leave them be, no need to do anything just enjoy looking at the flower.

I have a load that I need to get rid off, about 15-20 plants.

So there's your answer, lol

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Depends if you like snails? If it was me I would remove them ASAP otherwise you may end up with hundreds of them.

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    The majority of Aquatic plants are grown emersed (out of water) so when you add them to your tank the plant needs to adjust to grow under water, the leaves that were grown when the plant was out of water will gradually die off and new leaves will replace them.    This is why some plants...

Your local pet store or P@H will sell the holiday blocks.    Bear in mind that this is the only situation that I would ever recommend using feeding blocks. 

  Seems I was the one who miss understood, you were right all along      You could just get one of those horrible weekend feeding blocks and let it sit in your tank whilst you are away, it should slowly break down and keep your bacteria fed till you return, then just make sure you remove what...

Are you doing a fishless cycle? if you are and the cycle is only 2 days in I assume you have added ammonia?   If you have added ammonia leaving the tank for 6 days without adding any more ammonia will be fine, it is going to take longer than 2 weeks before you start to see the ammonia being...

You are welcome,    If you have any more questions feel free to ask, there are tons of members here that are always willing to help. 

  Ok,    The substrate looks like Eco Complete? if so it will help provide nutrients for the plants to feed on, if you up your plant mass you may want to look into dosing a fertilizer so that the plants can also feed through their leaves from the water column.   If you don't mind me asking did...

First off   to the forum    The cracks in the sword leaves look to have been caused during transportation, new leaves will grow and the old leaves will need to be trimmed off once they start to go transparent. The bent over plants are Cabomba a type of stem plant, if they are in the flow from...

    Same here, but then again I have a Fluval Air pump so even jet aeroplanes are quieter.

Just for fun what do you want your rank to say?

    If you mean why was the number of post's increased in order to edit the rank.   I don't honestly know, but it was changed when the forum was updated a little while back.

  The amount of posts required in order to personalise your rank has been increased from 1250 posts, I think you now need 2000 in order to edit it.   I cant edit mine anymore, lol

Looks like a baby snail to me 

If you purchase an Ex700 it will come with everything you need so you can set it up and away you go. You can also use the mature media from your existing cycled filter to put into the Ex700's media trays, this way you should not have any issues. Depending what fish you have and if your tank...

Well it's not ideal to use a 100w heater in such a small tank but it can be done. The main risk is that if the heater stuck on it wouldn't take long for your fish to boil. I have been using a 300w inline heater on my 60l tank for ages now and everything is fine, I just pray it never...

For tea today I had hunters chicken, mash potato and veg.   Lovely 

Livestock: Peru Green Stripe Corydoras x8 (CW10) Quantity for sale: 8 Reason for Sale: going to have a HC carpet covering entire bottom of tank.  Delivery or Collection: Collection only Sales price: Offers  Postage & Packaging: Collection only Location: Bristol (BS34) Photograph: (best picture I...