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Hi all Just a quick FTS, need more mid-ground plants have moved some crypts round a bit also, I took the rotala out as it was getting too leggy. Cherry barb's are spawning most morning though all eggs are being eaten, fast becoming a firm favourite fish of mine, the males are a stunning deep...

A permanent load and jumping on the floor are not comparable. My advice would be to ensure the weight of the tank is spread across two joists if your flooring is not concrete. Unless there are any structural engineers on here who are prepared to visit your house no one can give you a 100% answer...

If you're still stuck at the nitrite stage I am seriously beginning to think your nitrite levels are too high despite what your test kit is saying. There is no way a cycle should take this long. I'd recommend one of the following two steps. 1. Add no more ammonia for 2 days and see if your...

I clip a reflector under one of the tubes in my Rio 125, or you could reverse the bulb as suggested above but I have never tried this so do not know if it would work or not. Keeps the intensity manageable.

Plant growth is determined by lighting, overdosing fertilisers will not make them grow quicker

The issue with juwel tanks is the intensity, I love their equipment, nearly every tank I've had has been a juwel as the quality is unparalleled, but the stock lighting is just over kill and always causes issues with algae in planted setups without injected CO2. On all my juwel tanks I block out...

Neither are most plants available readily to fish keepers, a lot grow in marshes and or spend their time underwater seasonally. Anubias can be kept permanently underwater but growth will be slow. It will not rot like a terrestrial plant would.

Nice looking setup! Word of warning on the mussels, they won't last five minutes in your pristine looking water, these guys need green water filled with algae as they are filter feeders. Supplemental feeding rarely works in home aquaria, I know you have said they are temporarily there but if one...

I think the fish in question is long gone by now, this thread is 15 years old

Your Lido 200 has very high light output if it has T5 or LED tubes, I have had this tank myself and using the stock lighting to grow plants is not possible without CO2 injection. My suggestion would be to clip a reflector to the underside of the tube to reduce the lighting intensity. Limit your...

I would ditch the Excel all together, it is a powerful disinfectant and is toxic to fish, inverts and true aquatic plants. The benefit it yields in terms of providing plants with carbon is negligible. Treating algae with Excel is papering over the cracks so to speak, you need to tackle the root...

Once you factor in filter media and pipework etc the true turnover is probably close to half the manufacturers stated flow rate, personally I think this filter would be great for your tank, just ensure flow is evenly and we'll distributed so as not to batter the fish and make them work harder...

Hi all Just a quick update, added 12 cherry barb's, good mix of males and females, such an underated fish for sure, they are stunning! Plenty of growth, algae is all but gone now too, looking to add more Crypts and some dwarf Sag as soon as I'm.able to find any!

I have always bought my hardscape materials from Aqua Essentials. They have a great range of rocks.

I have used this method in the past in a Pico setup with no fish, to add it was a 1l tank with some HC and S.repens, (I was replacing 200ml with carbonated water daily) it did work but to do this successfully in a larger tank would be ineffective from a cost perspective and also measuring the...

The Cory looks normal to me.

The best place for driftwood and other hardscape if you're struggling to find somewhere locally is Aqua Essentials online. Their plants are decent too if you're looking for any more, you can get pretty much 90% of species from them.

It's definitely a Blue Ram Please could you provide us with your water parameters? Ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, GH and KH? Tank temperature also please? Blue Rams are notoriously finicky fish, they demand perfect water conditions and the choice of fish available is generally very poor in...

I am no expert in fish disease but it looks like a prolapse or cancerous growth to me, either way I can't see the outcome being a positive one. Personally I would euthanise.

My guess would be to allow the dechlorinator to work, which makes no odds anyway as from a chemistry point of view the reaction is near instantaneous, just swish the water round with your hands. Tap water has dissolved CO2 also to prevent pipe corrosion, the 30 mins would allow it to gas off...

One where I can keep any species I wish together without having to worry about water chemistry, behavioural incompatibilities... Pair of clownfish with a school or neon tetras? Say what

Chester zoo is excellent, I love visiting their fish House whenever I go there, they do some great breeding work. Be great to see these in the hobby but I would imagine that fishing was part of their decline in the first place. Rare Goodeids are hard to come by in most fish stores, when I saw...

The same can be said for gravel, it depends entirely on what it is made of, most gravels are inert (in a fashion) the same way sand is, though you sometimes get leaching of silicates with silica sands. For me the ultimate low budget substrate is clay cat litter capped with fine gravel or sand...

Livebearers will mate anything willing to put up with their advances, if they were human they'd be on some kind of register and behind bars. One of my male Platies regularly tries to deposit his seed on a Bolivian Ram

Please invest in a hydrometer or even better a refractometer so you can measure the specific gravity of the water to indicate the salinity. I would start by asking the fish store what the specific gravity of the water they are currently kept in is at and then raise the salinity to such...

As above it's Anubias, most likely nana or nana petite

Brown algae is often referred to as diatoms, it's common in new setups where water chemistry is unstable and even more so in those with new sand. Basically it requires silicates to reproduce, perform regular water changes, remove as much as possible and reduce your lighting slightly, it will...

Looks like a juwel delta 300 to me, capacity of 300l. There are calculators online for this kind of shape.

Having spent Christmas in Perth one year during a heat wave I can empathise somewhat, but I'm freezing here, my feet are lime ice cubes, wanna swap?

I would recommend getting an in-line diffuser for your filter outlet, it can be spliced directly into the filter outlet house and will blow the CO2 everywhere giving you good distribution.

Welcome! Cherry barb's are such an underated fish, they are quite remarkable in appearance in my opinion and often overlooked due to their full shop colours. Your video has made me want to add a small group to my tank!

There's a debate that rumbles on, aquascapers generally focus on the plant health, intensely bright light is not appreciated by most fish species. The aquarist generally puts fish health before plant health. It's an ethical debate, one I tend to not get involved in as there are usually differing...

That's correct, under lower lighting conditions they don't produce the red pigments in response to stress. All the CO2 does is balance the nutrient requirements for the plant. PO4 and Iron to a lesser extent are important for the production of these pigments too, so a deficiency in these...

Some plants turn red in response to lighting that is too intense, it is them reacting to stress whereby the stress causes a fault in the tissues of the plant which results in the creation of reactive oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide. Typically anthocyanins combat the reactive oxygen...

Blasting sand is definitely not good for bottom dwellers, it is coarse, sharp and angular. I work in an industry where this stuff is used all the time, it ruins everything it comes into contact with. Heck I can barely see the screen I'm typing on for scratches in my glasses caused by this stuff.

Most of the plants in our aquariums grow emersed in the wild meaning they have access to pretty much unlimited CO2 in the air. This is different when dissolved in water as CO2 is much more unstable as such less readily available to plants when submersed. If you can grow the likes of Hemianthus...

Disagree with the above, it depends entirely on the lighting and plant species concerned. Are you intending to use this on your 29g setup? If so this system won't last long at all, it would be interesting to know your lighting/tank information, that way it would be easier to offer advice. CO2...

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