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ah, she'd be welcome to a nice cuppa if she does come over.

Watching this with interest as my new setup has anubias now covered with streaming hair algae. I got rid of it in my last 75 ltr tank but that's more heavily planted than this one. I'll try days of no artificial light as there's some natural day light from another room opposite. Not a lot but...

Well done. Never thought of that. Many thanks

I got those sort already but they don't have a large enough bend so the scissor handle is almost upright when the point is at something near a 90 degree angle. Yeah, I just love Horizon but with my missus now very poorly at present and unlikely to improve I'm sort of stuck, otherwise you'd have...

I have double curved already but they aren't what I want. If you, for instance, look along their length the tip of the scissors are still on the same plane as the handle. What I need is some that has the end of them pointing away from the stem at an angle of somewhere near 90 degrees

Might be a bit of a daft header but I'm stuck for my search for suitable aquascape scissors. A couple of my tanks are really so on the small size that I can't use the regular aquascape scissors. Is there such a thing as scissors that are at, or nearly at, a 90 degree bend so I don't need to get...

I have 2 of these: One slightly larger for a 60 ltr tank and the other smaller one for a 45 ltr tank. They appear to be doing OK and have sufficient internal space for the filter medium etc. My only problem is that I really don't much room behind the tanks but I managed to fir them fine. They...

Sounds like he is a minion to a another fish with territorial dominance.

I think the problem is that the many weeks of little to no rain has allowed a build up of dust and other potential contaminents on the roof that's being used as the surface area for the rain collection. It does look slightly stained and I'd be reluctant to put it into a tank. However the heavy...

Well, thanks for this topic. I'm looking to do the same thing myself on a 60ltr tank that looks altogether too dark. What I've thought of doing is to remove half the depth of dark substrate/gravel and replace it with light non toxic play sand BUT putting empty fertiliser bags between sand and...

I'd vote no to anything related to US politics

He's your uncle

You need to start again on the thinking here. I am in a similar situation myself and no matter how much you bugger around with altering the pH you won't easily achieve it. I did a pH test just a couple of days ago and it showed really high. I dropped a splash of white vinegar into the tube and...

The Badis are fine with any number of female but only a single male unless the tank is large with room for 2 or more territories. I have found pea puffers to be something akin to a rottweiler. That is, they seem to be slow moving then suddenly snap into action and take a lump out of the fish it...

It;s absolutely pishing it down again now. The last water collection measures in at 23ppm GH and spot on yellow on the pH scale so about 7 Yeaaahhhh. My rainwater setup seems to have been a good idea now despite the last few months wondering why the hell I bothered.

After weeks of little to no rain I have at long last collected around 60ltrs of rainwater. I'm doing some maintenance early this week so I thought I'd do a parameter check of the rainwater. GH is at 30ppm but the pH is a bit puzlling as it's a light blue on the scale meaning it's around 8 - 8.5...

I have 2 tanks that border on the 10 gallon size, though the actual water content is a fair bit less due to the extensive aquascape materials. The first, here is home to 4 Pseudomugil luminatus, 1 male Santa Maria endler that is the last of several I had most of which tried to escape by jumping...

Salt: what concentration? Too high can be problematic.

I'd be cautious. Transferring tank water and wringing out filters from another tank isn't necessarily transferring beneficial bacteria. The bulk of that is in the filter sponges themselves and any other stuff such as the gravel, any hardscape things like wood etc. When I try the same thing to...

Let's ask Gregg Abbot eh? Texas hasn't a clue how to handle these things

I don't have personal experience of it, but every tank I ever had/have with a top is one that has a black plastic type hood or with glass. If perspex or other acrylic type hoods worked then I'm sure they would be offered as part of a tank purchase. I have a lift on glass hood on one tank with...

Au naturale is my basic bottom line. If it ain't a free swimming in the wild form then don't buy unless it's a species being bred to keep alive one that is otherwise now extinct in the wild.

Jumpers, jumpers and jumpers. My tanks are mostly topless because I have wooden architecture poking above the rim. I've lost a good number of fish due to jumping so I'm considering having some lids made specially to fit with openings for the wood and wires/pipes etc. Evaporation is a problem...

Adorabelle...... I first of all bought eggs from someone in Scotland around 3 years ago. They arrived with the packet squashed and no visible eggs. He sent me more that arrived OK but failed to hatch. Then I saw them on ebay and contacted the seller direct. He is in Sunderland and I'm only 8...

The black phantoms are great. I had them in my 65 litre tank but it had dark substrate and background with a good number of tall darkish plants. They weren't too easily seen so I changed the tank setup to show them better.

It's Scotland. more likely than not very hard water area but best to check anyway. The larger tank is seemingly sparcely populated but believe me ...... when the Kribs start their first brood you'll be glad of the spare room for them. They are so lovely but so likely to fill a tank with...

Yeah, the big orangy ball. But not in the sky. A downwards movement into the darkest depths would be better Anyway - the weather. You know when you wash your car and it rains right after, how you book your holidays to a nice Mediterannean resort and the rain follows you there. Well I made a...

Seems like Coral Moss to me:

Thanks for that. Recovery is also down to patience. Unfortunately my wife doesn't have much. She insisted on going down to the shop this morning. I mean....... It was a slack day though so she just chatted with the girls mainly. Far better than watching me try to work out spray bars and inlet...

I adjust the light to around 50% so it isn't too bright but I need to keep it at full for a couple of hours each day until the plants start growing. Mini hairgrass to front left, split towards the back with rotala that generally grows pretty quickly to form a cluster in the rear left corner. The...

I had a couple of vampire crabs that my 4 year old granddaughter loved. She told all her nursery friends and teachers "my granddad has crabs" God bless her...........

My 120ltr AquaOne had been thrown together a good amount of time ago, to correct various previous problems that resulted in the death of around 100 yellow sakuri shrimp and had the fish all at the water surface gasping for air. I wanted some sort of aquascape setup with lots of plants for the...

Don't know wher in the UK you are but I know that Horizon Aquatics have them. I bought another 4 amano yesterday ad there's always a load of otos in stock. I think they send out orders.