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and man are they good value! blimey i got an absolute shedload of plants for 16 pound 50 or something like that :P really good value for money i just thought id say here lol anyone whos thinking about getting a collection of plants from them they are great value, a few were a bit ragged but most...

well i can say that seller is extremely good, i ordered a heater from them the first one they sent the postman broke, and they sent another free of charge without having to send the first back, that looks like a good deal for their plants and you get a nice selection but i think some of those...

well it seems to have knocked it off now, it must have been soft, didnt look like a cauliflower only small, looked smooth and like a off white pimple, i can kind of see a mark where it was on the fish but its very hard to tell lol they are small, no red in it at all, surprising as the fish are...

just feed them some cucumber, courgette or some lettuce, boil em all before you feed them though, they will be easier to digest that way. :)

its just a tiny little off white lump thats spherical, looks almost like the head of a spot you would get on your face, hes the only fish with it too so its a bit weird im not sure what it is help lol.

id say take out the biggest rocks, and use the smaller ones to make a bit of a cave for the corys with a clear area infront of it, then try and plant so the plants will grow over the rocks of the cave, and at the other side make an area with the wood, and plant around that, taller plants to the...

in my opinion id either lose some of the rocks or some of the wood, they dont look good together to me, just my opinion though. also it looks a bit rammed with stuff apart from plants, id free up a bit of the substrate to be bare, you want to accentuate the plants with the hardscaping, and your...

for refilling cylinders, try yellow pages, and bull#### it to the max, dont say anything about aquariums, just say its for drinks or welding or the like.

its extremely satisfying creating your own little eco-system ;) my mums got a few treats coming in the post apparently too, have no idea what it is, but it should be good :D

that is so cool, why does its tail go up when its chewing? do you know? also what are you feeding it? just scrag ends of fish?

just a little written update, my plants are pearling, already! lol i was very surprised, after only a day and a bit of lighting they are pearling like mad, im well chuffed, :)

you have to be careful with these, they wont bother adult fish, but they will kill fry or very small fish.

i find mine isnt too accurate on the colour scale, but thats with any liquid test really, its hard to tell, but basically blue means more c02 yellow means less and oxygenate your water otherwise your fish are gonna die, anywhere from dark green to lightish green is about right :)

what do you mean by 'soft wood' also would be good to know the species of tree, as certain trees have different chemicals in them some of which can be toxic to fish, the best thing to do with it would be to boil it a fair few times (or soak with boiling water if its too big for a pot) then dry...

ok yes buy the biggest filter you can, increases your stocking capacity and helps keep your water cleaner, and can hold more filter bacteria, brands to look for are tetratec fluval aquaclear eheim and the like, most people stick to eheim and fluval because they are the main 2, cannister filters...

dont worry ;) will all be covered with riccia in the end anyway.

ok time for a BIG update, finally got some pictures, its the first day of the lights and c02 being on together, here we go ;) dont be too harsh people the moss is very brown cos it was the first plant in, its been through the cycle, having no lights, and all kinds of stuff, so hopefully it...

yeah well i have 2 so i will be doing bi-weekly changes i think, running half a teaspoon of yeast in each, as it says in the guide thats pinned to use 1 teaspoon for 1 unit, ill change em alternately, i was mainly worried about there being a possibility of a overdose in the tank and my fish...

how many bubbles per minute/second should i be aiming for? i just tested one of my kits (running two with two ladders at each end of my tank) and i got 27 bubbles in a minute, and about 1.5 bubbles per second, is this ok? i have a permenant c02 test in the tank, so if the c02 levels go haywire i...

ok so my c02 units arrived from ebay this morning, got 2 second hand for the price of 1 new :) well chuffed, my lid is almost finished, all thats left to do its to put on the front top part and hinge, make an access panel for the wires and the like to come out of, and to varnish the whole thing...

id just like to say, activated carbon has a very large surface area for beneficial bacteria to grow on, so you can use it as a bio filtration method, and it will be very effective, i dont think there is any need for someone who already has a carbon filter (with a mechanical sponge), to go out...

i dunno why people are saying carbon is solely a chemical filtration method, activated carbon provides millimetre for millimetre just as much surface area as ceramic tubes/bio balls and the like, if you want to use your carbon as a bio filter instead of chemical, just leave it in for enough time...

hate to say it twice, but wholesale tropicals is amazing, great plant and fish selection, even some amphibians and stuff, they had an almighty puffer in there when i went, and a huge fire eel, best fish shop ive been too, the service cant be matched either, and their daughter who works there is...

usually by letting the other fish eat them or the eggs.

aw its so small and cute! love it, you though about putting some dwarf rasboras in there? :)

i just set up mine, the instructions are pretty simple, take off the see through cap fill 1.5ml of water with the syringe and with 2 to 4 drops of reagent, keeping the clear lid upside down press in the black part with the suckers, turn over carefully so no liquid comes out, then put into the...

if you've got the foil packs why not just break bits off from the frozen bits? and keep them frozen, thats what i do, defrost a tiny little bit in a bit of fish tank water in a jug.

i know theres an ebay seller selling duckweed riccia and salvinia all mixed together, it might of been that, remember to read the ads carefully ;) ebay has some good pure riccia sellers.

k just a little update, went to a not so local fish shop today and got my t5 bulbs, (triphosphor) also got a few other bits n bobs like some frozen bloodworm a permenant c02 test and some ferrotabs, got 5 bunches of combomba too, just the start of the fast growers im gonna put in to stop algae...

ok basically im running a clearseal 700 internal that says its for 4ft tanks and over, it has a mechanical sponge, and activated carbon (which im not replacing as its being used as the biological filter) the one under the 5 to 6ft model, i dunno how many GPH it does, dimensions are 48" long by...

ok this is a plea to all you nice people out there, could you help out a cash strapped teenager in need ;) (almost like red nose day but with aquariums lol) im after any free aquarium equipment that you have going spare, anything, from air piping to connections to filters, filter media, heaters...

thanks for the advise mate, i could possibly take them back to the LFS, but ive fallen in love with em now, what will a higher ph do to them? will it affect them severely? my tank is full cycled, its just the ph is high, im going to be adding c02 soon so that should lower the PH a bit :)...

ebay, theres a guy who does great mopani wood, he will soak it if you ask, also packs it very well ive ordered from him, just type in mopani on ebay and all the wood with a blue tarp background are from him.

bump, anybody?

hmm just had a google and willow and weeping moss do look quite similar.

looks like weeping moss to me? but im by no means sure ;)

yeah i know oldschool and all that ;) lol its not good yeah but i have no other choice at the minute, cost prohibits me from using an external at the minute (probably gonna save up) and in the distant future i want to change substrates at some point, but right now its just not possible.

holey moley thats murky lol! couldnt help but chuckle, hope you get it sorted mate.

well ill try to get some pics my dad just got a new doodad that does video pics and plays dvds and all that so hopefully it should be better than my woeful digicam, and btw its pointless me taking pics at the minute as all i have on the tank is a bolt on house lamp but when i get the lid done...