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it looks like the sort of thing you might see at a car boot sale

that is one tidy looking fish :drool:

this is charlie the new addition to the family not even 2 inches long

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my friend has identified black brush algea in my tank and says that it is caused by fluctuating levels of co2 and shrugged his shoulders at any more questions. there is no visable signs of any other types of algea in the tank and i boast about water quality the tank is a low tech low light no...

done this method several times in bigger tanks with great results (looks good) i used normal house hold salt to get rid of the nasties from the cement about 5 cups of salt for a 40 gallon tank and left it for a week with a power head in to keep water moving. empty the tank and repeat this...

yep coconut caves . half a coconut shell with one end chipped out place it in a bowl of water in a sunny window and sprinkle java moss clippings over it give it a month AH apisto heaven :rolleyes:

they will get on well with cory's but will grow a bit larger than the rams . if you are looking for something else try looking for dwarf acaras as they do well with rams . i have never known a ram to be aggresive only a bit nippy. 8 years is a long time and farm raised fish or local breed fish...

a wonderful fish for a peaceful tank

i kept some of these guys about 8 years ago in a 6 foot tank with bolivian rams and keyholes and they were a bit scrappy between themselves but not an aggresive fish . very picky eaters and need very good water quality but mine were wild caught shame on me but it was a start of a breeding...

large bricks and other solid objects make good tank mates for cons

white spots on new mopani wood is normally a fungus that will not survive under water for long but never seen it on bog wood or anything else sorry. any new wood that goes into my tank is soaked for at least a month and scrubbed with a wire brush .

i binned my filter for the trigon 190 . it is a good filter but takes up a lot of space so over a period of 3 months i swapped it for 2 x fluval 205's and never looked back

this may not happen in your part of the world but i had major problems with condensation and damp on the walls and floor of my fish room in winter but a total strip down and better insulation solved this and nearly halved the heating bill. larger storage area for sumps and water storage for...

nice one :good: .

the jewel filter in my tank worked well for me the low flow rate and massive bio and mechanical filtration was ideal for my water logged jungle theme but when removing the sponge filters the whole tank turned into pea soup. they are good but take up a good chunk of tank space.

i ran a u3 for several months in my tank while i was ripping out the juwel filter and installing two 205s and only took the u3 out of the tank when both 205s had matured. i found the u3 a very user friendly filter but i did take out the poly carbon pads and used thin polypads cut to size. i was...

bolivian rams

thankyou

i believe that they should ask questions this is something that drives me mad. saturday my mate from work won 2 goldfish and bought a goldfish bowl at a fair for his daughter sunday night both goldfish belly up and one sad little girl. tuesday his wife comes home with a biorbe and 3 fantails...

will bristle nose plecs damage the leaves of echinodorus ozelot? if so is there a speices of amazon sword tuff enough to stand up to there algea grazing?

no problem :good:

i always check the tap water before adding to the tank i dont know why it just costs me twice as much for test kits. i am the the sort of person who checks that i have locked the front door at least three times before going to work i worry :crazy: nutter

like i said mate im not to sure over feeding and to much light will cause algea if that is the problem but plants will compete with algea.

i would go for 10 hours a day max of lighting. i had an algea bloom that lasted for months and got rid of it by adding floating plants im not sure if it was lower lighting or more nutrients being used by the plants or both. i never really found out what caused it

i run 2 fluval 205,s with 2 fine and 2 course sponges 2 trays of bio balls and 1 tray of bio max in each i have tried different set ups but this works best for me.

sounds like it may be an algea bloom ? but adding the carbon will improve water quality but will also remove any treatments added. dont get me wrong it is good stuff but i choose not to use it as i have lots of bogwood in my tank and it removes the tea colour stain from my water and i and my...

try adding bogwood or filtering with peat as this will lower the ph i prefere this method to throwing chemicals in the tank but be aware if your tap water has a high ph it can cause problems with every water change and will have to be treated before adding to the tank. sudden changes in ph will...

i have built many aquarium cabinets over the years for my self and friends mostly out of cabinet makers grade ply and apply the veneer my self but i have seen top quality tanks in pet stores with stands or cabinets that are made of chip board or particle board with only wood coloured paper on...

i had a trio a few years back and it kept sliding down the tank the suckers held fast but still slid about. i purchased new suckers that didnt fit properly but still the filter slid down the tank . i ended up finding a rock the right size to fit under the filter :good:

sorry to hear that. i had to sell my male angel last weekend as he became too aggresive. the pair have spawned many times with no problems at all but the last 2 spawns he has eaten the eggs and wants to spawn again and she is just not ready. she was in a bad way but on the mend already i just...

i have two within a reasonable distance from me and i am not really impressed with either. ive been looking for the so called mini java fern for ages and one of the stores had planted bog wood just covered in the stuff , ok a bit expensive but i asked for a good sized piece but when the wood was...

yes i had 6 synodontis decorus a few years ago and they loved to hide between the heaters and the tank which left yellowish marks on the fish

its better to have about 18 inches of water for angels but people do have great results with less. 18 inches in hieght of water sorry

yep that is what i was trying to say but have forgotten what all the long words mean, and most of the short words too :blush:

i wouldnt use metal of any sort and galvinized metal may leach a poison or be toxic to aquatic life i cant remember its been a long time since i was at school. many years ago i had a 6ft x2 x2 in which i made planting racks out of plexi glass which just sloted together like cheap shelving units...

i run 2x 205 on my tank with ceramic pre filter in the bottom tray then 2 trays of bio max works for me :good:

nannacara anomala and laetacara curviceps are perfect

a couple of months ago i took the filter out of my juwel trigon 190 the filter does its job very well but i found that maintanence of the filter resulted in the tank turning into pea soup for several hours. im a long serving fan of fluvals so i went for the 205 external and ran it along side the...