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I have a little larger tank than that which I also built around a pair of bolivian rams who are happily with fry right now. I tihnk a lot of what you've chosen will happily make a meal of eggs and fry. Which you might not be worried about. However since I was I went for pencilfish 'dither' fish...

Had the same problem as you. In the end I bought a relatively cheap RO unit and hooked it up to a couple of slim water butts outside. Use the super hard waste water on the garden (and chickens!) and the RO water does the job in the tanks. Bogwood + peat + RO water = very easy to obtain acidic...

Heh. On the contrary it would be quite fast. A beer brew at room temperature takes about 4-5 days perhaps and that's near on a couple of kilograms of sugars being fermented. Huge amounts of CO2, it'd be like hooked up to an air pump :lol: Actually, I wouldn't mind know what else is in the...

Fascinating behavior, doesn't look to be anythng to be concerned about. I could watch it for hours though! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfQmwxuOkNI Very pleased with these fish. They're great to watch.

Eh? In all due defference to your experience this is a pretty well understood biological principal and not some flight of fancy. Depending on the type of algae or blue/green you need an unbalanced ratio of nitrogen and phosphate in the water. Around 16:1 being the Redfield ratio and which...

That's a great deal, crumbs I bought mine at full whack. :blush: That said I built my second tank set up by getting it off ebay, so I like to think I'm getting wiser with the 'ol cash. Hmm, I think you probably could do it in situi really. I mean the worst you'd do is stir it up. I think I'd...

I've got a tip on this, something I discovered by fluke. The water out of a filter jug, brita type things, you know the ones. It comes out as basically completely soft but PH 5.0. Remarkable. Anyway, I found with a mixture of RO water, filter water and tap water I could basically achieve...

Matey, I see a lot of parallels in your voyage of discovery to one I undertook not so long ago returning to the hobby. Heck, if I'm not mistaken that's also exactly the same tank. The chap earlier that commented on the light configuration is spot on too. Each strip has a daylight and...

Hey there, I'm new around here. Well, new to fishkeeping too I guess, having taken a 15 year break while I moved country and did... other stuff. Anyway, I got right back into it in the last few months. I bought a bunch of books and swatted up big to see where things are at and ultimately...

In my experience the colour change on true rummy nose tetras is that it is above all cooling that triggers a rapid fading of colouration, shy behavior and susceptibility to disease. Might be the case on your water changing that you're chilling the tank too much?

I have six lovely bleeding heart tetras in a large 380L tank which is planted about as heavily as I'm able. The mystery here is that these fish which were always shy, at least became quite active at feeding time zipping here and there snapping up flakes or whatever. Since then some things have...