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its a 60litre, not heavily planted but with about 6 different plants which i just dont want to die which i think one is already! i just want something i can add on a daily/weekly basis to stop them dying

the bushy plant in the middle is indeed a cabomba, and my favourite too! but if you get it, just be aware of it dying if you cut it down as it causes havoc when it all falls apart! i agree, the first pic was ok, but i feel like i have completely transformed it now and am so happy with it...

can i just add to the reply??? i was in the same situation as yourself, seeing all the awesome lookin tanks, but here was me still with mine in the black or terracotta pots they came in! i too have realised they grow so much better by just having them as an open root and just pushing them into...

Hi all! ive now got myself a nice tank set up with various plants and im loving the way it looks right now, but i want to keep it that way! i dont want to be using awkward co2 set ups, or paying the costs for them either. Can anyone make any suggestions about what additives i could use but...

Yes the impellor came out and slime got cleaned out. I just constantly see small bits floating around my tank-I think I'm going to have to get poly/carbon again and try that.

thank you for the compliment. After a year and half I finally feel I'm gettin the tank just how I like it! As for the light, it's just a tropica light from pets at home, nothing special!

lol i spotted my mistake straight away, just me being tired. anyway my tank is due a clean, so tomorrow get more gravel, then wednesday is the gravel top up day with plants having a quick check over for 'melting' and filter having a good clean

nevermind. not much you can do really!

what even on the spray bar setting?????

Problem with that is then i have to have my filter higher in the tank for the venturi to work, so instead ive dropped it down and instead run a bubble disc inbetween the 2 white stones which i turn on when i get home from work and off at night

sorry its a little different; attached see all pics, the only 2 i know are called cabomba and my java fern. theres is another 6 types i havent got a clue are called;

well at the moment the only plant that has survived is java fern, and cabomba... however as soon as my cabomba is cut down is soon dies off.... im just hoping none of my plants die.. at the moment im looking into some kind of ferts if anyone has sugestions, but not co2, thats kind of too...

I actually removed all the filter media, and jetwashed my filter casing and impellor so it is definateky not gunked up. LOL and ive definately taken them out the package, its the first thing i noticed and wondered the very same thing about everyone else. i do notice a lot of small bits...

Yeah im hoping the plants will bulk out a bit, but ive never really had much look so not holding my hopes out! The stripey plant - havent got a clue, but it hasnt died yet so all is good haha! U2, just doesnt seem powerful enough and i clean it every couple of weeks. I also dont like the way...

Thanks for coming back to me. I was worried that a U3 would be overkill on a 60 litre which is why i thought id ask first. My sponges get a squeezing every other week doing 1 side at a time. I dont use the black & white parts as when i use them i find the output drops too much. Im going to try...

at the moment i currently have a fluval U2 which i really havent liked from the beginning as i think it has flaws and also the output just doesnt seem powerful enough. can anyone suggest an internal underwater filter which has a good output suitable for a 60 litre tank? if i cant find anything...

Below is my current setup; This is a kind of general topic, but i just want to know if people think im on the right lines of my current set up and if people think im not if they can suggest anything different? My main worry is that all the plants will die off, but also my filtration system...

Just after views and opinions of my tank setup; This was what it looked like a few days ago; and this is how it looks now; a couple of new additions; Getting more gravel tomorrow so the plants can be rooted deeper, and possibly a new larger filter too but not soo sure about that yet.

can anyone else help?? i'm now using plant food from pets at home, but now my vallis seems to have started dying (the leaves are dropping off slowly and starting to go really thin), but my cabomba is still sprouting new buds and also roots are starting to form from the stemmy bits! also no-one...

thanks for a speedy response..... few more questions though: ok, so i take my vallis out of the pit/foam/lead, then how do i keep it together in my gravel and stop it floating away??? same goes for my cabomba? as for cabomba, ive had it before, and it started growing really well, till i...

ok ive pretty binned my plants i had and i've invested in some new ones: from left to right i have this one i havent got a clue what its called: now these are my Java Fern.. i have some of it pushed into a crevice in the bog wood hoping it'll take to the wood, and the other in a pot as i...

i HAD some java fern on some bog wood, but i kept gettin hair algae on the bogwood it was attached to so i binned the bogwood and plant and got some more bogwood and took some pieces off someone else java fern, that was about 2 months ago now and theyve never grown, but neither have they died...

i have a java fern that is lodged into my bogwood, but it doesnt seem to be growing but neither is it dying. then ive got one that is like really fine pines upside down in an umbrella shape

get a bucket out your garage, fill it up with red hot water, and put the wood in it, leave for a few hours and repeat. at first the water will probably be really brown, but after a few times doing this all the tannins should dissapear. note, i said use hot water as it'll penetrate the wood...

no ferts just a standard 15 or 18" tube light lights on for around 9 hours a day i know the answer will probably be that im not adding ferts, but i dont want a massive planted tank or anything, i jus want a couple of plants to make my tank look nice :-S

no matter what i do, what plants i buy they all just seem to die off withing a month or so after purchase!! i;ve got a 60 litre tank with standard tube light and just bog standard set up. All i wanna do is grow a couple of plants!! what can i b doing wrong?????

thank you, thats a massive help :rolleyes:

thank you... i got really worried at first when i couldnt find it, but now and again its been wondering up to the top using the thermometer to push its head out the water, and to find it ontop of my filter in a kind of frog splodge, i thought it wer dead till i touched it!!

just a quick one which got me worried!!! I couldnt find the newish addiction to the tank, my underwater dwarf frog. I looked everywhere for it, moved the bogwood, ornaments etc and couldnt find it anywhere!!!! so the lid came off, and in my tank i have a U2 filter, and i use the venturi...

see, mixed reviews from everyone!! but which of my fish ive got now will be ok to transport to a fluval edge? ive been told cardinals is 100% ok by some people, but not by others

Its all dependant on the size of the wood, type of wood etc, but if its in the water already, it should release the tannins pretty much straight away and will reduce over time with water changes... and yes the fish do like tannins :-)

just looks like dirt and possibly a load of tannins... tannins will not harm your fish at all, and it will slowly dissapear with water changes. the same happened in my tank, and after a week of a daily water change it was all gone :-) p.s don't use chemicals, do it the natural way :-)

for algae, the tank comes with a mag float for glass cleaning.... now youve all put a downer on it, im re-considering :-(

doesnt look like 110v... normally 110v is a yellow wire, that looks like normal 240v wiring!

i think they look absolutely amazing!!! and i can understand they maybe a bit awkward to cleane and maintain, but there is specialist accessoried to use with the EDGE like gravel cleaner, fish net etc i deffo want my cardinal tetras in ther, but not sure what else. i was thinking ottos as then...

just wondered what peoples views and opinions are of these as currently i have a 60 litre tank, and for a more stylish look, im thinking of downsizing and passing the tank on to someone else.... would i be able to take these fish from my current tank and move them over to the Edge: 4 x...

the backdrop is just something i got from my local Pets At Home

ive read they need to be in a group of minimum 2, but there was only 1 at my LFS.. and ive noticed it likes hiding under my bogwood and plants quite a bit :-)

my stocking is on my signature im probably a little bit overstocked, but no real problems from it

ive had sand twice now, and i had the same problem both times. all you can do is what people have suggested: either a vac pump which runs off an air pump which you just waft over the dirt and debris and it'll suck it up or gravel vac doing the same technique. ive moved back to gravel now...