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just thought i would share a quick video of my plasma aquarium

thanks for the advice :good:

hi everyone im considering doing a blackout in the next few days due to BGA its a newly cycled tank & my dilema is the plants are covered in brown ditamos & BGA & look very messy. do i remove the plants clean & place in some of the removed tank water while the tanks in blackout, or leave them in...

thanks for the reply waterdrop but the tank has a lid & the last one to vanish was in a bad way suspected SBD. IM TOTALLY BAFFLED ????

no hollow ornaments just bogwood & rocks.

thanks for the quick reply i also thought it cycled on the quick side, i used an api test master kit to check results which i could post if required the ammonia took about 10 days to go from 5ppm to 0 in 12 hrs which sounds ok. the nitrite according to my results only took 4 days to return to 0...

hi everyone, approx a month ago i purchased 12 harliqin rasboras from my lfs after spending a month doing a fishless cycle. with in a few days i was down to eleven, :sad: after a visual inspection with no joy decided to check the filters no sign of him in there, may be my weekly vac & water...

hi im 2 weeks into a fishless cycle, the tank was planted prior to the cycle start. all seems to be going ok , until today when i noticed a snail on the glass :o even though all the plants were dipped in a 1/19 bleach ratio for 2 minuets prior to planting. As i am currentley in the process of a...

low range 7.6 high range 8.0

thanks for the quick reply but they both seem to give good colour matches.

hi ive just purchased an api test kit, im a bit confused , as it has 2 bottles to test ph. bottle 1 ph test solution. = 7.6 ph bottle 2 high range ph. = 8.0 ph can i asume that i should be taking my readings from the high range as i live in a hard water area ????

hi i recentley purchased some riccia fluitans, which was delivered in a sealed plastic container, can anyone advise me on how long i can keep it unopened before using it ????

hi will be starting a fishles cycle very soon now, after reading posts on this forum im still unsure :unsure: which road to go down. do i cycle with plants in? or do i cycle and add plants after. what method would you recommend and why?

hi does anyone know where i can purchase a tetratec deep water pump model # DW96-2 from a supplier here in the uk, as opposed to importing from the us. ????

hi i will be aquascaping my new tank soon with live plants & the view of keeping cardinal tetras which i know prefer a ph in the range of 6-7 unfortunatley my tap water is 7.4 My question is this if i mixed peat moss in with the plant substrate prior to planting & then use aquarium sand as the...

hi im getting close to setting up my tank as a newbie can anyone advise me on the advatages & disadvantages of sand or gravel as a substrate as i want to get it right first time, the tank has no under gravel equipment. thanks in advance.

thanks 4 that good news

hi everyone ive been doing some research on cardinal tetras & it seems they are quite sensitive to water conditions prefering a ph in the range 5.0 /7.0 unfortunatley my tap water has a ph of 7.4 has anyone had any sucsess with cardinals with this ph ? also what would the max stocking level be...

thanks for the advice thought there must have been a reason for this

hi ive read the pinned articles on the fishless cycle, add & wait & add daily methods, the add daily seems to be recomended if you want to stock on the high side, as this is what i intend to do its this method im leaning towards at the moment. unfortunatley all the write ups ive read on this...

there seems to be a bit of confusion on where & what type of ammonia to purchase when doing a fishless cycle more so in the uk it seems, so after a bit of research heres what i have found. power max ammonia contains only ammonia 9.5% with natural impurities sodium hydroxide diluted in water...

hi i know a lot of people on here are not to fond of the wall mounted aquariums, i must agree im not of the smaller ones but i think the larger ones look superb. so ive decided to purchase a ft model with the following dimensions L 1980 H 600 W 150 the tank holds 89 litres 24 us gallons i will...

hi im considering purchasing a tank from shirley aquatics who have a branch in oxford & birmingham has anyone on here had any dealings with them good or bad ?

hi thanks for the advice seems most people here fix there backgrounds to the rear of the tank. the reason i considered fixing my plastic background to the inside of the tank as i was hoping this would have less distortions from the glass has any one tried this. seaview looks like an intresting...

hi im a complete novice to the world of keeping tropical fish im at the stage of setting up the tank no fish just yet. just as well as even at this early stage im getting conflicting advice about fixing the background. originaly i was advised to purchase a plastic background & fix it to the...