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I am breaking down my freshwater nano tank to go salty. I have the following items for sale:- 4 pieces of redmoor root, to fit 30cm cube tank - £10 posted or £8 collected 3kg (ish) of bluestone - £15 posted or £10 collected eheim 2213 classic including media - £20 collected full 250ml bottle...

I am breaking down a freshwater nano tank, turning to the salty side! I have the following fish going free, collection only from south Bristol - 4 x Endler Livebearers 1 x otto catfish 1 x cherry shrimp These guys need to go in one group and i would prefer to give the opportunity to someone on...

I scrapped the nutrafin plan today and sold some stuff on auction to fund a FE co2 set up. Ordering my stuff right now. Total cost is £102.90 including the 2kg FE. If i dont get on with it, i can always sell it i guess. I just thought, whats the point in spending 40-50 quid on the ntrafin kit...

Why dont you get a co2 fire extinguisher set up? these an be easily modified to fit a standard regulator, and are cheaper to buy than standard co2 cylinders.

I use gravel as a substrate and have planted dwarf hair grass, this is fairly easy to grow with most lighting and spreads like a carpet when it gets going

Its nt too pricey considering the alternatives. The nutrafin setup works out- 2 x nutrafin kits = £25 (best price found from link in post 1) 1 x drop checker = £7 (best price from same source above) 1 x nano diffuser = £7 (same) total £39 optional bubbler counter & check valve where as a...

looks good to me dude. i got mine from robert dyas, i think as long as it isnt coloured or perfumed it will be fine. Does it say anything about ammonia content in % on it? mine didnt, and it was still ok.

Well the 6 males i have got are certainly lively. They are fascinating to watch and have been playing in the flow from my hob filter. I tried to feed them some of the Aqua one discus bits the person who sold me them recommended, and it needed to be crushed up finely so they could eat it. I...

so when you connect 2 via a T-connector does that run the 2 cannisters at once? do you rotate the cannister changes?

im really not sure. They are impossible to picture!!

Hello, ive just got 6 male endler's livebearers. These are my first ever fish, and are in a 30litre planted tank that has been cycled. I picked them up earlier today and they are currently exploring my tank. The ones i have seem to be slighly different from the photos. I picked them up from...

The galaxy rasboras/celestial pearl danios are really lovely looking fish. I saw some today in Tri Mar, cornwall, and was tempted to get them, but i opted for endlers livebearers instead. They are a little smaller and amazingly colourful

I havent got a drop-checker, is it a good idea to have one if you are only using a liquid co2 supply? I have been reading about the nutrafin kits and they look pretty cost effective especially if used with the home-mix set up covered in another thread on here. My fluval edge had a number of...

I am a newbie to tanks. To cut a long story short, i had a fluval edge cycled and ready to go for fish, now i dont. I have a wave cubo 30l with a 18W CFL (comes as standard). It has a 300lph filter and i have black quarttz sand and 3mm gravel about 4-5cm deep, i have a heater and it is 26...

still for sale. Its also on ebay, but is £5 cheaper here

everything seems ok at the moment. I have been browsing the planted section and reading in there about not doing a fishless cycle if you have a planted tank. My tank is pretty well planted now, and i dont want to keep adding ammonia if it creates a huge growth og algae. I will add it for the...

ANOTHER ACCIDENT Ok so Posted another thread about this, but to briefly explain, day 22 and a few days into my qualifying week i noticed my tank base bad cracked. I have had 4 problems with the tank in 3-4 weeks so i called the LFS and arranged a refund. Before i took it back i bough a new...

will do. I just planted it up so i will post some pics soon.

i got mine in a Robert Dyas about a month ago. It is also in wilkinsons. The one i have is in a white bottle with a blue 'home care essentials' label. about 4 quid.

Hi, due to a tank upgrade i am selling my lighting kit for a fluval edge It is only a few weeks old and in new condition. Due to the poor halogen lights on the tank i upgraded to 2 LEDs and a CFL to get better growth for plants, like others on this site and the planted tank have done (google...

Hi, i over ordered on plants and now have some for sale Plants: Crypto wendtii x 3 bunches, Java moss (large amount), flame moss (medium amount), dwarf hair grass (enough to carpet a 30litre tank), small/nano peice of bogwood (sanded) Age and condition: nearly new Quantity for sale: see above...

I ended up getting the Wave Cubo 30litre from a place about 30 mins away from me called Parkers Aquatics, Iron Acton, Bristol. The guys in there were very helpful and full of advice. Definately not the pets at home lack of knowledge that you get round here. He only had a display model left...

oh right, i checked them out online and it didnt mention the arc tank. i'll grab a look later.

Craig, i bought them online for 15 quid each. If you are in the UK they are pretty hard to find. I can send you a link or if you have paypal and want to i will sell you mine for a discount. They are useless to me now and i was only going to put them on ebay myself. Who are p&h?? I have...

I understand what you are saying waterdrop. I have bough 2 x LEDs that will really only fit the edge, a filter sponge, a CFL unit and probably a couple of other nits i wouldnt be able to use in the other aquariums (probably about 45 pounds worth of stuff), but i have had enough of it now. 4...

spoke to the LFS and agreed to take the tank back. The guy understood completely how frustrated i was. As they dont stock any other nano tanks apart from bio-orbs or fish 4 fun stuff, i called another store. The guy recommended either a wave cubo, aqua start 320 or tetra art, and i will go...

Ok, seems like i might do that option. I cant find anywhere near me that sells the tank though. Plus i have these plants coming tomorrow. The LEDs that i got for the edge were 30 quid as well. But i guess you are right, it just seems like its not meant to be with this tank.

I need some advice please people. I have been fishless cycling my edge tank and am in my qualifying week now. Just ordered my plants online and the moss has been delivered with some more arriving tomorrow. Recently i had some problems with my filter, firstly when i got the tank home from the...

I have upgraded the lights to 2 x mr11 leds from ebay (about 15 quid each) and use gravel as a substrate. I have ordered java moss and dwarf hair grass a sa caret and hope this will be ok. According to requirements it looks like it should. For plants look at some of the smaller cryps...

Whoops! typo edited! Im away this sunday which should make it a 9 day qualifying week. If things go pear shaped before then i will cancel my trip the LFS in cornwall on my way home, but if it goes according to plan its too good an opportunity to miss not going to this place, but i will...

almost finished cycling!

i am doing my ammonia adding in the pm. You are right, i have now ad 2-3 days of double zeros (am and pm). Things are looking good. I should have my plants and extra light this week, then off to cornwall the following week and and my way back im going to pick up some endler's livebearers.

cycle journal updated. Since my water change 2 days ago my pH has been much lower (was 8 - 8.2 now 7.4) so i checked the tap water and it has changed. Is this normal for tap water pH to change? I guess 7.4 is a good value for the fish i want though so im fairly happy, but a little worried...

yeah it is normal, i had the same too. You will probably find that the nitrate is in your water due to run off of fertilizers used in agriculture. Fertilizers contain nitrate and this leaches through the soil into the water table and eventually into your water supply. It can fluctuate...

just rechecked my ammonia twice since my last post and it is back to zero. Weird. maybe i messed up the first test.

They changed mine no problems, but its a bit worrying that if it was to happen when im at work and not on a day off i would have to wait 4 or 5 days to get somewhere to exchange it.

i had the exact same thing today. I had to take it back to the shop and get it exchanged. luckily im only fishless cycling at the moment.

ACCIDENT DAY nightmare today. Got some new rocks delivered and decided to redo my hardscape. I removed about 70% of the water so i could have a good change around and added a load of washed gravel. I then added my rocks and rescaped the whole thing. I topped back u with water and started...

things seem to be taking shape now. Nitrtite has dropped and tomorrow hopefully it will be down to zero, fingers crossed. Im thinking of getting my plants sorted out now. Just ordered a CFL set up off ebay, so i will see what its like when its here, and this should give me a bit more...

Also, as the nitrate goes up, it will have a small nitric acid component and that will try to use up your buffer and cause a pH drop. If pH drops too much the cycle can stop. In your case, since you've now got KH measurements, it makes it easy for me to tell you that with a KH=9 you may hardly...