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Happy Birthday :)

Happy Birthday :)

Definitely Shaun Ryder, that man is 'ard! And hilarious :lol:

A Heater wont make much a difference with regards to water quality, you could buy an air powered filter that is driven by an air pump and put old filter media into it, you can make them yourself too, there are instructions in this section I believe.

The plants wont be having much of an effect on nitrate, the realistic maximum for nitrate uptake is 5ppm per day, that is with 6WPG, full EI and full CO2 injection as demonstrated by Tom Barr, realistically you're looking at a maximum uptake of <2ppm unless you've got a high plant mass and lots...

Don't rule out rasbora's completely, those from the Boraras genus would do just fine as they reach a maximum size of 2cm, Ember tetra's and Celestial Danio's are nice too.

It's definitely too big then and is more than likely producing loads waste, you must re-home it.

Not very scientifically conclusive, PH crashes can be caused by numerous things. First problem here is the under gravel filter, and is probably why you have high nitrate levels, due to the detritus building up in the substrate, I would switch to a large internal filter or an external filter...

Personally, I wouldn't go for a biorb, for the same price you could get yourself an optiwhite tank, and a decent filter, you could go for a standard 45 litre Clearseal rectangular tank, I know the BiOrbs are appealing, but the lighting is poor and so is the filtration, and fast swimming fish...

Hi, Personally, I think Anubias would be a better option, there are loads of species some of which flower, and with different leave sizes, they can be tied to wood and grow and form tight, densely packed canopies of leaves.

KH dependant, readings of 40-80 are unlikely to make any noticeable impact on PH. Can we have the tank stats please? Tank volume, filter and fish content.

Are you using an API test kit? The re-agents in this brand of kit tend to separate so shake them for a good few minutes prior to use, also as they age they tend to get less accurate and nitrate levels of 40-80 aren't that bad anyway, higher than preferred but of no detrimental affect. Nitrate...

Definitely not, Red Claw Crabs should be kept in Brackish conditions, not freshwater, and the crabs would more than likely eat the shrimp. In a 45 Litre I'd go for 1 shoal but that's my take on thing, you could easily do 2 shoals of 10 small cyprinids/characins, and a centre piece fish, but...

Hi, A fish bowl would be fine, most species of shrimp do perfectly well in unheated bowls, which species are we talking about? You'd need to do daily water changes or fill it with fast growing plants that can cope in conditions with minimal light, duck weed would be good, the plants will then...

Hi, Algae is usually a result of stagnant traces of ammonia (undetectable by the standard hobby test kit) in some areas of your tank, and can usually be improved by reducing your photo-period, increasing the over all water flow and filter turn over of the tank. As Ianho has suggested, posting...