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Hello, Sorry to read your misfortune.   do you have access to a dissolved oxygen test kit? you would need to take a reading just before the lights of the tank on (before photosynthesis begins) and one later on.   When the lights switch off plants absorb oxygen and release CO2. It is possible...

looks good to me, I wouldn't use carbon personally unless I needed to remove chemicals/meds from the the tank, but that's a personal choice. I choose peat pellets instead to acidify & obtain a slight tea clour to the water. each to his own

other option , though takes a little while to work,is to add a lot of plants to your setup, of which a few fast growing ones. my tank is solidly planted, and I have to add Nitrates & phosphates to the water every week along with fertilizer.

Hello, just saw this topic, I have 2 black angel that were essentially finless (anal and dorsal fin bitten off), bought them as I felt sorry for the little guys. took about 4 months, but they have beautiful long fins now

+1 heats much faster than traditional heater for same wattage. have you considered heater integrated canister filters?

the bubbling reduces the availability of CO2 for plants to absorb/use by accelerating the gas exchange processes at the surface. If you try to increase the CO2 concentration in the water (by liquid addition or with a pressurised bubbling system) an air pump will reduce/negate the effectiveness...

+1 , best heating system I've used

I have a 100W unit on a 240L tank. it does not seem sufficient to keep the water warm, so I use a 300w inline heater instead. Re plant health, I can't see the difference with the previous tank I had, so wouldn't use it again

Hello, found this thread while researching the same topic and found it very helpful if rather technical http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/showthread.php?t=184368 enjoy the read! :good:

Hello, I've been using a JBL 900 external filter for about 8 months now on a 90L planted tank. So far my experience is that the filter clogs wthin 10 odd days. At entry into the filter the water is guided to the sides through 2 blue foam pads before going to the bottom of the canister to be...

Will take a few more soon. so far there's : 9 angelfish, of which 6 are the size of a two euro coin 6 bumble bee gobies 1 pair apistogrammas 1 pair checkerboard cichlids 8 juvenile cardinal tetras 2 tiger plecos 2 plecs of indetermined lineage 6 ottocinclus 4 algae eating gobies 2 botia loaches...

100cm wide... biggest that 'll fit any suggestions & comments welcome

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Re feeding assassin snails, I use crab pellets. Apparently the smelliest the better. To put in when the lights are out. These snails are nocturnal if I remember correctly

Done, For some reason can't upload a picture

I just used the tip a steak knife. It took some trial until I found the diameter I wanted. Ended up useing the spraybar all along the length of aquarium, having drilled holes of about 3mm to 4 mm.

In my experience if you can see two, you probably have 20 You could throw in a few assassin snails, they look cool and while they propably will not rid you of all your pest snails, they should keep them under control. Other option is to reduce the amount of waste food in your tank

I think any low table / cabinet you would trust to stand on will do it

don't know the model from usae, so can't comment on reliability, from the output it should do just fine in your tank, I use a JBL 900 on the same tank as yours. found that the flow was a bit too powerful, so I proceeded to use the spraybar after increasing the size of the holes to reduce the...

Hello, Welcome and congrats on your aquarium Just finished the cycle on my 240L tank. I just kept replenishing the ammonia to 4ppm every day around the same time. Nitrites went off the chart (40ppm+), then dropped off a cliff after 10 days to 0ppm NO2 overnight next task is to cinform this...

Tried it twice with a pair, having ph of 7.4 - 7.6 and gh = 8 (140ppm) , kh = 10 (217 ppm) and they died in less than three months both times. also they need the water to be very arm (around 30C), which was too warm for the other community fish. trying my luck now with apistos

Silly thought, have you run a test in a bucket with the same concentration as your tank. could be your test kit that's off. I'd go for the same concentration rather than a strong one so you could compare

The only thing I can think of is your nitrates and ammonia are used up by a lots and lots of fast growing plants. I guess you could try adding the ammonia and testing every couple of hours to see what happens. (something I'd do out of curiousity)

Have you had a look at a fluval Roma 90? 60cm wide and very well built

Thank you for pointing that out Hmm... I diluted the sample water .2ml with RO water 4.8 ml and got a reading of .8ppm. guess I got the math wrong ... was a bit shocked to be honest. should be 40ppm, not 120ppm :blush: :grr: Need to go ack to school to get my fractions right. :o anyway...

Didn't think Nitrites would rise that high ah well Thank you for the reassurance

Hello, I've started a fishless cycle 10 days ago. The biofilter is happily going through 4 to 5 ppm of ammonia every 24 hours, so so far so good. The levels is topped up daily . The nitrites though have gone through the roof and stand at about 120 ppm. I know there's supposed to be a spike, but...

Hello, I've started a fishless cycle 10 days ago. The biofilter is happily going through 4 to 5 ppm of ammonia every 24 hours, so so far so good. The levels is topped up daily . The nitrites though have gone through the roof and stand at about 120 ppm. I know there's supposed to be a spike, but...

Got 250 leaves from Amy on ebay for $55 shipping included from singapore. They were Grades B and C, but given that my shrimp take them apart anyway I'm not too bothereed there being an few holes or tears in them Got through Irish customs without any issues

Juist a quick update re the cycle currently the biofilter is munching through +/-4ppm oh NH3/NH4 in 24 hours, so well on its way NO2 is around the the 15ppm mark NO3 is at 40 ppm so I guess everything is well on its way, though I don't know if such high values for NO2 are normal or a brake on...

You're looking for an additional internal or complete external setup?

When I added 5 adult assassins into an 18L tank with 20+ cherry shrimp and a couple of legions (60+ animals) of pest snails (ranging from babies to 1/2 inch specimens) I saw no change in my water stats : PH Stable, NH3/NH4 = 0 , NO2 = 0 , NO3 = 4 I do perform 12L water changes every week as...

that they do, so uch so I realized my 5 assasins + young are now ignoring the pest snails that are running amok in my small 18l shrimp tank

thanks for the tip Didn't look at it that way. the guys at my LFS mentionned something like that provided I moved the water as well and only added a litle water at a time so as not to "shock" the bacterium in the media. Guess now I need to reduce the the NH3/NH4 and NO2 to do that. 80% water...

shame wanted some time before the holidays to check if everything transitions well :crazy: :sad: :-( :devil: ah well

I just got tha aqua-one in this saturday :D and am setting it up / cycling. my experience so far: the build quality of the tank is as good as the Roma I'm upgrading from. The cabinet has two large and easy accessible compartments to house all the bits and bobs you need (in my case 2 external...

Hello Just got my new 240L tropical tank setup (uprading from a 90L)on Saturday The aim is to get a planted tank populated with all the inhabitants of the 90l tank which is woefully overstocked 2 angelfish 2 botia loaches 2 kuhli loaches 2 or 3 ottocinclus, 2 algae eaters 9 neons , 1 Tiger...

Don't know if Shrimp are that sensitive to CO2 to be honest, Have a 90L (22.5G?) tank, with lots of plants. On Friday 9th I was in a hurry to go to the office I overdosed the tank with liquid CO2 (put in 6-7 ml instead of 2) and took off. casualties : 16 of my 27 fish died by the time I got...