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Thanks for the advice. My tank has been occupied for the last 4-5 months and has been getting a bit of sunlight at this time of the year and I've been trying to remember to close the blind on the window. My nitrates are naturally around 40. Fertiliser is/was below the substrate and I don't do...

Hi, I'm suffering badly with this stringy stuff on my plants and wondered if there was anything that would keep it at bay. I'm aware of 'algae eating' fish/shrimps but would they munch their way through this stuff?

Yes I'm going to get some black card or something and put that at the back. It's difficult to think how much room you have in the tank when you're in your LFS and I was worried about over filling it with stuff :lol: Do you think I need to find something as a hiding place like some pipe or...

Thought I'd show off my very first fish tank :) OK, there's nothing interesting in there yet as I've just started the cycle but the idea is to plant it out a bit (especially around the filter). Not sure what fish I'm going to put in there yet, but probably some Dalmatian Molly's

I didn't take that into consideration. :blush: I'll do a 50% tomorrow. Thanks peeps

Hi, This is all new to me but I've been reading up a lot and have just started fishless cycling my Rio 125. My only concern at the moment is that I used the ammonia calculator and added about 6ml of ammonia but the reading is closer to the 8ppm than the 4 ppm on the API test kit. Is this a...