Hi Newbie Needs Some Help

[Karey]

im not sure how you wash rice but with sand

*half fill a bucket with sand
*fill with water
*stir it up
*let it settle for about 30 secs
*pour water off
*repeat until the water is clear and the sand settles quickly. i normally give it ~10 secs for it all to settle if it doesn't i keep washing

do you need both filters? iv never needed to use an under gravel filter i find the internal's work fine

Yep that's just how I wash my rice (in a saucepan though, not a bucket! lol)

Well I have an airstone inside the long tube which screws to the undergravel plate and I assumed this was an undergravel filter, but to be honest I've been wondering how it works? Maybe I'm just running the airstone but inside a tube for no reason?

 

[mike455555]

super glues easier than tying as well you can go out and get your own wood as well if your carfull to clean it and soak it

id add it to a weak bleach solution and let it sink by tying a brick to it if it was me (might take awhile)

 

[Karey]

Bogwood looks good with plants on , try getting jern fern or anubias these need to be tied onto bogwood instead of in the substrate

thanks Harlequin I'm goint to an Aquatics centre tomorrow, so will have a look at some displays, get some ideas

Mike - is superglue safe to use?? Also I'm not sure about looking for my own wood, I would probably end up with some kind of toxic old tree root

 

[mike455555]

use oak or any dead wood. i think iv used hawthorn in my tank as well.. anything which has sticky sap avoid but fruit tree's are good

super glue i safe if its 100% cyrolithgt ( cant spell it but it begins with cy)

 

[Karey]

use oak or any dead wood. i think iv used hawthorn in my tank as well.. anything which has sticky sap avoid but fruit tree's are good

super glue i safe if its 100% cyrolithgt ( cant spell it but it begins with cy)

hmmm ok will look out for that, then. Also I have a printed background, would a blue background be better?

 

[mike455555]

that choice is 100% down to you personally i like black backgrounds. (bin bags do the trick nicely)

 

[Salam]

I have this LED light on some of my smaller tanks and it's nice and bright.

 

[mike455555]

LED's are the way forward i would of got one of them if i knew about it but im happy with my T5 lighting does the job for me if not over does it for my plants

 

[Karey]

I have this LED light on some of my smaller tanks and it's nice and bright.

Hi Salam

thanks

that looks great, but I have a hood on my tank (need it because I have a cat! lol) I could do with somehting that will fit under the hood.

thanks Mike, I think black would just make my tank darker

 

[mike455555]

whats your price range?

 

[panda_cory]

The blue background will make your fish stand out more but I think will ruin the natural effect. (If the background is some form of plant picture.)

 

[mike455555]

check these out

 

[Salam]

Yes, sorry mine are only without hood. Hope you find something else. Maybe look on local FB groups? Gumtree?

 

[mike455555]

just do a quick ebay search. there about 20~ but you'd have to buy the tube

 

[Karey]

The blue background will make your fish stand out more but I think will ruin the natural effect. (If the background is some form of plant picture.)

Hi panda_cory
thanks

I know what you mean, it will look more 'shop display' and yeh the background I have dark planting, but the other side is lighter, more like a vivarium background, so I'm going to change it round )