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Hi all. It's been a while since I used the forum. I used to have a planted community tank. Growing the plants was never the problem. I used to do ai feeding and had a fire extinguisher co2 injection system. My problem was I had all this fantastic growth but the bottom half of my plants were...

Has anyone ever tried using either of these? They look superb and I have read about them in a book but looking for some first hand experience. Any advice appreciated.

I know the green machine are awesome and there is a degree of you get what you pay for, but I just can't bring myself to pay their prices. Does anyone use another shop/website that they recommend for plants that does not charge the earth?

So I noticed after a few hours of my co2 being injected into the tank the drop checker wasn't as light green as normal. I checked my set up and I am now getting a problem with my reg I think stopping it from maintaining a constant working pressure. This makes for very irregular injection of co2...

I am really fancying getting a few amano shrimp but I am worried that they may just become expensive dinner. The angel and yo yo loaches are my chief concern I know they grow to about 2 inches but am assuming they are normally bought much smaller. Chances of my shrimp becoming dinner? All...

I have a 405 which I plan to use with a spray bar along the back of my tank. I have a rio 180 so would say the spray bar will need to be about 90cm long. I was wondering how long the proper fluval kit is and if I can add more to it or if I am going to have to make my own. Any advice greatly...

When I first set up my co2 system I bought a gush glass non return valve. When I set this up I had canister, reg and solenoid, tubing, non return valve, tubing, bubble counter, tubing then atomiser. Every time I filled up the bubble counter the water would just leak out of the valve. I gave up...

So following a conversation on what makes red plants red I thought I would try upping my co2 injection rate....... Apparently I took this too far as some or most of my fish started either going to the top for air or going extremely lethargic on the substrate. The Pakistani loaches seemed the...

The plants in my tank are growing well even the moss has started to show new growth. The problem is the new growth on my red plants is green ...... I thought that reds going green was down to insufficient light but from the par charts I have looked at I should have high light or at least...

I have recently purchased a second hand fluval 405. Meaning I can stash the powerhead away for a rainy day and clean up the look of my tank:). I was just going to get a eheim compact but this came up and was cheaper and gives me extra filtration too. Now I still have the juwel internal in and...

My mother in law has recently got a tank (and roped me in to look after it) and has since fallen in love with the zebra plec. I have potentially found a place selling some at a reasonable price and she is now mulling over setting me up with a few and a tank to try and breed them. Now I have told...

I recently purchased one of these second hand and don't know if I am being dumb but is there a knack to getting the pipe tap to click into place in the filter head? I push the pipes into place as far as they go then try and push the silver tap down to lock them in place but it always pops back...

Recently I noticed one of my orange guppys tail has almost been bitten in half and am not sure what has changed recently to start the tails getting picked on. My partner bought some blue and a black guppy yesterday and already one of them is missing a section of tail and the other blue one I...

When it came to buying plants for my current scape I learnt a valuable lesson. If you want decent plants cheaply the only places to go are; last trading post on eBay (I bought 20 plants I would say maybe 3 stems were a little straggly everything else spot on) or forums. However of you have a...

Has anyone created a door/removable panel for the centre compartment of the juwel cabinets? If so could you point me in the direction of the thread(if you made one) of some pics. Also any idea where I could get a panel of the cabinet from to use

I was looking into a eheim compact 3000 to run a spray bar along the back of my tank as my crystiprofi e700 doesn't pack enough punch to have one more than 30cm. I have seen one cheap but I have also seen some fluval 405s going cheap. I know they are only 1500lph but would that produce a...

Can anyone recommend a small water pump so I don't have to keep on lifting 25l of water at a time and trying (and failing) to pour it in as carefully as possible needs to be one with inlet and outlet as a pose to some of the submersible ones which draw water in through the body of the pump...

Right I am getting serious plec envy now as I still don't have one and can never decide which one I like the most. I have a 1m long tank so I don't want anything bigger than 6" max size. I have a top 3 ATM but open to suggestions as there will be loads I have never heard/seen before Flash...

I ordered some plants from a certain website. (will remain unnamed for now) only to find out the only place one order a week with their supplier and I had missed the cut off point by about 6 hours. Therefore my plants weren't ordered till the following Tuesday. I didn't find this out till after...

I am thinking of getting these for my 180l community aquarium. Has anyone had any experience with them and can tell me first hand what they are like. I am doing some research but I prefer to talk to someone who has actually kept a fish rather than something written online

As above really. I understand that some of the plants we grow would die away of we didn't inject it but how do said plants survive in wild. Do certain streams/rivers have a greater co2 concentration or something? Is it because we cycle the same water through our tank for upto a week before...

Some of you may read that my angels turned killer the other day and were moved temporarily to another tank untill we came up with a permanent solution. Well we have done that now and bought a 4x2x2 tank I am picking up tomorrow but the most serious offender is now swimming like a complete drunk...

Just won this beauty. Thought was a steal with some of the bits I get with it. Thinking my angel pair, discus an l plec or 2 and maybe some medium cats probably sand sub with moss covered roots.

Some of you may of read that my angels have turned demons in another thread and my mrs wants to keep them. As much as I want to get a second big tank we just don't have any room for one :( so I would like to trade them in for a little bit of credit and get some other large centre piece fish...

Much to my dismay my 2 angels who up until today have been pretty placid. (occasional chase but nothing major) turned demon with the new arrival of my 12 harlequin rasboras (now 11 thanks to angels). One was instantly chasing them relentlessly even with the lights out and the second would gang...

I have had to pinch the mother in laws Aquael hexagonal tank which was gathering dust for an emergency. Anyone know if there is a certain method to get filter running properly there is a power head which drawers water up from left and from what I can gather just pushes it along to right where it...

So after god knows how many power strops the mrs has had about me spending too much time either on fish forums or playing with tank she suddenly pipes up she wants a little tank for the coffee table next to the sofa. I want to strike while the iron is hot! (Before she change her mind) Its about...

So my daft clients want me to job hop which means lucky me gets to drive from Essex into london then navigate the city all through Olympic hell! On the plus side first job of the day was a mile from adc so I figured I would take advantage of the fact I had the first job done in half hour and...

I have decided I am saving up for one! Then maybe a partner who knows baby's would be good ;). Does anyone on here know of a breeder. I have seen some advertised elsewhere but prices vary greatly and at least if someone on here recommends someone. I know I would be buying good stock. I am not...

Has anyone had issues with the bunch in topic blocking them? Randomly blocked for no reason for the last 48 hours I had to email them have a pop at them then fill out some daft form just to get back on here. Are the mods aware of this bunch blocking people on the forum? Especially when it's for...

So I was starting to put together my co2 set up. Which is fire extinguisher fed home made cerges reactor. I have connected regulator to extinguisher. Plugged solenoid in pulled trigger....... Not a sausage. I make sure needle valve is fully open...... Not a sausage :(. I took regulator off and...

Can anyone recommend a good website for ordering plants. I just got to the checkout on the green machine and for 8 plants it was going to cost me £70. Just want to see if I can get that down a bit as that is STEEP. Many thanks

I am looking to get a school of nice fish minimum of 12. My short list at the moment is rummy nose tetra, lemon tetra and marbled hatchet fish (maybe). I know that fish only tend to school when threatened but I would like a tight schooling group. Does anyone know f another nice looking...

Does anyone know of a ready made outlet set will fit the outlet of juwel internal aquariums? I know juwel don't make one but wondered if the fluval range for example fits

Well it's official these things drive my tank crazy. I put 5 in and everything went crazy they all loved them. Cheers pfk for the trial pack:) Juwel rio 180 2 angels 2 Siamese flying foxes 3 yo yo loaches 4 Julii corys 10 guppys

So after what seems like months to me and countless questions I am starting to put the pieces together for my rescape. I just got back from holiday and picked up my jbl e700 filter courtesy of pfk, it will be running along side the standard Juwel box for now. I set it up and had it online within...

I have just set up my new crystalprofi e700 courtesy of pfk and I love it:). But the more I look at my set up the more I am worried my grand scheme may be ineffective. The long and short of it is. I running the external along side the juwel box for now. Restricting me to keeping the inlet and...

I know a lot of people say they are hard to keep but the article in this months pfk has made me think again about keeping them. One aspect that does puzzle me though is the magazine says 120l minimum tank size and 20l per fish. <br /> A: does this mean you could have 6 discus in a 120l tank or 1...

Hey all I just wanted to know if certain root tabs are better than others. I was originally thinking of using pfs with tabs. I then thought about using something like Eco complete, fluval flora stratum, tetra plant complete etc capped with pfs but have read that the sand tends to sink to the...

I have found an awesome thread for making one of these but the housing or filter canister whatever you want to call it was only available in the USA. I wa wondering if there is anyone on here who has made one and sourced a different filter readily available in uk. The one used in the thread if I...

I will be rescaping in the near future and plan to go co2 heavy planted etc. I was initially planning on pfs with root tabs as although not on a budget so to speak when looking at planted tank specific substrates I feel they are soooooo pricey. I just wondered if pfs and root tabs will be...

Hey guys I am at some point going to subscribe to pfk but as bad as it sounds I waiting for the right gift to come up. I mean no point in getting a co2 kit for tanks have the size of mine right? So I have seen this month it is the jbl e700 which I am tempted by but in all honesty it is a little...

Hi all, I couldn't find a for sale/swap page so thought I would put it here. I am looking for a used external filter. I have been looking at the fluval 05 and 06 range but am open to other options. I am looking for anything that caters for over 200l tanks minimum and is pretty quiet. It will be...

Hey everyone my name is James (username gives it away) I have been fish keeping since January and have a Juwel rio 180 currently lightly planted but will be rescaping before July with any luck. I have 2 angels, 2 Siamese flying foxes, 10 guppys, 3 yo yo loaches, 4 julii corys and 1 German blue...

Hi there just a quick question regarding this dosing regime. I want to try it I am just wondering if it can cause pH swings over the week before pwc as the water gets so hard. Also I have a gbr and I was worried that the extra nitrates may trouble him