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Hi Marcia, Thank you for your reply and apologies for my belated reply. I did indeed buy a cheap hose & an Eheim shepherds crook inlet pipe forwhen I am doing a water change. It definitely helps my back! I still haven’t taken the leap to running a hose and pump directly from my kitchen sink and...

Thank you both again. The next time I am in my local fish shop I will definitely check to see if they have Eheim 12mm inlet pipes. I have kept up the 5 ml per day dose of the Evolution Aqua plant food, as well as upping the CO2 even more ( see photo below). While the plants are showing better...

Hi Kevin, I might have a look then to see if I could fit a lily pipe in one way or another, though I think it would have to be a stainless steelsteel one like yours. A reckon a glass one would last until the first water change with me before it ended up in bits. My tanks is a bit far away from...

Thank you all for your kind and knowledgable replies. They are greatly appreciated and I will try to answer all your questions below. Flyfisher 1) As of today I have started dosing with the Evolution Aqua "The aquascaper" plant food with N&P at 5ml per day and will continue to use it. 2) I...

And yes, the Limnophila does need a trim.....

Hi all, I set up a 72ltr Aquael Leddy 60 XL tank back in March with CO2 and feel my plants aren't just as healthy as they should be. Any help would be gratefully received, such as correct fertiliser and dosing rate? The tank suffered from brown, diatomaceous algae and green algae for about 2...

Another update: I did a water change/ clean today. I also took off the spray bar and diverted the flow of the filter at the stream of co2 bubbles to give better circulation. I have a spare diffuser for when the other one needs cleaning so swapped it in, as well as changing the drop checker...

Hi all, Thanks again for the replies. I will maybe try to do a pH profile soon but the API only shows increments of 0.5 e.g. 6.0, 6.5, 7.0.. It is currently sitting at about about 1 BPS after another fine tune yesterday. Just to clarify my photoperiod is 8 hours (13.00 - 21.00) with CO2 on at...

Just a bit of an up date. Today I got the bubble count up to I bubble every 2 secs and the drop checker is a medium green colour rather than the previous dark green colour. I will try try to up the C02 a tiny bit more tomorrow to get it to a nice light green colour. PH this morning before...

Thanks for the input. I hadn’t noticed that the drop checker was at a wonky angle so I have straightened it up. That’s a good idea about checking the ph Levels before and after co2 goes in as well. I will try to do that tomorrow. I will also reduce the amount of drop checker solution when I...

Thank you for the swift and informed replies. Those make total sense. I am just being overly cautious for the sake of the amanos. The Galaxy rasboras were very timid and were so fussy they were almost impossible to feed. I tried 3 types of dried food and some frozen daphnia, but most of them...

Hi all, At the start of the year I got rid of my RIO 180 and downscaled to a 30ltr (approx. 25 ltr of water) Aquael shrimp set smart LED tank, keeping all 6 of my amano shrimp from the old tank. I decided in the summer to install a new Dennerle CO2 system, as I ran one for a long time on my old...

Thanks for the very helpful reply, Ady34. I think I will keep dosing easycarb at just the regular dose for a while yet. (I was dosing it at almost double the dose before I got CO2) I also read through your brilliant "Dragons Crypt" journal too. That is one of the most beautiful tanks I have...

Hi, I have had my planted tank running for over 2 years now and have always used easycarb and profito fertilser. I have just set up a JBL proflora u402 system and I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to keep adding a small dose of easycarb for purely anti-algae reasons (I have almost a...