Recent content by jonesy

thanks for the reply, yes i am using tap water but couldnt tell you if its treated with chloramine or not, also occured to me that im using to much seachems prime on water changes which might be causing the cycle problems will just have to keep an eye on afew things till i find out whats wrong.

Keep getting random nitrite spikes on my 50L planted which keeps killing my shrimp, the tank has 3x8w t5's co2 at lime green and i dose 5ml of tpn + every day, so my question is can a lack of nitrate in the tpn+ be causing my plants to consume the nitrate which is there to remove nitrite's which...

doesnt look like you can adjust where the flow is directed as it sits flat on the glass or does it adjust from the front

will do thanks for the replys

haha i wont be leaving them in the pots just wanted to plant the lot together so i can sort the scape i want, take it i need to add ferts and co2 as normal asoon as they go in

Ordered some potted plants from the green machine and some from aqua essentials but the aqua essentials order is out of stock till next week and i wanted to plant the lot together so can the plants from green machine (which will be here tomorrow) be left in there pots and placed in the tank till...

ahh ill take alook now :thumbup:

was thinking of a hc carpet but ran out of funds so might do that at a later date, my plant list is as follows Hydrocotyle verticillata, Staurogyne sp, Rotala rotundifolia, Crypt Nevelli, Echindorus Tenellus and Pogostemon Helferi

it is alot steeper than it looks in that picture, it has about 2 to 3 inches at the front and goes to about 6 inches at the back, if found the neons are great little fish in my first planted rio but they seem rather shy in this and are sticking to the bottom alot probably because there is no...

Been lurking and reading the fantastic info available on this site for afew months now so though i might post some pictures of my 2 tanks to get some honest comments :thumbup: This is my nano been set up since just before this xmas, nearly finished just trying to get a Staurogyne sp carpet...

my bee shrimp where the same always hiding but seem to be getting braver by the day but the cherry shrimp where all out from day one, you got any signs of babies yet :thumbup:

Just bought 2 liters of Seachem Matrix for my tetratec ex700 could you tell me how and where did you install yours into you filter just so i no for when i set up my new tank. cheers :thumbup:

ditto looks great mate :thumbup:

any updates adam, you beat that algae yet :thumbup:

Just set up my nano tank which has cal aqua nano lily pipes and will be setting up my rio 125 in the next few weeks which will also have lily pipes, what do people use to protect there shrimp being sucked in or do you just check your filter every week along with the water changes ? seen these...