Recent content by Simon Dickenson

I believe there are not many good plant retailers in Plymouth, take a look at emperor tropicals or Endsleigh, both I haven't been to in a long time so can't comment on what they keep. Your best bet really is to travel, I catch the train from Falmouth to Penryn (the station is just down the road...

sp. aromatica should have a distinct sweet smell to it, sp. stellata will not. This will be the key way to tell the difference between the two.

I agree with ceg, it is definitely Pogostemon stelleta. I have aromatica and stellata in my latest scape, take a look at my journal, the stellata is at the rear and the aromataca in front. S

Thanks guys, I think it prob has about a week or two before I'm onto my next scape. I'm also in the process of buying an opti white!

On it, believe it or not they were heavily trimmed last week and a load given to dan

I too have a rhinox 5000, you have to keep them really clean (every week bleach it!) or they don't work very well. I had a daz beetle diffuser before (which being glass I smashed) which I really really rated, very fine diffusion.

Co2 with lights on pure o2 at night - controversial!

As of today. Still not moved redmoor, will get round to it! Plants growing like crazy!

Yea I was thinking that too.... I know I need to add more though maybe some nice longish pieces

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Well after a pretty hectic time, (my wife gave birth) and with the new arrival my tank unfortunatly took a bit of a back seat. So a couple of weeks ago I decided to re-scape. This is how my tank was looking before the overhaul And this is where I'm up to now. So over the next few weeks I'm...

Yea doh, read it after!

Well I'm back from Nuremberg and was very impressed with Tropica's stand (as always) I was particularly interested to see there new plants and really loved 'staurogyne' a compact foreground plant ideal for nano's. The other two were myriophyllum mezianum and nesaea pedicellata. I can see these...

Oh and yes the glosso is getting a major trim on tuesday again! So if anybody wants any pm me!

Ok next weeks update, I have got the rotalas growing well, I guess I'll let them grow until tuesday, cut back and then shape in a couple of weeks, I'm thinking a U shape on the back. planted didiplis infront of the stems to break it up a bit. Will also be removing the lotus lily in favour of...