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I have grown to dislike gravel in favour of sand. The main reason is the undesired mulm and debris that is trapped over time under the gravel. This isn't a problem with sand and additionally sand locks in the nutrient rich substate that one may use to grow plants.

Thank you so much for your compliment. Thought so it didnt had to do with a fire ghehe :)

If you haven't bought them already I'd also hang fire for a month or two until your tank is a little more mature and any risk of a high ammonia level has been removed.

Last night i said to my partner "hey remember that tank (we) I had with gravel and one big bit of bog wood with some moss"? We had one lovely Shubunkin and a little internal filter. Probably 30 litres. I got all that stuff from a small shop in Holborn London back in the day, 25 years ago. Loved...

Those dennerle boxes then have the gravels in plastic bags inside, I’ve used a few.

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to clear anything up, burn is a scottish word for stream or spring, not fire. it looks really good

No not including the extensions. See picture below to the point I'd reference to. I did try measuring the fish through the glass, which isn't easy with these jerky moving fish, I'll retract my 70mm previous guess and say this fish is 65mm to the point in picture below. Good to know about the...

Do you have any build photos? I’d love to see how you built up the part above the water. Really beautiful tank.

Thanks! Forest burn? Mmm... that would really add an extra dimension ;)

Hi all, <"Definitely"> cheers Darrel

Hi all, That is the problem. Because of where I live (hard water and not many fish shops) I don't often get <"temptation placed in my path">, but if Pier Aquatics or <"Aqualife Leyland"> (Aqualife Leyland | Leyland) were close to hand............ cheers Darrel

Well said JPC.

Hi all, Thank you, that is perfectly explained for me. cheers Darrel

Same as @Tim Harrison i shove them in where I can. Cable ties loosely holding them down works well too, it’s unsightly but they can be cut off once the plant attaches itself.

I’d end up spending a fortune if I went there!

That looks so natural, if I didn't know it was in a tank I would have said it was a forest burn or something!

Whenever I can, I shove epiphytes into hollows in the hardscape, and tend to design my scapes with that in mind. Although I sometimes use gel type super glue when that's not possible, I definitely wouldn't use it on fragile in-vitro plants. I lost a whole load of reasonably mature epiphytes...

You can think of glutaraldehyde as short strap with velcro-grabbers on both ends. This double-sticky strap wanders around and grabs onto stuff tying it all up together. It turns out there are lot of biological molecules that don't really work if you tie them all up together so that's how it...

Tried to capture my two biggest waterfalls in one small gif.

I would keep them in tank with little to no flow and grow them there until they toughen up, then attach them to something. a bit of overkill, but for some of the rarer varieties id say its a must

that's weird then. Call it a feature of the scape!;)

Yes its not like biofilm which i can siphon off its tough have to use wire brush to get it off and comes back slowly after few weeks

Does it grow back if you siphon it off? that's weird if not

Is 70mm including the tail/fin extensions? also the red anal fins on the female show that she has "lost her virginity", and that they have spawned in your tank!

I haven't found good info about checkerboards online, some say 3-4cm some say 3-4 inches!

I just set up a 120 x 14T x 30cm rio negro tank, currently it has 7 checkerboards in there. they are very cool fish, like somewhere between a tetra and a personable apisto, I recommend them. Tank is on Instagram---sam_theaquascapecorner

Hi Sam , have ammanos nerite snails , bba is under control now , its the mold on the wood which wont go away , rest i am very happy. Yes 2nd one but if you saw the 1st one you'd say thats not an aquascape 🤣 I tried to do what MD does (low tech diy co2 at some point when i realised with my...

Hi all, You need <"some dKH"> (carbonate hardness) for your Cherry Shrimps <"and Snails">, but you can ignore anything you read or are told about <"pH stability"> or <"nitrification and pH"> etc. These are written by people who don't know what they are talking about or <"have a product to...

That is a really nice tank, maybe try some amanos or chemicals for the bba. Incredible tank, and that's your second one?!

Hi all, It definitely has "disinfectant" properties <"Liquid carbon dosing">. Stronger concentrations are used as a general biocide in hospitals etc. <"Stability of Glutaraldehyde in Biocide Compositions">. @Andy Pierce may be able to shed more light on its mode of action? I assume that is...

Cryptocoryne Beckettii Petchi i think

Can I read document of this observation?

Maybe we should organise a car pool and make a day of it. Ive now decided that I should have 6 instead of 4. Will post some pictures once Ive received delivery next week.

I had one a long while back. I kept it in a pot sat on a tray filled with wet gravel along with two other different ferns placed on a north facing window ledge. It seemed to like the humidity, and as far as I can remember it wasn't particularly demanding. And yes it's a house plant.

I see, thank you very much. I'll go ahead and remove the algae manually and increase the water changes. Unfortunately, without a chiller (which is quite above my budget), the temperature in Singapore has been really bad lately. For the lighting changes I recently made, (from 6hrs to 8hrs)...

Unfortunately, that's the ambient temperature in sunny Singapore at the moment. Chillers are quite pricey and will blow my monthly utility budget :(

I will be installing a drop checker this weekend. On that note, I've read some people suggesting to place it as close to the substrate as possible. Would that be best? Yes, at the moment I have hygrophila stricta which has spread its roots out and is showing about 4 inches of new growth...

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Happy to say that things have been going pretty well! The GDA was still growing quite quickly so I turned the light down to 15% and it's growth has slowed a lot from then (plants were pretty big at that point too) - glass still needs a scrub after a few weeks but I'm not sure if that's normal...

There have been experiments done using carbon 13 versions of glutaraldehyde based compounds and mass spectrometer of plant material reveals it contains carbon 13. Not sure if quantities taken up are meaningful but there is some science behind liquid carbon. The Seachem versions of liquid...

Don't know anything about APT liquid fertiliser but with nutrient rich substrate at early stages of set up liquid fertiliser not needed. When using CO2 its generally recommended 50%water changes for the first week ,gradually reduced to 50% once a week in week 4 , Diatoms are pretty normal at...

Probably due to the fact LostMud lives in Singapore.

I get quite a lot of my fish through mail order, I would say Pier are probably the best in terms of packing so I’d say there is nothing to worry about. I’d love to go there one day, but I can’t justify the four hour journey each way either!

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Welcome, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Hi, What's the name of the plant on the bottom right with the red stripes on the underside of the leaves please? Cheers!

Not sure what the gH is but appears to be perfect tap water in my book, many people use RO/rainwater to reach this value.

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31 Degrees celcius is way to high to begin with. Why do you have such a temperature?

Hi welcome. It sounds like you are doing the correct things. Do you have a CO2 drop checker? Are your stem planes growing?

Hey all, I might be calling this too soon (as I know stabilizing a new tank takes time) but here goes: Started up a new planted tank running just about 3-4 weeks now. Encountering what looks to be patches of blue-green algae, diatoms, buce transition melt and monte carlo transition melt. The...

Calculator has been updated to v.1.3.1. It has a few improvements and fixes. Nothing major, mostly cosmetic and background processes not really visible to the users unless you are an eagle. I also added Brazilian Real (R$) as it was mentionned a few posts above by @JnSchutz Download link and...

The general observation is that submerged plants grow better in the presence of water-column glutaraldehyde which is at least observationally reminiscent of what happens when you inject CO2 gas. We pretty much now understand these work by different mechanisms: glutaraldehyde has algaecidal...

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After a bit image comparing I'm pretty sure it's pteris cretica mayii. Thanks for the useful info and links. Now I've just got to brake my habit of inconsistent watering...

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Don't delete it. An admin can move it over for you if you ask. Cube looks great! Cheers, Michael

Crushed corals and cuttle bones etc. works if your ph stays below 7, so it can be a bit hard to manage and it will raise both your KH and GH - typically we want to keep our KH low. I would recommend to use a product such as Salty shrimp mineral GH+ (this will only raise the GH ~ Calcium and...

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Hi Newbie here, name is Colin and just starting my 1st tropical aquarium and looking to add plants in the very near future. Hope to get some help from here. Colin.

Lol no trick i do it every water change by hand or tweezers. I have love hate relationship with moss , i have taken most of the moss out now , have some bits on small lava stones and i take them out and trim them

Hello everyone, I've just rescaped my 10L cube only keeping the Helanthium Tenellum carpet intact. Issue being that due to month of negligence the carpet is full of small java moss cuttings. Do you have a trick to remove moss from a carpet ? Manually removing it with tweezers is going to be...

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Hi all, That looks absolutely fantastic. cheers Darrel

Hi all, <"Cuttle "bone"> would work, and you can substitute the "crushed coral" with <"Oyster or Cockle shell chick grit">. Generally it is a lot easier to add compounds to water rather than to try and take them away. In terms of snail shell attrition, what do the older shell whorls look...

Hi all, We have a thread <"APT Fix">........... @jolt100 says cheers Darrel

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Since i am in between jobs atm i am now having some extra time on my hands to finally finish my work at the waterfall in the left corner. Today the work is done so some time for some pics :) Since under the new waterfall my heater is located between some rocks the waterfall has to be easy to...

I thought that someone the other day said that APT Fix was different in some way to Glut? Maybe it was me? In my own head. Again. Must get out more.....

Will share pictures of when it was at its worst in a bit hahaha edit: oh crap, I forgot that I already started a journal for this tank! I should continue posting there. Is there any way I can delete this? No wonder you mentioned feeling deja vu!

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I give them a Shrimp King Mineral tab every so often. But nettles (blanched) have some minerals, and now is the ideal time to pick them, while they are younger

Hi all, Sleight of hand really, they have nothing to do with CO2, or any form of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (D(T)IC). The vendors make use of the fact that some of the long chain carbon (C) compounds are similar to some of the intermediate compounds found in photosynthesis. If you look at...

Deja vu but I still think this cube looks amazing.

Hiya Decided to start a journal for my other tank which I've been maintaining for 9 to 10 months now? I plan to tear it down eventually and get a bigger tank but will keep it going for now. I originally stocked it with 7 ruby tetras which were gorgeous. Very elusive but would come out to eat...

Bargain! Nice one. That’s half the battle. If you want some floating plants to help with startup, I’ll send you a handful for the cost of postage. If your KH is 2 then I wouldn’t worry about raising this. The vast majority of aquatic plants prefer soft water, although you can still keep most...

Im sure someone with chemistry knowledge will give you a better answer but… My Bloody Mary cherry shrimp go crazy for the “glass garten mineral junky” supplement. If we are having visitors I like to pop a whole one in at the front of the tank as the shrimp swarm it. They must really love the taste.

This is my new project -- I scored a little aqua one cube from Facebook for £5 and I'm experimenting a bit and trying not to spend too much money. Instead of a proprietary substrate I've got aquarium soil in there and I've topped it with some coral sand I already had, in the hope it'll up the KH...

Hi all, It is not very useful, but "very gently" would be the answer. I might be tempted to let them grow a bit before you tried to attach them? And then tie them on, but with cotton, rather than nylon. I'd be wary of <"cyanoacrylate super glue"> (while they were still very young and soft). I...

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Hi there, I'm Chez and I live in Somerset. I'm relatively new to aquariums. My daughter came out of hospital on bed rest in January and I thought one in her room would amuse her and now I am cycling my fourth tank 😳. I'm from a horticultural family and I find that although I like the fish, I'm...

Morning! This is my first post, I'm fairly new to aquariums and am rapidly on my way to becoming obsessed with planted tanks :). I'm interested in getting the whole biome balanced and have four tanks with a mix of Cherry Shrimp, Amano, Nerites, Assassins and various hardy nano fish. I am on...