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Great natural feel to this one, love it.

Any feedback or photos from the event Gill, would be great to hear how it went. 👍

Just the two standard sponges in each, it's OEM 👍

They are a busy business that may not monitor this forum much however, if you call or email you will get a responce immediately 👍

Welcome Badis :wave:

Just move them, they are very robust as are most plants. I've had rare varieties in a damp plastic bag for 3 months before now and they just bounce back. You might get a few leaves drop but nothing to worry about. 👍

Good afternoon everyone, First off, thank you for your patience while we got the new structure to the forum organised, it's taken a while but we now have progress worth reporting on. Again thank you to everyone who has made such generous offers to help the forum continue to be the amazing...

Love this tank, makes me want to have liquorice gourami again...❤️

True SAE shouldn't eat you plants and certainly not at the rate you are suggesting. Are the plants growing healthy and well?

Some great tanks, surprised that most are 1200 or smaller. Few years back it seemed 1500 was the minimum. Maybe 2025 is the uk's year 🤔

I think this is more common than most high energy tank keepers would admit. Ive seen so many injected tanks where fish are static or limited movement compared to when a water change has just been completed. A lot photos and videos of injected tanks are also taken outside of the lighting/co2...

It's happened to the best of us, just throw a heavy rock on it and leave it a week or two the you can get on with planting. Personally, for a proper layout I always fix wood down with scape foam or zip tie to rocks, it's inevitable you will catch it cleaning, trimming and water changes, often...

Spotted a couple of dead shrimp so figured I'd pushed the 'no water change' philosophy too far and gave this a bit of a spuce up. Tds was 467 and came down to 280. I'll do another later in the week and get it to 180 ish. Bit of a hair cut and it looks all good for another 3 or 4 months.

Morning folks, I wanted to let you know that while we work though the new ukaps organisational set up, myself and @Geoffrey Rea are holding the interim admin roles with technical assistance from Paulo (@LondonDragon ) I and the team are very grateful for Paulo's continued support even after...

A few keen eyed folks may have noticed that @Geoffrey Rea had stepped down as moderator/admin a little while prior to Ukaps going 'on holiday'. Ive very happy to say that Geoff is now back with the team and cracking on with us making the changes needed to member ownership. The future is bright ❤️

Welcome Ben. 👋

I would think 6 would be fine in there if it doesn't have heaps of hardscape. In a few years they might get to 3" , the fins make up an inch of that. 👍

Welcome fella, My african tank remains my favourite tank I have ever kept as it was a proper fish first tank. I would suggest a 90 tank is possible but they are pretty active and they thrive in large groups like most tetras. I think aquarium gardens had a few in a 90 for quite a while...

Welcome back folks, Thank you all for your patience while the forum was closed for a couple of weeks, it was much needed by the team. Over this time we have received a significant number of offers to help moderate the forum as well as form a new committee to begin the process of moving the...

It is BBA, if you were to remove the SAE and relax your cleaning it would start growing tufts as the BBA you expect. Looking at your filter outlet direction, the anubias and the heater probably get most of the flow which would also correlate with BBA. BBA is often preceded by what looks to be...

I think this is wise. I would also like to mention that while Paulo, aka @LondonDragon , has stepped back from the Admin role, he continues to be the reason you are here...... once again he has given his own spare time and skills to deliver patches such as the one this weekend until we...

Hey Andy, another Cambridge lad! BBA is generally from high organic matter or flutuating co2. It gathering in front of or on power heads and outlets is pretty normal, as yours is above the co2 diffuser it makes even more sense. Add to that that power heads don't get cleaned very often.... If...

I like white/lit backgrounds but having seen @taistrietman tank the other day with a black background I'm swinging the other way! Perfect time to start the journal and discuss this stuff...

Get the journal started then 😛👍

At a guess.... First https://www.aquariumgardens.co.uk/monosolenium-tenerum---tropica-1-2-grow-3389-p.asp Second could be loads and hard to guess until grown out.. Third https://www.aquariumgardens.co.uk/marsilea-hirsuta---tropica-1-2-grow-1253-p.asp Forth hard to tell in the packet, maybe...

Hi Mike and welcome to the forum. There isn't any benefit to starting before you go, the time would be better spent putting your hardscape in and staring at it, tweaking your layout to be sure of your plan until you get back end of august. Stability and consistency is the key to success, be...

Great looking boarder, in a nice piece of the world!

Great to hear, Dave and his team always do an amazing job. The display tanks are inspirational and worth a visit alone!

Solid scape mate, well done. The la plata makes all the difference 👍 Love those little erythromicron too.

Welcome to the forum 🤜🤛

Focus columbia. Thanks, its actually an old picture as that wall and the next one are now completely covered. One of these days I'll update the journal.

Great idea, plants in hobs work a treat. Keeping them in check is the problem..

Welcome Dhairya

Fair enough then fella, sounds like your going in eyes wide open and wanting to learn. IME using RO does reduce the likely hood of algae if the alternative is high tds hard water, don't get me wrong, it's no silver bullet and hard water high tech beauties exist is abundance, just look at...

Hi and welcome. I'd start off with asking why you want to go RO, unless you have very specific requirements for planned inhabitants, then I would always advise to use what comes out of your tap if you can. Making it as easy as possible will generally give you better results overall as it will...

Love this, amazing work with a small space. 👍🏻

That layout and wood looks banging (and floaty 😬) nicely done. I foresee bucephalandra in your future 🔮 and maybe a cheeky little nympaea.

It's been a year since I last updated this... all the usual apologies of my vacancy apply, much as previously, scaping just sits on the back burner at this point in my life. One day I'm sure it won't be but today isnt that day. Which means this one has hit 5th year running with almost no...

Excellent news Tim, Air bnb, curry and beers to be added to this date!

What a difference a day makes... major trim that had a few challenges. When removing some buce the whole hardscape started coming apart, normally I would have decided there and then to rescape but I'm away soon so it will have to wait. The buce 'mother plants' are massive, be interesting to see...

Looking good pal, so you made it a whole week before upgrading kit 😂

That's great to hear your dipping your toe back in, next thing you know @Stu Worrall will be starting a journal... 😍😂

Sh@t the bed it's Ian Holdich!! Hello mate, we've missed you 😥 Your scaping fingers itching?

Hi and welcome to the forum. As above, aim for 10x rule. The importance of circulation is heavily underestimated, getting co2 and ferts all around the tank, especially down to substrate level will often determine your success. Go big or go low energy. Starting a journal is a great way to gain...

Thanks, yes still on specialised and really don't have a schedule but would guess it averages about 3 pumps a week?

What's going on folks!? I'm shocked to see its been a year since I've contributed to this thread or more importantly the forum!😔 Sometimes life is just straight up busy and a new job turned out to be all encompassing and pretty stressful. That said I think I've touched bottom and now building...

There are asian companies that do this, how to source them I'm not sure...

DO IT!!!

Standard pads with about 3 or bits of alfagrog in the impeller space. I have a feeling the tital will be really good from what I've seen...

Also as shrimp die quickly after WC, is the RO water your own? Some shop have terrible R0 tds 80 etc which firstly is a waste of money but will also likely need dosing with something like seachem prime...

Tds climb is normal but if you base is 150, if you add say 500 tds (arbitrary) of ferts over the week it should still remain below 200 by the end of the week. 1 rest day and 50% wc should then reset it to your base at 150... It's not always that simple though, my shrimp tank for example bases at...

Hey, if you can put up some images and so.e more detail then we can help... what filters, lighting duration (hard to see if 7,8 ,9 or 10 hours on pic) water change regime.....👍

And before @ceg4048 gets here... there are no rules 🤪

Is the RO remineralised? If its straight RO then the tank is likely low on minerals essential to shrimp. If your tds climbs so much it cant be controlled by normal weekly water changes then you need to reduce your fert dosing as the plants arent using enough .👍

Still looking mint Sanj, some of those fish are huge now! That rainbow shark is a beast. Are you still running the 'smaller' rainbow tank as well?

I wish my first tank had looked like that... seems like you have a good plan including adding more plants and if you carry on as you've started then you'll be grand. Keep reading, keep learning and youll have a wicked tank in no time 👍

If im completely honest, the ficus in the filter is a massive pain in the blahblahblahblah in respect to the tank. From the 6 filter 'pads' I can only clean one as the roots own the others. If I had a do over I'd create a filter box for the ficus and have a beautifully maintained filter 🤣 maybe a seachem...

Sure thing, they're going to need a new home as the population is now stationary... will post a for sale thread as soon as it warms up.👍

I think it would be a nightmare to maintain, if you think how quickly filter pipes/ lily pipes get grubby. Even ADA Gallery sumped tanks have black weirs, probably for good reason.

It is the down side to a hob filter, straight down flow wouldnt be ideal, certainly with my hobs if I dont top up I see negative effects quite quickly. Keeping lateral flow would be better. Again though unless you are losing unreasonable amounts of lower leaves dont chase perfection with stems...

To a certain extent, and some stems more than others, it happens in low tech. However it is more about flow and the nutrients/co2 it carries than light. Adding more light will likely add issues... unless it drops all leaves aside the top few then focus on getting flow down to lower levels first.👍

Love this mate, was a wicked tank and a credit to your commitment to it, the hobby and forum. Looking forward to the next installment fella 👋

Like it... and upvoting...?

Sweet, love a shallow...

Yup, keep it simple... can see the appeal to a pre filter mind 🤪 JBL crystalprofi running solid about 7 years now, forget it's there it's so quiet.

Agreed and have several more ranks sitting around, just the idea of more tanks doesnt fill me with joy... I think a better option may be similar to you and sell off most of the standards once spring comes, unfortunately the affordability of more fancy varieties means the demand for normal...

Tropica specialised everytime for me.

It's funny, no end of people would eat a meal at mine and think the same until they actually touch it normally hours later 🤣 pre covid of course...🤪 Hope your well mate👍

It does get a trim every few weeks as its rampant, luckily the paint is eggshell so can scrub off the suckers pretty well.

Oh and for anyone interested the ficus has actually now taken over the kitchen, even comes out the other side and the top of the extractor 🤯

Evening all, So this tank was getting pretty over grown so gave it a severe trim today. I'd actually forgotten it was maple leaf rock in there as it's been hidden for a year or two. I didnt remove any plants, just trimmed the bucephalandra back. It was quite surprising how dense and branched...

I've got a radion freshwater that is gathering dust and happy to sell... pm me [emoji106] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Congrats Darrell, your such a great asset to the community. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

I dont remember them ever not being in flower and looking back it seems all images are full of flowers just hadn't really noticed. Ive no idea what stimulates it though as previous tanks havent been so prolific. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Had a couple of serious trims in this over the past weeks so it's all looking a lot roomier now. Otherwise all is well and not much to report [emoji106] Its amazing how quickly the buce recover and multiply, in just a few weeks where the stem is cut as many a 4 new stems will begin to appear...

Dont know how that just created random links to my sentences.. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

I dont remember it every being that small , thanks for linking it. I just noticed this weekend it is is also reproducing... little baby stag horn [emoji3] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Looks a bit less crap now... Gave the filter a clean, remarkably the sponges were almost spot less[emoji2957] However I did then remember I took out almost all the media during last water change 6 months ago to start another filter... grand total of 6 pieces of alfa grog running this tank. I...

I know, its exhausting...[emoji23] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Bi annual water change and maintenance day. Cant imagine why the filter was struggling....?[emoji2962][emoji23] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Lovely scape brilliantly delivered mate. I see @George Farmer even copied the hardscape layout for aquarium gardens 60 tank [emoji2957][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Link is to filipe oliveira fb page for top 127 if link doesnt work. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Some great scapes and a few questionable decisions... Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Thanks mate. They may be coming out, I get the feeling the tank would benefit from a freshening up pretty soon... catching the shrimp is whats causing the procrastination! [emoji2962] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Hey fella, caradina mix pretty well, at least for a while. They dont go muddy or revert to wild colours like neos will. Having the Taiwan gene means the patterns hold better which I think is the main advantage. If you want some Taiwan's mate just drop me a pm [emoji106] Sent from my SM-G950F...

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Very neglected, no water change since lockdown began but they didnt seem too bothered and loved grazing the green glass caused by direct sunlight this time of year.... tds was 245 Now clean and adjusted to 185, will clean again next week to get it back to 160 ish along with the impossible carpet...

Was originally just a taiwan bee mix, mostly crs and cbs and one blue bolt in the first set up with these shrimp. When I started this tank I added 5 blue shadow pandas... [emoji106] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Been hard at it over lockdown, turning what was the 'builders yard' during the house Reno into veg garden and chicken run. 2/3 done and almost all upcycled materials. Furlough starts again thursday so will be back on it. Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Thumbnails are a pain when using mobile and tapatalk... much prefer threads having full image upload [emoji106] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

New search layout is awesome... 'Find threads - your threads' is sooo welcome!!!

Top job Paulo, first time ive been on and it looks great fella, thanks a lot. Now get back to saving the NHS and print that PPE :doctor:

One 5ft anubias left [emoji23] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Stripped back, which made it amazingly evident the low plants had pretty much died off due to shading from the umbrella plant, ill be surprised if they come back but fingers crossed. Cut the crypts down to the gravel, it's amazing how quickly they come back after such harsh treatment. As for...

This is well out of control, even garden secateurs were struggling to fall the forest! Crypt carpet was bonkers... Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Manzy sinks pretty quick so you shouldn't have to wait long.. [emoji106] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

I'm no scientist and all the above may be true, however i feel it misses an important point.... that being over whelming evidence from planted tanks the world over that filter media capacity isn't particularly defining in a tanks success. Id hazard a guess that if the above was true it is...

What...Clean it?? [emoji23] reckon that the reason they cook tanks...! Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

Choose a filter based on reliability, flow volume and noise not filter media capacity. Most planted tanks are quite happy running with over half empty trays... recommendations for anything that are based on how quickly they fix a problem says a lot about the quality of the product in the...

Lovely low tech tank, well done fella. [emoji106] Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk