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Thanks I really like the curved front 2 corners

It’s a Aqua one 130 nano with built in sump filter

What are them banana Lilly’s like size wise?

Unfortunately still a similar sized leaf to a lotus

Hi guys, Im sure ive posted this before but I cant find the thread. Are there any small lillys suitable for tropical tanks? While I like lotus's I feel the leaves get way to big for my 130L nano

name the seller Ive had bad experiences from 2 on ebay

They do operate over 2.5 bar you just have to adjust the Allen key nut on the front even tells u in the instructions. It’s just set to 2-2.5 from the factory

I hope someone can help me out. I ran out of Co2 today and went to swap my tanks over same as I always do. Screwed on the reg and gradually turned it on but no matter what I do co2 gushes from the tiny vent hole in the bottom of the reg next to the thread. Any ideas before I end up wasting a...

Hi Guys, Can anyone recomend a nice midground plant that is nice and bushy and gets to a max of 15 - 20 cm high. Can be a hard or easy plant.

Hi Guys, A couple months ago I bought a Echinodorus Rubra for my 130L tank because it was meant to stay quite small at 20-30 cm high. Well its got alot taller to the point the leaves are bending over at the surface, its got that big around they are also touching the front glass lol. Shame I...

Well my in-line one and handheld one show the same results

Odd mines always been zero (I’m not complaining lol)

Are you buying it already remineralised or is that meant to be plain ro? In which case they need to replace their membrane

DI is just a final polish I get zero TDS without a DI which is overkill for fresh water anyway

No the whole idea of ro is it strips everything out of the water

Thanks I will have a look failing that it will prob be ottos lol

Looks like otos or garas then lol

Shame they are quite pretty Quite like them mustard dot ones

They used to burrow through the sand and soil under a big bit of bog wood making a right mess

Was also thinking about otos but read conflicting info that they only eat biofilm not algae

Is that the same as gold nugget plecs? They need bog wood to nibble I’ve only got a couple redmoor roots which I don’t really want eating lol

They trashed my old tank with constant digging so won’t be getting one of them lol

Does anyone know of any plecs that remain quite small, eat algae, don’t uproot plants and dig?

There lies your problem your tank hasn’t cycled

I expect they died and the bristle nose ate them

Complete aquatics are a bloody nightmare they don’t have most the stuff they have for sale in stock despite the website saying otherwise. If u look on their feedback a lot of people say the same. I ordered my tank from them because they were the only place that said in stock. Took months then...

I don’t think many people use them I’m sure I read they can make it fluctuate to much with it constantly trying to change the ph to whatever it’s set to

You can turn the operating pressure up on ur reg there is an Allen key adjustment behind the little rubber bung in the front. I normally have mine on 2-2.5 bar

I take that back it’s just this second turned up

Blackwells supposedly dispatched mine last week still no sign of it tho

Just found this place they sell them https://www.sciento.co.uk/catalog/aquatic-invertebrates

Actually I was wrong it was a scud culture I saw. But have a look on mangroves and more or Zebrafish Management Ltd fish food, brine shrimp, and equipment they may be able to help u

I was just doing a search for aquarium live food

There’s some seed shrimp for sale on eBay saw them earlier

I already have pothos just starting was just thinking of another similar thing to add

Ah ok that answered that then lol. I tried growing it in my pond once and the buggers just ate it straight away. I might try some in the top of the waterfall tho once I turn it back on

Oh I didn’t want to eat I just thought it might be beneficial. Plus even if I did want to eat it I can’t see how it would be any different than the farmed stuff which is fed from streams and rivers

Ok guys hear me out lol, has anyone tried growing watercress in built in filter compartment or floating in their tank? I know people grow it in ponds and pond filters and it’s great for removing excess stuff from the water. Or would it be to warm that’s my only concern

Blimey I only ordered last week

Blackwells had 10 in stock still when I reordered through them

Anyone that has it ordered with Amazon I’d cancel and get it elsewhere that’s what I did and it’s now been dispatched

just canceled mine and went with blackwells

Just a friendly word of caution to not use this joker on ebay. First I ordered 10 cherry shrimp and 4 amanos from him. The cherries turned up nice and healthy and a nice deep red but they hadnt sent the amanos. So i contacted him he blamed someone else for not packing them no real apology. I...

Mine was meant to arrive today but I got a msg from Amazon saying they are still having difficulty sourcing it

Have u tried aqua essentials?

Be warned using them they are buggers for selling items they don’t actually have in stock . They leave u hanging until you chase it up. Nearly all their reviews say the same. I ordered my tank from them it took months. Ended up being out of stock everywhere so I hung on. Then when it came they...

No it’s not down I had plants from them last week

I got a cute lil pair of trifasciata apistos the other week already seen them courting even tho I think they are to small to do anything yet

Couldnt of said it all better myself

How big is the tank? 3 isn’t a good number for discus

You could always order online and get them delivered. I used to use devotedly discus. First lot I collected myself then I just got them delivered

Scratch that back to ur suggestion. Had the crappy spare set up which was abit iffy had to readjust the bubble count twice. So just went to check up on it and it was hissing so giving up on that I can wait for the new one. Wasted so much co2 lately. My first 500g lasted 5.5 weeks and that was...

Sok I remembered I had a crappy spare one so got that to tide me over. Thanks

My reg has a dodgy needle valve which i believe its also leaking from. Will my tank be ok without Co2 for a couple days while I wait for a new reg to arive?

Yep my comment still stands pay £15 or £30+

Sounds like the same seller I used. Bought 6 different ones they were all alive when they arrived only 2 are alive now the others either never even stuck there heads out and eventually died or moved a couple cm and eventually died. I really want a horned nerite but refuse to pay the £9 eBay is...

Mine will be for sale when my 1kg turns up this week

I’ve been using a company I found on eBay for refills due to currently not being able to get refills locally. You just have to post the empties to them they are called www.grabner.co.uk

I will have a empty refillable JBl 500g bottle for sale in a few days

have you tested for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate?

Its genrally 6.5 but sometimes its 6.6 before lights on. I have it come on 2 hours before lights on and off 1 hour before off. Co2 has always been stable but the carpets always looked poo. Its only the last week or so the co2 has been abit unstable after i must of knocked the dial when I swopped...

Yes I did a profile goes from 6.4-6.6

Yes tbh I’m on the verge of yanking it out and planting something else it looks horrible

Although my drop checker is lime green and there’s loads of flow you can see the low plants moving? [emoji53]

No an api test kit

Thanks, the only probs I Have really is with hc and I think that may be down to when I had to turn the lights down to clear an algae issue when it was first cycling. So it’s ended up looking like this

But what is the level it should be ie is mine to low which is kinda what I’m asking. In my old tank it was to high because I was using a hma filter and my tap water has really high phosphate so I was getting bad hair algae.

What level of phosphate should we be aiming for? I use remineralised RO and dose AIO and fairly heavily planted my level is always around 0-0.25.

I’d rather wait than pay twice the price tbh

Indeed

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Hi guys, Not having much luck getting a carpet. Before I pull this up and try something else do you think it will recover or am I wasting my time? I add co2, use a twinstar light, plenty of flow and dose AIO daily

Was that from Amazon? If so they don’t seem to be sending them out very fairly I ordered mine nov 6 and still waiting

Is it normal for new nirites to sulk? Not had them before, other snails ive had over the years have never been fazed when they are added. My 3 are alive but barely moving 2 have been stuck to the glass in the same place since yestersay and the tird has moved about 1cm on a rock all day lol

Pinball machines owning, playing, restoring and customising. Building garage kits (resin movie monsters and the like which are generally low run and limited)

I’d say nerites are much to big for the majority of loaches to eat

Rather than yoyo’s polka dot loaches (botia kobotai) are a much better choice. I kept them with discus fine a lot more peaceful than yoyo’s and destroy pest snails.

The nitrite kit don’t work as said above I got another one today and I do have a nitrite reading and nitrate as said above, cheers might try some safe start to be on the “safe side”

As if by magic the nitrate test started working today and pretty much matched the tetra test. Nitrite one still not working tho. I did contact API and they just deny there could be anything wrong with their tests. It’s just users that aren’t happy with the results being quick to blame API. Lol...

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If the light is anything like the one that came with my aqua one aquanano 80 it will be pretty blahblahblahblah

Yeah that’s my plan just waiting for a few bits so I can connect my new ro up rather than buy it from Maidenhead

Pretty good had to trim one lot of stem plants back about 6 inches yesterday. Notice some of my hc melting abit dunno unless that’s because it’s emersed now? Here’s a quick pic abit dark because the lights have nearly ramped down Still going through the ugly diatom stage. I did put the lights...

I’m happy to leave it for another couple weeks just wandered if it would be safe to add some amanos and a couple snails to battle the diatoms?

Hasn’t it just chipped a sliver of glass off tho? Doesn’t look like it’s damaged the seal. I’d be inclined to smear abit of silicone on the inside of that corner and the outside

I did a dry start for 6 weeks with all the plants and I’m on my 4th week flooded

Thanks Darrel, Just read through that I will stop adding ammonia. But how do I know when I can start adding a clean up crew and fish?

Yes I have been adding ammonia which has been going in 48 hours

Well I tested some rain water today and that also came out as zero nitrite and 5 nitrate so I’d say they are duff. I have contacted api see what they say

Hmm doesn’t expire until 2024 may have to complain to api

Fishless cycling which is taking ages haven’t had any reading for nitrite yet

Yes I did I did put it in my post but it seems to have missed it. The tetra one said the tap water was 12.5 and the tank was 100 [emoji53]

Sighs I was expecting something cute with ferrets lol

Well I tested the tap water as I’m using ro it wouldn’t resemble what is in the tank

Hi guys Ive been using a API master set which expires in 2024 Im not convinced my nitrate kit is working. Yeah I know they need alot of shaking Ive even been using my paint vortext mixer / shaker so they are more than shaken well. Everytime I test my tank it says its 5.0 ppm which it has done...

Yeah testing few times a week

I’ve also been using stability I don’t believe it does anything and ea pure aquarium jelly balls in with the media

How have u managed to start cycling after 3 days? I did a 6 week dry start and I’m on my 3rd week of it being flooded and nitrites and nitrates haven’t budged but the plants keep taking the ammonia

Hi all Thought this may be helpful for some people. I just made an auto shut off for when filling my Jerry cans with RO. No need to drill the can, just the lid. All u need is a float switch, a 1/4” push-fit bulkhead, about an inch of pipe, and 2 1/4” elbows. Drill a hole in the middle of the...