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What size were you looking for? If you want 30 PPI 45x31x5cm they still have two available on ebay. I think they may have listings on ebay for stuff that is out of stock on the home website. Same for Amazon, you can order some of their foams with prime, so must be sitting in an Amazon warehouse...

Thanks. I’m thinking of adding an update to my journal as I’ve made a few amendments since I first posted on there.

Quick question: Does it make any difference what Potassium Sulfate you use? I found 2 different brands offering this product. PRODUCT 1 COMPOSITION K : 425 g/kg (42.5%) S : 170 g/kg (17.0%) or a different brand which is PRODUCT 2 COMPOSITION Soluble Potash(K2O) 52% Sulfur(S) 18%

Yes, don't stress! I am sure, despite the apparent bypass, that there will be many minor eddies in that corner of the tank that are slowly redistributing the water around the area. It will be slow moving for sure, but far from stagnant.

That’s great, many thanks - yes, I probably am overthinking everything. I’m the kind of person who wants to do everything right so when I see something that may need addressing, I get a little het up. The corner in question is very still on the surface and the circular flow I mention kind of...

Hiya, Yeah also looking at the scaper set up!! But struggling to find a white cabinet to fit the 60cm x 40cm tank!!

How important is it to account for the Ca & Mg in tap water? All I know about my tap water in my country is that the pH is around 5-6 and is always safe to drink. That being said, they have ranges for acceptability. I know with nitrate I need to be a bit careful as my 1 tank is heavily stocked...

Loving the Tank Janitors, especially these guy's The Gobies especially loved the Blackworms and Water Louse, hopefully some made it

Just because the plants have no movement in that part of the tank it does not mean there is no flow, just that the flow is slower in that area, and the turbulence is less, which is not necessarily a bad thing. The filter will constantly be sucking in water from this end of the tank which will...

Do you mean the rocks right at the front? Does look great. A bit of marbling effect as well.

I like the algae covered rocks and the contrast with the healthy buce

Forgot one last thing... the wee one loves his aquarium, and loves to stare at them whenever he is around (picture from a few weeks ago).

Yes, I think that is the best thing to do going forward, good idea for if I need to retreat, hopefully not 🤞

So, it's been roughly over a month since my last post, and things have been going fairly well... although in a rather unorthodox way. Yes, I know I may have sped things up a bit too much, but reading here and there, taking all the any information and checking how things were going on a daily...

Sorry to hear this. You’ve already had good advice on this. I remember when we had our house treated because the dogs had flees I covered the tank with cling film….just in case you need to retreat.

Yes I will certainly do that, I will net any out tonight, and then do another water change in the morning, and suck out any more dead. Feel much more calmer now I have a plan, so thanks for that.

Hiya, welcome. 👋

Not sure if this thread is the right place to discuss this but I’m having an issue with getting the right flow/circulation in my tank. It’s 60cm long, 30d and 33h. The filter is 400l/ph and is situated front right as you look at the tank. Plants at the far left have nice gentle movement, with...

Not if you get them out quickly in the morning and make sure you have no dead ones before you go to bed.

Thank you all for your usefull replies. I have no carbon, but will get some tomorrow from the LFS. I suppose my remaining worry is that if they RCS die off overnight, will this cause an ammonia spike in the aquarium? Then causing problems to the fish. I suppose only time will tell.

This sounds like nervous system damage. An ingredient of Indorex is Permethrin, which affects the nervous system of invertebrates, causing paralysis and death in high doses. The best course of action is to remove the shrimp from contaminated water and perform significant water changes in your...

This would be one of the occasions when adding carbon to your filter would potentially be helpful. If you haven't got room in your filter, just hang it in a bag near the outflow. I would throw in a polyfilter sheet too - again just put it in the flow if you haven't got room in the filter. Both...

Only time will tell

Plants are looking healthy!

Welcome aboard Andrew :)

Hi, My cat had fleas so the vet told me after treating her, to treat the house with Indorex Defence Spray, Cover fish tank and afterwards let the house air for 2 hours, and to switch off fish tank filter. I put two sheets over the fish tank and switched off the filter for two hours, but after...

Hello Andrew and welcome to UKAPS - Hope you enjoy you’re time here. Get comfy and enjoy the journey! Thanks, Murray

Hello Folks, just to say thanks for my membership. Look forward to learning about planted aquariums and hopefully create my own. Thanks again.

Darn - out of stock! 😀

Thank you! Ill get to the shop and order. Mainly 30PPI foam of good quality, I can then cut to size.

Well today has been a great day! Popped over to the local fish shop some 8 miles away to collect my Rasboras. Got around 40 Galaxy Rasboras & around 30 Chilli Rasboras for £100 which is a crazily good price. They are understandably very skittish so trying to take a photo with a potato phone is...

@Bradders, what products were you looking for from Swiss tropicals? Envobee shrimp sells most of the equivalent stuff in the UK including the Poret foam, airlifters, mattenfilter kits and foam block filters etc.... I mentioned above that stock availability is becoming patchy on their website...

I keep a couple of 5L containers of rainwater in a container near my Nano’s. If the temperature is too low I put one or two in the sink and fill it with hot water, either from the tap or the kettle. It soon warms them up.

Maybe 60x36x36?

Coming back from a 12 day holiday, I checked my tank. This beautiful view made me take a picture and it was so nice that I needed to share it with you guys. Have a nice day to.

Added a small ball of Riccia in an attempt to get a duckweed free sample . I also added about a 3 inch piece of hornwort . Just as an experiment to find out exactly how fast this stuff grows in my tanks . Fert. dosing has begun . Was going to wait another week , but decided to start now so...

Welcome! I've currently got a loose community planted tank and blackwater, also a 'Borstal' cube where I've had to put 3 idiot Endlers that manage to get themselves into trouble of all sorts in the main community tank (jumping, getting stuck, jumping into the HOB filter, winding up the otherwise...

Sorry I should have done some updates earlier but forgot so here's how the tank is today. Parameters still the same as above however now fully planted and livestock added. The tank has: 8 ember tetras 8 male guppies A bunch of cherry shrimp 1 nerirte snail Plants are: Limnophilia sessiflora...

I find a p60 a great versatile mid-sized tank, though ideally get one that's 40cm deep rather than the standard 30cm deep so you can get a bit mroe depth into the scape. It makes all the difference, and then have a bit more room for stocking some lovely fish too.

Tank was planted and cycled shortly after and I actually used the nitrico goop product for this and was pretty impressed. Within about 10 days and some large water changes all parameters seemed to have settled down and now sit at: Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 20 And have been this way for some...

Yes... for sure! Even for topping up say 5% in a 200 Liter tank (thats 10 Liters) adding 1L of near boiling water to a bucket of cold (16 C) water and stir it would take the temp to ~23 C... Cheers, Michael

Hi guys, so just a little update on the flex 34 I bought. The tank was set up on 23rd August and I went for black lava rock and some thin wood pieces all on a layer of Tropica aqua soil. I've never set up a tank this small and with my previous tank being a near 700 litre tank it was a bit of a...

Welcome happy 😊

Love your tank. Thanks for great topic and motivation 👍. Nature photos are great too. Thanks a lot for sharing 😊

Little off topic: do you think that p60 is ok size for more complex aquascape setups? I am planika to buy second tank, p90 and p120 aee to big for my taste and time. I had p120 before and i was doing great setups but didn't have enough time to manage it.

Thanks. Will find some nice rad flouting plants for sure. Rasboras are great for small tanks, but anything bigger would be a problem. As you see i have a great filter, to strong and huge for this tank so that halps. I was putting bacterias every day and i am doing daily tests. Tank was ready at...

Thanks. It will be one nice nano. Radiatoe was my concernt too. Now is on 3, have nore radiators in the room i will probably turn it off if it want crazy 🤪

I find this plant tough to sustain for more than a year or two, it gets tired, it needs the top 6 inches cut and replanted regularly. Iron is needed in even moderately hard water, and it likes intense light, I have found intense light with less blue works but water hardness does need...

I was unable to find the fish I wanted so I’ve placed an order for them online. They should arrive on Tuesday. I have a 20 gallon long and a standard 10 gallon tank with loads of plant trimmings. Frogbit on the surface along with hornwort, anacharis, Java ferns, small Amazon swords, etc. The...

Tank looks absolutely fantastic. One little concern, proximity to a radiator. Algae thrives when water gets a bit hot.

Nice job! For a small tank like this Salvinia minima is a good floating plant - not too big, looks neat, nice shade of green, grows well, easy to maintain, shrimp like clinging to the undersides of it. The usual advice is that 14 days is too soon to be adding livestock, but I'm glad it's...

Small update after second triming of Rotala that grows overnight. I am using trimmed part for background behind the wood. Everything is good for now, no algae ( snails and shrimps are doing a great job). Monto carlo will be trimmed next week. Cant wait for lily pipe to come.

thank you for this thread of inspiration! so many great pics of the mesmerizing Rio Xingú biotope 😉 I only wonder if any aquarist dares to replicate this so complicated river ecosystem in a home aquarium. River rapids are one of the hardest biotopes to replicate. And I think this post is...

Afternoon folks. I'm after a bit of advice/reassurance if anyone has a moment. I am currently using TNC Complete at the recommended dose of 1ml/10l/week in all my tanks. However as the budget conscious aquarist that I am, I would like to swap to @Happi self-mixed Solufeed concoction (not the...

Nope. Not that much, to be honest. I have a personal color setup in rgb, and I don't see any difference between 0% and 100% when using UVA. Maybe other users have different experiences with this function?

Sadly, I cant get him to ship to the UK. 🙁

Yep, thought so. Does it actually produce the intense colours? i.e. it it really worth it?

This. Plant conservation is complicated. It's not just more plants grown = better. There are issues of genetic diversity and fitness to consider, as a ton of genetically similar or identical plants are not necessarily valuable from a conservation standpoint. We can make a bigger impact by buying...

100% I’ve emailed him back and forth MANY times about filtration and he’s very responsive, knowledgeable, and isn’t trying to sell you anything. The product speaks for itself without him trying to market it out.

It's interesting topic. I think you have to be careful not to think of yourself as doing good by default and delve a bit deeper. There have been cases where fish keepers have helped in species preservation - there are some species that now have much bigger hobby populations than wild and some...

This is not UV which we usefor example against 'green water'. This UVA function has a cosmetic function and gives slightly more intense colours

5. PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY goes hand-in-hand with contest aquascaping. At the end of the day, the only part of an aquascape which is judged in a contest is the FINAL PHOTO 📸 A good photo is therefore the platform used to showcase your work to the judges. It is also very much a separate skill...

When I need to add cold tap water to one of my Nano’s I heat a jug of it up in the microwave if needed. Not so much an option though if you have a large tank!

All commercial ferts/AIO are based in recipes that have been around for long time, with each product having slight tweaks/differences. So if your after tweaking what you have been using Just set the targets slightly higher/lower and the IFC will do all the maths. We added the compare next to...

Hi Zeus, thank you so much for pointing that out. Great to see the CSM is there, that makes things a lot easier. I picked APT not due to any particular reason. When used the way I used it, it doesn't work wonders 😅 I wasn't very keen on burning $26+/Mo so I used to add it maybe once or twice...

Simply having an interest or activity in your life that you are totally passionate about that might also engender a 'flow'* state is a pretty good place to be. Works for all. * See Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi rather than fluid dynamics.

What does everyone think of the UV addition this these lights? Its stated to help plant growth and also bring out fish colour. Anyone had any experience of a UV light?

My neighbours fish house had Discus with every colour of the rainbow,they looked so good,but nothing was better than his huge Wild Discus tank, guessing it was 5 or 6 feet with the natural subdued colouration

Think however niche a hobby we are perceived as l think the aquarists have a lot to offer as long as it's done properly. I think it was MD Fish Tanks who visited a chap who had a vast amount of natural aquariums with many fish breeding that are really scarce and at risk in the wild,that's got...

You just missed it 😉 we added many a trace element Most of the CSM-B are very similar in composition so little differences between them all If you go into 'DIYtraceCalculator' you can compare the trace side of all the AIO ferts and CSM-B traces, With the dry trace salts we compared them by...

I bought it myself via Ali express, because it was cheaper. Indeed no guarantee, but I took that chanche Week Aqua has a separate website for sales and there you do have to pay for extra guarantee. And you also have to pay shipping costs: WEEK AQUA INTERNATIONAL

I'm not so sure about that, there are plenty of threatened species swimming around in our tanks. White clouds and red-tailed black sharks are pretty much extinct in the wild, then there are plenty of endangered blue-eyes, goodeids, rainbowfish (including boesmani), and of course numerous...

Aquarium keepers will barely be a factor in that equation - we are simply too scarce. We can certainly raise awareness and promote preservation for sure, and we should. 😇 No idea what the Law is in the UK, but its worth keeping in mind that in some countries, such as the US, its against the...

Welcome, I would initially set some goals, try and define what you want to achieve, talk about it and the people here will help. Me I keep goldfish, and have dreams LOL There is lots of good information within this site, lots of late nights reading.. , but you need to ask, then clever folk will...

I've been wondering why more people don't make tanks like this. More original than CO2 and mass bred fish that are delicate and inbred and die quickly. This is the sort of thing that inspires me to keep fish. Biotope tanks can lend themselves to endangered species and learning more about...

Welcome! :)

Hi all, I'm trying to make a 'clone' of APT/Zero for lean dosing. My tank is mostly epiphytes (ferns, anubias, crypts*), while my other tank is Monte Carlo, with various rotalas (macarandra, h'ra, wallichi. I am running CO2 in all tanks along with the ADA Amazonia substrate (except for my 180l...

Ticking along

Back to this again. MTS has well and truly kicked in. The irony being this thread started with 2 small cubes 3 months ago.... My Superfish Scaper 90 has grown in nicely, and looks good thanks to the sterling efforts of my CUC, the Amanos are tireless and the often overlooked Nerites would have...

Many scientists call useful projects ‘fun hobbies’ because they don’t make money or get funding. So the question is. Should hobbyists play a big part in preserving nature?

Wonderful info guys. You have confirmed that what I was initially doing was right - ample aeration & surface agitation. I have recently read a load of rather confusing stuff and so had recently been questioning my original decisions. Its good to now get it straighter in my head. Over the...

I like the detail and thought that goes into the info on Home - Shrimp and Snail Breeder

I don’t know if you can find much it’s an uncommon plant. But nice if more people had it. I genuinely don’t think it’s one you can buy anymore these days

@JMorgan interesting. How did they measure the time differences between ‘mental’ vs ‘emotional’ processing? (Deliberately in quotes as they are both arguably mental processes). Interestingly, other research that I’m aware of shows that emotional responses are far quicker and use less energy than...

Thank you so much, seeing how there are quite a few amazing tanks on here that's very high praise indeed. I'm more than willing to give it a go if you'd like, although I would want to do a little reading on it first if you don't mind? And yes the weather has certainly been a bit chillier...

Hello and welcome :)

Hello 👋, welcome to UKaps.

Where did you order it from mate? I can see it on the week aqua website and aliexpress only. Just have a fear of Ali express and about having to ship back if I have any problems etc. They are the a really nice looking light

I would be up for this. Could become a fun experiment.

Right... Looking at shallow natural slow flowing water ways the temperature can vary quite a bit just between banks - depending on whether the water is exposed to sun vs. shade, speed of flow etc. being worried about a +/- ~2 C degree flux is unnecessary - of course in nature the fish can more...

I'm not talking about 'rare' species that are considered 'fancy' but rather actually endangered plants. What if people would start growing more of these and sharing them around as a method of conservation...? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrovanda_vesiculosa Just one example. But an...

Hi we just bought a biomaster thermo 250 29/10/24 and it was the old type didn’t know there was a newer model coming but i just bought the upgrade parts to fit myself hopefully it all goes well

I use hot water from the tap to bring my rainwater (stored outside) up to a closer temp (and add some gh), no issues. I dose with prime for the tap chloramine. I only change a bucket full though so pre-mix in a bucket. Mines a combi boiler though, some people will have hot water storage tanks...

This is my favourite tank on UKAPS. Would you want to try growing a rare Lagenandra species? I can send you some Lagenandra nairii but I'm not sure how confident I am sending tropical rare plants this time of year... I've always been interested to know whether they grow under water but my...

So got me a little Tank Janitors delivery from @dw1305. Of course the kids are up and about and wanting annoying things like food and attention when I want beer and to play with my tank. so have literally thrown the box in the tank as it is for now to sort later.

Keep in mind that you can get after market riser kits.

I have the previous model on my tank on my 35 liter scapers tank, and it's indeed overkill. (Z200 PRO RGB+UVA - 5850 lumens) But you can adjust the intensity to the desired level you need. Another advantage with so much power is that you can make any kind of scape you want: low-light til...

I had Aquael Leddy lights on my 35 scaper - 2 I think at times. Plants grew a treat :) Love this tank - I am still very sad that I cracked it (tip: don’t do water changes with an old ceramic jug…)

Welcome to the UKaps! :thumbup:

Hello all I’m new to the forum. I have kept reef tanks for 10 plus years now but I am selling up and going to be buying a freshwater setup in the new year. Im wanting a 4 ft planted tank and any advice will be appreciated as I have never had a planted tank or freshwater fish before. Thanks