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Hmm one more guess then, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis? If it's a leylandii then I'll totally be cool and won't be annoyed at all

Monterey cypress / Hesperocyparis macrocarpa?

Yeah I'd add more, stems in particular as they'll grow quickly for you. If you want a bit of a game plan, the Alternanthera reineckii on the right and the Hygrophila corymbosa(?) on the left could be definitely chopped in half and tops replanted right now, you could get a mix of Rotalas and...

I honestly can't say as I mainly use EI/homebrew solutions in one form or another, but I imagine that the standard flourish should be fine, just increase the dosage as required, unless you notice persistent signs of deficiency - then maybe spring for the others. Saying that, one that I might be...

I'm guessing you're not injecting any CO2 either? If not: Any comprehensive fertiliser dosed once a week, tuned to your light intensity. I think seachem flourish is a good one, though I haven't used it myself. If you are injecting CO2 or intend to in the future, you should probably look into...

No need to make things complicated, the shrimp mineralising salts will be fine to use on their own. Shrimps and plants want the same things, the shrimp salts for Neocaridina species will just come with added carbonate salts to increase KH as well.

Might be worth looking out for backlit poster/advertising boards, once you take off the frame they look very similar, though admittedly with different dimensions. Add the frosted film, a couple of hooks and you're basically at an ADA light screen.

Looks like side shoots on the trunk of a Ginkgo biloba to me.

Great job collecting all this info. Regarding breeding - I think it's important to note that the rainfall season starts right after very punishing prolonged droughts. During this time, river systems diminish greatly in size and flow, and water quality plummets. Fish that were cut off from the...

https://www.aquasabi.com/Borneo-Wild-Join-Glass Is this not what you want? You could use some clear filter hose to connect it onto some acrylic pipe cut to size, drilled/ sawn for flow and covered with a shrimp guard to hide any botched work. Wouldn't be perfect but it'd get the job done...

Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it! What's got you thinking some RO water would make things better for you? Amano and cherry shrimp are robust little chappies and appreciate some hardness to their water to boot, so you might make them unhappy (failed moults being a big worry) by watering down...

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I'd bet on C. affinis, but crypt IDing is always a gamble without the spathe ;)

For L. sedoides, it's not commonly cultivated for commercial sale so you need to keep your ears close to the ground with collectors, best place for this is (regrettably now) facebook. Regarding aquarium suitability, it's really more happy as a conservatory pond plant. In aquarium situations the...

You can trim it just fine. The leaves will remain the height they're cut, but new growing points will appear from each node which will keep the leaf density regenerating so it's not so much of a problem if you want to snip them right back to clean up. Perhaps your Lilaeopsis is slowing down...

You should perhaps aim to reach a lime green DC before your lights turn on to make sure you're giving as much CO2 as you can (25-30mg/l is a good level) without causing harm to livestock. At this point light intensity is a much more reliable means of controlling growth. Think of reaching a good...

An increase in CO2 can increase the rate of nutrient uptake so I wouldn't rule out a deficiency somewhere, particularly if you've got a lot of plant mass in the tank. Try just doubling your EI dosage and see if that helps. If it does, you can gradually bring it down until you run into problems...

Yes, it's best to have a filter in mind before buying lily pipes. To find a filter, you should consider your tank volume, then consider what you want to do with it (a high tech system will generally require greater flow rate unless you're willing to use powerheads). Once you've got a plan, look...

Nice mix, hope you get lots of interesting babies from the rilis and jellies! Be careful with shrimp though - easy to catch multiple tank syndrome from them - very dangerous disease, especially on the bank balance!

You've definitely got better things to think about mate ;) Keeps me out of trouble I suppose

I would actually advise against drying it, but definitely put it in something sealed. Drying may be viable if only doing so once, however because of the material and how it's made (low temperature fired clay) it's liable to disintegrate far more rapidly from any repeated wetting and drying which...

First of all beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Secondly, without including Tiger shrimp species (which would definitely produce quite a lot of unremarkable hybrids, though certainly some very beautiful too - such as fancy tibees and blue and red steels) Caridina cantonensis are quite limited...

Very nicely scaped, looks like it would be a fab tank for river loaches and gobies. Have you thought about Stiphodon semoni and maybe Gastromyzon ctenocephalus? I think they'd be wonderful centerpiece fish. You could put a decently strong powerhead in the left hand side to get some flow over the...

Yeah, they're a reliable retailer and I believe are still breeding for wholesale, though the last time I used them was in 2015 I would hope that they haven't changed much. Good livestock for the price.

I'd say 70 cm minimum, 75 cm for a comfortable (i.e. for ease of access) fit, as 5kg FEs are about 63.5 cm (just measured). I have nn ADA cabinet with an internal height of 64 cm and it doesn't really work despite just about fitting, I have to run it next to it.

Sure there are, they're just very expensive and generally not necessary. Ian posted the only two I know of that cater to hobbyists but the best in my opinion are angled towards industrial applications where it's actually useful to know what's going on, centering around the needs of the...

I agree with Ian, I think that the CO2 rate is insanely low for your tank size ( perhaps more suitable for a similarly lit 60 litre) and in this regard I fear you've got the situation the wrong way round - the algae isn't restricting your plant growth, rather it's growing because your plants are...

Haha I know what you mean about not wanting to kill your shrimp but if you want to keep shrimp, you have to be prepared to lose them too! I agree that 70% is a lot but if you're talking about a 300 litre tank then that increased volume is going to smooth the ride a little. If you want to...

Yeah it is quite high, perhaps you might be able to reduce your Mg and Ca dosing slightly, personally I don't use any Calcium in my EI mixes, even for the aquariums where I use remineralised RO, but my lights are low and my CO2 is gentle (1bps for a 60L). Thinking about it, that could be the...

A 50% weekly water change will be fine on it's own, but a high TDS will likely mean they won't breed and may have shedding issues (kind of in same manner that Cherry shrimp get shedding issues at lower TDS, only reversed). That would be my main concern. Are you using RO water currently? If not...

I think the idea that all of CRS fragility is linked to their breeding is becoming a lot less relevant. Maybe 10 years ago imported livestock wasn't so great, but I think they've improved dramatically. I believed it big time when I first started keeping them, because all I had was online...

Plants can grow, just very slowly from the waste produced from the livestock. Shrimp keepers tend to use quite low lighting too so they can keep their tanks plodding away as low techs. People give lots of reasons as to why they avoid nitrates/micros/oxygen/brain activity but I feel that it's...

Haha cheers Darrell, knew it was something like that, been a while since I've had regular idents. Sent from my SM-G130HN using Tapatalk

Yeah they are, the long green ones are next year's male (pollen producing) cones I think. Just use the dry ones for your tank. Regarding size, I believe Alnus cordata produces smaller cones than A. glutinosa, though both should be fine to use. If you want an ID for comfort's sake, check whether...

Hi mate, what it sounds like to me is a problem with the water parameters, I'd check your KH and TDS and make sure they're reasonably high, at least 2-4 KH and 200+ TDS. I've had problems keeping neocaridina in soft-water tanks with low GH and KH (and not helped by the use of buffering aquasoil...

Have you thought about planting into it? Darrel's suggestion of hydroleca would do you proud if you wanted to, planted up with some hard-as-nails houseplants like Spathiphyllum, Anthurium, Epipremnum. etc. would look ace and help with the filtration.

Hi Uslanja, I think your feelings about the lights are correct. I would take one bulb out first and reduce your ferts. Without a full tank shot we can't see how much plant mass you have but I'm assuming it's low, possibly not enough to warrant the recommended dosage - I say this because I've had...

I've looked for one myself before but couldn't find anything. I think the only way is to first use the ADA CO2 adapter to take it to DIN477 / W21.8-14 / JIS m22-14 thread and then use a sodastream adapter on that. The problems with this seem pretty obvious (not to mention pricey) but I'll leave...

Perhaps it is, but as someone who only rarely uses glut (generally to kill things :eek:), never bought anything JBL brand and who has no major interest in CO2 injection I didn't approach the article as though I had a horse in this race. The points he brings up are legitimate concerns and most...

UK wise perhaps not, however you might be able to ask Alan at theaquatank.com or Vasteq if they have some. I recieved S. roseospatha 'gunung hose' kapit from Alan a year or so back along with a few others, very healthy plants and good growers too.

I have to agree with this guy, as he makes clear, glutaraldehyde is an industrial cleaner in the same family of chemicals as formaldehyde. This in my opinion makes it well worth the scepticism about pouring it into aquariums without a second thought. At the moment, it doesn't really seem as...

Interesting thought regarding the metabolism and limescale build up, perhaps there is a chemical reaction within the algae and biofilm which is producing calcium as a waste product? Or maybe dead cells solidifying over time? Anyway, I think it would dissolve fast enough in moderately acidic...

I've never kept a tank as deep as yours, but if your ludwigia is doing alright, then I've had excellent success with Hygrophila polysperma in a very lean low tech, and Bacopa monnieri may also cope well - though it will probably be a slow burner.

I've observed this occurring intermittently in some sp. and consistently in others, while some are unaffected entirely all in the same tank. As the leaves are otherwise completely healthy and well developed, just curly, my gut feeling is that it's a species dependent sensitivity to an external...

As the wise and insightful Ghostbusters once said, "Don't mix the substrates, Venkman"... :D Nah I think you'll be fine. Can't say I've used either in aquariums but I'd mix them to a uniform consistency as plants will just choose the easier/tastier layer to root through - possibly 75% Velda to...

I don't have the full set but I do have the Flexi-M light and it's excellent, that maidenhead exclusive is a good price just for the light IMO, let alone the tank

Yeah, it's a sad fact, even low tech tanks get biofilm and mulm building up on the glass, you just can't escape it. I know you say you're happy using the filter floss, but I personally keep looking at the ADA pro razor, I reckon these things are designed just to make you feel a bit glamorous...

That's a good question, what's the source and concentration of the citric acid? I've actually used lemon juice to good effect to treat mosses for tenacious diatoms and filamentous algae as I thought it would be the most gentle, but never tried it for BBA.(I don't know why and probably should...

Try citric acid first, I've found from my admittedly very unscientific experience of using gluteraldehyde on bucephalandras that although the leaves and main growing points of remain okay, longer rhizomes without any active growth on them which were previously healthy become yellow and die back...

Agree with Andy, stainless steel mesh is probably the best idea, and it's fairly easy to work with. perspex gets too misty in my opinion, while the transparent nylon wire mesh doesn't hold it's form well enough. You could maybe add some trimming to neaten it up, mitred to 45 degrees and glued...

Flow rate can be reduced much more cheaply than it can be increased! You can always run it fully loaded with media and use a spray bar to evenly distribute the flow through the tank. For what it's worth I have the classic 250 on a low tech 60x30x36 (60 L~) and found it to be perfectly adequate...

It depends on the product used, the stuff intended for interior use decomposes over time when in contact with water and requires sealing, but there are some exterior ones that suggest water resistance. I hear grout is a popular option for sealing terrarium and paludarium elements which should...

Wonderful, You've managed to get a very nice balance between wood and stone (maybe include some moss around the stone for age?). I like your shots as well, it makes your work look so effortlessly composed in such an elegant manner. For fish suggestions, how about a shoal of Corydoras habrosus...

It's a mystery to me too. All I can say is don't try to work a toothbrush into one in order to give it a scrub because it only ends in tears. I managed to crack an ADA pollen diffuser this way. Luckily it was second hand (and was very mucky) and practically free, but still, my heart cried out...

Seconding Berlioz, in my experience all Hygrophilas are very reliable for veg propagation. Cuttings is about the same for most stem plants, cut under a node, trim off the lower leaves and place into the soil. What is the size of your tank? When I bought my H. 'Araguaia' for my 60 cm I went for...

I'm afraid it's a screw-on attachment. One other little gripe with the borneowild pipe's length is that the holes are drilled almost to the top of it. That does mean that there's low and evenly distributed suction (which is good), but if like me you want to put a pre-filter or guard over it then...

I agree with all Andys :lol: LED systems are incredibly variable - you simply cannot apply a standard rule to them. In my opinion the main advantage of LEDs (aside from their potential cost effectiveness over the long-term) are their capacity to be dimmed and programmed, and I would never buy...

Technically all you should require is a phytosanitary certificate which requires a quarantine period and about 30 quid, this would need to be sought in the country of origin. Luckily for the UK plant collectors though our screening system is so poor that not having the paperwork hardly ever...

Looks good, I always struggle keeping most terrestrial mosses alive indoors in the few times I've tried to keep woodlice, so good luck to you there. Your weeds look like some kind of Cardamine, probably hirsuta.

Apologies Paulo, I don't know the exact name for these insects, Gnat simply seemed most appropriate as the flies are very tiny, and many gnats have aquatic larval stages. They may have entered your home through an open door or window, and found your aquarium to colonise. As far my experiences...

I've experienced these before, I think it's a kind of bag-cocoon formed by the larvae of some species of gnat. They only appeared during warm weather for me, accompanied by the presence of some adult flies (which were very small themselves). I haven't seen them since I introduced fish to my...

Think of the rarity of Bucephalandra 5 years ago and how common they are now. I think it's simply a matter of time. Personally I have some S. roseospatha 'Gunung Hose Kapit' which I bought from Alan at theaquatank.com, and I'm sure Vasteq has a few varieties as well. They are indeed nice plants...

Hi Manu, You may already be aware of this, but in case you or for anyone else who might be interested, leaf cuttings of Hymenasplenium (and some of Bolbitis spp.) is an easy if albeit slow way of propagating them if you want to increase your stock. I just take an older or damaged frond after...

Wonderful tank Manu, I'm very envious of your Rotala wallichii, I can never get it to grow in my low tech tanks! Maybe I should bite the bullet and try some gas... With regards to your Asplenium cf. normale though (which I believe is now named Hymenasplenium obscurum), I've been growing it for...

After reading http://www.urbanaquaria.com/2015/07/live-foods-microfex-dero-worms-culture.html and then http://www.fancyguppies.co.uk/page71.htm I've decided (read: told as such) that these and the often co-cultured Daphnia moina are the true wonder food for feeding fry and small fish. It seems...

Hi Alto, thanks so much for the in-depth response. I may add more Boraras, however would they not be overcrowded in a 60 l aquarium if I already have 12 of them? If I were to, I'd need to find out whereabouts I may be able to source them in Liverpool as I'd rather not order from Kesgrave...

Hello everyone, So after over a year of veritably fierce lurking, undeniably furious research and a lot of utter arsing around with what could easily be mistaken for a tragic accident of glass, water, plants and mud, placed with no logic or regard for the laws of physics, I realised that I'm...

Hello everyone, About 6 months ago I bought a shoal of 12 of what were labelled as Boraras brigittae from Kesgrave. Inevitably, what I received was a good mix of several species, which after many days and nights of gazing blankly between my aquarium and photos of different Boraras species and...

Hi there, if your nephew found it in Cyprus then it's likely one of your 3 native species, the closest seems to be Bufotes variablis, which judging from the photos often has the similar green spots on cream. Hard to find much on them regarding care requirements but they should be similar to...

Hi there, It depends on what you want to do (by the sounds of it you'd like to do an iwagumi?), personally I don't think it would be silly at all. If ADA make a 60x45x45 tank that looks good I can't imagine a 60x45x40 being significantly different (possibly even slightly better). I think there...