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Oh right, no problem mate! thanks again really starting to take shape now! I completely forgot to post it on that topic, thanks for pointing it out!

Hello Steve, Yes that is the Rotala you sent! Thankyou for that, I have made a £2.00 donation to the UKaps Website through Paypal? In the PM you said donate to UKaps what you see fit? Regards Ark

Orignally set this tank up in March but kind of didn't finish it, so starting it again, now my exams are nearly over! Plan is to do a Nano South East Asian Biotope like a Burmese River Set up. All the plants and fish are going to be from around here. Except for the Hairgrass which some could say...

my light unit broke yesterday and the plants have no light source, i am looking for a new light but until then what should i do? Should i carry on dosing liquid carbon and ferts or not? Help would be lovely :)

Re: Ad's Low tech-ish 54l looking good mate, would love to see how the foreground of pogostemon helferi has grown in :D as i am trying this plant for the first time!

light arrived this morning, not the most snazzy light but i think it will do the job fine

this topic is rather interesting, when you said 'sporadic' growth what did you mean? from what i know sporadic means occuring singly or wide apart? is this correct? so marsilea crenata is not a very good carpeting plant? i have 3 pots of this waiting to be planted. i chose it over marsilea...

Finally the filter has arrived but not the light heater or hardscape! so i filled the tank up as i could see the crypts were starting to dry out. just dropped th eplants in floating about atm. will post pics when water has cleared a bit more. florabase is excellent! didnt cloud the water as...

ahh i was just thinking about the crypts melting, im guessing if i put them in a tray of water, the leaves will melt because of different water parameters? but then when i put them in the tank, the leaves crypts will probably melt again wont they? because of more different water parameters...

taa for the tip will try it, what should i do witht he plants atm until i can set the tank up? i dont have any filtration, lighting or hardscape in yet so dont want to fill the tank up? Atm they are in the packaging i recieved them in? thanks.

hopefully bud! want it to be worth its cost! i bought the plants from Aquaessentials.com, i would highly reccommend them for their quality service, great prices too :wink:

Yo, Got home from college today found a huge parcel for me, the old dear wasn't too pleased when i opened it.. but AE very quick delivery as usual:thumbup: the substrate, liquids and foreground plants were delivered. also SteveUK got the crypts today aswell thanks again buddy look really...

Sup peeps, starting a new venture with a small planted nano, so why not do a journal :) Standard Clearseal rimless glass tank - 40 x 20 x 20cm ~ 16ltrs Fluval U1 internal filter ~ 250 lph. Over-tank luminaire, 3 x 8w t5 bulbs, only 2 being used, so 16W. Colombo Flora Base substrate black. Aqua...

Re: Seven years of 'scaping - updated Feb '10 my personal favourite has got to be 'The Shade' Would love to read the journal if there is one, anyone got a link for it? did a search but got nothing :( cheers

Re: 27 litre - Shrimp only tank. nice start steve, what are you using to tie the moss to the wood and stones? you should try flourocarbon its cheap nearly invisible in water and very strong. i got the java fern narrow sent out this morning, so shoul dbe withou tby friday, im guessing its for...

Re: saintly's ??????? scape that is a hell of a lot of vallis nana how much did you start of with? thats a lucky neon all by himself in a 120cm tank

Re: Dsandson's 60l Tetra Aqua Art tank crypt balansae might not help you battle algae, it is such a slow grower it may be an algae magnet. you should go for some faster growing stems until things settle up, ie cabomba, hygrophila and some other stems. they can easily be removed after

hey peeps, ive seen alot of people forming carpets in their tanks by growing plants emersed in the substrate and spraying them with water a bit. after a a large algae outbreak i recently patched up my rio 125, and in a moment of madness i poured a bag of silicia sand into my tank. i was having...

Re: saintly's ??????? scape now im anticipating great things from this Mark, dont less us down.. ps. i recieved the valis nana today thanks very much

Re: Luke's Nano - Updated with Pictures 21/10/08 your nano is looking good.. moss is need of a trim? what crypts do you have in there?

but seeing as the angels are only temporary, until end of this month definately before christmas im trying to find a buyer for them how about a mix of 8 each...

should i go for 15 cherries or 15 amanos i want to go for one thats a better algae eater but breeding could be an issue amanos are impossible to breed, somehting about babies need saltwater cherries breed like mad i am going to keep them with platinum angels babies and some lemon tetras so...

Re: easyvarbo affecting vallis nana thanks saintly just pmed you i posted this in the wrong section :S but thanks anyway

will using easycarbo affect vallis nana i know it affects vallis nana if you use excel but will easycarbo have the same affects on vallis as excel...

im up for a cod session right now add me howardish my gamertag is - Killa Nabzilla

it happen to me all the time because my local lfs grows the crypts emmersed so when they are plunked into water they lose their emerged leaves and form submersed leaves ive noticed that emersed leaves are more green and rounded then more rough subsmersed leaves Mark, just out of interest where...

i added your son, he likes his team death matches if i can finish my coursework and replant my tank and then put fifa 09 away ill give him a game

thats a nice angel what size was the tank he looks a bit cramped.. still better then my first attemp

the crypts look good for now bt to avoid mess later in previous experience i trimmed all the leaves off the crypts and planted the stalks they grew back after about 2 weeks and you avoid the mess of melting just an idea.. looks good

its an alright camera except the focus is bit wierd it focuses on the things on one side of the photo or on the bottom its impossible to capture my 2 clowns even with sports mode(moving subects) on. they are always blurry and it will focus on the branch/rocks in front rather then on the...

ye i have xbox live my gamertag is - Killa Nabzilla im currently on fifa 09, cod4 and soon to be cod5 and gears 2. i like the ukaps clan idea.. add me if you want

all the photos i posted were taken using the macro close up funtion no flash, the room was dark except for the tank lighting i tried to do the same with my planted tank but it didnt wok out as good pics looked pretty horrid, anyway i have got a dslr so wheni get to grips with it ill let you know...

hi i got my copy of fifa 09 this morning on the xbox 360 hooked it up to the 42 incher i was blown away its sooo much more fluent and fast paced then fifa 08 its easy to get achievements aswell i got 8 acheivements in one game playing against my little sister on exhibiton if anyone wants to...

so i was trying out my n95 photographic abilities and i must say im quite impressed, its not that bad for a phone camera its a 5 megapixel camera, good for a phone not so good for a camera so i tried the different settings eg, iso macro waterscapes and i used my latest project as my subject...

lettuce and cucumbers mine eat very thin slices i feed be hand once ot twice a week

my 125ltr set up is exactly the same as yours 40watts of lighting and im growing stems and plants easily without pressruized co2 just dose easycarbo its simple enough and efective

hi guys, my dad got the new iphone 3g this week so he gave me his old nokia n95 its pretty cool better then my old sony ericsson w880i does anyone else have this phone.. if so does anyone know any cool applications for this phone i have downloaded the following ones already - - fring (msn...

if you ever get rid of your tennelus please put me on the lsit for for some or all of it and i can pay

xbox 360 all the way anyone with xbox360 pm your gamertag and ill add you.. cod4 and fifa 09...

im in desperte need of cherries dont want to get off ebay tell us when you put them on are you only selling babies or are you gonna sell some bigger ones Ark do you breed amano's?

kool thanks for the help guys im just being silly theyre completley fine they are swimming nciely alll around the tank and they do play alot chasing eachother around, and they nice and vibrant im gettina second hand canon dslr of ebay this week just to get started on taking good photography...

im gettin large cherries or large amanos whichever i can find

same ive also seen baby cherry shrimp and adult ones in a planted tank in my experience if you grow a large fish aand small fish together for when they are small then they lean not to eat oneanother aboviously not keeping neons with oscars etc.. but my angels are only 4cm long so ill try to...

Re: ember tetras and golden rams if shrimps are out of the equasion what algae eateres do you reccomend i like baby plecs but as soon as they to 7 or 8 cm they look ugly imo i was thinking otos but the nearast place that sells them is aquajardin again a 90 mile round trip by car any other...

Re: ember tetras and golden rams i think lemons woul dbe better suited because ive seen then they are calmer then rummy oses and the shape of their body will make it impossible for the angels to eat them now i need to find out quantityes im thing 7 - 10 lemons also shouldi get shrimps or will...

im anxious again woke up this morning went down to have a look at the tank and 2 of them were fine but the other thwo were sort of swimmin at 30 degree angle there bodies.

did your wave reg come witha solenoid check valve needle vavlve bubble counter etc and how much was it

i did a water test ph is 7.0 everyother parameter is fine i let them be for a few hous with the lights off and then i just had a look at them now theyre fine swimming around in the middle to upper layer nicely no gasping nothin my tank does not have co2 input - execpt 1ml easycarbo a day...

Re: ember tetras and golden rams what do you reccomend instead of embers then, the guy in ma said the embers would be food for them but i thought it would be ok how about some rummy noses or lemon tetras? maybe 10 of either of the two

it that the hagen overtank luminaire how muchw as it did it come with bulbs if not what ones did u use im looking to get one my ma has one for £45 also your fe co2 wat reg kit did you use Ark

hi i just added my 4 platinum angels to the tank about 20 minutes ago i floated the bag in the tank for 15 minutes then every 10 minutes i added a bit of water from the tnak to the bag after half an hour of adding water released them and they sort of just sunk to the bottom corner they are...

i think you could keep atleast 6 in their if they are no bigger then 3 inches and the tank is planted your tank will be overstocked but the plants will take care of excess fish waste nitrates etc..

Re: ember tetras and golden rams umm i think i messed up went to ma today to get 40 embers and ended up not gettin any embers and gettin 4 platinum angels i seen them in marks tank and i loved em they were the last 4 in the shop i know the tank is way to small for them but they are about 1 and...

i spoke to my ma and they say they have laterite and tetrplant complete substrate which one should i go for ?

well thnks guys for the info i have got some money saved up because last week i celebrated eid (after fasting for a month) and i got a bit of money so im taking my dad down to MA later on and well see how we get on i know aquajardin is very good ive seen their tropic aplants and products but...

does anyone know what type of specialist aquatic substrate maiden head sell i cant remember whether it was maidenhead or aquajardin that was selling the tropica substrate.. any one know what maidenhead sell theyre website is rubbish for finding theyre products

are they two suitable tank mates in a 125ltr full plnted tank

i have got a new tank pretty big and im going to do the low tech approach so low budet. i need a lot of substrate so i was thinking of using garden sil/compost i need some advice on what garden soil/compost to use? does anyone have any recommendations on waht to use... someone recommended john...

agree with you Aaron im letting it fill in before i get fish.. and about the wood ill probably get some twigs and uses them sticking out from the corners ike the ones LD used in his shrimp tank but some thicker ones.

im going for asoal of boesmani rainbow fish and i got rid of the harlequins

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark I have been busy at my brothers house all weekend because a fued between my mum and virgin media has caused them to cut off our broadband so i wont have internet for a few weeks.. since the last post dramatic changes have happened.. i got a...

i have low light btw 1.2wpg two t8's i am dosing tpn+ with a high level of co2 too high for even harlequin rasboras too survive in will i have to upgrade my lighitng to balance out my high lvl of co2 and nutrients

i was wondering can you ever pump too much co2 into a fishless planted tank if i dose easycarbo and have pressurized co2 can it have a bad affect on the plants or can they only benifit as well as dosing tpn+

what sand do you us ein your scapes as im trying to find a nice coloured sand like that

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark my dennerle co2 arrived today after having been lost in the post and sent to the wrong address.. i will set it up later on an post some pics.. not much else has happened im still waiting on my plants from germany they plants i wanted were out...

put me on the shrimp list...

6 for £42 is cheap the ones i found are 6 for £75 but they are quite big

yes tahnks ray i was searching albino angels on the net and seen theyre eyes think their platinum angels theres some in my local trade that i am interested in

harlequins all the way a group of 12 would be top notch in your tank. they shoal brilliantly and feeding time is a frenzy... if my camera could take better macro shots i would of posted a pic of my 15 during feeding time

look like albino angels to me.. how much were they each.. Ark

i was wonderin wether i could use twigs and branches off an apple tree in my back garden snap em off and let em dry out also if you ever trim you moss and need to get rid of it i bagsy first batch ark

i disagree and i have a juwel rio 125 with 15 harlequins on their own they shoal lovely all day in a group theyre not scared and its not just during feeding time about your 1300ltr dont you think its a bit overstocked?

im scepticle about discus and theyre quite costly so i dont want to risk them i was thinking why not have a big shoal of something instead maybe 80 - 100 harlequins or some bosemani rainbow fish ?

hi i have aquired a 4ft tank that has been set up for about a year. 280ltrs it is fully planted and mature current stocking 30 harlequin rasboras 5 oto cats alot of breeding cherry shrimp im looking for some fish to be a centrepiece a main attraction to the tank. the tank previously had 4 wild...

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark even tho i dont think the wood fitted with what i had in mind.. dragon stone was what made take the wood out because i was going to order 5kg of dragon stone and do an iawgumi style rock layout

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark i removed the wood because it was covered in this white fluff and theres patches of algae on it. im thinkin wether to add different wood in or not or even some dragon stone

Re: My First Planted Tank - Juwel Rio 125 do the apistos ever bully/chase any of the smaller fish... if they open theyre mouth like that infront of a harle raboras i think hes have quite a shock

200 watt in 60 litre tank i run a 150w in a 125 litre tank and the tank is stable

judging by everyones shocked reactions at 2.50 per shrimp im gonna have to double check them tommorow and make sure they wer in fact sulewesi ones they wer to small to tell the differecne

i tried the hoops at a friends house a few weeks later it turns out i liked them better then the alphabet ones because the alphabet ones hav more spagetti so there is more chewing whereas the hoops have more sauce :lol: it was just of things that i thought i could fight my mum over and i was...

those shrimp look great my local MA has them to baby ones £2.50 each, how many shrimp do you have in total now? Are the twigs ones from the garden? if so do they have to be completley dead before you stick them into the tank so all the moss and stuff on it has fallen off... how long did you...

when i ws 8 i fell through a glass dining table after i started jumping on it because mum gave me spagetti hoops instead of spagetti alphabets.. i had to have stitches in 3 different places in my has and had a 6 inch scar on my left arm. then after that my mum never bought spagetti hoops...

i have ps3 and xbox 360 playstaion network username - killa_nabzilla xbox live - Nabzilla360 i play COD4 and Fifa 08 (both mostly on xbox hardly on ps3 but ill definatley get gears of war 2 so i may sell ps3

what are you planning to do with the babys i can take some off your hands for a healthy sum... also what size are the holes in you plastic mesh for you moss wall as i wantd to try one but the smallest size mesh my local hardware shop has is 6mm i tried it with riccia last time but the riccia...

trying to avoid dslrs as theyre kinda expensive a gd digi cam seem he way to go so im gonna have a look at those find one with a lot of macro and zoom options so i get good close up shots.

Re: Forest its gonna be great i threw out a load of java fern narrow about 7-8 rhizoes of it when i rescaped just 2 weeks ago i would sent for free if i knew earlier

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark deffo im tired of slow growth in crypts may even try a hc ccarpet as i have pressurized co2 and 2wpg i think i can do it however i like the low maintenance and lack of pruning and hardly any algae

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark they lose intensity and ive read they should be replaced every year and i want to try my hand at higher light more difficult plants so a lighting upgrade is in order

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark i cant go over £60 - £70 my paypal account is playin up and doest accept bank transfers so i can put money in and take it out so ebay is a limited option unless i cash on collect i was reading an old post in the lighting section by...

Re: My First Planted Tank - Juwel Rio 125 nice scape how long have you had this set up? what camera do you use to take your pictures and do you have any extras on it for close up shots? Ark

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark did you buy it from Germany - EQJ trading i was looking at them they do nice 2x24watt or 3x24watt 80cm luminaires but i was put off buy the £20 postage and also i have heard mixed reviews about their design and build quality

ime gonna get an arcadia i bar because i can try different t5 bulbs and get a nice combo and theyre cheaper

hi i am currently using an old 5 megapixel digital camera to take my tank pictures but the quality is quite poor and blurry and its difficult to take nice pics of fish my dad has a Canon EOS 5D that cost over a grand but im not gonna ask to borrow cuz he will give me a lecture about all his...

HI i am going to upgrade my lighting system i have a a juwel rio 125 with the standard t8 bulbs i am thinking of gettin the high light system for juwel rio 125 i was wondering if i could use any standard 60cm t5 bulbs because juwel sell theyre own t5 bulbs for the high lite system that are...

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark the lighting upgrade will cost either - £80 - £90 for an 80cm luminaire off ebay - or unless i buy an 80cm arcadia(£60-70) i bar or juwel t5 high light bar(£50-60) the light will have to be changed before christmas as they will have...

Re: My first real planted tank - juwel rio 125 - Ark Its been along time since this journal started. the tank has been fishless cycling since May and has been the same since mid July up until now at the end of August. i haven't managed to do a lot due to going on Holiday, Getting my first part...

hi affter searching for a cheap pressurized co2 kit it seemed that a fire extuingisher was the only option within my budget (£70) but i was unsure about setting it up safely last night i came across this - http://aquatic-store.co.uk/marine/view/880 it is a discounted dennerle co2 kit...

i can take those big crypts at the back corners of you tank off your hands pm me a price for them and ill get back to you Ark looks gr8 btw

nice iwagumi how many kilos of dragon stone did you use and what size is the biggest peice

ive got lots of java fern to plant onto wood for my goldfish tank hwta sthe best way to tie the java fern onto the wood without hurting the rhizomes i have redmoor woodand and im using flourocarbon to tie it on..