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I use salty shrimp GH+ :thumbup: Just added a bit of backing soda and the PH has come up to 6.2 and KH increased by 0.5

Hi My Taiwan bee tank's PH is around 4.6, and KH is 0, how can increase the PH to 6.2 without increasing KH? I've done a water change and removed the alder cones and catappa leaves but PH is still too high. I was thinking of using Baking soda but don't know how safe this is for the Taiwan bee...

Hi Does anyone know where I can get some of these? Been looking for a while now and can't find any. Thanks

Ok, have dossed both shrimp tanks now. Fingers crossed it does the trick.

Just tried to get some Panacur from the vets but they won't sell it without a vet consultation and signing up to there clinic. Have ordered some online now.

Will Do. thanks for the advice.

Ok so I've found some worming granules on amazon which is a 3g packet containing 666mg fenbendazole so this looks like the same stuff mentioned in the post. I just want to be sure I'm calculating this right. My tank is 30 litres so I need to dose 0.066g in my tank?

Ok, I do have baby Taiwan bee shrimp in the tank, what's the best way to get rid of then that wont affect the shrimp or baby's? Thanks

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Hi just noticed strange spore like plants (I think) on one part of the glass in my shrimp tank. Anyone know what they are? Thanks

Me too with my first sump. With the second sump I had build I made sure there was enough space to take the overflow water from the tank if there was a power cut. I've got another small compartment same size as the foam compartment where all the brown poop gathers. Makes it really easy to clean.

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When you can post up your design, there's a few here with sumps who can give you advice on your design.

It's best to draw it out on paper first so you can calculate the size of each chamber and what you want to place in that chamber, and plan out the pipework. I've got a box of valves, elbows reducers etc left over from my build due to not planning the pipework out correctly and then changing my...

They lay eggs (lots of eggs), but they only hatch is brackish water.

I have an ecco pro 200 on my 30 litre taiwan bee tank. It's doing a decent job, is easy to clean and pretty quiet. Never had a classic so couldn't compare. Smaller than you were after but there's an ecco pro 130 on amazon warehouse deals for £45, there's also a pro 4 plus 250 for £117.

This looks more like a brown discus than a red melon, what size are these discus?

Latest edition to my tank - Taiwan bee 'Green Panda' (Hulk)

All depends on what shrimp you want to keep. If you want to keep CRS or Taiwan bee shrimp I would get your tds down to below 180 and your gh to between 2-4. If your keeping cherry type shrimp your parameters will be fine. I started out with CRS which wasn't successful I always had issues with...

After breaking my glass lily pipes while cleaning them, I've opted for a set of stainless steel ones - My Blue Dream shrimp have started breeding too :)

If you switch to a weekly fert like Denerle Scapers green with NPK Booster at recommended dosage the shrimp will be fine. Also if your going to have cherry shrimp whey wont have any issues with CO2 as long as your drop indicator is green. I've been using those ferts in a tank with Blue Dream...

Hi, I bought some P draft seal and suck it to the edge of the lid. Works a treat and enabled me to turn my CO2 BPS down ans still maintain the same CO2 level in the tank.

Hi Chris the rocks could be part of the issue. Most rocks will leach minerals into the water which effects tds and kh. I had a big issue with my first shrimp tank, the tds in the water kept increasing by 15 everyday. I ended up setting up a new tank with just wood and after a week the water...

Do you ave rocks in your shrimp tank? and how old is your RO filter? Thanks

Hi, I don't see any issue with using CO2 and firts in a Taiwan Bee shrimp tank if your sensible about it. I've just setup a 30 litre nano planted tanks with Taiwan Bee Shrimp. I use liquid CO2 daily and Dennerle ferts once a week, shrimp are fine and breeding and the plants are growing well. I...

One month old, and the plants are starting to thrive :)

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You could start the tank off with liquid CO2 which will also help combat potential algae issues then move to CO2. I've started both my nano tanks this way and haven't had any real issues with algae. As for lights I usually start with 6 hours and gradually increase and have my LED light at 80%.

Not sure about glass my sump is acrylic, but the pumps all have rubber feet. To be honest I've never had any issues with water changes. I turn the pump off siphon 30-40% of the water from the main tank, clean the glass, trim the plants etc then pump fresh water back into the tank. When the...

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I use a Jebao DCP6500, really good pump and quiet too. I have had 2 other Jebao pumps a dc1200 and DCS300 all great pumps. The DCP range are the quietest of the Jebao pumps. Thanks! After a lot of research on sump design and hours drawing up what I wanted I managed to find a company that agreed...

Thanks it took a while to get the tank settled down and to work out nutrients and CO2 given the hard tap water and the waste from the discus but happy I stuck in there. Also bought quite a few plants from board members which all have grow well.

Been a while since my last post. I'm happy to say my new sump setup is working brilliantly, and the issues I had with algae have all but gone since I started running my CO2 constantly. Had a but of a re-scape -

I have a 350 litre planted discus tank with a 90 litre sump with trickle tower, bio balls in the trickle section with seachem matrix, biohome and eheim substrat pro in the submerged part. I also have a purigen and denitrate reactors in my return pump section. I went for a herbie overflow and my...

Hi here's my Trigon 350 with the iquatics main light and CO2 injection CO2 make a big difference with the carpet plants.

Set up about 2 weeks ago using mostly spare materials left over from setting my other tanks up. Tank - Dennerle 30 litre scapers tank Filter - Eheim Ecco Pro 200 Light - Chihiros A401 front and Azoo Flexi Mini rear Substrate - Cal Aqua Premium Black Earth Ferts - Dennerle Scapers Green and NPK...

Sorry for the late reply only just seen the questions. The white discus is a pigeon silver My discus are fine with CO2 at 25ppm I've had issues with red plants too. I find if you can get red stem plant cutting from a board member they do better shop ones. Try Ludwigia palustris, I've grown...

So got a reply from CO2 Supermarket and they said the units they sold in 2014 were only covered by a 60 day warranty!!!!, so gave me some instructions to try and fix it. That didn't work. After a few more emails to Martin at CO2 Supermarket he has become a bit unhelpful and wont provide me with...

Thanks for the advice, I dug out my original receipt. I purchased the regulator just over 3 years ago and according to CO2 supermarkets website it's covered by a 5 year warranty. I've sent them an email, just waiting to see what they will do about it.

No bubbles are coming through. Where can I get a service and what the usual cost? thanks

Hi My CO2 supermarket regulator has stopped working. It's showing pressure on the first gauge but not on the second gauge. I've checked the CO2 bottle and it has gas in it. The solenoid has been making a buzzing sound for a while but I don't think the issue is the solenoid I can hear it click...

So should hopefully settle down soon. Thanks for the info.

Hi just wondering if this is normal. Yesterday i setup a CRB it's 35 litre I've added cal aqua black earth and a few pieces of wood. I added ro water re-minaralised to 150 tds. This morning I checked the tds and it's shot up to 280. Is this normal? Thanks

Hi, My shrimp seemed to prefer my sump to my tank so I added a shrimp compartment in my first sump, I was using a 9w led light., then I planted it.

I also have a planted Trigon 350 with discus. I've tried using a bazooka diffuser in the tank but this didn't work very well so I've moved it to the inlet of my return pump in my sump and this works well with my custom spray bar situated at the back of my tank pointing forward. I found the only...

I dose my tank with easy-life filter medium when I do a water change, it's a white liquid which helps improve water quality. When I put my pump back on the liquid disperses round the tank and I can see the flow of the water.

I got my black earth from Aquasabi in Germany, only took a couple of day to get to me in the UK. Free delivery and at the time it work out about £25ish per 9l bag.

Hi, you can make a reactor out of a water filter housing, kits are available on ebay - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Basic-K1-micro-media-reactor-aquarium-filtration-control-ammonia-and-nitrates-/322474827045?hash=item4b14ff5d25:g:kiMAAOSwNRdX4xae Atomic make some nice reactors too -...

Here's one in action In this setup it's part of a sump but you can hook it up inline with an external filter.

Hi. I've got a 350 litre tank with sump and CO2 injection. I've got a lid on my sump and my overflow is underwater to help with de-gassing. There's a vast choice of media you can use in a sump and depend on what you stock your tank with (fish) and how often you want to do watcher changes can...

After the weeping moss taking over my tank I've decided to change things round a bit. I've gotten rid of the wood. I've got a few new plants turning up and am going to be getting some more shrimp. Not sure where to get the shrimp from now that sharnbrook shrimp have gone.

Thanks. This is my 3rd attempt, I had really issues with algae on my first and second scapes. I'm managed to get a balance now where the plants are growing well and the discus happy.

My new sump is setup now and been running for a few months. I added 2 reactor to the final chamber, the first one is a purigen moving bed reactor and the second is a denitrate reactor, both reactors and return feed to the tank are run from a Jecod DCP6000 pump.

I've got both lights on 80 % any higher and algae starts to grow.

Hi the tank has a total of 55 watts, just over 1 watt a litre. I won the A series plus in an eBay auction. I enterred a really low bid but one :) so was going to just use the plus on the tank but decided to try the plus on the front and the standard on the back and the results were quite amazing...

I have a 40cm cube tank with a A series and a A series plus, since adding the A series plus there has been a noticeable increase in the growth rate of my weeping moss and cuba.

Been a while since I last posted. I've been having lots of algae problems so ended up stripping the tank cleaning all the surfaces saving what plants I could and then buying new I 've now more or less got the algae under control now. I still have some beard algae but this is only on the rocks...

Hi I recently bought a Eheim ecco pro filter to replace an old Aqua One Aquis 500. It was a lot noisier than the Aqua One, then I realised I had forgotten to stick the rubber feet on the bottom. Doing this did reduce the noise but it's still not as quiet as the old Aqua one I had :(

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I have a trigon 350 with 8 discus, when I was deciding on filtration I went with a sump. I was considering 2 x JBL e1901 for it but the sump gave me more options. I'm running a jecod dcp6000 pump. I've not got a lot of experience with eheim filters but I'd say you'd need something a bit for...

Hi, I've got a trigon 350 and I originally had the return outlet center back of the tank and a wave maker in the left corner and I found the flow was ok but didn't get to all parts of the tank. I've now made a spray bar from 25mm clear pvc pipe and drilled holes facing forward and smaller holes...

I like the JBL filters, I've had a e1501 and only got good things to say about it. I've also got a Eheim ecco pro 200 which is nicely designed and works well but am a bit disappointed with the noise, it's not really noisy but it's louder than I was expecting and louder than the old Aqua One...

Had my heater fail which caused the temperature in the tank to rise to 28 degrees :mad: this didn't bother the plants but I lost lots of mt CRBs :arghh: On a plus not a won an auction and got my hands on a A Plus series led light which has had a very positive affect on my plants.

What's your budget?

Have a look at the Jebao DTS range, I have a DTS300 which is adjustable from 800lph to 3000lph via an external control panel and its only 25 watts.

My discus seem to quite enjoy swimming in the flow from the my wave maker, the sizes vary from 7cm to 14cm, there not wild discus there German breed and quite hardy. I have still protected areas or the tank with low flow where they like to go when the lights go out but a lot of the time when the...

Hi, I have my return pump set at 2500lph for my 350 litre discus tank. When I do a large water change say 30% I turn the sump pump off, but I don't do this very often because I have a drip water changer on the tank which changes about 50 litres of water every 24 hours. I also keep my discus tank...

I've got an Aqua One Nano 55 which is a 40cm cube, it's nice little tank and great for aquascaping.

Once I install the sump I'll be able to answer some of your questions but I'm currently only planning on using the filter socks. In my current sump I use eheim mech pro and filter foam, I find the flow starts off well but after a few days slows as the foam get dirty so I take the foam which is...

I'll give it a try, I can adjust the flow :thumbup:

Just finished plumbing in the Purigen and CO2 reactors :)

The company is UK based it's called Atomic Reactor http://www.atomic-reactor.co.uk, They are very helpful, and build quality is excellent :thumbup:. I'm sure they would, I approached them with an idea and a design now I have my new sump :)

Cheaper than you might think. I priced up getting the acrylic myself and acrylic weld and it wasn't that much more than buying everything myself. Then when you add on piece of mind as is built by professional sump builders and time it would have taken me I very happy with the price. Yep I'd...

My current sump was working well until I had a power cut and subsequently flooded lounge :oops: my other half was less that impressed the first time it happened and I wont repeat the barrage I got the second time. So I've been working on a new sump design for my tank that wont flood in a power...

Ok, thanks for the info.

It does settle quite quickly, just wondering if it is a problem with setup in the tank.

My tank is a 350 litre Trigon corner tank which is 60cm tall. It has a sump and the intake weir is at the very top back of the tank. The return pump is running at 2500lph and I have a wave maker at the top front left of the tank which is circulating water across the tank at 1000lph Every time I...

I've got 208 watts of T5 all with reflectors. I'm going to remove the reflectors and start with a 6 hour light on period and full dose of liquid carbon 9ml. With the CO2 I've always had it set to come on 2 hours before the lights on and off 1 hour before lights off. Is it best to leave it on...

You could try soaking in vinegar for 24 hours then 24 hours in bleach. How did you fix the crack?

My thinking behind this is that I have a 55 litre tank which I use liquid carbon on as the CO2 source and I've never had any real issues with algae, my tank I'm restarting has had nothing but algae issues and I'm using pressurised CO2 so I was thinking if I started with liquid CO2 it would give...

I'm stripping down my 350 litre tank due to algae issues, it have various types on everything. Now I'm wondering when I've stripped it all down cleaned it and replanted with fresh plants should I start the tank up with just liquid carbon for the first few months to help avoid algae returning...

Here's a sneak preview of my new sump, not finished yet but should be done in a few days :)

Hi here's summary - Tank: Juwel Trigon 350 - Corner tank 87cm x 60cm Cabinet: Juwel Trigon Lights: iQuatics Juwel compatible 100cm unit 2 x 45w + 2 x 35w, Juwel 55cm light unit 2 x 24w all with reflectors. Lights are on 7 hours a day Filtration: Custom 90 litre sump Other: CO2...

Ok I've been struggling with lots of different types of algae for a while now and have been loosing so I'm thinking of taking everything out of the tank and cleaning it with bleach and liquid carbon. I'm going to save what plants I can and bin the rest. I think I have 2 big issues one is my CO2...

Here's a picture update on how the tanks coming along. I'm going to be changing from liquid carbon to pressurised CO2 in the next few weeks.

You could try something like this - It's my new water changer. Not finished yet but there is a water valve solenoid which opens when the float switch is activated by the water level dropping too low. All controlled by a relay board. You could however put a pump in place of the water solenoid...

I'll second 6mm RO pipe, it's what I made my top up system out of.

Thanks.

Hi, do you have any Oto's or amano shrimp? There great for cleaning the plants I'd also recommend some corys.

Hi im using pure ro which I really mineralise with shrimp minerals. I've read about an ei method that doesn't increase tds much but can't recall what is called. I use tropical all In one ferts once a week and easy carbo every day and my plants grow well. Here's my tank.

I purchased an invitro Broad Wavy and attached them to wood and most of them melted after a few weeks only one bit survived. Now I've noticed I have a very small Broad Wavy growing back from one of the melted bits and the bit that survived seems to be growing better and stronger now. Not sure...

I keep CRBs in normal tap water and use Tropica ferts. The TDS in my tank was around 400 and the shrimp were fine but not hugely active. I've recent decided to get some Taiwanese bee shrimp so am switching to RO water slowly. Now the water in my tank is 270 tds with ferts added and I've noticed...

Another vote for the Chihiros A Series, really great light!

The Ricca growth has surprised me I basically filled some cholla wood with the riccia and placed it in the tank and trim once in a while. When I got the weeping moss it had a yellow tinge and didn't grow much at first, but now it growing well too, Here's a picture I took it while the tank lights...

My CRBs seem happy in my tank but haven't started breeding yet. When I checked the TDS it was 420! I decided to get an RO filter and found a cheap one on ebay which arrived earlier this week. I've plumbed it in now and done a 50% water change with remineralised RO water (150tds), my tank water...

The LED I have has a dimmer. When I set the tank up I only had the light on for 6 hours a day with the LED at 70% and I had close to no algae growth and any that did grow was taken care of by my amano shrimp. After 5 week I increases the LED to 90% strength and then I got quite a lot of algae...

Hi I've got an Aqua One nano which is also 55 litre. I use liquid CO2 daily and it's working well with my carpet plants. What light do you have? I've upgraded the light on my aqua one nano to a Chihiros A-series and it makes all the difference.

I've been battling with BBA and other types of thread algae including some fluorescent green fur type. Looks like I've finally got on top of it now. I ended up taking all the wood out of my tank and scrubbing it with a toothbrush. Still got a bit of BBA but it's not getting ant worse and seems...

On my 350 trigon I have a 3000lph return pump going from the center back of the tank pointing straight towards the from of the tank, and a Jebao RW4 wave maker on the front left top of the tank pointing slightly back and down and this seems to have improved the flow quite dramatically in my...