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Thank you! Yeah I hope those nights are behind me lol. I wake up at 5am now so there's a chance I'll spot it before distaster strikes at least. I agree on the botanicals. They really weren't planned for this tank at all, but now they're in there it makes complete sense.

Green Gain After several weeks I've noticed new leaves sprouting on the Bolbitis rhizomes and new (clean) growth on all of the other plants. It's been a pleasure to keep - slow motion but easy and healthy. I'm currently fertilising with Aquario Neo Solution 1 and 2 and Neo Essence at water...

Some extra small updates... I'm playing the patient game with this scape and allowing myself to be lead as it develops as opposed to forcing a square peg in a round hole. As a result, I've been enjoying looking at it without the light screen on. I quite like the contrast it provides and I...

If this was around when I had my Juwel, I might have kept it!

I've used Photone on iPhone. One thing I didn't think to do was compare it to an actual PAR meter when I had access to one.

From my experience, it's worth asking the shop to mock up a rough design if it's not easily accessible.

Hahaha honestly I messaged a few people and said 'I'm done', 'I'm using a HOB instead'. The initial frustration and panic has settled though and it's running without a hitch currently. Hopefully that remains the case long term. Thanks dude! I didn't see antlers before but now I can't unsee it...

Midnight Scaries Right after filling the tank with water I had a total mare! I noticed that the filter was purging a lot of air loudly and periodically but I was hoping this was because it had just been filled and was getting rid of the air trapped inside. However, after that initial 24 hours...

I only ever used the A430 Pros from Ali Express. The seller was AQUATIC Pet Store https://a.aliexpress.com/_EQTw0C1 - very communicative and helpful. Just know that you will need to pay customs. I don't know anything about the M or L series unfortunately!

I only have 2 years saltwater experience but I'll try and help where I can! You can do, just be careful near the substrate line! I used to use an old plastic card (like a bank card) and used a scraper manually without the magnet, for coralline algae. It's somewhat inevitable but cultured live...

Thank you! I'll add some more. It was quite tricky even getting the 4 of them in since any slight movement would dislodge another and push it out. I'll do my best! Or maybe I'll have to cut some in half to fit on the edges.

Day 0, the hardscape is planted and tank is filled! I ended up having to discard a lot of bolbitis as it had been sitting in a bag for a month but there was just enough healthy bits to make it work, I reckon. It's planted up with Bolbitis, anubias, bucephalandra and a little bit of...

Also, I'm assuming this is the handy work of @LondonDragon . Look at that sexy integration! 🥵

Could start a business! 😅 I remember thinking that the first time I kept cherry shrimp. How wrong I was... Yes! It's the Water Colors Aquarium Gallery Podcast. They're a shop based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I've met most of the team in person and they're cool people, doing the best they can...

Oh, so you're the reason I didn't get to go to New York in 2020. Damn you Richard! 😅

How densely are people using pot scrubbers packing them in? I'm tempted to use this method but like... how much do I need is the question lol

Let's all do it together! 😅

Yeah probably a good idea. Sometimes you can tell which ones are the assholes from the shop! Sold.

Are you taking a break on contest tanks? Not that I'm suggesting you should get back to it, I'm just curious. It's great to see your tanks again.

Thank you! Yeah it's what got me into the hobby and I think ultimately what keeps me in it. As much as I love plants, I can't ignore that! I'm not surprised you had a massive smile on your face!!! Monterey Bay Aquarium is a bucket list destination for me, the place looks incredible. When did...

Small update... I finally got round to covering up the glue joints with aquasoil to complete the hardscape. I ended up buying a mini blender since I couldn't be assed using a mortar and pestle, and the blender will come in handy for other things lol. It did a great job of turning the aquasoil...

That could be cool! If it was a full aquarium it would be low tech and so a carpet of Utricularia graminifolia would likely end up straggly. Also for me, as beautiful as they are, mosses feel too high maintenance underwater. I would consider Suswassertang though... I've only done it once but it...

Thanks everyone! I'm still conflicted on whether or not it'll be an aquarium or a terrarium. I have to wait at least a week before I can get hold of tubing either way, so that'll give me more time to think. These are the proposed ideas below; The first is a terrarium with predominantly...

I have not! But I'll give it a go next time I'm in need. Thanks for the heads up.

The hardscape is officially done. I had this concept brewing in my mind for months before my move (even got the plants and sand already), only to get to this point and get a new idea. 😅 I put some houseplants in the tank under the lights because the tank is empty right now and then I...

The vibes are strong already! I'm a big fan of Sußwassertang. I like how you noted 'sort of' too haha.

Thanks Elle!! Yes, I'm feeling your pain on the shipping. Some of the things I've looked at have honestly made my eyes water... I'm so used to getting 'a bit of this' and 'a bit of that' from eBay when needed, but eBay is pretty much useless for this hobby in Canada. Facebook Marketplace and...

All my scapes are dead, push them to the edge In the whirlwind that was 2023, the first half was filled with aquarium joy; from shop visits to aquarium events, wholesale tours and more! The latter half however was quite the opposite. As I prepared to move to Canada, all my aquariums needed to...

Watching with interest!

I'm just imagining you doing this, straight-faced, in a high-vis jacket haha. Nothing to see here! Prescribed moss control!

The colour palette is awesome!

Meg! Welcome! I missed this journal entirely but now I've seen it I'll be following along. 200L is a solid tank size, I'm intrigued to see what you stock it with since you've lowered the water level too.

Hey Darrel, Things are good! It was bitterly cold when I arrived but I got a nice jacket and haven't thought about it since haha. It's actually quite mild right now, 10c on Friday! In terms of equipment, I gifted the pipes to a friend last year and mainly took lighting and tools with me since...

I've grown Litorella uniflora in every which way now; hard water, soft water, low tech, high tech, low light, high light, blackwater. The one environment where it performed best and actively grew, was the low tech, low light, softwater environment. It did take a while to get going though, like...

I don't think I have a secret per se, but I guess just a balance of nutrients/light/CO2 appropriate for the environment. Higher on all 3 factors if it's CO2 injected, lower if it's not. Didn't really do much else!

Just a heads up, don't bury the rhizomes of the Microsorum or bucephalandra, else they're likely to rot away.

The grey tubing attached to your stainless steel lily pipes. Are they silicone?

Beautiful scape and photography! Are those silicone pipes you're using? If so, how do you find them? Been thinking about trying them out in future.

A 60P is a 60cm aquarium. There was once a standard size but now can come in depths ranging from 30cm to 45cm, but the length will always be 60cm. The classic ADA 60P is 60 x 30 x 36 cm Not actually sure what the 'P' stands for!

Definitely recommend double taps! They'll make maintenance way easier.

Ammania pedicellata Difficulty: Easy I only realised this was in flower because I spotted pollen on the desk. How beautiful! They look like mini orchids.

In my experience using an active substrate to breed CRS massively helped. I first started with RO and inert sand and lots of botanicals, and I didn't get any breeding, not even saddled shrimps. Once I switched to aquarium soil, I had hundreds of shrimp. But it's not to say it can't be done...

Also from Croydon! For now...

7th October would be better for me

I imagine Saturdays are best for most people. How soon would everyone like to do it?

Thanks everyone for the tips! I've reduced the lighting by 1/3 and yet the plants are still pearling so it must have been pretty high! Since the CO2 is pH controlled, I'll reduce the pH by 0.3 every week which should bring it to non-injected levels within 5 weeks. I'll also reduce the...

Thanks for the help!

Yeah for sure, we've got feedings down since I go away for periods at a time, she knows how much to feed. Ok cool, sounds like less stress! How long of a period would you recommend? Like a few weeks, few months? I don't mind that tbh! Anything to get over mixing ferts. I'm happy to just buy a...

Hey everyone, So as the title suggests I currently have a high tech 120P (Tidy Jungle) that's been neglected for various reasons and has a lot of what I think is Spirogyra. Weirdly lots of the plants still look healthy, there just happens to be this algae too. I want to pull the plug and...

Did you have to reconfigure the settings at all?

I don't know the details of your now past holiday but when I'm going away I also don't count the day I'm leaving and the day I'm returning because the fish can be fed on those days. So if I leave on Sunday and come back Wednesday, they only went 2 days without food.

That's @LondonAquascaper !

Welcome to UKAPS, Alex! Thanks so much for coming yesterday and I'm glad you had a good time and got pointed in this direction. I wish I got more time to meet people but was running around all day! It's great to have more Londoners to chat to!

Thanks for coming @jamiepearson ! And I hope you get the Wabi Kusa back safely. I'm loving seeing all the photos of the gallery and the day filtering through, I didn't get to take any photos!!

Will post up the photos when we get them!

Also, if UKAPS members are signing up for Spotless Water, help each other out and get those referral bonuses! This is how I got on board thanks to @MrClockOff and I haven't paid for any RO water since my initial balance loading of £20 in February 2022.

Just a reminder for anyone that was thinking of coming, Roots and Shoots Makes a Splash! is happening this Saturday! We can't wait to see some of you in person and indulge in more fishy, watery goodness. 💙

We wish you well!

I can give you some actual first hand experience since I use Spotless Water. You can use it as it is and remineralise it with something like Salty Shrimp. They have remineralisers for increasing only KH or both GH and KH. You could take your pick depending on the parameters you'd like to...

I don't have any side by side comparisons but I've grown both and whilst I know H'ra can get pretty red under ideal conditions, Blood red doesn't take much effort at all. It's still growing fairly red in my low tech, with soft water in a low light position (right at the edge of the tank)...

Check out this thread; https://ukaps.org/forum/threads/buce-box-how-to-easily-propagate-bucephalandra-and-other-emersed-plants.67155/

Sounds like a very cool project! Would be lovely to see some big beautiful Nymphea, Cryptocoryne or Echinodorus that are usually bonsai'd by the confines of our diddy aquariums.

Wow, they really do look like mini amanos.

Thanks my friend!

Thank you Paulo! And thanks for all your advice on it along the way. I actually have this burning desire to flood the tank but I dare not risk it at this point. Thank you Jon!

One Month It's been a month since I setup the Iwagumi and it's growing in nicely! The whole reason for doing it this way was because of the time constraints and I didn't want another tank to look after. So far it's been a total breeze and I think as long as I didn't have livestock, I'd...

Version 2.2.26 last updated 4 months ago. Seems to be the latest one.

That's really interesting, my C2 RGBs don't show the power consumption, I wonder if that's a new model thing?

Alice! You double crosser! 😂

Nice to see another marine tank on the forum. The supply of macroalgae isn't as good as North America or Asia but there's a decent amount of species available to make a beautiful tank! I think you'll enjoy it. 😁

I can't wait for my kids to ask for an aquarium and for me to act burdened, but to actually be relishing it! 😅 Looks great!

Definitely capitalised on the scarcity 😅

I don't suppose you've seen any recently? I'm on the lookout but haven't had any luck.

I used Tetra Complete Substrate years ago. I had good success with it, plants seemed happy. If I remember correctly, it's meant to be capped with gravel?

I thought about this too. When I give the last soak I added a few drops of Phyton Git Sol which worked when I had the classic looking Cyanobacteria. Hopefully it works on this snotty stuff!

I've grown Utricularia graminifolia emersed a few times now and never had this issue with this snotty growth that is melting patches of the Utricularia. At first I thought it was happening to the shaded parts, the hypothesis checked out until patches directly under the lights came under attack...

I've also noticed that the 'on/off' button no longer works for me 🙃 it says I need to go into the light setup. Also now when I click a light, instead of taking me straight to the settings, it takes me to a page as if I'm setting up the lights for the first time. It asks what the voltage is and...

I'm up for that 👍🏾

Yeah, I don't know of a single Week Aqua distributor in the UK unfortunately. I'll just have to deal with it. 😅

Very interesting. Bought directly from them?

Stunning!

Thanks Rosie!

Personally, I prefer to suspend my lights over everything other than nano tanks for ease of maintenance and aesthetics. I'm not sure that the £80 difference is worth it, the Pro is a seriously capable light unit. Have you considered using a light stand? That way you could suspend it without it...

I agree with @erwin123 - 50cm is a decent amount of depth and I wouldn't be confident the mini would cut it. Even the pro might be stretched in terms of coverage, unless you were able to suspend the lights and then run them at higher intensity.

Thank you Tim! Do you have a journal about it?

Really??! What a compliment, thank you!

Thank you Thierry! 🙏🏾 I actually didn't do anything to them 😅 I took them out of the scape last summer and they've just been sitting in storage ever since. A lot of them were quite green before so I'm not sure what's got them looking clean!

Thank you! I really appreciate that. 🙏🏾

After a gentle nudge by @CooKieS , I've decided to make a micro journal for a tank build I'm doing. (Tropica Substrate used as a base layer in case the scape is run longer term) The tank is a WIO 60F (60cm x 30cm x 22cm) loaned to me by @LondonAquascaper and is being set up as part of a...

Could you elaborate on this Geoffrey? I'm aware of this to a tiny degree but not sure what the impacts are.

Sounds amazing! Following with interest 😁

Power to the people!

I sent them a message with my thoughts!

There used to be. For the A430 at least, and it got removed in the recent update for some reason. Time to get back on WhatsApp!

I haven't been in the game as long as you @bazz but this post was a pleasant throwback, and reminded me of when I first started and was obsessed with Fluval. It seemed so much simpler back then lol. Except the external filters. My Dad insisted they were Eheim! 😅

Glad it's not just me lol. The light is quite warm compared to the Chihiros. It made me think that it was probably artificially 'greened' by the lights. 😅 I do have some TNC complete and APT complete laying around. I also mix my own ferts for my other tanks so maybe I could try that. I'm using...

@Hufsa it could also just be Twinstar lighting. The plants don't look as pale in sunlight or under chihiros.

Sorry to hear about the losses! I don't know if it's because there's more focus on individual fish in saltwater but their deaths seem more...not significant but something adjacent to that. But it's good to show the balance of things and will positively inform your next movements.

It might be hard to convey by pictures add it's more noticeable in person, but hopefully you can see. The plants have a pale colouration compared to what I'm used to, and I'm dosing more than what I'm supposed to (2ml per week on a 14L tank). Maybe I'm just not giving things time, maybe...