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Hello folks 👋🏼 If you are intending to join us at Aquarium Gardens on Sunday 28th April, please can you vote ‘yes’ on the poll in this thread here. It allows us to get realistic numbers for catering on the day. Many thanks 🙏🏽

The Southern UKAPS meet on Sunday 28th April is getting close now and Aquarium Gardens is requesting final numbers for catering… If you plan to attend, please kindly vote in the poll at the top of this thread so we can deliver final numbers for food and drinks. Many thanks 🙏🏽

Welcome to UKAPS

The recent prolonged rain ain’t all bad. Mountain Maple created a huge first crop of leaves already and required bringing back to form: Fair amount off but will hopefully pay dividends with the second flash of growth this summer: Do love the ferocity of growth of a mountain maple. They’re...

Hello folks 👋🏼 As per the title… the Northern UKAPS meet will take place at Horizon Aquatics on Saturday June 15th. The day will start at 10am and looking forward to seeing you there!! Address: Horizon Aquatics Leaside Newton Aycliffe DL5 6HX England

Happy to announce that on the day there will be a talk from the wonderful Tai Strietman. Many of you will know already know Tai as Biotopia on Instagram and YouTube. https://www.instagram.com/biotopiatai?igsh=cGE2NW02MHZkcGdo https://youtube.com/@biotopia5319?si=-PJfBdUZNVDKQt-H Tai has...

We are currently nailing down a weekend in June for this event. Moving as fast as possible on this, but it involves multiple parties to agree. Will announce the details as soon as we can @simon_the_plant_nerd and @john6 .

Hello folks 👋🏼 The day will start at 10am and looking forward to seeing you there!! Address: Unit 20A, Upland Industrial Estate, Mere Way, Wyton, Huntingdon, PE28 2JZ

Spring is here. Only five days since the last post and we are off to the races: Katsura’s late to the call, but beginning to unfurl their leaves:

Starts at 10am if that helps @Mike Singh

Sunday 28th of April, plenty of time yet 😉 There will be a flyer posted this weekend with all the details @Mike Singh

Welcome to UKAPS @Fluxtor

Welcome to UKAPS @Dazzabegood

We put the tunes and pond lights on @bazz and go back to the club… 😎 🍻 🥳 😂

Where were we? Marine… marine… 🤔 Ah yes, now I remember. Marine!!! The infinite money pit that has direct access to every pay check and targets the wallets of the weak willed. How could you forget 🤣 It’s been a while and been beavering away. We’re now on Kalkwasser and All For Reef dosing...

Lake District this week. Helvellyn extended traverse and some bonus Dodding; White Stones, Stybarrow Dodd, Watson’s Dodd, Great Dodd, Raise, White Side, Helvellyn, Nethermost Pike, Dollywaggon Pike.

Hi @Scaperinc Would avoid trimming until your carpet has spread out, especially if the diatoms are beginning to desist.

Pond did alright for itself through winter: The sun is only just hitting the plants this passed week. Trimmed everything back in preparedness for the upcoming boom. Lily’s, deep water reed and Lobelia cardinalis lurking beneath the surface. Frogs and newts too! All Shubunkin’s are accounted...

Spring is definitely on the way if the maples are anything to go by: Trees have been removed from aerated baskets and sphagnum moss. Served them well over the winter sunk into a bed of soil. Roots were full but not pot bound, teased them out slightly replacing a quarter of the soil and put...

It is fitting that you’ve the one thousandth post on this @dw1305 , no magic bullets!!!

Dude… just scape your all in one as a freshwater if you still have it. Would be so easy going.

Hey Dean. Guess it’s been a while huh. Looking after the systems and livestock in work has sort of stole the posting thunder. They’re going well; pond, reef and bonsai at home. May start up a journal for a small 45P low tech that’s running at work. Will update the journals this weekend 😎

Just a reminder that Sunday 28th April is the date for the UKAPS meet at Aquarium Gardens. Official post to follow, save the date and lovingly tap the vote button at the top of this thread if you wish to attend ☝🏼 🥰 😎

Awesome @Miniandy 🙌🏼 What a community we have 😎 Date is inbound…

That’s amazing @john6 🙌🏼 Hopefully we can organise a date that works for everyone, it would also be nice to give everyone plenty of warning. The team is working on dates with Horizon currently so we won’t keep you waiting much longer.

Thank you to those who have voted so far folks 🙏🏽 It’s always good to get numbers earlier rather than later so we know how many to expect to be catering to on the day. For those who voted that they may need a lift from another member, it may be worth mentioning the area where you live. Pretty...

Hey everyone 👋🏼 Sunday 28th April is looking like the date for the UKAPS meet at Aquarium Gardens (official post to follow). Save the date if you wish to attend and please vote above so we can gauge how many wish to attend. We need numbers to accommodate for food and drinks. If you’re on the...

Hopefully something of the above is useful to you @jeffbloom . Do understand how hard it is to get info on UG. Any further questions, please just ask.

Trick is to feed and stimulate according to what response you want to encourage. To make the above last and last was a matter of being the plants tormentor and salvation on an ongoing cycle. You are basically replacing natural limitations with those by your own hand. Some older posts you can...

There’s a clue in @zozo ‘s post… lower lighting being a stimulus. It reacts, it may be getting submerged/overgrown/outcompeted by another plant… it accommodates the situation by pouring all of its resources into securing the genetic information in seed, changing its fortune and potentially...

Start feeding paramecium culture and spirulina, trim the UG down to stimulate a response and you go from this: To this: Lots of bladders on the stolons to capture prey.

Welcome to UKAPS @jeffbloom 👋🏼 Hell yeah 🙌🏼 Loving the tank 😎 The opposite potentially… Plants flower when there is a risk of dying. This may look good but it’s UG pouring it’s effort into seed: They’re all reaching for the surface to drop seed.

If you haven’t already, please consider voting if you want a UKAPS meet up north this summer.

Nice @Aqua360 tap your vote 😎

Hello folks 👋🏼 Attempting to gauge interest in a UKAPS community meet in the South this spring. Suggesting a meet at Aquarium Gardens. If you wish to know the location the address is below: Unit 20A Upland Industrial Estate Mere Way Wyton Huntingdon PE28 2JZ England The store is a credit...

Yes, of course you are. It’s @Riverwood Aquatics and they are a sponsor of our forum. Should have your scaping needs covered.

Hello folks 👋🏼 Attempting to gauge interest in a UKAPS community meet in the North this summer. Suggesting a meet at Horizon Aquatics. If you wish to know the location the address is below: Leaside Newton Aycliffe DL5 6HX England The store is a credit to the UK aquatic plant scene and we...

Welcome to UKAPS @malik uddin 👋🏼 A close up photo of the spider wood would be useful if possible. Helps to see what the problem is.

For balance beyond opinion and conjecture, the 14 rules and guidelines of the forum that enable UKAPS to be the community that it is. UKAPS Forum Rules and Guidelines 1. Treat others how you would like to be treated yourself. Remain polite at all times and avoid aggressive styles of...

Moon gazing: They’ve not been put off by the Newts yet.

Hi @Morgon 👋🏼 Welcome to UKAPS 🌱

We have Newts 🥰

Welcome to UKAPS @Fayehelen

Selling that ONF if you’re interested @seedoubleyou . Just haven’t put it up yet, PM if so.

Mine sits level @seedoubleyou : It can move if you rotate it out of the way as @Little mentions, but you just put it back in position, two second job @seedoubleyou .

Merry Christmas folks! Wishing you all a wonderful day 🎅🏼 🎄 🎁

Welcome to UKAPS @Notimetoulouse

Easier more readily used option: Used to come with a small section of tubing, with a reducer to fit standard dosing line diameter, maybe still does: Then into your auto doser of choice: Cost: £16.15...

That’s very kind @fredi , thank you for the offer but wouldn’t want to put you through any hassle 🙏🏽

Yep… shed… garage… loft… All full 😂 Even simpler than that @MartyK . Just a separate ATO tank behind the tank for the moment, kalk stirred in and being pumped in by auto doser. It’s just a way to get started. It’s potentially an option but would be a long run. Considered this option a few...

Sounds like a good addition, will definitely give them a go and they have pretty flowers. Planting was rushed tbh @fredi , will work on the planting properly for next season. Thank you for the tip 🙏🏽

Pond in October before the sun did a disappearing act: Has done alright for itself despite being started up late in the season, three months growing weather in total. Winding down for the colder season now. Rain brought a minor bought of blanket weed to bloom in October. Two treatments of...

Part 2 of 2… So a lot of ball ache just to get back to where the tank was 6 months ago. The ‘problems’ being solved are difficult to understand, what exactly happens if it’s left to escalate? Does your head fall off and your bum explode? The tank at the height of its ‘problems’: The...

Hello again, it’s been a couple of months so lots to share, long post warning ⚠️ Part 1 of 2… The tank has made quite a few demands in this time due to its age so required a fair few adjustments. First was nitrate and phosphate control beyond water changes, numbers were climbing despite 1/3...

Welcome @RobertS 👋🏼

Welcome to UKAPS @Pisces133 👋🏼

Welcome to UKAPS @alext8

Welcome to UKAPS @JonOslo 👋🏼

Removed a few colonies for improved light and flow. Let the rest battle it out for the new real estate. Moved the odd frag into more appropriate locations whilst at it so we’ll see how they go: Also trying to be good and leaving some diatoms on the sand to boost the copepod population up...

Suppose the mission intent is in the journal title @PARAGUAY . Suffered heavy loses over the last year. Figured smashing a massive hole in the sun baked ground in summer heat is a better way of dealing rather than bottling things up. Time to think, time to ponder whilst carving out the ground...

Beautiful things don’t ask for attention… Fish do the trimming. Sun provides the energy. Rain replaces evaporation. Nature provides the food input if we are unavailable. System delivers equity for the inhabitants. Sounds like a babbling brook. Beautiful things don’t ask for...

Welcome to UKAPS @Ouroboro

Nice! Well done 😎

Hope you’re on the mend @seedoubleyou and back to tip top soon. Brilliant write up on the tanks progress, enjoying following the journey mate.

Turns out the reef was one year old on August 17th, making the last update post sort of the anniversary…. Oh well 🤷🏻‍♂️ In other news, upgrade: Focusing on monitoring, some automation and redundancy. The Apex A3 Pro already comes with pH/ORP/temp probes so have a start on gathering...

It’s working @seedoubleyou and looks fab 😎

As others have said, probably a starfish that’s had a really bad week. If in doubt, chuck it out mate. Despite the bad press, vibrant does kill bubble algae. It’s basically API algefix as was found out after the product was investigated by the EPA in the states. It is a molluscide so be...

That’s great news @pollyandpear 😎

Welcome @Scadew :)

Bem-vindo @edustarling 😎

Yah 😎 Road trip! 🚗 💨

Lol! Gawd no @Wookii , what do you take me for 😂 😂 😂 75%… 😈 😂 😆 😝

Well the Shubunkin’s finally decided it’s time to rip the Myriophyllum brasiliensis apart 😂 Not to miss an opportunity, we’re left with only plants with the aerial advantage now. Some are looking a bit tired with root tabs getting exhausted: Switching up to full EI dosing: Even upgraded...

Get a Pleco cave @eminor if you haven’t got one, doesn’t have to be fancy. However, you want it sealed on one end rather than a tunnel so it only has one entrance like this: He’ll probably sit in it with his butt hanging out by the entrance, it’s a security thing. Point is he’ll be happy in...

Hopefully Green Aqua and @Horizon Aquatics don’t mind this share. Always a treat to see aquascaping talent visiting the UK.

Aspiring to collect enough knowledge to run a counterbalancing system. Reef above, plants below. The whole thing would have to be designed at inception though and as much as it is tempting, swapping out the current sump for an all out refugium wouldn’t work on this setup. Plant and coral in...

Welcome to UKAPS @Stonecarver

Apologies @seedoubleyou didn't see the notification 😔 No refugium…. Feed this system very heavily by anyone’s standards so it wouldn’t be the appropriate tool. Using a filter roller, skimmer, UV and two reactors. Gone back to 1/3 water changes weekly as well.

Just saw you updated your post. Mondo Grass is a hardy ground covering plant that likes its roots wet. Parlour Palm/Chamaedorea elegans is a common oxygenating house plant sold everywhere. In and of themselves neither species causes any alarm, but if herbicides or pesticides were used in their...

Anyone remember their ID? Maybe @zozo or @dw1305 may know: It could be a red herring @pollyandpear but it’s worth pursuing. Equally we have materials used, potentially hand creams, unnoticed soap residue on hands, aerosols used in the room, air fresheners etc etc… It may seem like water...

Reading through @pollyandpear and your setup isn’t the issue. Before doing anything too drastic, here’s what can be gathered from your photo’s, followed by options to execute: Sure. That rock ☝🏼 harbouring waste. Take it out and scrub with a toothbrush or even a wire brush like this...

Sure, bring your friend to the party 🥳

Here comes the sun…

Bonsai for everyone apparently… Both kids are involved now. There were a couple of Katsura Maples in the local B&Q, on their sides and pretty neglected. As above, took one home for the eldest and had to go back as his little brother wanted to get hands on too. Eldest cut and wired his into a...

Just shy of 11 months: Some things getting towards being colony size: As predicted, windows open has stabilised pH and seeing some decent growth.

First flower from the lilies about to open: Hot weather today ought to do the trick. More on the way too 😎

Welcome to UKAPS @Drafhorse

Hey @Dan Earl A looking super 👍🏽 Not unusual for Anubias to suffer in new setups. High light intensity without shading early on is taxing. Competition. You may find your colony of cherry shrimp is larger and sustainable as your tank matures with more biofilm to graze.

Hey @eminor Think Tom Barr @plantbrain may have answered as to why this isn’t a viable method. Could be in this thread about glutaraldehyde but could be wrong.

Cheers @John q 😉 , he said to send you a big thank you 🙏🏽 Potentially, but first we have a 45P to clear down. Needs to be scratch free and stored like new ready for the next scape. Keep the standard up.

Sadly this scape is coming down. The Betta passed from old age and as anticipated, it profoundly affected the lad. He knowingly chose an adult Betta, accepting it would be a short time together. Proud of him for giving his fish the best home he could provide and embracing the rhythm and...

☝🏼 As Tim said but would add plant them at a 45 degree angle too. More of the stem buried and greater contact. Fine pinsettes help, just wiggle them gently to settle the gravel around the stem before releasing the pinsettes.

Yeah heard that too. Not to be out there but… Using the power of just two eyeballs 👀 monitor it and just trim the roots 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hey @seedoubleyou , it is just clipped to the inside of the weir box for now: The base is in one of those hydroponic pots for the roots to grab onto with another clip and suction cup to the side. Been kicking around the idea of creating a macroalgae lagoon tank, but managed to resist the...

Put all his money in ribbitcoin… lost everything…

Okey dokey… Firstly, they require being submersed. If not you’ll lose lower growth in favour of emersed growth. Note your Myriophyllum Brasiliensis: The benefit of the plant’s photosynthesis is mostly going into the atmosphere, not the water column. Second, they will favour a pond with...

Taken nearly 4 months to get settled, but the Red Mangrove tree has finally decided to start growing:

Very familiar Ian, Lake District is old stomping grounds from growing up in Lancashire. Also, being a foul weather/winter walker (prefer the quiet tops) also very familiar with the taste of the rain and precipitation up there. Look at that beautiful summit view, fantastic 😂 To your advantage...