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Well further into the rabbit hole we go. I have delved further into co2 addition by adding a reactor. I have been struggling to get a nice consistant limey yellow drop checker from my diy yeast setup and simple diffuser for a while now, only really achieving it for the first 3-5 days of a fresh...

Beutiful tank, i really like the look of this and it is the direction i would go if i had a more understanding wife :)

Ok I will give it a try.

Hi Darrel, if I bought the red spider mites would I then be infested with them? This is in my house so a little worried I would then have to get something else to get them. I have the nursery rhyme ring round my head of the old lady who swallowed a dog to catch the cat, to catch the bird, to...

Good spot zozo. Where have they come from I don't get it. Will I have to remove it all? Will they start attacking my other plants?

Just about to watch episode 3 :)

This sounds impressive. I have no idea what I would be buying though. I will look into this some more.

Has anyone just started watching the new Punisher series? I have watched the first 2 episodes so far and I must admit I am hooked :)

Thanks for your replies. I will try the water method as this is on the rim of my tank and don't want to risk poisoning my fish with chemicals. If all else fails I could gently lift it and submerge it for a week or so that should drop any nasties :)

Morning all over the past month a small patch of my emersed growth has died back an seems to be slowly getting bigger. Does anyone recognise what this is? It starts off as small white spots then over about 1-2 weeks the leaf dies off. Should I cut it out or treat it or just leave it alone?

Bit of a picture heavy update, sorry if your on a slow connection :) Had a bit of a thin out from the last update as it was starting to get a bit too thick and tangled. I am starting to think about ditching most of ths stems and going with big leaf plants instead. Top of the tank is...

Thanks for the replies. So this is totally normal then. Alternating them makes sense I will try that.

Hi I have a diy co2 setup with a glass style diffuser and disk. Is it normal for the disk to clog up every other month and need replacing? I keep having to buy new diffusers (not very expensive I know) but every time my diffuser is on its way out green hair algae starts growing.

Just doing a bit of cleaning today and thought whilst the water was low I could show how thick the top of the tank is now getting Just need to make the front look a bit more interesting now :)

My little lunatic Oscar

Ahhh that's feels like you just asked me do I like beer or chocolate better???????? :) :( First seasons of walking dead deffo really gritty. I think I liked z nation better ish but the new season just started and it seems a bit slow. But then the new walking dead Negan war has just started and...

I love a good old dose of zombies or end of the world stuff :) good to be prepared..... Currently watching The walking dead Fear the walking dead Z nation The Orville Family guy Was watching The 100 (that's finished I think) Street outlaws (no idea why but got hooked)

Hi yes there is a shallow trough bracing around the top of the tank which i planted up with all sorts just to see what will grow. On each rear corner there is a gap for filter pipes so there is a devil's ivy in one and a peace Lily in the other roots dangling straight into the water.

Hi Doubu, I want it to grow its self now and thicken out how the plants want to go. The foreground plants are sending off runners and the rear plants are competing with each other. I see what you are saying about putting a few more plants in to speed up the process and bulk it out.

From this Feb 17 To Oct 17

Thought I would put a little update of how the tank is going. Added 10 dwarf water lettuce last week and as you can see from the pictures they have tripled already. Loving the roots dangling down. The I think HC is spreading nicely but I want something of similar to carpet the front edge of...

Oh i didn't know they did that I have about 5-7 horned nerite maybe one striped one left as they keep wondering off round my living room and 2 toffee coloured with spots on. Its only on my wood they have laid eggs on, I will have to grow some moss over them if they don't come off.

Won't my fish eat them?

Oh ok I am not going to be overrun then lol. I just ordered more snails on Monday could have been wasted money if these hatched.

Yes I have but thought they didn't breed easily and need brackish water to breed? I don't have brackish water...

Lovely scapes, it amazes me more how they keep them so clean though. Every time my plants get that thick it collects debris and I end up rooting most of it to get it clean :(

I have some white spots on my wood and wondered what they were? They are on the right in a cluster and a few on the left. A lot of the dots on the left are co2 bubbles though. Are they eggs? Fungi? Something else completely?

Thanks for the reply. I will have to redo my mesh again as is been picked clean already.

I have an APS uv system built into my filter. It makes no difference to hair algae but I have not suffered from anything else but that might not be down to the uv.

Does anyone use mesh to grow carpet plants in? And how do you do it? I have a load of mesh which my mosses when they were small arrived on but they have now come away. I have struggled to grow hair grass and other carpet plants mainly because my golden barbs keep pulling it up. I have gathered...

Well cleaning day and I thought I would have a little move around to improve flow and get rid of a dead spot collecting piles of moss. I will post some pics later. Found a Amano shrimp in the move around which i havent seen for ages, it looked health and fat lol. Got myself 2 fish I have...

No more than normal. Retail has always been difficult especially for smaller shops with tight margins on bottom line. They open some succeed some close or move online or abroad. I think is more retail evolution to keep the bottom line manageable than the Brexit effect. That is my view as a...

That is how my plants looked before i used the Lush max. Have you got a good strong flow from the filter? As plants like good flow. Hopefully someone can advise what is wrong by looking at the pictures.

Wow I am jealous, wish I had that space. Think I would be swimming in it :) Welcome and I cannot wait to see this tank evolve.

Its only been 5 days :) I am not too sure about what ratios of red/blue/green should be in lights I think that is one that needs to be aimed at a lighting topic. Have you got any pictures of the plants you are having problems with? I don't know how long it keeps for once made, I can't see that...

One week on and we are looking healthy. Plants have pretty much doubled in size over the week, some stems are poking out of the water and had to remove some moss as it's growing so quick. Going to get some fish tomorrow, don't know what but small and striking would be nice. Will have to see...

Cheers Darrel I will start googling

Well I will strike that one off the list then. I have been looking for some kind of water loving fern either submerged or emersed with low humidity needs but not much luck :(

Yes I use seachem root tabs as they are supposed to last 3 months at a time.

This could be a long reply but as i am at work here's some food for thought: Lighting stregth, lighting periods, water quality, substrate, ferts, water flow rates, filter media, type of plants and these are just what my limited knowledge can think of there is probably far more things. I was...

No just the waiting game now. Hopefully you will see improvements in a weeks time. If nothing improves it must be something else.

I have been adding mine everyday before I go to work at 0700 when I feed my fish. My lights don't come on until 1200 hasn't made a difference to my tank.

I think it's died. I have come home and it has turned into a crisp, might have been an aquatic after all :(

You have a 200ltr tank so I would do the recommended 5ml per day. Only change one thing at a time otherwise if you get an improvement or it gets worse you don't know which change did it. I would suggest leave your lights on their current setting and up the dose to the above and see how that goes.

I have just removed it from the tank and it had loads of roots on the underside of the leaves but none on the stems. It's now up top and we'll see how it gets on. The E Ozelot has a lot of room to spread now.

I am doing roughly 5ml per day as I consider my co2 dosing to be on the low end of the scale being one bottle diy co2 in a 260ltr tank. How much have you been dosing? I was experiencing stunted growth and plants growing close to the ground with my last ferts, I could be wrong but I put it down...

Bingo that's it alright. Might remove it then after reading that post and put it up top. I am surprised it's lasted over 2 months submerged so far.

Just googled this and it is not the same. The leaves on mine look like feathers. I will try to get a better pic later.

Sorry I don't know what the proper name for it is. I bought it off eBay named an umbrella fern plant mid/back ground tank. It's been in there since June 17, it hasn't grown or melted you would think it's fake it's done that little. I thought I'd just take a punt on it as it looked interesting...

I will need to check on the packet when I get home for the exact dose. There is a dose option once per week for low tech tank and a dose once a day for high tech tank. My tank is 260ltr I am running diy co2 and have been able to up my lighting on my Fluval F&P 2 to 100% for 10 hours per day...

One of my family of bristle noses having a perch

So an update how the tank is growing. The biggest change I have done is switch fertiliser to Lush max. It has made a massive difference, all of the hair algae has now gone and my moss is looking healthy again. Excuse the bubble just changed over the yeast for the co2. I have added a really...

Hi I thought the same yesterday but messaged them and they are on holiday till the 1st Sept. They said they would list it all on their return. :)

I have read some posts where people say all ready mixed ferts are the same but from what I have just seen over the past 3 weeks that is defiantly not true. I have always had a little hair algae growing in the background which I could not get rid of and I was using Columbia flora grow. I went...

I think round 6 was the end of McGregor but mayweather dragged it out. I reckon the betting house won big on that fight.

Any good aquatics worth visiting while I'm on holiday in Dorset? I wouldn't buy fish but always up for a bit of inspiration or buying scaping and plants if they were good quality or unusual.

Mayweather win round 6 KO. Think McGregor will be trying to last to the last round. That will be as good as the win he will never get. Mayweather will get p**sed off and batter him in the 6th. If however mayweather does take up the challenge of a ufc bout after, McGregor will pummel mayweather.

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Mine seems thicker with short stems or could that just be down to growing conditions?

Hi sorry not the greatest picture but does anyone know what this is? I think it's some sort of crypt it has lovely bronze/green leaves that look waxy. I would like to get more but don't know it's name.

Thanks for your help Matty I will give it a go

Does it kill the plant the algae is attach to?

I haven't been brave enough to use h2o2 yet sounds just wrong lol

Headcount looks ok, diy co2 was running about half normal strength but running, filter was due it's normal clean when I got back. Luckily my moss was very thick and I have just removed a big clump from the top and looks a lot better now.

I use a once a week fert and dosed the day I left so it's only 2 days over my normal cycle. It's weird only the moss has been affected. I had some and unfortunately they turned into an expensive snack :(

I have just been away for a long week's holiday and come back to what I can only describe as moss anilalation. As you can see from the picture all of my moss has been engulfed in green hair algae. The rest of the tank is spotless. Anyone know why my moss has been taken over and nothing else...

Thanks alto you have really helped. I need to find a reputable shop. I always prefer collecting in person.

Keeping the wife happy is either my hobby or second job I'm not sure.....

Is that even legal to sell something under the wrong name? Thought it would be more controlled than that, I'm shocked. So there is no guarantee if I order an SAE it will actually be one and might be something like a flying fox?

Unfortunately I had amano and cherry shrimps which turned into expensive treats for my fire mouths and barbs. Nerite snails are good and I still have a few but I have an open top tank. Once they get bigger they become great escape artists and my wife kept finding them dried up on the floor...

I have been looking around my lfs in the Hampshire area but struggling to find some true Siamese algea eaters (SAE). They all seem to be called something similar but never labelled SAE and when I ask what are they the reply is "Oh yes these are very similar to Siamese algea eaters". I want to...

Great blog really got the old grey matter going. Welcome.

No the rim was already on the tank, I found it by chance second hand. I was getting quotes for a similar tank to be made anyway and saw this. It could do with being maybe an inch deeper for bigger plants but I just have the roots hanging in the water if they don't quite fit.

Cheers its quite nice to see it evolve naturally as when small plants float to the surface like hair grass I have left them and they started growing in the moss.

I have had aquariums for quite a few years now but never purposely wanted to grow plants, but tastes change and I saw some sexy looking planted tanks and I fancied a go. I new I wanted an open top tank as that's what really got me wanting to give it a go. So I got together the following: Tank...

Porton aquatics, Porton Garden Centre, Porton, Salisbury SP4 0LA. Its a bit in the middle of no where but its the best by far i have found in hampshire/wiltshire lots of scaping rocks/wood/roots, substrates, plants, lighting and they have a large reptile area so even more bits to use in the...

Hi all I'm Sam. I recently swapped my trusty jewel 190ltr corner tank which i had for a number of years to an experimental open top 260ltr 4ft tank as i wanted to try something different. It's been up and running for about 4 months now and constantly evolving :) Hope you like the pictures and...