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Hello Everyone I got hold of the following from a new lfs. All plants are from Italian company Anubias, and are invitro cultures except one. Has anyone tried/have these, and what are their recomendations regarding growing and aquascaping... 1. Bucephalandra Motteyana sp. Sintang (very...

Hi All maybe this question has already been answered before... I have TetraTex 1200 and a 1000 lph pump that feeds a CO2 reactor, currently separated in the tank. There is a pre-filter doing mechanical filteration & then this water is drawn into TT 1200 cannister & the pump. Can/How should I...

Hi All just saw these fantastic looking BIG shrimps in LFS. They look very tempting, particularly since they are supposed to be shy, water filters (catching micro foods from water), and harmless to other tank inhabitants. Have any of you tried these? Whats your feedback and what are their...

Hi All whats the best way to replace Juwel tank closed light hood with a better stand alone lighting stand? I have a 180 litre tank and would like to get a better lighting system (height and intensity controllable). Any and every suggestions are welcome... cheers

Hi All is there any particular technical reason that the solenoid is placed right after the regulator, before the needle valve? i.e. Regulator --> Solenoid --> Needle Valve. I have my solenoid placed after the needle valve: Regulator --> Needle Valve --> Solenoid--> Check Valve --> Bubble...

Hi Guys recently got the above regulator while on a trip to Asia. Its a single stage, 2 gauge regulator with Solenoid and needle valve attached. I plan to use it on a 5 kg FE cylinder. Anyone has any idea about this piece of equipment & issues etc?? Worried about end of tank dump, needle...

Hi All as I understand, there are 3 filtering mechanisms at work: mechanical, chemical and biological. I get what each means and does.. What I dont get is all this talk about the need for different specialised media for each kind of filtering, as if they are mutually exclusive. e.g. mechanical...

Hi All I am having trouble getting UG to take hold in my tank. Its a 180 litre, 90W T5HO (2+ yrs old) tubes, EI, > 10X filteration flow with spray bars, and heavy CO2 (>7bps) that comes 3+ hrs before lights and goes out 2 hrs before light off. The tank is heavily planted with rotalas...

Hi All I intend to rescape my tank sometime soon, and as a part of that would like to use the filter mulm to aid substrate maturing process. I also need to clean my filters much sooner as a part of routine chores on the existing tank. Can I start collecting the mulm in these filters and store...

I saw "Littorella Uniflora" and "Alternanthera Versicolor Red" in my local LFS. Havent found much info on them on google. Anyone tried these and feedbacks? The littorella looks like a small grass version, and google says its slow to grow, might be difficult.. but no idea of any parameters...

Hello All... its a big freeze here!! :D I want to reduce the unsighty pipes in my tank. Was thinking of combining two cannister inputs with a T connection. One is 600 lph and other is 1200 lph (printed). Will use a larger intake pipe and reducer to fit the separate cannisters. The outputs...

Hey All how long should I expect to complete a total re-scape of a tank? I have about 40 (small) fish & a few Amano shrimps there, and I was thinking of getting them out into a plastic bin for a few days till the rescape is done. Is this feasible?? I will change the substrate, and make a new...

Hello has anyone any experience on this? Its a wort; googling said its kind of fernlike (?!?), looks more like a grass.... How fats does it grow, and what are its needs etc? Thanks niru

Hello how many of you have had this problem? Each time I fill my bubble counter 2/3 rd with water, and it keeps on decreasing slowly. I have good valves on EACh side of the counter to ensure that there is no water leak, and havent had issues there. My guess is that water "evaporates" gradually...

Hi All 2 weeks back I changed my CO2 reactor to a UP atomizer because I was loosing a lot of flow on my Tetra Ex1200. What I have noticed is now the bubble rate is unstable even during the day! Unlike the other post where the rate changes overnight when CO2 is shut off, I see that the rate...

Hi All recently I changed an empty 2 kg CO2 cylinder with a new one. For a first few days, I had good (normal) CO2 coming out 4 bps. Then suddenly there is none coming out! I thought it might be needle valve problem, so cleaned it and screwed it a bit to the higher side (more CO2 coming out)...

Hi All the new stock in my lfs has Polygonum Sao Paulo. I havent found much info on the web on this except for its red colors. I would like to get this, but have no idea of its needs. In my 180 litre tank I have EI, good CO2 (40+ppm) and flow. Lights are 90W T5HO with reflectors, but are...

Hey guys found this one..... for the interested ones.. http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219774 -niru

Hello Everybody often I find for myself, and also read around, that there has been some algae/plant issues mostly due to imbalance in something or lack of this or that, etc.. Reading on here, one finds remedies, fixes, solutions etc to their tank issues, and one modifies, upgrades the procedure...

Hi there I have a question re lighting.. Known known: If one is unlimited in ferts & CO2, controlling light is the best way to avoid algae & get a healthy plant growth. So if one stays in the low/mid WPG light limits, but gets fluctuations in lighting (mostly the ON period -- my 3 year old...

Hello A bit of History: about 2 weeks back, my cannister broke & I had to live a few days with the internal filter on my Juwel 180. I added 2 koralias & an emergency CO2 diffuser (before it went via reator on the cannister) to keep things under control. Plants were fine, no issues. The fish...

Hi All was wondering if plants need light for things other than pure photosynthesis, similar to animal world? And what for? One sees a lot of stuff on internet about the "best" spectral tubes for plant growth & visualisation etc.. and whether even an iota of that makes sense (apart from being...

Hello Everyone of late I have been reading news & stuff about health hazards for people working with fish & aquariums. There was this news from US where some girl dies due to an infection she got from aquarium bacteria (or some such thing). Plus while reading about fish health & diseases, saw...

Hey guys just saw that Ceg4048, aka the Matrix-debunker has updated his location to Stockholm, Sweden!!! :thumbup: :D :clap: What good news do we need before the Autumnal Equinox??? -niru

Hi what are the effects of over filteration in planted tanks? Plainly I would think that if plants are doing well, they provide most of bio-filteration & also chemo- to a large extent. So most filters anyway act more as mechanical cleaners. Any inputs, links to where I can get more info on...

Hi All guess I am not the first to face these problems: Over the weekend, my existing Eheim Ecco went kaput. The priming handle broke & the motor-head cap is partially stuck at the O-ring, all after a routine cleaning. Perhaps the O-ring wasnt lubed?? Any suggestions on repairing this would...

Hi Everybody we have had a few deliveries last days! 3 of my Platys have given out new offsprings!! I (& my 8 yr old son) are awestuck & very very happy by this development.. I find this a great way to introduce him to the cycles of life and all that sort of things! Having livebearers wasnt my...

Hi Tom I used this one sometime back. It works bothways, but if you are doing it on the inlet side then watch that not all bubbles are dissolved, so they go to the canister impeller, causing blurps there & gas loss. So it need canisters which take the input flow tube from the bottom and most...

Hi a few days back I got Anubias Heterophylia (big leaf) & tied it to a wood block. Now I observe that some rizhomes are rotting for no apparent reason. Moreover, some other plants (hygrophilia species) have started getting the rot at their stem base, slowly moving upwards. Ferts are EI and CO2...

Hi All this has happened to me a few months back... To improve/increase the flow, I added a small water-pump (this one from Sera with protective mesh). All was well until I went for a 1 week vacation. 1 Betta, and 1 Cory decided to poke around inside through this mesh, got caught & the tank...

Hi All I am thinking of autodosing Easy Carbo in my tank. I currently auto-dose EI macros and micros, and to avoid fungal issues in these stock-solutions, I put EasyCarbo in them. I was wondering if this gets utilised as a liquid carbon source for the tank, or it disintegrates in the EI...

Hello Everybody! Background Info: my 180 litre planted tank currently runs with EI, high light (90 HOT5 Watts), 4 bps CO2. Both lights and CO2 for 7.5 hrs, CO2 coming 2.5 hrs before the lights. EI is automated and I do a 50-60% WC each week. EasyCarbo also goes in at recommended rate. With...

Hi All any idea where one can buy 4dkh bromo blue solution in mainland Europe? I am in Switzerland and the lfs here sell only the plastic Dennerle ampules which are pretty much expensive. I was thinking of a small bottle of bromo blue with or without 4dkh water (which I can make at home)...

Hi All saw this plant in the lfs today... was wondering if its some kind of Rotala or a Nesea?? The upper and lower leaves look totally different There was no labeling as it came from some South East Asean dealer.. -niru

Hello Guys came to see this weird but interesting story... Call it fishy facts, dedication, or superstition! No comments: http://www.bangaloremirror.com/printarticle.aspx?page=comments&action=translate&sectid=1&contentid=2011042720110427235419508c5c358a5&subsite= If you cant see the above...

Hi All been here for a little time now, and thought I ought to share some of the developments of my first ever tank. Its a Juwel Rio 180. I had absolutely Zero idea about running a tank, except for some James Bond movie (the villan has a shark tank he uses to his whims and enemy elimination??)...

Hello Everybody! my LFS is currently selling "Organic/Bio plants from Thailand" (as mentioned on their advertising board :? ), essentially uncultivated plants picked from Thai streams I guess. Amongst them is a great looking grass variety (no photo right now, but will get one). It looks like...

Hello I have a concentrated EI macro solution made for auto dosing. Today I saw that it had turned whitish with some turbidity. As a 1st reaction I panicked thinking it to be fungal stuff. But it's all salts only in tap water. So is it some salts deposited/precipitated out or what?? As I...

Hello have people been growing this moss (Cratonneuron filicinum) ? And whats a good way of using it in aquascaping? I bought 2 pad of this months back and simply kept it on the tank floor (The LFS guy told me thats how it should be and with time will make a carpet like stuff!!!). Of course...

Hello I am a reasonable newbie (only 8 months) into planted aquarium. I have a 180 l Juwel Rio with 2 X 45 W HOT5, internal + Eheim Ecco Pro 200 filter, and a small pump for increased water circulation. I dose EI, pressurised CO2 at 2 bps. Water is hard (gH 17, kH 12, pH 7-8). I have a...

Hello Everyone I was wondering if someone has divided the output froma pressurised CO2 into two (say using a T joint) so that we have two feeds on each side of the tank. Many thanks -niru