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This has real potential, love the hollows in the branches.

Just read your 'transparent' journal, and now im reading this one. Both excellent resources and really fascinating. I will have questions in due course!

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nice!

my vote is for natural :)

I had an opened (and not particularly well sealed) bottle of easycarbo that had sat around for 6 months. Dosed 5ml in a 60L and it melted some vallis fast. I guess this means its shelf life is actually quite good.

It's likely that will just strangle one of the filters slightly and lower your turnover over all.

as long as the dose is the same as usual then there is no problem with adding your ferts to water change water first.

The depth shouldn't matter much. If your turnover and flow is good, and your filters are running efficiently, you should have very clear water.

Is the flow even? If so, have you tried purigen? (not suitable with any stress-coats like aquasafe etc)

I'll be making a journal as soon as I get bits together. Its the only part of the forum I really 'browse'...

Yeah, the more the better. You have a lot of room in there. When I say branchy, I mean like this: Obviously, these are high tech tanks by very accomplished people. But my point is that the wood is a good way of getting height into the aquarium, without having to grow a huge volume of...

Really nice schooling angels. Underrated fish. It's difficult to create a sense of depth (ha) in such a deep tank. It looks good now, but there is a lot of dead space. Using epiphytes (root anchored species) like ferns, mosses and anubias attached to large, 'branchy' wood, would be an...

a plain backdrop would make your photos 10x better mate :)

Great journal! Any word on that PDF?

lush

wow. that weeping moss was expensive!

There's something missing from this 'scape, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

Cosmic. How many A.nana 'pots'/portions have you got in there?

Hey Andy, lovely tank. I haven't been able to read the whole thread yet (I will), but how are the Sterbai doing? I'm thinking about a similar scheme, with an area of sand for my quad of Sterbai. Do they cause trouble with the planting? (mixing up substrate and sand, uprooting plants). Do you...

PICS PLEASE

This is what I would have thought. Unless your clay substrate is impractically deteriorated (mulchy or disintegrated) I wouldn't replace it. It's been around for thousands of years already, I'm sure 12 months in your aquarium won't affect it much. If you're still concerned, make sure it's not...

beautiful fish. beautiful tank. I thought discus were supposed to be a nightmare! You have made it look easy.

exciting!

please do

Any chance you could re-host the photos from this journal, Andy? MobileMe is closed!

I'd imagine that the effective density of one diffuser is slightly higher than the other, due to either a slight manufacturing discrepancy, or caused by the difference in filter 'pressure' on the diffuser. They need to be balanced in order to both diffuse equally, without just ramping up the...

Re: DIY ADA style 60p Cabinet/Stand meets Exotic wood from O lovely!

hey mark. beautiful tank. I was just wondering if your honeys had coloured up at all in this tank? Since there's no surface vegetation I cant imagine they'd build a nest?

Re: DIY ADA style 60p Cabinet/Stand meets Exotic wood from O hey, you have used the wrong image URLS..

beautiful. I love how simple this is.

Re: A Chocolate Puddle - pic update This is cosmic! Really really good. A quick question, sorry if its been answered, but how much evaporation do you experience? My 2 footer evaporates so fast you'd think it's leaking!

just don't fill it above the top of the 'tabs' on the inside of the cannister, and you'll be fine. That's really good that you're getting pearling!

The ONLY way to avoid getting the mixture into the tank is to NEVER OVERFILL with DIY solution. I made this mistake myself, even with filter wool in the lid. Only maybe a quarter of the mix got into my tank, but it settled, bloomed, and sucked the life out of everything. The results can be...

Guys, I won this thread maybe 4 pages back! :wave: :roll: :wink:

Well, considering gaming through the app store is 233423452435898 times better than anything purely flash, and that websites using flash are a dying breed (and technically bad practice) anyway, I could care less. Plus there are free third party apps that let you use flash if you really really...

:oops: mine is gathering dust.. It's a brilliant thing, couldn't be happier with it. Just i have a laptop, and a iphone, so really its just for times when i'm not at either of those.. Which is..oh god.. never? Embarassing! Re: the sour grapes in this thread are overpowering! Flash...

Got to say, i'm tempted to try an algae-only tank! Maintenance would be a doddle! maybe even a marine!

Ah, understood.

you will get more for it, and more interest, if you split it all..

magnificent. good luck with your move.

Re: 60cm iwagumi scape Lovely tank. Obviously very fastidiously kept. Really like the lower sandy area, and the hydrocolyte. Only criticism is that I'm not so sure about the cropped lawn edges, and it appears to be a little bit 'neat' in general. inspirational!

Unfortunately, most of your facts are pre 1937. When road tax was abolished. The road fund was still, as i already pointed out, partly paid for through government grants, which in turn came from consolidated funds. Until 1955. The 'value' of V.E.D is always in question, and always will be, as...

Facts are facts, when you have devised something to the contrary, let me know. Until then, rhetoric will have to do!

I'd wager you have accidentally nudged the protruding wood once or twice.. If it were my tank it'd be a nightmare! ;)

I've PM'd you my bank details, plantbrain. thanks

what you said makes no sense. It is popular to argue for or against something based on how much it costs versus taxes sold to the public as being related to it e.g. tax on smokers often announced as a health measure. However, VED, as all taxes in the UK, is not hypothecated. All money from...

Generally I find buses to be really considerate, (much more so than cabbies, at least) if you try not to surprise them. I see an awful lot of newbies go down the inside on left turns, trying to undertake, sneaking up to overtake late etc, which of course means death. Try not to be intimidated...

I'd like to weigh in on the cycling issue, here: It is perfectly legal, and in fact encouraged, by law, for a cyclist to take up as much of the road as he or she sees fit in order to remain safe. Regardless of the position of any existing cycle lanes, if present. I often cycle in a primary...

Sorry for dredging up an old thread, but i thought this might be worth mentioning: Never, ever, over-fill the nutrafin system. I accidentally did this, and the mixture flowed up, through the check valve, and into the tank. Even with a layer of floss in the lid. After maybe 6 hours, the bottle...

Re: NA Style Baby... (Planted) can i just ask how much rock you have there? It's a hard thing to quantify online..

Re: NA Style Baby... (Planted) eye on this.. :)

I have this species currently growing half submerged. No problems with melt or dying leaves above the surface, even though some are bone dry.

Another mention here for Wholesale Tropicals, really nice business there. Has helped me out from the beginning.

:roll: i changed my mind, it's better with the arched co2 line.. :clap: Looks good, interested in this new carpet you're attempting. That plant really is luminous!

I'd rather just look after my glass, than negate its value by "protecting" it with a inferior piece of glass, which (from experience in rentals) can become smashed and subsequently warped and fixed into the lens, after a knock or bash that would otherwise not have caused a problem. The kind of...

But they even have a term for this, it's called "prosumer"! ;) Maybe you have had good experience with retailers, but from my experience, most people taking the jump from a P&S to more serious equipment end up wasting a large proportion of their budget, because they chose something they either...

Really? In the nicest possible way, this strikes me as slightly naive. The photography industry has one of the biggest crossovers, from amateur to professional directed equipment among amateurs, and this success story for the retailer is entirely motivated by the myth of 'needing' a faster...

I find it surprising no-one has asked what you are shooting? If it's just tanks and such, i think it would be worth avoiding buying such kits with superfluous bits, and instead in perhaps a decent flashgun or two and some diffusers, these will hold nearer their value in future. I find...

NP! You can get them for about a fiver each, especially if you buy ten at a time. I think the Fluval ones run at least a tenner.. :shh:

I'm sure George is just as critical of himself, otherwise he wouldn't have such nice tanks! ;)

I'm looking at buying the macro + micro + carb kit, they appear to be really good value.. Might pick up three of these at the same time: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Plastic-Bottles-L ... _500wt_922 ;)

You probably already considered this, George, and maybe i'm being slightly picky, but couldn't you run that Co2 line straight down? Beautiful tank though. Are you buying air rifle cartridges for the fluval? The OEM ones appear to be a rip-off!

Late to the party here, but i have to say, a brilliant little tank, and an excellent journal. Everything from the scape, to the livestock, the setup and photography is great! I especially love the dragon rock and Hydrocotyle Verticillata, I think these are what makes the tank. In fact I suspect...

did anyone ever resolve this?

Re: Krish's 60cm Rescape - 7 Week Old. You have the same tank/light setup as me, and I am about to rescape myself! Looks great, terrific thread! How do you think the cardinals like the powerhead? I'm concerned about having one in such a small tank because the fish might suffer from the flow..