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Ooooh you've got a Lily about to flower. :)

I had what looked like leeches once when I first set up my large aquarium. Horrid things, but eventually they disappeared. I think, but not sure if they came in with plants I ordered from Malaysia.

I imagine you can try the glut, Hydrogen peroxide or even Tims suggestion. I quite like Tims idea, did the GSA clean up quickly and with just one application?

In a planted tank one should not shy away from nitrates and phosphates especially if using the EI approach. Nitrates and phosphates are taken up by plants in a certain ratio. When there is not sufficient nutrients added to the aquarium KNO3 often becomes limiting (used up). I can't remember off...

It sounds like you had the right ones anyway from your description of their behaviour. Dinky babies are even more difficult, I would normally first look at the snout, it is more abrupt on the C.atrilimes than the above photo. Then the colour above the black line. In the photo there is no obvious...

I wrote somthing about SAE quite a while ago: Which Crossocheilus siamensis??? | UK Aquatic Plant Society. C. siamensensis is an erroneous name since it is not a species, but an umbrella label for at least three seperate species and only one of those is known to eat BBA (and one of the others...

I used to get Cyano in planted tanks after a year or so. This was more than a decade ago before I did large weekly water changes an EI dosing. I have never ever had a cyano outbreak since beit high tech or low tech tanks. I am wondering how did you end up with this situation to start with in...

Are you based in India or UK? I just looked back at your photos and saw the living room, looks like a house in India to me. :) I would have thought you must be able to source some excellent wood overthere. The piece you already have in the tank is very nice tree structure. I notice the...

I think much has already been said. I just wanted to confirm that Anubias and ferns can do very well in low light, low tech setups, albeit they grow slowly. Anubias in my experiance seem to do better than Java fern under low light. One thing that Anubias can suffer from is Green spot Algae, I...

Another option would be to keep an SAE or few, although if this is your biotope setup you may not want to.

Hmm maybe in the wild lands of the north :P Sorry to hear about the loss Redsteveo, most of us will make some bad and expensive mistakes in the hobby at some time. It is good that you shared, maybe some others will avoid this.

Hello Ceg, so do you dose by just adding the powder straight into the water or do you mix it up in a solution? Thanks. Sanj

Weekly dosing, that was somthing on my mind...the frequency, thanks for that. I was going to keep this one low tech for the moment as I do not know if I could handle two high techs right now with all the maintenance. Having said that I have ordered a python, which I hope will take the pain out...

Hi Ed, Thank you for replying. it has an external fluval filter. I have done one big clean up and will do so again on the weekend. Do you think i should add co2 with the lighting I have(<2WPG)? The current flora is just java fern and crypt species, doing ok. i think there is some dormant...

Hello, I have a low light aquarium 48x20x28(h) and 120W (4x30w) lighting with reflectors. This aquarium has been in a prolonged period of neglect for about a year after i lost insterest following a major mishap in my other aquarium over a year ago. Anyway I now have regained the enthusiasm to...