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Hi, I live in D R Congo near the Congo River. If you need some info. Great looking tank. Cheers

Hi I would avoid to put the power head opposite to the spray bar (flow conflict) this is physique. Try to put it just under the spray bar pointing a bit upward. It will help the pray bar for better flow. regards

Hi, Be careful of over dosing LC for your fish mate!!! I think you can also improve your flow for better CO2 distribution. If it was my tank I would put the spray bar on the left instead of right. Because you have an open space on the right, on the left you have substrate going up with a lot of...

A very sad day for his family and for all of us !! His work have inspire the hobby and he can be proud of what he has achieved in his life for his passion. He will be miss but we will still get inspire by his work and still thinking about this great man. RIP master

Here are some pictures of the tank. Unfortunately I have been a bit stupid and didn't took out the CO2 diffuser !! So really sorry for that ! Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

Of course stones were not clean after a month with out brushing it. I will put pictures of the tank after maintenance Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

Sorry for the pipes and the diffuser in the tank. This tank is not woah but I like it. Cheers Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

Hi guys, I think I will let the carpet recover a bit, the time for me to think about a new scape maybe order some plants. I think I will escape in a month. I'll let you know when I start something. OK I post some picture but the quality is very low. but at least you will see how it was after...

Hi UKAPS Members, I hope that every one is ok and that you are not suffering of heat during this summer ? I didn't post something since very long time in our beautiful forum, so I told my self that it would be a good idea to report a bit about my tank. NA 90x45x50 cm, in tank bazooka diffuser...

Yes that's the one !! very nice. If Hard water is a problem for this plant, it won't be a problem for me as I have soft water. I'll order it one day when $$ permit it. Best regards

I don't have any more test kit so can't be accurate. But as I change 80% of water this must be the good value Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

KH2 or KH3 My tape water os kH0 and i add 1/2 tea spoon of mgso4 and 1/4 Ca. Once a week after water change. So KH must be 2 or 3 Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

Update of the tank. Cheers Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

Hi Clive, What is the stem plant on the right on top of the Pogo please ? Fabulous health !!!

KH 3 Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

Hi guys sorry I have had a problem with my phone. Thanks for all your advices. Finally the same day I decided to do a quick propagator system. The prop is places on my balcony with only one hour of direct sun light but I cover the prop with a glass I ll show you the pictures tomorrow. The...

Hi guys I have just received a batch of plants today, They are in the box since 12 days now. You can imagine that when I opened the box all the plants are in bad shape !! What should I do ? As all the plants are emerge growing should I plant them in a propagator at the window with Congolese...

Hi José, you are in Kinshasa ????????? That's great to know that there is an other UKAPS member in Kinshasa, I was feeling a bit lonely here hahaha ! So we should meet and do the first UKAPS MEMBER MEETING in Congo I am sure the forum would be happy to see that even in center africa UKAPS is a...

Thanks guys for you help and for posting pictures. Yes Troy that's good ! Thomas I decided to go with 25 cm even if it doesn't a full shallow effect. Thanks again I will post picture of me building the tank. Cheers

Thanks James I will follow your journal ! I hope to take the decision by tomorrow morning so I order the glasses and start doing it ASAP. Cheers

Hi Alastair thanks for your pic mate ! Great tanks by the way !!! I think you are right about the length vs height. For a 50 cm long it will have more shallow effect if I use a 25 cm height. If I use 30 cm I think that the shallow effect would be "kill". Hope it makes sense. I think George...

Hi all, maybe some of you have seen that I want to build a shallow tank. Yesterday I was set on the height of the tank and wanted this dimension 50x40x25 cm. But I woke up this morning and started to think that maybe 25cm high will be too shallow, so now i am lost again hahaha. So I have...

Thanks guys for your last podcast !! good to go back to basis !!! cheers

Thanks for your work and your in put in this hobby

Hi all, after reading this thread, I can say that I am really happy that I have both my NA kit just before the sell it and change it for a more expensive aquavast system hehe ;) cheers guys

Hi Just to let you know that I don't have melting since a week now. Since 3 days I can see new green growth !!! The only down side is that diatomic algae is taking over all plants and hardscape. How can I get ride of this ? black out ? cheers

I just understood that by reading a link in the thread you linked me lol cheers

Why such a strong product is not harmful for plants ?

So we can take out one parameter (chlorine/chloramine) of why I have a growth problems in my tank ? DOes this mean every time I do a WC I add a small amount of Ammonia ? Can this small amount help the diatomic algae to bloom or persist ? Cheers

Thanks for the link !!

Thanks guys for your answer. I can easily find activated carbon here ! I have a friend who have a water factory and I know he import a load of it for the production of drinking water. I don't have any livestock in there only plants. As I said I want to know how to grow plants !! I have been...

Hi Edvet, What do you mean by Coal ?? I don't know what is it ? cheers

What is the difference between Chlorine and Chloramine ? It is armful for the plants I suppose ? cheers

I will try to have the info (I don't know how) of what they put in their water ! Yes it looks like bacterial. Do you think it could be a reaction of the bacteria to the chloramine or chlorine ??

Hi, So I did a 60% WC, took out the part of the sand that had precipitation on it. I have put some tetra aquasafe after water change. I will let my water stay in a container for 24 hours for every WC now, like that we will see if I have a chlorine problem. Because I put directly from tap to...

First time I do this so first time I see that :D

No but yesterday I dosed trace in the afternoon and at 9pm I have put macro. So yes this precipitation. What is the move. 50% WC. I was thinking that you could dose macro and micro within three or four hours lol

And white matter is on and in a part of the substrate. Can it be a reaction between Iron and phosphate ?

Some thing very strange happened in my tank !! Water change was two days ago and today when lights turned on the water is yellow ???

Ok no problem I will do it

the "congolese camera" is a Canon 5D lol

Hi Clive, My sister's cam cameback from japan, they have fixed the problem. But she is in Kenya since a week and she will be back in a month ! I can film with my go pro (it films in 1080p) so quality is good. Or I can film with my iphone. It would be great to see a video of a tank with strong...

Forgot to say, temp is a bit too high 27,7 C°

Hi guys, So yesterday was the first full day with the changes. The ph drop is better with this configuration it reached 3,65. I wasn't satisfied how the CO2 bubbles were hit by the flow, so I added a koralia pump just under the outlet of the filter, 20 min after installation ph drop to 3,2 ...

Hi Thomas, thanks for your in put, I have already tried this :p, I did first the CO2 tube directly in the inlet not working, than I tried to put the UP on the inlet, and still having gas build up :arghh:. This is due to the huuuuge amount of CO2 I need to pump to reach good concentration in my...

No I didn't chop the foam !! I will do it next time I clean the filter, and give a try to put the tube in the inlet. I have to find some calibration fluid for my ph pen, but here in Congo it will impossible so I will have to order it !! So should I wait and see for 10 days ? If there is no...

Hi Clive, So yesterday I did a big clean in the tank, cleaning glasses, scrubbing plants, stir substrate in some area, clean the stones .... I made a change in distribution. I put back the 25mm hose of FX5, put the big ceramic disc in the tank. Up the power of FX5 to almost 50%. With a bigger...

Hi Clive, thanks for our reply. I have already tried to put the CO2 tubbing in the inlet filter, but result is not good. With the high amount of CO2 that I pump the result is that I got a CO2 buid up at the top of the filter and every 10 or 15 min there is a huge blast of big CO2 bubbles coming...

Hi Clive, I am trying to max out my CO2, but the up atomizer is giving me head hack, at a certain pressure it starts outputting only big and medium bubble, and that's inefficient !! I have two solution to that : - As I told Ady, I have a 5cm ceramic disc that is doing nothing. But it is a...

Hi mate how are you ? thanks for your support !! Since friday I have crank up the CO2, the only problem is the UP AQUA atomizer, when I want to pump big amount of CO2, instead of having a huge mist, I have a lot of big bubbles and medium bubbles. In this configuration the drop of ph is slower...

One week twin star is in the tank. For now no result on brown algae (diatom) still growing and covering plants and hardscape. I need maybe improvement in placement or some thing else for better results ?! Nothing special to report :(

Hi Clive, thank you for looking at the chart for me :p In fact I have totally forgot that few month ago I lowered my light to 20 cm. Bulb are exactly at 67 cm from the substrate where Monte Carlo is. So I must be in the good range with the 2x36 w ?? Unfortunately yesterday I run out of CO2...

Hi Darrel thank you for you in put ! I wanted to know why you suggest me to up my photoperiod ? do you think that because of the low light I have 72 w over 200 L (90x45x50cm) is not enough powerful to have a good start in the photosynthesis process. So lengthen the photoperiod of one or two...

Hi Clive, thanks for your answer, should I increase the injection rate on one shot ? or should I go slowly to not stress the metabolism inside the plant ? I know I ask a lot, but should I go for a drop of more than 2 ph point ? When I degas water I have a Ph of 7,3, is this base from where I...

As the Monte Carlo is melting from the bottom, should I trim ot a replant the tops that are alive ? Or is it a waist of time ? cheers

The substrate is just plain sand of congo river !! We will see what Clive will say. maybe he will kill us hahaha. But I remember Tom and Clive saying that Ratio doesn't matter and that you just need to be sure that ferts have to be sufficient for the plant demand. So I assume that even if you...

Thanks mate !!! I thought that this was a myth. but I will read again this thread. But I am sure that master Clive told us it is a myth lol . Maybe my dosing regime can help us. KNO3 --> 1/2 tsp 3 time a week (I put a bit more of 1/2) KH2PO4 --> 1/3 tsp (a bit less) 3 time a week MgSO4 -->...

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Hi nature boy, thanks for your answer mate !! unfortunately I don't have an algae crew, first because I can't find these type of fish or shrimp in congo. Second is that I want to know how to grow plant before doing plant and fish. The first two weeks plant were growing, and than it's stop...

Ela pepe, I am dosing EI even more than what's in the tutorial

Maybe Chloride yes but before when they were using it you could clearly smell it when opening the tap. since more than a year I can smell nothing. Maybe someone can tell us if chloride can do structural issues (melt ...) Darrel ? Clive ? My truck company use to transport Chloride and sulfate...

I almost want to cry when the lights turn on every day lol :p

Hi guys, I am again in an aquascaping blues !!!!! :banghead: :arghh: I am very lost guys, after writing my first aquascaping blues thread, I decided to go for a new scape without informing the forum or starting a journal to be sure to succes before showing something. So I cleaned the tank, the...

Hi guys I just wanted to report something. As I live in Congo we have a lot of power problems. I wanted to let you know that if the power goes off you need to restart and select again the mode you are using. So it doesn't comeback on itself Cheers

Hi Rob, I decide to use twinstat to prevent algae (I hope) and to give an help for the growth. It a newly set up tank (two weeks). I will report how benefit it will be for the tank ;). Regards

Hi guys Just to let you know I received my twin star this morning yeah

I would go with the 60 cm tank mate cheers

Hi members, great news, I wanted to buy the device, but finally to the decision to buy it next month or later. Two days ago my wife have seen the twinstar web site on my computer, she went through the web site. As next friday it's my birthday, she decided to offer me one :happy: !!!! So she...

Hi jonny, Mate can we have some spec of your tank please ? Volume Filter Ferts Co2 Light We will more able to help you if we have these infos please. We have the answer for your algae problem but we need a direction. Cheers

Hi Bertie, maybe you plant mass have increase since than , so your CO2 needed have increase with it, as you have not increase CO2 along with your plant mass. As I can read only these two plants suffer from this, and they are closer to the light. Maybe as they have grow they reach that closer...

Thank you for your report Viktor

I have re read it !!! Great reading thanks

Thanks for your answer mate. I really want to give a shot to the TS, to tell the truth I want to do an impulsive move and buy it lol. to tell the truth I am actually on on line store just waiting to push on the ok button of my wish list. thanks again

Hi guys, so yesterday night after seeing a post of George in Facebook where he says using twinstar in his new NA tank, I started being curious about the device because if George is using it, it must have some positive actions. So this thread came to my mind. I started reading it from the first...

I can see that you are still only a member and not a ninja my friend !! there must be a problem in the execution of these award lol. What would be my level guys ?? cheers

Hi, I agree with troi. :p Where are they ?? :D You really make me laugh on that one troi haha Cheers

That's not a good return to home. Fortunately for me I have some one who will come every day and can control this. Thanks

Hi Ian, thanks for the imput ! your periplastic pump is very impressive mate !!!! But unfortunately I don't have the skills and the time to build that lol. I just had a call from my friend and he decided this morning to go in holidays at the same time so no one can make WC. I will prepare small...

Hi every one, hope you had a good week end guys ? So in 10 days I am living the country for 24 days, and I wanted to know how to prepare my tank for these long holidays ?? I have someone who will come every days to feed the cats, but this person won't be able to do water change, and to put...

Hi members I wanted to know of someone have this cabinet. Because I would like to buy it and like I can't see it physically I wanted to know : What are the dimension of the filter storage. What is the width of the door for that section of the cabinet. If I ask that it's because I have a FX 5...

Hi, yes I can collect my live stock, what ever lives in congo river I can have it lol. Maybe i will put some Jae barb or butterfly barb or a group of Phenacogrammus interruptus, I don't know yet. I am sure that when that day will come I will have a lot of ukaps members that will advice me...

Hi guys, I am living for holidays in one month for 23 days, so I will put down one of my tank. So I have been thinking last night about what would be the next scape, I couldn't sleep because of that :) . Until I found an idea ! I am living in Congo with an incredible biotope, I have already...

Congrats Mark. Our ukaps community is becoming stronger and stronger !!

Hi yes exactly you can use floating plants for that reason !! cheers

Hope that I made my self understandable ?? Haha

Hi sorry to hijack your thread mate, but I have been reading it and a question came to my mind about what Clive is saying there. I totally agree what you are saying there about adaptation from emerge to submerge form, and that a the start plants (emerge) are relying on theirs stock when they...

Hi you will always benefit from doing bigger water change (as i have understand) if you can do a minimum of 50% WC each week it will be good. the hole can be a deficiency in fertilizer i am not sure but it can be potassium deficiency. BUT it can also be a CO2 deficiency. Try to add more CO2...

Hahaha That s nice lol !!

Aaah Congolese Internet connexion is blahblahblahblah !! I don't understand why the picture is not fully download Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This Xmas I was in Kenya. During the safari I took some pic that can maybe gives ideas for a scape. The Mara river Hope one day it could help some one Regards Zanguli Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks !! I Will try it and let you know as soon as I got my filter. Regards Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok Every one have talk about outlet and inlet position. But what about plant and hardscape composition. Did you have noticed that with this kind of composition you are having flow problem or something else ? Like when you have full of stem plants at the back, it s stuck the flow, or when you...

Hi mike. I have read your thread because tonight I am receiving my Fx5 and it was very interesting to read it !! Thank you For the inlet also you have change the tubing ? You have use 22 mm tube ? WAs it fitting correctly the Fx5 without problems ?? Because I have a inline atomizer of 22 mm...

To detect dead spot, usually you can see an accumulation of debris or organic waste in a certain point. Like behind a stone or around a plant that is too thick. Just look to waste accumulation on substrate to understand where is the dead spot. Regards Zanguli Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi, There is thread about someone using a fluval FX 5, where they explain how to modified the tubing to use an inline atomizer. I am now on tapatalk and I don't have the link. But here is picture if it can help. Cheers zanguli Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

YOU ARE RIGHT ARANA ! THANK YOU CHEERS

And what about composition ??

HELLO, are you not facing problems with a lack of flow at the bottom of your plant, due to the transition of the foreground plants, to the middle and the background plants ? For me I think this is the more powerful flow you can have, because water have less space to travel. If you take my actual...

Yes tank you mow I understand. And you have found that with this technic you have a better collect of the waste !! So it is a rolling flow from right to left !? I think it s a good technic ! Thanks for opening the debate !!! Please guys continue to post on this discussion Sent from my...

At the moment I'm using a corner to corner flow (round) and I'm facing some problems with dead spot along the middle of the tank. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk