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Is it? Please explain.

I think Simon has put it best

Id leave the betta out, 6 celestial pearl danios and/or six cories, as 10 and 15 of each one in a ten is too much. Probably not the otos either, as for the ten/twenty gallon, that rule doesn't really apply, the growth of fish stocking is exponential opposed to linear. I would just do 8 cpds in...

Release the Kraken! Just checking in with the aquaphiliacs. I have not added any new tech to the swamp. The only new addition is some Salvinia auriculata from Ebay which is a nice touch. Here is a recent pic: I thought about a mister / fogger but now feel it is not necessary. The swamp...

I’ve tried a few different things in my Biomaster and it hasn’t altered the appearance of the water at all. Different media may affect the flow, but I don’t know how much?

Mine does the same, and it's not sucking down air from the skimmer, I've double checked all the seals and but on safe grease.

426 ppm CO2 in air is expressed by volume. 1 to 30 ppm CO2 in water is expressed by weigh. Unit conversion from by volume to by weight is not simple. Parts Per Million (ppm) Converter. My calculation shows that 426 ppm CO2 by volume is equivalent to 826 mg /m3 or 0.826 mg/l by weight in...

Here’s my thoughts on choosing how to stock an aquarium. It’s not straightforward enough to build “a calculator”. I think your tanks are too small for most fish personally.

Hi Marco. I am Simon and I am a plant nerd. 🤓

Welcome! :)

Looks beautiful, that red plant behind blyxa is spiral tiger?

Sounds great. There was a post about what members do for a living somewhere? Really interesting to find out about people we sometimes kindly share advice with!

lily pipe attachment that slots onto an Oase outlet. It could just slot onto the elbow that is already there? Thanks for asking.

So after the last update I went ahead and purchased a small school of 12 green neons, love these little guys. Hopefully going to add a few more in the coming weeks to take that up to maybe 20. Nothing major to report over the next week. Fish settled in, plants all growing nicely. The following...

I'm finding that the Eleocharis Pusila in the foreground is becoming rather messy and looking tired, so I'm thinking of removing it and planting something else. Maybe Hemianthus Callitrichoides or similar. Any thoughts or recommendations? As it's only a 55L aquascape I need a more compact...

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I'm talking more about YT channels no the forum Sent from my SM-S918B using Tapatalk

I’ve not seen that any of the sponsors on this forum have actively tried to push or promote any products.

I think they both can be grown on rocks greenaqua have done it few times

Pretty sure I've seen it done, but it'll be more demanding than Monte Carlo to get similar results

No, I wouldn’t. In my opinion that’s too many fish for a tank of that size (38L).

What was your tap water like before and now , i think its all about the water and co2, even co2 concentration depend on the water, i live in london-ish and tds from tap is 250 , not disastrous but not good. I had loads of alge when using intank diffuser specially bba , moved to inline and thats...

Hi all, That is why I chose a floating plant for the <"Duckweed Index">, it removes one variable. Plants always have access to <"426 ppm of atmospheric CO2"> and it never runs out. cheers Darrel

For me Clive sums up the Glutaraldehyde debate in this post. The truth is we have no idea how adding glut exactly benefits the plants, they may well get an extra 1~2ppm of CO2 availability over the course of the day, or they may not. Maybe the carbon source is generated via some other pathway...

I only have a 35 ltr nano tank. It is packed with plants and so they get in the way of the flow. I find the whole idea of Co2 being distributed throughout the tank pretty crazy. I have just watched the latest ADA YTube video and theres no way that Co2 was being blasted around the tank. It was...

Yes it is Wookii. Plain expanding foam. Then i carved it just with a plain sharp potato knife and broke some pieces of it. Some people use a small torch but thats stupid since the foambubbles still contains gas sometimes... Then i covered it with 5/6 layers of epoxy resin. First pics i have...

It only occurred to me to look for forums a week or two ago -- I've got so used to Facebook and all it's drama I kind of forgot they existed, which is flipping ridiculous given my Internet Age 🤣

Hi all, They look <"OK growthwise">, but I can't really <"tell how green they are"> because of the light colour. cheers Darrel

Hi all, Obviously <"I'm UKAPS biased">, and <"not an entirely objective commentator">, but that is one of the great advantages of UKAPS. We don't have <"anything to sell">, we have a very extensive <"library"> of past threads and a lot of members who've <"seen it, done it and bought the tee...

I think you've gotten some good advice, but I would add in some big water changes and clean your substrate throughly to get rid of as many dissolved organics as possible. You don't need to plunge your siphon deep into the substrate to do this, check out Dennis Wong's turkey baster technique for...

Oh I have loads of bladder snails... whether I like it or not. And a massive pond snail. I might actually source some larger ramshorns. I added some nerites today. Here's some photos of my floating plants. I added some in-vitro red root floaters today after I took the photos.

So you would add them both? Like 15 Danios and 10 Corys, togheter with 4 Otocinclus and even a Betta? I'm considering returning the Betta... One question tho: Is it safe to assume that a 10gal tank can house half the fish of a 20gal tank (assuming it's the same species and it's small enough...

Thank you. She's much better and is back at school two afternoons a week, but she's palliative and we are making the most of things. The tanks have become a distraction :).

Thanks, that's really useful!

The concentration of gas is no indication of how much the plants absorb, only how much there is available. If a plant uses 1g of carbon a day when there is 30ppm of CO2, it could be that it would absorb that same amount of carbon from the magical glut sub-products, even at a much lower...

Thanks, Michael, that's helpful!

Move the DC or add another to bottom of tank - you may find you dont get the same colour change. I use to check my pH with a probe at various depths and places in tank to check the the pH drop was even in my 50cm deep tank. Having floating plants in a high tech tank with 50cm depth is a...

Wow, that's very popular! 🤣

I'm stealing them from the ones my OH has picked for beer :).

Thanks all, that gives me some more weekends reading!

I don't have much of an update, but I feel like this tank is getting closer to being truly balanced. There have been a million little things that have been bugging me (spots of algae, specific plants not quite growing as they should) and about half of them have resolved over the last month or...

You could try using a fork to tease it out of the carpet, but if you go too deep you might snag a tenellum runner!

Added some plants around the outside of the pond and re-purposed the barrel.

You're right that most of the CO2 gas is lost to atmosphere, but even after those losses the concentration in the water column is 30 ppm (or more) - that's what makes the drop checker change colour with injected CO2. It is that 30 ppm that is fully available to the plants, which is why the <1...

While I don't expect glut to contribute significantly (or at all) to carbon absorption in plants, I feel the need to play the devil's advocate and add that it is possibly unfair to compare the "equivalent ppms of CO2" that the molecules could eventually generate if degraded, to what we add of...

Hello everyone, I am Marco, a software engineer with a deep passion for technology. On a weekday, most of the time was spent coding and problem-solving in the digital realm, but on weekends, I spent my time with plants and cultivating green spaces. Gardening is not just a hobby for me—it is a...

I wouldn't recommend aqua advisor, it doesn't take plant mass into consideration among other things, and according to it my mature 200l planted tank is going to explode with ammonia tomorrow. it does the job though, and you cant really go wrong with it, it just doesn't really show the full...

Looking forward to seeing them. Is this just expanding foam that you have carved to shape? What did you use to carve it?

I know people have done this with Monte carlo but has there been any success doing this with dwarf baby tears or can I only grow in the substrate? In this context I'm talking about growing them on lava rocks underwater instead of above water. Sent from my SM-S918B using Tapatalk

Hi all, Nerites don't tend to graze plant leaves very effectively, but they are <"good on hard scape"> etc.. Snails like <"Physella acuta"> & Planorbella duryi are more effective at getting to "difficult to reach" places <"Algea id, root of cause and how to deal">. People don't like Tadpole...

Hi Darrel, Nice to have your input again. You have really helped me in my previous scape. Thank you! By "nutrients are non-limiting" do you mean that they might even be in excess? All plants in my new scape were moved over from the one in the photo above. Puzzling how with same light...

Hi Zeus thanks for your input. Photoperiod was 8h before I reduced it to 6h a few days ago . The tank is 53cm deep. If I reduce intensity to 50% won't it be an issue for lower plants? All the plants do wave gently and I can see the co2 micro-bubbles allover the tank. I can replace the neo...

I have these 2 nano tank, 10gal each (28.5cm x 33.5cm x 42cm), and I'm unsure what is the recommended stocking for them. I've been using Aqadvisor.com as a guide for awhile now, but the stocking levels indicated by that site seems a bit too high. Both tank don't register any nitrates, either...

Hi all, It really, really <"p*sses me off"> - <"Its a miracle!"> All you can do is what you've done, give an <"honest appraisal of a product">. If all <"sponsored content"> and <"infomercials"> were labelled as such? It would help. cheers Darrel

I take old backpacks / gym bags to the supermarket… had some sniggers from other customers. To me it makes perfect sense to use anything that holds stuff, when you need to hold stuff.

Hi all, It isn't a nutrient deficiency symptom, the green algae (Chlorophyta) have the same <"basic physiology and photosystems"> as all the mosses, ferns and higher plants (clade Chlorobionta). I would regard them as all <"plants">, you just have "plants you want" and "plants you don't want"...

That is a fair point about ruling out medical causes for behavioural issues. I agree it's less likely if he is fine on the days you are there. The thing that might make it worth it is it sounds like he's not going through the night? As an adult he should be able to sleep through 8 hours without...

Yeah this is the really annoying thing about this sponsorship hype culture in the community. I made the same mistake earlier on when I bought the Tidal 35 filter based of 'reputable' YT Channels. The filter turned out to be an unsightly bulky unit with very poor flow and a silly compartment, but...

With you on that one. I had a Baz and it worked really well. I changed it because i thought well if others are using it.... and purchased from one of our sponsors. I put it in and thought if this does the same thing as the Baz, well thats brilliant? Its was total rubbish from the outset the...

Hey there I think no one mentioned before what I’m going to say (hopefully). I used my BioMaster Thermo 850 fully loaded with Seachem Matrix and then just using original media. I found that with original media water looks much much clearer than when I used Matrix. With matrix there was always...

You have done the obvious photo period and I would reduce intensity to 50% max. From the pic there seems to be low surface agitation, which makes getting a stable pH drop difficult, do the plants wave about in the flow in the tank? The output of the filter is 1450lph which is a tad low for the...

Oh that gives me hope! Gotta say man, the anticipation is what kills me hahaha

Thank you for the reply! Ah i see, alright I'll drop the lighting back down and do WC's every other day while removing the BGA. Let me see if my LFS would be willing to spare me some filter juice :D

I will do just that, thanks again man!

Hey! Your aquarium looks really nice 👍 to be honest I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong. Maybe nitrogen is a little low? As for the algae, I doubt photo period is the cause, and depleted soil shouldn’t be causing this either? You may have introduced a lot of dormant algae spores from...

It's going to be alot better once the jungle starts to cover all the hardscaping more. New ferts arrived last night so will start them once the TNC finishes.

I've setup a camera this morning to ensure that Son does feed the fish while I'm gone. And have made sure he puts alarms for everyday, thankfully he's only 10 doors down from me. So he can't complain its far too walk to mine. Going to do a big water change and harvest as many snails as I can...

Actually I have tried pens with him as a puppy. I had to bungee cord them to the rads. Or else he would push the cage around the room. Or he would limb out of them during the day. And then could not get to his bowl or his water. So pens were out. And baby gates were used to contain him to...

I'm a veterinarian in the US, and I definitely recommend this dog have blood work done as well as a urinalysis by cystocentesis, so the vet can check for masses or stones in the bladder. Bassets are famous for getting stones in their bladder, which cause a lot of discomfort and UTIs. Bladder...

Hello all, I'm struggling with some type of hair/fuzz algae that seems to be very aggressive in its growth. It attacks new growth within a day even in fast growing stem plants. There's no specific area of algae growth, everything is affected, from the substrate to near the surface. Some plants...

Well the tank is planted…the dark start didn’t go as long as I had hoped but I’m impatient I guess.. Everything came in as emersed or tissue culture so going to take a while till it looks like anything. I’m currently thinking about going with an Eheim 2213 instead of the 2217 that I’m using...

Just use a small fan , anything is better than nothing. Mc always melts for me some survied and is growing ok now

https://hugokamishi.com/cat/gravel/natural-gravels/ Available fairly wide spread. Have a look what your local fish shop has in stock too - they often have bags of 'plain' gravel. You can put tropica substrate (looks like dry powdered mud rather than the soil that looks like brown gravel)...

They do mate bought two and they are expensive! both broke/ leaked . I use inline now from aliexpress qanvee ones no issues

I also have one as my 'test anything on tank' it's currently a BBA battle zone. Quite fun actually. 👍

Dennerle 20l nano cube :)

Good night Ukaps ;)

Another new leaf from the spiralis 'tiger'. Only this one is after i inserted some self made fe pills in the sand after a month and an extra twinstar g-line. Left and right are leaves month earlier.

What size tank is that, I really like it!

Nothing, just gravel, with Tropica liquid fertiliser dosed weekly! Cheers!

Most of the wild caught fish in the hobby are exported from developing nations and the industry is a major source of income in some developing nations, and more importantly some otherwise impoverished communities. Further, involving the indigenous population in fish and plant collecting can have...

Thanks for the appreciation! The 'land part' is basically purfoam with a thick coloured epoxy resin. Thanks Wookii! Apreciated! The riparium has 4 waterfalls and 3 have internal tubings. Here are a few building pics. Will upload more soon ;)

It might need a day or two to run in.

Sorry to hear about the arowana. Im liking the tank, and looking forward to seeing it develop.

It's confusing,when supermarkets started not free anymore now the pay for plastic shopping bags ,we thought they would work on a biogradeable alternative, hessian based or similar biodegradeable. But a few years on it seems just the same if not most plastic bags sold(someone's making a mint) l...

I used to get excellent plant growth with laterite, river sand (a fine gravel) and minimal co2 (just topping up what was used by the plants).

I do remember the mulm, yes. Im going through that now with my Tropica soil after 3 years and bba is creeping in. So i am trying to clean it up using the 2hr Aquarist method of poofing the soil with a poofer (turkey baster) whilst getting rid of the crap at the same time. Guess its okay to lock...

So in my 7 gallon I've been using an old bazooka diffuser I got from Ebay years ago and it works great. Creates a fine mist and I can have my co2 down to 1.5bps and have my drop checker lime green in 2 hours. I saw a couple reviews and hype over these aquario neo diffusers where people state...

Beautiful shrimp 🦐

I’m sure a quick google search would lead you to an answer. For example… https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11503062/

It is important for me to understand whether bacteria eat the decomposition products of glutaraldehyde..

Okay those are very different companies btw... but anyway, what do you specifically suggest they should do? ... the reason why I am asking is because in this day and age companies that claims sustainable production methods, delivery etc. often turns out to be offering nothing more than...

Thank you both for your input. I did upgrade to a fluval 407, removed the dense sponges and flowrate seemed more than adequate.Unfortunately I think the reason my first tank was algae free was the sheer amount of plant mass. This one is not doing so well.

I hear what you are saying and have an interest in 'international development' but this comment is getting off topic really. The point is that an industry which so readily harks on about replicating and enjoying nature does very little to distinguish itself from any other industry. I've just...

With BGA, I would reduce lighting back to 6h, do more WCs than usual while siphoning the most BGA I can, keep fert the same and wait to see how it goes. If you can find filter stuff or a plant from an other hobbyist with an old/established tank it could help also.

I have almost given up with trying to save the world with my recycling bin. Have a look after one week what you put in that thing. Its bloody insane. Honestly, do you know what happens to that? How on earth do you think that it gets turned into anything useful, but more packaging at absolute...

The high temperature could be an issue for the Monte Carlo. Place the drop checker on the glass opposite your CO2 diffuser.

I saw a video today from GreenAqua where they put the glue on the hard scape then pressed the Anubias onto the glue.

I agree. While there are more environmentally sound ways of packaging stuff - recycled and/or biodegradable plastic, cardboard etc. - a big part of the problem as I see it, is that we tend over-package everything excessively - be it our groceries or the packages we get from Amazon (an ironic...

All of it would be great to see, especially the waterfall build! Fantastic tank incidentally!