cycling

Not quite as bad as sophies choice but. I moved Neon Tetra's out of a 4 week quarantine on Saturday. I left the 90L tank running and dosed ammonia once to keep as much living bacteria in the filters as possible. Late last night I spotted what appears to be columnaris on one of the neon tetra...

Hi all, Not a paper this time, but another <"Seasoned Tank"> cycling video from Cory at the Aquarium Co-Op. He sounds a bit world weary on this one, and <"I know that feeling">. cheers Darrel

I’m currently setting up a small aquarium for the desk in my uni room, using a 18cm tall by 14cm wide IKEA vase. I reckon it holds about 2L of water. The plan is to just plant it with some stem plants like Limnophila Sessiliflora, Bacopa Compact and epiphytes. I’d like to put a few small...

Hey everyone, I'm new to the UKAPS community and hoping you can help me :D (and looking forward to sharing my knowledge too). I've read endless articles/videos/threads so I'll do my best to answer any common questions in the description so you have as much info as possible. I'd really like to...

Hey all, I am about 3 days in to my new planted tank. I am using a 'hang on back' filter. On the intake tube, I put an additional sponge to protect future shrimps, and also I heard that it's serves as an additional media for beneficial bacteria to grow. However, as of just few days, I can...

Hi all, Hoping for some advice. My 120 (US) gallon (450 litres) planted tank is nearing the end of its cycle. The plants went in four days ago. There is a layer of Tetra Complete (plant) substrate, covered by a layer of 1mm fine black gravel. There are root tabs evenly distributed throughout...

Hi All, I've set up my first tank about 2 weeks ago, but unfortunately, I haven't had the chance to start cycling right after, because I was away and I wanted to monitor it closely, so I started cycling about 4-5 days ago. I am trying to do a fishless cycle with fish food (flakes). I added a...

Hi guys So I want to re-scape my 120L which has been set up for 6 months now. It has a stock of 20 or so and is filtered by an Oase Biomaster Thermo 350. If I reuse the same filter and media (just un-plug and re-plug within a few hours) and if I reuse some of the gravel and substrate, plus I...

do plants really absorb ammonia and nitrite and if so how well do they absorb it

I am hesitant in posting these photo's at all as there are so many expert tanks on show here, but I hope you'll forgive the novice blunders (and my terrible photography)! Our tank is as follows: - Tank: Fluval Edge 46 litre (12 Us gallons), no additional lighting but an E series Fluval heater...

Ok so I'm about 4 weeks into my first aquascape and the tank is nearly cycled...showing 0.25 ammonia and 0.25 nitrite with 10ppm nitrate. I'm running an ei dosing schedule with a 50% water change on Sundays. It's a 64 litre tank with a pressurised co2 system pumping around 2bps and no fish in...