Recent content by eja206

any chance of some pics of those beautiful fish in their new tank??

a pic please lowryder?!

i am now following! i like the rocks and wood - excited to see the fish in there!

cycling i'm not so good on. i usually cycle with fish (not the best method), so someone else will have to jump in i'm afraid. yeah the stocking calculator is great isn't it - i find it so helpful!

i would say 5. however if you want another type of fish as well then obviously get less platies. you can use this to work out your stocking: AqAdvisor - Intelligent Freshwater Tropical Fish Aquarium Stocking Calculator and Aquarium Tank/Filter Advisor i put in 5 platies to a 10 gallon and it...

i have found platies good for a 10g, hardy and colourful!

thanks - nice to get some local advice!! will buy that bottle next!!

beautiful tank! i particularly like the beige stone structure things! keep posting pics when you begin to stock it!

the length of the tank is 57.5 cm / about 22 inches I have included a pic so you can see thw sword plant I have at the mo as well as some messy Anacharis or something on the left. Platies are active tonight!!

ah ok, thanks for clarification both of you. I definitely only have flourescent then :( and as it is all attached to the hood, i don't think i can increase it easily... So shall i stick with the plants you first suggested BigJim? Is there anything easy I can do/ add to help them also, and grow...

following along - very much looking forward to seeing how you do your plants!

you are probably right, but how do you find out of the light is fluorescent or incandescent? I have been looking at the label but can't see either way...

I am getting better at this fish-keeping malarky... But now i really want plants to thrive and become a bit more dense in my tank. I have read the sticky on lighting... but as I am not very good at electrics, it doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me... So here's the situation: I have a 12...

just wanted to post this to you lot. after a mini-cycle a couple of weeks ago I finally got round to buying an API test kit ( the liquid one that everyone advises)! It arrived in the post this morning - i have just done my first tests! My results were perfect (ammonia 0, nitrite 0 and nitrate...

hey - i have a 12 US gallon tank. I live in uk - it's about 10 UK gallons. I was surprised when I found out too!