Recent content by Marty.h

Beginning of December visited and LFS and always wanted some common carp however the lad at the shop didn't know the difference between carp and tench so ended up with 2 carp and a tench sadly the tench was very thin and not looking it's best but have since been feeding very heavy and it's...

Christmas clean for the tank all sponges and filter spangly nice big watechange have a good Christmas all.

Having neglected the tank for a month decided today was the day [emoji85] I got the scissors out and a bit more [emoji23] Looking spangly again I popped into a new LFS and always wanted some carp and purchased 3 very small common carp however on returning home and floating the fish I...

I really need to get the scissors out

The tank has 4x54w HO T5's over it but currently only running 2. Its 6ft long C02 system is ista and not sure what thebubble count it the checker is green and I see over 1 point drop in PH You more then welcome to work bubble count out a vid I took https://youtu.be/bEOea1PD7hk

I've had a prune and things still going well

Thanks I presently have around 50 in there hard to believe as they always amongst the plants when I take a picture but will up the shoal at some point

The difference 6 days make 26 October 1st November Seems I'm more green fingered then I thought also been managing to keep household plants alive as well [emoji23] by now I would of normally killed them even treated myself to a Bonsai tree a few months back and that's still alive with new...

Things are still growing away at a very rapid rate and looking healthy and currently no sign of any algae I also cant seem to get any nitrate reading I've upped the Ei dose and been feeding heavy so looks like the plants are just munching through it.

Its 6ft

Thanks there is 5 baby clown loach 50 cardinals 20 Black tetra 10 serpa tetra 10 Rosy Tetra 10 Buenos Aires tetra 10 male guppys ( other half wanted them ) 10 cories 1 Red Tail shark 3 Plecs cant remember there fancy names but remain small 30 Shrimp I think that's about all makes for a...

I haven't been around for quite some time some may remember when I had my marine tank that got closed down a long while back and recently I thought I would go for a planted tank so got all the bits together and set to work and this is what i have come up with so far

I've used it as above it will more then likely kill any shrimp in the tank though. Instructions here dose every 2 days...

Have checked the reactor tonight 8 days later and I'm impressed How it started And after 8 days this so it's clearly working well

I had been thinking about one of these for a while a macro algae reactor but the prices for these units seem crazy for what they are so went about making one. It consists of a second-hand TMC500 pellet reactor (Thanks Shane) and a £10 waterproof 5m strip of 12v led's 300 in total and daylight...