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Hey black hills,
The lighting has a portion to due with it but all in all it is tannins you cant miss it when you look through the side of the tank.There is some tinit from the lights but when we get pictures youw ill definitly see what I mean!
Hey everyone,
Wow everyone is soooo nice here, one of the first forums of its type ;) But we are doing a discus tank...not planted (with real-looking fake plants though) because we didnt want to get that involved in the plants just yet. I will get you guys some pictures as soon as we get our...
Hey rich,
I am almost 100% now that is is the driftwood...we have 5 peices of large driftwood and thinking and looking at it all day it looks like the leaching of tannins. Because it is a yellow/brown colour, it is not cloudy anymore and our ammonia is next to none and the nitrites are 0...
Hey everyone,
We just set up a new tank and it is 3 days old...It is a 125 Gallon freshwater (hence it being in the fresh water topics :P) with a rena XP4 and 2 stealth heaters. We are running into a issue with the water...it seems our water is green/yellow tinted. We believe it is our nitrate...
Well see I would like some help on Co2 if you could then...maybe it wont be so bad right? Well also the T5's work out to about 1.7 watts of light per gallon where as the coralife fixtures work out o about 1.5 watts a gallon. Well if you have some Co2 ideas/help or some more lghting tips that...
Thanks everyone that awnsered very quickly :D All in all I do not want to use a CO2 System. With the discus I am only going to use plants that dont need so much light and would do well with the discus such as: Echinodorus, Anubias, Cryptocoryne...plants like that.
We were talking and we think...
Hello everyone,
This is our first post at Aquarium Advice and we hope to get some good help, now on to the question.Me and my grlfriend are setting up a 125 Gallon planted discus tank, we have done this before and are avid fish enthusists so we know a thing or two but our question is;
For a...