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I thought the CO2 can corrode the impellers in the filter? The hagen ladder worked well for me, most of the CO2 is fully dissolved before it reaches the top. Actually it caused too much CO2 to be dissolved in the tank and the fish were having a hard time breathing. Could also be due to the...

I have a hagan ladder and my small fish keep getting trapped inside it :/ Havent thought of a way around this yet... but i have to keep checking. In the 1 week i've had it, 3 fish have been trapped in it.

I asked a question like this last week. To be honest i thought it would have been in one of the pinned topics as there must be quite a few people who are new to planted tanks wondering the same thing

i dont use it anymore? like i said i only used it once or twice to see if it'd work

I bought this yellow gloopy stuff that says you dont have to do a water change for up to 6 months if you keep adding it each week!! I used it once or twice but then decided i feel better if i change the water instead.

If you have an air pump for your aquarium you could put the pipe in the bag and tighten the bag around it until it's full with air. You can also buy oxygen tablets, i dont know if they would be any good for this?

I was thinking of using a breeding net, but as my tank is only 12G it'll take up half the tank :(

I recently bought some Riccia Fluitans and at the moment it's too small for me to keep tied down in a net - i used a net with small holes but they were still too big and most of it has come out. So rather than having the hassle of trying to tie it in the net again i thought i'd let it float...

my bristlenose catfish used to do something like that. when the water was high enough they'd jump into the gap behind the waterfall, eat whatever they could, then jump back.

that site also lists daphnia as a predator. You could add some of them to clear up the hydra and then add a fish to clear up the daphnia Edit - after having a second look at that page it also lists daphnia as prey, so maybe it wont work

Hmm that article mentions that salt is bad for plants. Everyone here was thinking about the effects of salt on fish and forgot about plants :p

except for the weight when carrying it, what would be the advantages/disadvantages of glass over plastic tanks?

ok thanks, i'm gonna give it a try and see what happens.

i have 2 hagen elite heaters and just checked on the back of their boxes - both say it's a minimum water line (in the UK). Mine's been totally submerged for about a year now, so i'd say it's pretty safe.

I've decided i'm going to have a go at a planted tank but i'd like to know how do you manage to clean the gravel / sand with all the plants in the way, especially the ones in the background. At the moment i only have a few plants in my aquarium and have noticed that there's a lot of waste that...