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Happy to say 4 days into CO2 and drop checker is green, most plants continuously pearling at a slow an even rate throughout photoperiod and most already having a noticeable growth. Really enjoying this new branch of FW, totally subdued my itch to have a go at marine. Now lookin up info an...

Tank and gear at start of co2

Cheers Rivercats, obv still a lot more learning for me in this area of fish keeping, but thanks for that. Will get back to reading :-)

Just occurred to me I was confusing litres with uk gallons, duh!

Hi, looking for some input- been running a quad t5ho fitting (4x39w t5ho tubes) on my 180L planted tank for a year now and now wanted to start looking at some more complex plants, CO2 etc and "assumed" I had up near a couple wpg, only to realise I'm falling short of even 1wpg. Have I got this right?

Thanking you :-D

Any recommendations on references for all these plants as in a link or anything? Have done the forum search but can't find anything, more to see what these plants look like. Spose google would be as good a place as any. Not bad considering I was goin to make the move to salt a few weeks ago...

Cheers for that, already got anacharis so will have a look see if I can get hold of any of the others

Hi all, Looking for a bit of advice that I can't seem to reliably get at any LFS. Have a 180l setup, various bits such as swords an a couple bits of fern and am generally happy with overall plant layout now, getting lots of healthy growth. Running a 4 x 39w T5HO fitting, and I'm after...

Sweet, shouldn't be an issue in his current home then at 190 litres.

Thanks for that, will relax on stressing over the hardness then :-). It an ancistrus, am I right in believing they grow to between 4 & 5 inches?

At the moment just a small plec, 6 assorted guppies, 6 assorted platys. Yeah the JBL kit is liquid. Ph is a constant 7.5 - 8, plants and fish are thriving with the exception of 3 guppies that just died with no explanation a week ago, which was 3 days after they were added as part of a batch of...

Thank you very much! So really a fair chance his advice was bang on correct. Will have a look at the API kits, a lot of things do seen to have changed lol. Any advice on extremely low hardness levels as i live in an area where the water is very very soft? The hardness bein the reason i was...

Hi all, New to the forum, come back into fish keeping after 3 or 4 years, been browsing the forums etc. just been to my LFS and received some advice I'm really not sure of and wanted your opinions please; Asked for a JBL nitrate test kit to replace the depleted one in my jbl set, was told jbl...

Interesting thread for me too this, had my new tank set up for about 6 weeks after not havin had one since my teens and def ready an eager to get planting now its all cycled and stable...