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Hi all, I'll be away on holiday with wife and kids as of next Fri for 8 days. My tank is heavily planted, medium stocked 50g/180l, with 1000l/h filtering, pressurized CO2 and 10h/day strong light (see pic). I was thinking of doing a 50% WC the day before I leave and fish should be fine with my...

Hello This weekend I switched from a DIY CO2 system connected to the powerhead output to a pressurized bottle based system, for convenience. I'm using a ceramic disc diffusor and currently run about 30 bpm as per Sera recommendations for their CO2 system on my 180l/50g tank. The fluid...

I would like to make a LED based smooth lighting solution for a moderately planted 50G aquarium, without breaking the bank and or having to solder onto a PCB from scratch. Right now I have the standard Juwel T5 lighting bar with reflectors. The idea would be to fade in reddish morning light...

Today I saw what looked like a tail of a 5" fish stick out of one of the holes in my rock decorations. I had seen this once before but it was gone by the time I got closer to it so I thought I was imagining things and that it probably was a leaf. Today I saw the same thing again and on very...

Without CO2 only the elodea seemed to grow a bit, the other plants barely grew and I lost 2 grasses that first became pale and then just died. A week after I installed a DIY CO2 installation (1.5bps) every plant in my tank looks greener/redder, everything started to grow and the grass now...

Hi there, From one day to the next my male gold dust molly started behaving weird, hiding deep inside rocks and only occasionally coming out just to swim frantically to another hiding spot. Water conditions are 0 N02 and 0 NH4, 15ppm N03 in a 47G/180l Juwel Rio 180 tank (with Bioflow 3.0)...

Hi all, I upgraded on Sunday from a 50l/13g tank (of which lid and lights got broken by cleaning lady...) to a 2nd hand Juwel Rio 180 (180l/50g). Kept the filter of both aquaria submerged in tank water during the transition. and installed both filters in the new aquarium to have maximum amount...

I started stocking my new 50l aquarium with 4 gold dust mollies (3F + 1M) and a loach (sewellia lineolata). After 3 days NO2 and NH4 have remained 0, NO3 around 15ppm now. 2 questions: - How can I tell if the loach is getting enough food? The mollies are so quick to eat everything, including...

Hello, I'm new to fish tanks and was wondering what you guys do in terms of electrical safety? The electrical circuit my tank is on has a 30mA residual-current circuit breaker. I was thinking of additionally putting a plug-in 10mA RCD between the power socket and fish tank gear so I can root...

Hello, I'm completely new to fish tanks! Started off my new hobby with buying a 50l (13g) tank, after doing some reading put down 2 layers of gravel (bottom one with plant substrate) and stocked it with plants and a decoration. The tank has a heater (back left behind plant) and an internal...