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Hello, I am buying some K (potassium) and see if that helps. I do have tiny brown pin marks on the plants. Iron always reads 0ppm. I read elsewhere to keep dosing until the plants saturate with FE, then you only need to add to keep FE at a sensible level. HOwever you with your 30 years...

Hi, I was experimenting. I have adjusted it now so that co2 comes on an hour before the lights, and an hour before they go off. Lighting is now at 7 hours. The algae is growing much stronger now though. I am baffled.

Hello, My nitrates are actually 10ppm, not 5ppm. I mis-read. I am now starting to add 10ml of PO4 everyday, this takes PO4 to about 1ppm. I will make that more constant and see how it goes. I am using pure RO, and then adding my GH and KH with a JBL product. Something is defeintely not...

Dear All, I am having some problem with algae, its a tough stringy type of algae. My tank is 26G, I run x1 Giessman Aquaflora and x1 Giessman Midday 6000 bulbs about 5 hours a day. Very highly recommend bulbs apparently. I run CO2 3.5 hours a day. The light and CO2 are on timers. Both...

Hi Rivers, Okay so over the past week, I have done 4 25% WCs using RO. The parameters are as follows: GH:5 KH:4 PH 7ish TDS around 200 Nitrate 20-25 Adding a weekly liquid fert with extra iron from time to time. I also have to add PO4 as its always zero when I check with JBL test kit. The...

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Dear All, My lampeye's have given birth to one baby / fry. I have moved him to a nursury tank with no other fish in it. How could I best care for him? What does he eat? GH is about 4, TDS about 200. PH is a bit high at 8.0, 24C temp. I use RO and Co2 in the main tank (where he came...

Yes I have put them in my 3G tank, which is fishless. See what hatches!!

My Nitrates are down to 25ppm now, GH4 KH4. I hope now my HC will start to carpet.

Close up - Snail Eggs Here is super close up of the eggs, I am removing them with a small pipette. There were four groups of eggs that I could see.

The tank is 100 litres or 26G (US). Plenty of room for more. I could add some more CPDs, but thing is, I am trying to keep Nitrates down. The tank is under stocked at the moment as you can see. My tap water is 40ppm Nitrate and so I have started buying RO (which I reconstitute myself) from...

Ok thanks. Won't the lampeye eat them?

Dear All, I have noticed spawns of the below in my tank recently. I have some snails in the tank and 6 small fish: x2 Celestrial Pearl Danio x2 Lampeye x2 Ember Tetra I have three small pond snails of which I noticed mating recently. If someone could help me identify the eggs that would...

Thanks, I'll reframe from adding minerals unless GH/KH gets below 4. Will be very interesting to see how the macrandra / wallichii and HC do with less Nitrate and softer water

Well, I have just done a 27L W/C with RO (80L aprox tank), no added minerals, just pure RO (10-15PPM TDS). Here are my results: GH from 10 to 8 KH from 8 to 6 PH no change TDS 340 to 250 (woohoo) NO3 from >40 to <40 (API and JBL tests are hard to read IMO) I dont know if it was just...

Thanks to you both for RO advice. The problem has been resolved. I only have a 100 litre tank, probably only got 85 litres of water in it. My LFS sells RO (tested it yesterday at 11ppm TDS) for £3.50 per 25 litres. I think as I only have a small tank and the shop is only up the road it would...

Hi RC, I'm back! I have waited and now the diatoms have gone. Very pleasing. I have now added fish and they appear to be very happy. Just wanted to show you the tank as it is now for your thoughts. The Macrandra seem to be growing nicely, the Wallichii dont though, well not to my mind...

Ye tell me about it, its a disgrace! I have written to the water board but I dont expect a reply. I was aware of the issues with RO so I would supplement to keep the minerals level plus provide buffer through KH. I'd prefer to have mostly RO and supplement rather than watering down tap...

I am half tempted to buy 25litres of RO from the LSF just to sort out the Nitrates. I will get a RO unit eventually though. I'll be careful with the iron thanks, not planning on adding anything yet until I get the Nitrates down. I did a 25% WC just now, as water was looking full of floating...

Hi, Fosfo definitely has PO4. It's the other one that has nitrate and potassium. I too initially thought otherwise as it appears unclear. In addition when I added it PO4 registered where previously it had not. Yes it's that balance between light / CO2 and nutrients that I'm striving for...

Hiya, I am using: - ProFito - Fosfo I added some FosFo as PO4 readings were zero. I have attached a PDF with my water parameters. I have bought some of pure iron and I am waiting for it to arrive: - Ferro I dont know if 'Easy Life' are in the US too but here in the UK its a very popular...

Dear All, It is summer here in the UK, a rare phenomena. However my tanks are rising to 28C in some cases. My fish like 24C: - Ember Tetra - Lampeye - Galaxy Rasbora. Will this high temperature cause them problems? Any tips? Many Thanks

Thanks, problem is, the tank is covered in Diatoms, would that be a food source for them? Does PH affect breeding? Will they eat my plants?

Hi Rivercats, The new bulbs have arrived, really looking forward to seeing the results, thanks for recommending it. I am rather worried, the diatoms are showing no sigh of letting off, looks like it is covering the plants. Is there anything I can do? Also the plants were pearling nicely...