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I could do with a deeper background anyway. I measured it wrongly and it doesn't quite reach the bottom :-)

Aha that might be it venymae. Mine was rolled in a tube. I'll get some more and flatten it out first. Where it's stuck it looks great

Most likely copepods my friend. They won't do any harm and are quite common

Thanks. It's a fluval Vicenza 260. 260litres 65 gallon

Not sure if it just doesn't work or my application was wrong but I have a few areas where the background is no longer stuck. I'll try it again and see.[ATTACH]222209[/ATTACH

Live rock isn't a rock or stone at all. It's actually calcium carbonate which is really dead coral skeletons.

That's what it's going to come down to, although I'm going to have to remove a lot of the sand as well before I even see it. Maybe steal a fishing pole and line from a garden gnome ?.

I'll be moving stock over to my new tank shortly but one thing that I'm not looking forward to is catching my horse faced loach. The little bugger can wizz through the sand like it's not there. I'll probably have to remove most of the water and remove the sand until I can net the bugger. I can't...

Wired I wonder why they do that. Maybe they know that they know the fish they are shoaling with are not a threat to them and are happy with the security of numbers

I probably should've expanded on my post as well and went on the offensive in reply to you. I'm new to the forum and don't want to start upsetting folk. A forum group hug ??

Yes the majority of copperbands die within months of being added. This is because most of us cannot cater for their care and requirements, myself included. I know people who have kept copperbands that have lived a lot longer than the odd month or two and been healthy and well fed with it. I...

I'm currently slowly transferring my stock from the old tank and into the new. A couple of nights ago I introduced a small group of harlequin rasbos with my last remaining female guppy and ever since the guppy has shoaled with the rasbos. This could be that it's in unfamiliar surroundings and...

A lot of folk have had success with peppermint shrimps or a copperband butterfly but they can be hit or miss, more of a miss on most ocassions tbh. There is also the Bhergia nudibranch but the trouble with this is that it only eats Aips so unless you want to cultivate Aips you're dooming the...

Mine doesn't log onto server and stays on that screen when I'm using my phone

That looks very much like an aipstasia. You want to get of that with something like joes juice, if not it'll multiply rapidly and be a nuisance to get rid of. Google aipstasia and research from there

Looks like coralline algae to me. Any chance of a closer look

maybe not the best photo but here's the background on

Why the nono to the soapy water. It should be in no danger of mixing with the tank water unless you have a rimless tank in which case I wouldn't recommend any of the above. Agreed with the jelly. Remember it's only a very thin layer you apply so it's not that messy

As far as I'm aware they exclusively feed on Aips nothing else. The group had to keep it moving so it didn't starve.

Personally I would keep travelling south until you get to Dundee ;-)

I know of a group (from another forum) that invested in aip eating nudibranch. This was loaned out to each member when they had a problem. I think they actually gave it a name and got quite attached to it.

I read it online but I can't remember where exactly. There are varying thoughts on what's best to use. Some people use soapy water, others petroleum jelly and some baby oil. The thinking behind it is that you're creating a tight seal or vacuum between the glass and background using a credit card...

I've always taped my background to my tanks however I decided to go buy a bottle of baby oil (obviously had to buy other things from supermarket that I didn't really need to avoid the strange looks at the checkout :whistle:). After wiping a coating of oil onto the background I gingerly placed...

Yes algae is a consideration. I intend to remove the plants periodically and rinse them off and if needed a scrub with a toothbrush. I'll wait and see how the tank matures, like I say I''ve not used them before so things may change ;)

Hello all. Just Joined the site and I''ll have a good look around at my leisure. Although new to the site I'm no stranger to keeping water and some of the beasties that live in it. In the past I've kept a reef set up, freshwater community, angel setup in a heavily planted tank. This...