Recent content by atomiclord

I don't know about you, but my aquarium's certainly not chilled to 'ice-cold'...

Welcome to AA!

Wow. Okay the girlfriend wants a seahorse tank so I'll be making one of these setups too soon! I'm really impressed!

I think riccia looks better, but duckweed copes with higher flow rates better, and it's one of the easiest ways I've found to sequester nitrate :-)

Oh and the red lights aren't that bright I just used a lengthy exposure. You have to sit there until your eyes adjust properly. So far the nocturnals (a whiptail, baby BGK, and some khulis) don't seem to mind at all and go about their business. So I can finally see them :-)

Ok time for a pics update. I've now rescued about 20 guppies so there's gonna be a ton of babies soon. The baby danios are doing fine, and I believe one of my cherry shrimp is carrying eggs! Also put in those lights I ordered on ebay: Any thoughts?

Mine gets all stuck in my lovely crested java ferns. Gaaah! They're so beautiful but they collect so much debris! I want Discus but they're a pain in the butt (the ferns that is). I'm slowly switching from riccia to duckweed. It will never ever ever root to anything.

I. Want. One. Please? :-)

Well, what does it taste like?

Happy Birthday! :-)

The best advice I can give you is to not even look at the ph up and ph down in the shop. Almost all fish will live happily in water that you could drink. If it burns you it will hurt the fish, but apart from that you shouldn't have any problems. The main problems occur when trying to breed fish...

I used to work in the glass + window business as a trades assistant. This sounds almost exactly like half of what my job was :-)

I was going to get an eheim but the deal on the fluval was too good. Comes to approx US$75.

Ok here's the second part of tonight's update. I have installed a 2nd hand filter, a fluval 405 ($110AU), increased the lighting to 3wpg, and added a co2 injection system. Pics below.

Question: I put a couple of these plants in not too long ago and 2 of them (the 2 under the most light) have started growing red bits, with bright-coloured parts at the center of each red arrangement. What is it? Looks like this: Apologies for poor quality photography.