Recent content by IowaGuy

Thanks for the feedback. With your input I did a little research on nematodes and they sound harmless. My fish aren't being attacked and appear to be healthy and active. And the few times I have seen this creature is during water changes or when disturbing my rooted plants. Regarding the...

On rare occasions in the past I would see a very fine, hair-like "thing" move through my tank. I'm talking nearly microscopic, no thicker than a human hair, about 1/2" long, white in color. I have seen these move like a snake would through the water. The first time I saw it was during a water...

Oh yeah, and like Brian referenced, I have my CO2 bubbling up under one of my nano pumps and it does do a good job of pushing it further into the tank. The more I talk the more I am talking myself into the pros of these pumps...DANG! I was hoping there would be an overwhelming response telling...

OS, you and I are on the same page with trying to weigh the pros and cons. My plants get caught up in them regularly since my tank isn't that tall, and they aren't the prettiest to look at. I have had two of them for about 18 months and it doesn't seem to bother the fish. I'm just a...

No thoughts? Silly question??

I'm curious what the consensus is on water circulation pumps, like Hydor Koralia Nano pumps. I have a pair of them in my 36 gallon tank, one in each back corner, plus a Fluval 206 canister filter. Do you think the Nano pumps are needed??

It has been a long journey of planted-tank education for me and I think I'm headed down the right path finally with my 30 gallon. I'm thinking about buying another tank, or taking a Mulligan on my existing tank and just re-aquascaping it. What do you think about glass versus acrylic tanks...

I had to read this thread a couple of times because I was reading 110L as being a 110 gallons, so thought you were crazy for using a total of 36 watts of light for that big of a tank. Then I saw you were in the UK and decided you must be talking liters. My bad!! So I've been in your boat as...

I am relatively new to canister filters. About 6 months ago bought a Fluval 206 and I'm happy with it thus far. Very quiet, appears to keep the water crystal clear, and pretty easy to maintain. I find it necessary to clean it about every 2 or 3 weeks tops. Not too difficult to do.

Following up on this thread and a couple of others talking about dry ferts and PPS-Pro, I switched to dry fertilizers almost one month ago (used to use liquid from Seachem). I'm seeing positive results. One of my plants sprang back to life. Another plant bunch is visibly growing day by day as...

I have been dosing the dry ferts from Green Leaf for several days now. Seems pretty simple as compared to my varied dosing with seachem, and definitely cheaper based on how little of the dry I used to mix up the bottles. Thanks for the suggestion! Question though...I have noticed that when I...

Tonight is the big night. Just received my dry ferts from Greenleaf, mixed them up, and I'm ready to dose tomorrow morning before heading to work. I did overlook the MgS04 component for PPS-Pro when I ordered from Greenleaf, but I guess I'll have to make due for now. So...one more follow up...

Rivercats, that was awesome help! I'm all over it now and excited to get back on track with this.

Rivercats, I realized that I didn't answer one of your questions. I have about 24 plants in my tank. Kind of hard to say for sure as some are bunches and smaller, but I would say that is a fair number. It sounds like dry ferts are the way to go so I'll start digging into that subject further...

Thanks for the feedback. The resource I bought all of my plants from recommended the entire Seachem line of ferts, but it seemed like a really strong dosing. In some cases it was 2 to 5 times the Seachem suggested dosing. I'll start introducing some of that at their recommended amounts. To...