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Beginning of December visited and LFS and always wanted some common carp however the lad at the shop didn't know the difference between carp and tench so ended up with 2 carp and a tench sadly the tench was very thin and not looking it's best but have since been feeding very heavy and it's...
Having neglected the tank for a month decided today was the day [emoji85]
I got the scissors out and a bit more [emoji23]
Looking spangly again
I popped into a new LFS and always wanted some carp and purchased 3 very small common carp however on returning home and floating the fish I...
The tank has 4x54w HO T5's over it but currently only running 2.
Its 6ft long
C02 system is ista and not sure what thebubble count it the checker is green and I see over 1 point drop in PH
You more then welcome to work bubble count out a vid I took
https://youtu.be/bEOea1PD7hk
The difference 6 days make
26 October
1st November
Seems I'm more green fingered then I thought also been managing to keep household plants alive as well [emoji23] by now I would of normally killed them even treated myself to a Bonsai tree a few months back and that's still alive with new...
Things are still growing away at a very rapid rate and looking healthy and currently no sign of any algae
I also cant seem to get any nitrate reading I've upped the Ei dose and been feeding heavy so looks like the plants are just munching through it.
Thanks there is
5 baby clown loach
50 cardinals
20 Black tetra
10 serpa tetra
10 Rosy Tetra
10 Buenos Aires tetra
10 male guppys ( other half wanted them )
10 cories
1 Red Tail shark
3 Plecs cant remember there fancy names but remain small
30 Shrimp
I think that's about all makes for a...
I haven't been around for quite some time some may remember when I had my marine tank that got closed down a long while back and recently I thought I would go for a planted tank so got all the bits together and set to work and this is what i have come up with so far
I had been thinking about one of these for a while a macro algae reactor but the prices for these units seem crazy for what they are so went about making one.
It consists of a second-hand TMC500 pellet reactor (Thanks Shane) and a £10 waterproof 5m strip of 12v led's 300 in total and daylight...