Recent content by Peter_Aqua

Anyone know any good online guide to the microorganisms that hang around in fish tank filters, substrate and water? These are as fascinating as the fish themselves though its difficult to know what species they are without a guide of some description. Knowing their physiology would be great too...

I am sure your light is the problem, plants are so fussy when it comes to growing well in an aquarium. Maybe have artificial plants mixed in with hardy live plants. I doubt the artificial ones will harm your frog or catfish, anyway a thin layer of algae will smooth them out soon enough.

I am setting up a 20 gallon tank for Dwarf Cichlids and would like to know if I can somehow accelerate the growth of Beneficial bacteria in the tank which will stabilise the nitrite/nitrate levels, usually this process takes about 6 weeks, but thats certainly a fair while, any advice from...