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hi all, and everyone else... Ok so, i havent posted in yonks and alas my tank has turned mung (aka ugly, bad). I have retreated to the beginners forum to ask some particularly n00bie questions :p Ok, so somehow, ive let my aquarium endevours fall to such lows that i've even forgotten how often...

Hi ive just bought a small 20 litre aquarium and was hoping to plant it heavily and then put in one or two goldfish. The problem is everyone has a different opinion as to whether plants and goldfish go together? Do they mix is it a bad idea or are some species okay. Any help is much appreciated.

hello. im fastfly48 (ry's) sister. hes gone away on holiday, and he has put me in charge of looking after his aquarium. On Tuesday i realised that the c02 bubbeler had stopped. so today i got it refilled, but wen i got back home i couldnt get the c02 bubbling at the right speed. there are 2...

Hi all, and everyone else :p I was looking through ome old photos of my tank, and realized that back when it was all new, my plants showed signs they are now. So I thought Id show you guys these old photos to help me identify my current deficiency...because they look identical and i can't get a...

Hi all, and everyone else... Not long ago my wisteria (ALL OF IT) died :( Since then I've notieced that things just arn't right, things arn't growing like they used to. The wisteria made of the main bulk of my plants. With it gone, I now have a gaping space in the tank :p However, I've been...

Yep, that's right. One week I had a massive hedge of wisteria, growing crazy good like usual...then the next week BWAMO! gone. It melted and fell apart. I'm totally confused. It's been great forever, and then sudenly it just died. It was growing everywhere really really well, I'd just trim and...

Hi all...and everyone else. I just realized that I should probably have more of a routine...actually, lets just say i should have a routine :p with my lighting times. I just turn them on when I wake up and turn them off when I go to bed, problem is those times vary ALOT! I've tried a light...

Hi all...and everyone else :P Um...well I"m going away for 4 days tmoro (help quick! :p) and my lighting timer has decided to die, it can only turn my light off...not on! DOH! Um...so would it be better to keep my aquarium light on or off for 4 days? I have a skylight on my roof so if I...

Hi all Of late my Wisteria has been growing broader leaves. Just wondering why this might be. Do you know of any reasons wisteria might start growing broader leaves?...like normally the leaves are stringy and pretty, but now they arn't =( I'd post water stats,...but I'm really tired...I'll post...

Hi All... Tested my Kh and Ph the other day... Ph: 6.4 Kh: 30 ppm (1.7 degrees) That gives a C02 reading of about 20ppm. Call me greedy but I want more :P I'm aiming for about 30-35ppm Here's the problem... Ok, so I had a C02 reading of 20ppm. So I increased my bubble rate a bit...very hard...

Hi. I'm trying to up-date my profile but it's realy tricky. I've filled in all the "required" fields BUT it's playing up. When I click "submit" it's not doing anything at all. what does this mean? I'm trying to get an avatar (?) photo up... Bit frusterating :P Thanks in advance. Ry.

hello. Gee, this part of the site looks a little dead :P Um...just a quickie... I'm posting quite a lot atm and I'm finiding it hard to remeber which threads/topics I've commented in. Like, the ones I start are easy...but there are others that arn't mine, that I say things in that I often...

Hi all. wow, looks like i've scored the first post on this new forum! cool. 8) Ok. I thought that a good opening topic/subject would be... Your first attempt at aqua-scaping. What it looked like, what you did right what you did wrong...how it's changed, evolved and how it is now. I'd seen...

Hello hello I have 3 corys. When I started out I only had one, and he (assuming he's a he :P) was ALWAYS swimming around. He'd never stop, constantly scavenging around, very active, never still always doing something. I then heard that corys should be in groups so I fond him 2 friends, but...

Hello hello Ok, since my tank was set-up about 9 months ago I've lost 5 fish...and all of those happened well, becasue I cycled with fish and wasn't too sharp AND mostly because I hadn't discovered this place yet! haha But anyway, in the last week I've lost 3 fish... *The first was a...

Hi all I was just trimming my plants and noticed that my java moss is looking very stringy, almost wirey. It's normally quite bushy with lots of bright green hairs (look like hairs anyway :P) along the main runners. But these "hairs" have now folded up against the main runners....making the...

Howdy One of my neon tetras seems to be playing dead! He losses his colour then tips head first into a verticall position and lets his body roll, this lasts for just a few seconds. I know this sounds really bad but he's been doing it on and off for a week now and all the other fish are fine...

ok this is the secong itme I've written this....somehow my tank picture delted my other post! ak... ok. Hello. I'm not really very happy with my aqua-scape, and I don't know why! I have a nice wall of plants along the back wall so that's a good start I guess!?:P Any suggestions? I was thinknig...

hello hello ok, so is ANYONE from perth? I *think* there are a few of you out there... I've got a 20g planted community tank and REALLY want some shrimp in it...however all the stores I've been to don't sell shrimp...or know of any others that do (surprise surprise). So my questions are: Where...

Hello all, and everyone else...bad joke. :roll: ok well I was looking at my tank tday (big surprise) and randomly thought of adding some bamboo clippings into the mix. I have some bamboo in the garden and I though that perhaps I coulsd cut off some (with-out the leaves) and stick it in my...

Hi all I've just recently "finished" (if I may say) my aquarium. It's fully stocked cycled and everything. However... I'm realy happy with my tank but the fish don't seem to interact with the plants and aquascape as much as I would hope. They just swim around in the open water, ignoring the...

The title says it all. What is Kudos? And What's with the donation? Donate to what? :? What a silly question...how embarrassing.... :oops: Ry.

Hello all. I'm going on a summer holiday soon for about 2 weeks (or perhaps alittle less) and thus need to get my tank organised for something different. I was hoping that by posting what I'm doing...you can see what I'm not doing and should be doing! ok.... Firstly this is my tank... 20g...

Hello all. Not long ago I started injecting pressurized CO2 into my 20g planted community tank. I want to keep the CO2 on for 24hrs a day but can't because I've been having trouble keeping my Ph from falling below 6 with the CO2 on for only 10hrs a day. I can only imagine what would happen if I...

Hi all. I have soem feeding questions...hope you can help. Not long ago a lost a pleco. :( He was just skin and bone and wouldn't eat anything, even zuccini! My Ph was swinging everywhere so I though that killed him but he was soooooo skiny. With out my pleco I've noticed more algae building...