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You better get onto that one quick - it's not going to be around much longer, the way things are going :(

They look like plastic plants to me? If you wanted to grow plants though, you will need some kind of substrate that hold nutrients, or fertilise them in another way. But what you need will depend on the plants that you want to grow, how much light you have, etc. I feel like a fraud advising...

I ended up going to the aquarium yesterday (and Saturday.. may be a bit obsessed) and spoke to one of the guys there - he set me up with a t5 light which will be fine for me. He was very helpful and showed me the various plants that would be able go grow with the single and twin units, and I...

Hi Brian, thanks for the welcome! I've spent hours poring over this forum in the last week or so - and have admired your tanks! The dimensions of the tank are 90cm (l) x 35cm (w) x 45cm (d). Which in inches is approx 35 (l) x 14 (w) x 18 (d). I just read the link you posted (thank you!!) and...

I'm looking at setting up a 140L planted tank - it's about 3 feet long. I have been reading about light and CO2 systems, but I'm not looking to do anything too whiz bang (and also I'm new to this) and I think I may be able to get away without a CO2 system.. and possibly any lighting.. ? I'm...

Argh, thank you! You're right - it's not that huge and I'm sure it will be fine.. my husband has been making me paranoid! Now I get to work out how to make it wonderful!

I feel like such an idiot posting all these basic newbie/introductory threads, but .. I'm a newbie to fish and fishkeeping and don't appear to be very good at searching the forum.. :whistle: I picked up some friends' old tank last night and brough it home. It needs a good clean before I put...

Thanks Autumnsky! Yeah, I saw that thread on the size of fancy fish - it's so awful that so few end up able to reach their full size and life expectancy :( I just picked up the tanks from my friend - the biggest is actually MUCH larger than I expected, it's a 3 foot one! I just measured, and it...

Ah, I didn't put gravel in the filter, that's just in a corner of the tank - it's just the piece of filter sponge stuff that I put in the filter :) I just re-read what I wrote and it's confusing, sorry! I meant that I have gravel and filter media in the TANK, but not both in the actual filter...

Hi, I've decided to do a fish-in cycle (I haven't got the fish yet) on this little 10L tank I have and have been reading all about fishless/fish in cycling etc, and essentially my reason for not doing fishless cycling is that I'm impatient. :oops: I've had it filtering for a week (which I now...

Thanks everyone! I just got another message from a friend who needs to get rid of their tank and goldfish. They're going to deliver it to me and help set it up, so maybe I'll just work with that tank and see how I go. Then depending on how large it is (apparently it's quite big? But I've never...

Hi all - I'm totally new here, and have just inherited 2 small tanks. I knew they were small, but I've just spent an hour or so reading this forum and googling around, and it seems that these tanks are just TOO small. For.. anything. They're about 10L each - a woman at my work has a tank on...

Hello - I've just spent an hour or so reading various posts on this forum, trying to work out what to do. I inherited a small tank from someone at work, after I casually mentioned that I was jealous of the tank that another woman had. Then turned up and found yet ANOTHER tank on my desk. So now...