Your current Fish tank Setups!
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Hard to tell where the leak is coming from but the bottom was absolutely soaking. Do we need to put the sealant over the pre applied silicone? A few YouTube videos seem to suggest removing any previous silicone. Going to leave the tank overnight to dry before we do anything.
afaik silicone doesnt stick to already cured silicone, you'd be wasting your time and it wouldn't fix the problem.
Best to remove the old stuff to make sure you're getting a proper seal.
I know you supposedly know a thing or two about aquascaping Tom, but my Engineering brain tells me "they ain't all gonna fit".
(Tank envy too btw).
Hahaha. Yeah, I'm hoping on getting a large blackwater setup going in the next few months, so that's a years supply of leaves and one of the bags is going to a friend.
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What tank is that xibinim?
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Are there any resources about dosing that either of you would recommend besides the article on ukaps? I was planning on using the dosage suggested here to begin with: http://www.aquariumplantfood.co.uk/fertilisers/ei-starter-kit.html
But I'd be grateful for any helpful pointers.
The forums on UKAPS are a great resource notably the Aquarium Fert Dosing or the EI Natural & Low Tech sections.
I'll have a read through it.Had some good plant growth this week, the banana plant doing extremely well with lilly nearly at top of water
I do like trigons, How are you finding the jbl co2 kit? The other half won't let me build my own
It's an Aquael, can't see a model number.
I do like trigons, How are you finding the jbl co2 kit? The other half won't let me build my own
Yeah great up to now, think I've got my dosage just right, plants are loving the gas, ammonia still high due to the ADA soil, will settle down in a week or so.
Plan hatched!
Going to get rid of my Ebi and filter, move the sakura shrimp to my Trigon (after I've fitted mesh intake guards), which takes me down to two tanks. Slower time I'll then look to move the Trigon to a rectangular tank when I can secure sale of it/fund some bigger filters.
Excitement!
Going to get rid of my Ebi and filter, move the sakura shrimp to my Trigon (after I've fitted mesh intake guards), which takes me down to two tanks. Slower time I'll then look to move the Trigon to a rectangular tank when I can secure sale of it/fund some bigger filters.
Excitement!
I went to do my water change, it's been about 10 days since the last one and I checked the levels as usual before hand.
Ammonia = 0ppm
Nitrites = 0ppm
Nitrates = 0ppm
I would have expected some Nitrates.
Does this sound right?
It looks like the tank has somehow un-cycled itself?
Ammonia = 0ppm
Nitrites = 0ppm
Nitrates = 0ppm
I would have expected some Nitrates.
Does this sound right?
It looks like the tank has somehow un-cycled itself?
Not if it's got livestock in.
Test kits for nitrogenous compounds are useless, throw them away.
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I tried EasyCarbo and ended up with a tank of gasping fish.
I went to do my water change, it's been about 10 days since the last one and I checked the levels as usual before hand.
Ammonia = 0ppm
Nitrites = 0ppm
Nitrates = 0ppm
I would have expected some Nitrates.
Does this sound right?
It looks like the tank has somehow un-cycled itself?
What test kit are you using? Sounds to me like it hasn't been tested properly (like shaking the liquid for 1 minute and not a second less/more) or your kit is buggered. Usually the latter because they're notoriously rubbish. I use the API Master Test Kit and the nitrate readings are impossible to tell apart. Utterly useless. The only one I care about is ammonia/nitrates which is easily to tell if it's zero or not.