Your current Fish tank Setups!

At the moment my tank has plastic plants in there and I want to start putting real ones in.

The substrate in the tank is this
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I think the plants from my local shop come with a soil/root ball, can I just push this into the gravel and it'll be ok?

Should I add the real plants gradually or in one go?

Do I need to think about CO2?
 
You should take the plants out of the stuff they have wrapped round the roots, trim the roots down and plant them. Plant them all in one go, then do a big water change as you will kick up all kinds of nasty. Expect new plants to die back initially then sprout new growth.

If you wont want to change the gravel I would suggest using root tabs to feed the plants for the least effort required.

No you do not need to think about C02, just make sure you buy appropriate plants that don't need it.

There is tons of info about online about easy aquarium plants.
 
I didn't feed my tropical fish for a week when I went away (was my bad) they are still going! You can get those feeding device things but not sure how good they are
 
I'm thinking about doing a small marine tank again, but it's been a good few years since I've done 1, so I'm a little out of date.

I know my tap water is pretty poor, so I'm looking into RO water. I'm my old house I was unmetered so I had my RO unit, however, now I am metered.
A place near me is selling RO water at £2.75 for 25L, baring the initial cost of the RO unit, we it work out cheaper running my own water?
 
DEL 707 said:
I'm thinking about doing a small marine tank again, but it's been a good few years since I've done 1, so I'm a little out of date.

I know my tap water is pretty poor, so I'm looking into RO water. I'm my old house I was unmetered so I had my RO unit, however, now I am metered.
A place near me is selling RO water at £2.75 for 25L, baring the initial cost of the RO unit, we it work out cheaper running my own water?
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I think for every litre that you make 3-4 goes down the drain in waste:(
 
Spook187 said:
I think for every litre that you make 3-4 goes down the drain in waste:(
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That may be the case but a cubic meter of water is 1000L which costs about £3

You will be better off making your own once you go past 900L on the cost of the water alone. That obviously does not include fuel which in reality will drop that a lot to massively depending on how far away your fish shop is.
 
Thinking about restocking soon :)
Tank has been essentially the same stock for the last few years and seems to have run it's course.
As it stands now.
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Thinking of adding some more wood and stocking around a Polpyterus, and perhaps a few oddballs with some smaller groups (that won't get eaten!) which I really want again :)
 
My fish are dying and I dont know why. I have lost 5 plecos, 4 tiger barbs and 2 neon tetras over the last 2 days.
I have checked for nitrate and nitrite and they are both good, it has happened about a week after introducing some new fish (6 tiger barbs and 4 neons).
Anyone got any ideas?

Temperature has remained good and steady.
 
Are the tigers which you introduced some which died, or was it pre existing which died? Leave the lights off and watch the tank in case they are fighting.. Or it may be the new fish are infected although not sure how this would link onto the plec's but not the rest, unless there isn't anything else but a 2 neon and 2 barbs left..
 
Did you check your ammonia levels too? What is your water change schedule like?

Since it coincides with new stock, I'd suspect either an ammonia spike or an illness from one of the new fish.

How big is the tank, and what else is in it?
 
The tank is 120 litres, lost 1 of the original tigers, other than the plecos its the new fish that are dying. Havent seen any fighting.

I change about 20% of the water every 2 weeks, have done for a year with no issues.

I have about 10 small plecos, 2 neons,and 4 tigers left.

I dont have an ammonia test kit so I'll do a 25% water change tonight. One thing I have noticed are the fish are a bit docile, then go uo and down the sides of the tank. Does this mean anything.
 
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The tank is 120 litres, lost 1 of the original tigers, other than the plecos its the new fish that are dying. Havent seen any fighting.

I change about 20% of the water every 2 weeks, have done for a year with no issues.

I have about 10 small plecos, 2 neons,and 4 tigers left.

I dont have an ammonia test kit so I'll do a 25% water change tonight. One thing I have noticed are the fish are a bit docile, then go uo and down the sides of the tank. Does this mean anything.
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What are the tank dimensions?

What pleco species are they?

Considering you have lost 11 fish and still have 16 left, this 120l sounds like is was massively overstocked.

~20% water changes every two weeks sounds awfully low maintenance, especially for a tank that sounds overstocked.

My hunch, from the info you have given so far, is you are getting a false nitrate reading (i.e. it is really off the scale). To prevent "old tank syndrome," I would change 10-15% of the water daily for about three weeks, to gradually "freshen" up the water.

Then start changing ~50% weekly, while considering moving/rehoming some fish.
 
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