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On a jewel tank you can tuck the background into the bracing on the top and bottom and it just needs to be trimmed width ways.
You might need to trim the corners at an angle where they are hidden behind the plastic as there is silicon under there. Just don’t trim too low where you can see it.
Once it is tucked in it doesn’t need anything else to hold it on.
You might need to trim the corners at an angle where they are hidden behind the plastic as there is silicon under there. Just don’t trim too low where you can see it.
Once it is tucked in it doesn’t need anything else to hold it on.
Nice new tank I see 
I want to add some extra fishesin mine,have around six neons currently and five ground suckers (can't remember their name) so wanting to add some extra colour in the tank.
What would people recommend that work with neons?
I want to add some extra fishesin mine,have around six neons currently and five ground suckers (can't remember their name) so wanting to add some extra colour in the tank.
What would people recommend that work with neons?
More neons!
They look a lot better in bigger group IMO and are full of colour anyway, like 12-15+.
I found that they can drift apart easily and can end up dotted around the tank, so very little schooling behavior.
What size tank do you have?
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So back into keeping tropical fish. Have a 9 gallon tank and starting off small. Have a good idea what I'm going for but open to advice.
Going to start cycling the tank soon and is going to be heavily planted with mostly java fern. Then I plan to introduce 2 maybe 3 male Endlers when cycling is done. Then introduce a male Betta and then possible a few ghost shrimp. How does that sound? I am worried about over stocking but hoping the heavy planting helps out and offers lots of hiding spaces and battles the nitrite and amonia.
I realise it will be a high maintance tank but I'm not exactly a newbie and doing regular water changes in a small tank is no big deal. Just hope the Betta won't be an aggressive one
Going to start cycling the tank soon and is going to be heavily planted with mostly java fern. Then I plan to introduce 2 maybe 3 male Endlers when cycling is done. Then introduce a male Betta and then possible a few ghost shrimp. How does that sound? I am worried about over stocking but hoping the heavy planting helps out and offers lots of hiding spaces and battles the nitrite and amonia.
I realise it will be a high maintance tank but I'm not exactly a newbie and doing regular water changes in a small tank is no big deal. Just hope the Betta won't be an aggressive one
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More neons!
They look a lot better in bigger group IMO and are full of colour anyway, like 12-15+.
I found that they can drift apart easily and can end up dotted around the tank, so very little schooling behavior.
What size tank do you have?
Haha, I can't even remember! It's about two or three foot wide I think...
We have 16kg of substrate in the tank (125l) now, it's about an inch at the front, is this going to be enough for Cory's and planting up the tank?
Plenty, if anything you’ll want to try and lower at the front by the glass a little more. You’ll get some algae build up between the glass and sand/gravel.
Get some water in there and get cycling. Don’t be too worried if it’s very cloudy to begin with some gravel/sand is really dusty even if you rinsed it. It will soon settle out.
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Feel like I'm going crazy. Keep seeing a certain brand of tank with inconsistency between gallon and litre capacity. 35 litre tank sold as 9.2 gallon etc when it's 7.7 gallons when converting the litres. 30 litre advertised as 8 gallon etc. Wonder if they're wrong on the litre or gallon and if they are actually taking into account not fully filling tank etc.
Edit. My own measurements have the total to the brim capacity of just over 40 litres and 10.5 gallons. It's a biorb so wonder if the account for the rock substrate/ bubble tube and not filling to the brim?
Edit. Seems like they are inconsist with imperial and us gallons and are taking into account not fully filling
Edit. My own measurements have the total to the brim capacity of just over 40 litres and 10.5 gallons. It's a biorb so wonder if the account for the rock substrate/ bubble tube and not filling to the brim?
Edit. Seems like they are inconsist with imperial and us gallons and are taking into account not fully filling
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Standard YouTube bs I'm afraid
I know people who want to just buy a ta k, set it up and stick fish in instantly, they have literally no idea sometimes it can take some time to get it established!
But you can add fish to a new tank if you use bac in a bottle method if you wish, i challenge anybody who says you can't.
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As spook said, Have started a Few tanks this way
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Seems like this is the popular new way tbh. Was trying to grab some amonia to start my cycle earlier today but wasn't any at my local maidenhead aquatics. Only bac in a bottle or additives to use to ease the conditions during the first cycle with fish. So I'm going to trigger a cycle using fish food. Not what I had planned.