Your current Fish tank Setups!

Raggs said:
looks like a bladder snail had the little critters in my tank last year, i just kept removing them when i spotted one eventually you'll get rid of them could take a good while though i had em for a few months.
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Yup removed 2 more yesterday. Both very small and had to remove the rocks/ ornament they were on to tell they were snails. So hopefully I'm on the case early and they won't reproduce like crazy. It's only a 10gal tank so easy for me to spot things.

Getting some horned nerites soon anyway so the pest snails won't have an abundance of algae to feed off anyway.
 
sneakysnail said:
Yup removed 2 more yesterday. Both very small and had to remove the rocks/ ornament they were on to tell they were snails. So hopefully I'm on the case early and they won't reproduce like crazy. It's only a 10gal tank so easy for me to spot things.

Getting some horned nerites soon anyway so the pest snails won't have an abundance of algae to feed off anyway.
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Keep an eye on them. I would hold off buying nerites until your clear of pest snails just in case you need to resort to assassins, nerites will also bite the dust with those.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Keep an eye on them. I would hold off buying nerites until your clear of pest snails just in case you need to resort to assassins, nerites will also bite the dust with those.
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Ordinarily I would but I'm going away on holiday in a couple weeks so the tank will be unsupervised for 2 and a bit weeks. That's not a problem but I've had a mini outbreak of brown algae as my current cleanup crew (Amano shrimp) don't like it so I'm going to add the nerites to keep it under control when I'm gone.

Also going to be using one of those autofeeders so want to make sure any left overs get taken care off. The pest snails while annoying are less concerning to me than the brown algae In he short term. I'd rather come back to a few snails than all my plants covered in brown algae.
 
Brown algae (diatoms) tends to go away on its own, I wouldn't worry about it too much. It pretty much happens with every new tank.

If you are going away for a couple of weeks, get your auto feeder dialled in now on a relatively small tank you probably want it on the minimum setting possible. Keep feeding to a minimum and just supplement the auto feeder until you go away. Most fish can go a week without food so you just want to keep them ticking over for the 2 weeks your away. Some people dip the lights to 6 hours to slow down the metabolism of the fish but I don't tend to bother and just leave them on 8.
 
I'd avoid nerites altogether unless you like eggs made out of what can only be described as concrete all over the tank/décor. There impossible to remove.
Trumpets are probably better imo they eat less but the babies are less of a hassle.

On another note, we lost a betta to dropsy the other day having had him a year or so. Nothing has changed in the tank and the ember tetras are still rocking, if anything was a miss with the tank i'd have expected them to pop it first so at a bit of a loss. nothing was out of the ordinary with the parameters.
 
Hi all, currently runing a Jewel Primo 70L externaled filtered basic fake planted tank after coming from high tech planted tanks and reef tanks we now we are in our house the wife has suggested I could get a slightly bigger tank but the conditions are it has to be a white rimmed and topped tank like my Primo and it will be sitting on a Next side board unit.

Based on where I am it is very hard to get anything but Jewel aquariums so I am thinking of the Jewul Rio 125l as the dimensions are perfect for the unit it will go on the unit is 91cm x 42 cm and the tank is 81cm x 32cm. My hesitation is the permanent weight on the unit. It is a substantial side board with three drawers and a sliding door to two shelves and I cannot see how it would be any less strong that the standard Jewel offering. My 70 is currently on a Lido stand that should house a 110l tank and the side board is a lot more substantial.

What do you guys think?
 
Hard to tell without looking at it, I take it it is solid wood?

How it’s built tends to take precedent over what it’s made of.

A 125l will weigh in excess of 150kg once filled.
 
Would you be happy to stand on it with a couple of mates? If so then probably fine, if not then I wouldn't risk it, as b0rn2sk8 says though, construction is important, e.g. It may support the weight, but if it bows in the middle then it will put uneven pressure on parts of the tank and may cause a failure. Also you may find you invalidate any warranty on the tank if you don't use their cabinet :/
 
Thanks guys I am 99% certain it is fine but not risking it.

As I am on a jewel lido stand I think I may opt for the 120 lido. Not getting an extra length but getting extra volume which is always good and no faffing with hoping a sideboard will suffice etc.
 
Can you even buy those these days without the stand? Everywhere I have seen these days all sell them as with a ‘free’ stand but the price is the same as the old tank+stand price.

Have a look at the new evolution aqua range called ‘ea freshawater’, they sell it at Maidenhead aquatics. I would take once of those over a Juwel but they are more expensive. My LFS has just got in the Oase tank range that looked nice. Both meet your criteria for a white rimed tank.
 
I am in Jersey so shipping from the mainland will be expensive and risky. Just been into the local shop and they do have a Lido 120l in white tank only or with stand. To be honest I think the pricing is not great but hey thats the downside of living on an island

I think i am going to plump for the rio 125l and shift the sofa over 5cms
 
Waited a year for this to come out of testing. the best there is :)

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rebel rebel said:
There's been so much progress technically in this hobby since I was forced to give it up 2.5 years ago. These x filters and the automatic alkalinity controllers are so impressive.
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Yeah man, rollerfilters are the future, could Be a few weeks before mine is ready, using an old sump modded to fit it, going to try a refugium and try and cut down the water changes, working away from home a lot and this should help my limited time I have.
 
My South American tank houses glowlight tetras, black phantoms, a young angel fish and a bristlenose catfish. It's ordinarily kept as a slight dark-water setup with a pH around 6.4. After a water change (I use Tesco 5 litre spring water as it naturally carries a low pH) yesterday most of the fish are gasping at the surface. A quick set of water testing shows 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrites, 40ppm nitrates but the pH has jumped to 7.8. :eek: I can only imagine for whatever reason the water (still saying pH at source is 6.2) was alkaline this time and it's thrown things off. No other changes (substrate, furnishings etc) were made.

It's pretty easy to raise pH but by the time I manage to lower it again it may be too late. Is it now basically a case of waiting and hoping they don't all die off? It seems to be mostly the glowlights who are gasping but they all seem to be acting differently than usual. Is there anything else I can do in the meantime? Google just throws up loads of results about how to raise pH, or else just generic 'what is aquarium pH?' type articles. Seems not many people want to actually lower it lol. I wouldn't actually mind the tank being alkaline as the fish no doubt were kept in 'normal' water before I got them and it'd make maintenance a lot easier if I could use tap water again. Still, I need to deal with the pH shock and I don't have much clue what else I can try. Thanks in advance.
 
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