Your current Fish tank Setups!

ShadowMan · 25 Mar 2011 at 09:22

My local Maidenhead Aquatics has some Galaxy Rasbora's in at the moment for about the same price as that ebay listing. You can also pick them up and avoid postage and DOA fish.

Whilst you can buy online, I will always buy from a local store and if you want something rare in they can usually order if their suppliers have it.

Euro_Hunter · 25 Mar 2011 at 09:47

ShadowMan said:
My local Maidenhead Aquatics has some Galaxy Rasbora's in at the moment for about the same price as that ebay listing. You can also pick them up and avoid postage and DOA fish.

Whilst you can buy online, I will always buy from a local store and if you want something rare in they can usually order if their suppliers have it.

That would be my advice too, but if you really must buy mail order use a specialist mail order company such as Tri-Mar.

utajoker · 25 Mar 2011 at 14:59

how much do people pay for RO water from LFS?

arc@css · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:19

I used to pay around £3.50 - £4.00, depending if I wanted minerals added or not.

BrownSparrow · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:31

Raikiri said:
Couple pics as promised, just from the phone for now but I'll get some proper ones once it's established and all the bubbles have settled.

Planted with Java moss, mini amazon swords, Vallisneria spiralis 'Tiger' and some sort of anubias I think.

That's exactly the kind of setup i want to do, my question is tho - how do you clean the glass effectively?

I used to use one of those 'blade-on-a-stick' type affairs as the magnet jobbies never did the job.

utajoker · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:34

arc@css said:
I used to pay around £3.50 - £4.00, depending if I wanted minerals added or not.

for how much?

Raikiri · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:35

BrownSparrow said:
That's exactly the kind of setup i want to do, my question is tho - how do you clean the glass effectively?

I used to use one of those 'blade-on-a-stick' type affairs as the magnet jobbies never did the job.

No idea, I only set it up yesterday. Since then most of the bubbles have gone, there's just some on the top now.

I'm pretty sure Fluval do a load of Edge specific tools and such, I'll let you know when I go to pick up some nitrite/nitrate etc. tests.

arc@css · 25 Mar 2011 at 15:36

utajoker said:
for how much?

I 'think' it was for 25 litres.

utajoker · 25 Mar 2011 at 16:35

do they provide a container or do you take your own?

arc@css · 25 Mar 2011 at 16:40

utajoker said:
do they provide a container or do you take your own?

It was quite a long time ago now, but as I recall they let me (and maybe others who were regulars) borrow a container. Eventually when I bought a bigger tank I needed to buy one for myself since bigger water changes were required and I didn't want to keep going back and forth to the shop on the same day. After a while I bought an R.O. unit so I didn't really their service after that. I can't remember what a container cost. (My LFS was Maidenhead Aquatics, pretty good iirc).

utajoker · 25 Mar 2011 at 21:02

i have my own RO unit but didnt fancy filling a 450L tank + what ever the sump is with it.

thanks for the info.

Euro_Hunter · 25 Mar 2011 at 22:57

utajoker said:
i have my own RO unit but didnt fancy filling a 450L tank + what ever the sump is with it.

thanks for the info.

Just be wary that the quality might not be as good as your own.

Personally I would use my own, sure it will take a few days but better to have top quality water.

utajoker · 26 Mar 2011 at 07:26

i was gonna ask them to show me a tdu reading before i bought, i really dont fancy filling almost 500L at the rate it comes out.

i shall have to find out how much we pay for water and do some sums.

is the RO water ratio something like 1 RO to 5 waste?

lookitsjonno · 26 Mar 2011 at 07:34

theres some competition in our area, £2.50/25ltrs is about right.

utajoker · 26 Mar 2011 at 07:45

jonno.co.uk said:
theres some competition in our area, £2.50/25ltrs is about right.

there are 2 lfs that are very close to each other i mite see if they will beat each other. at 4 quid for 25L its looking at 80 quid to fill it add to that petrol.

dekez · 28 Mar 2011 at 13:42

Can anyone recommend a good online aquarium supply shop for things like food, plant additives, filter media, test kits etc?

The ones I've found using google don't seem to be that cheap and they all have really badly designed websites which make it hard to find stuff. Anywhere that does stuff in bulk would be an added bonus.

Cheers

lookitsjonno · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:13

i use aquaessentials

Euro_Hunter · 28 Mar 2011 at 17:45

The mains ones I use for equipment & additives are :
http://www.warehouse-aquatics.co.uk/
http://www.charterhouse-aquatics.co.uk/

& For specialist foods or bulk I use http://www.ta-aquaculture.co.uk/

dekez · 30 Mar 2011 at 11:44

Thanks, time to let the credit card loose

macarule · 30 Mar 2011 at 13:01

I have a 5'x18"x25"(H) and a 3'x18"x24"(H)
5 footer has 2 FH's (flowerhorns), a big red devil, Green Texas, Synspilum, 2 plecos and 2 feather fin catfish, all american fish in there are over 20cm except the texas.
3 footer has a FH (Flowerhorn) and a pleco

, FH is about 10-15cm and pleco is a good 20+ cm.