Hello all, I'm not much of an aquatic gardener but I do enjoy the use of some live plants in my tanks. I've acquired a small collection of plants and placed them in my 240 gal tank which uses an overflow and sump for circulation. This means that there is unfortunately a large amount of air/water...

Any help appreciated folks. I've tried Camoba, (too warm?). Sagittaria, Vallisneria, (Giant)Hirgrass, and a couple of others. They just wither away after about a week, turning brown and mushy. I have great luck with ludwiga, crypts and some plant called and 'onion plant' which I think was...

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Has anyone tried using something like Miracle Grow for houseplants with all the micronutrients in a fishtank? Does it make the algae grow wild or harm fish? -- Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995... Aquariums since 1952 My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 Troll Information:

I have a 29g (US) planted tank which is doing quite well. However I have noticed that some of the plants are getting Green Algae on their leaves, especially the Java Fern. I have supplemental CO2 injected through a diffuser, and all the water parameter look good. Is this a lighting problem? All...

Can anyone tell what fitting the dupla regulators have and whether any co2 cylinder in the UK will fit it? TIA Steve

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Hau kolas..any effective way to calculate CO2 in a tank with high phosphates? Being as the consensus seems to be phosphates invalidate the standard kh-ph-co2 charts, is there another formula? Can't find anything on the web. Looking at phosphate removing media, but hand-in-hand with that, how much...

Geez. I'm disagreeing with you twice in one day. Using 4wpg and up didn't come into fashion until Takashi Amano's work becaue popular. Sure, you need 4wpg to grow riccia tied to a rock or a lawn of Glosso at the bottom of a 55 gallon tank! However, according to Greg Watson and Tom Barr,...

I've noticed over the last week the water in my aquarium has gotten a bit mirky. In my bigger tank long time ago I remember this was a preset to an algae bloom/green water. I'm figuring it might have something to do with my change of ferts. Here is my stats and what I was doing for a few...

My Java Ferns are starting to get clear tips. About 1/4 of the end of the leaf is starting to turn clear on the newer leaves. Also sections of the leaves are turning black, but are still growning. I have several other plants in the tank growing well. Could the other plants be stealing minerals...

What is the best commercially avaliable plant food in the UK ? Thanks

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Hi! I have 55g aboout a month and a half old, moderately planted tank. I also have 5 ottos in it. It has 100% fluorite substrate, about 2W/gal light and dyi CO2. The plants were growing pretty well at the beginning but slown down in growth and started getting hair and blue algae. I have tested...

I am new to this group. I returned to the hobby a couple years ago after a 15 year hiatus. I am returning to keeping plants and have found very little at the LFS. I keep soft water aquariums and like crypts, aponogeton

I have a nice Anubias coffeefolia in my small tank that was very beautiful and very happy. In the past month or so, I've noticed the leaves have begun turning yellow. Could this be an iron defficiency? The substrate is laterite, but the anubias sits on a log and I'm not sure the roots reach the...

I got a 55gal tank about a month ago. It has a AGA tripe-strip fluorescent Iight (120 watts) and fluorite. The light is on for about 12 hours. I'm using an eheim ecco 2234 filter. First I put in a couple of small amazon swords, a couple of anubias, java ferns and anacharis/elodea. My tap water has...

Hau kolas..came across this in an unlabeled tank at a LFS about a month ago, threw it in my quarantine tank to see what would happen. Woman who worked there who usually knows her stuff could only say it "needs high light" and thought it was hygrophila polysperma 'sunset'. Hadn't seen it before or...

hau kolas..curious to know what folks here use for dispersal of co2..and which is "best"..the glass/ceramic diffusers or the powered/passive reactor chambers..or running the co2 gas outlet into the intake of a canister filter? TIA lila pilamaya -- **FREE LEONARD PELTIER NOW**

i currently have the red sea co2 setup (yeast), with a venturri to disperse the bubbles. i want to move to a pressurized co2 system. if i connect the venturri to the pressurized system, do i still need a bubble counter? ie: do they both do the same thing for me? when my filter is off, the...