Hi folks,

In terms of water quality we are now here:

http://www.stewartsandersonphotography.co.uk/img/s6/v135/p2003888474-4.jpg

Im sure the 0.25 Ammonia is a "false positive" from Seachem Prime as its always there.

As all is running well it was time to add some more fish.

I bought:

5x Small ...

Thanks Jools,
I put some stuff in while it was dark last night. Gave them an hour to start dozing first.
It's all gone today, but who knows who ate it? Lol

What an awesome idea! Love that. Thanks.

Here you go:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CURRENT-USA-S ... 1376292256

Interesting thread! Great to see the detail and care you've taken with this.
Was looking at the lights, but they don't appear to be available in the UK - may I ask where yours came from?
Thanks
Martin

Very Kind, thank you.
I eventually got some on ebay and let ebay deal with the import etc. Will ...

Hi folks,
I have a few cat fish in a tank with Corey's and Eartheaters. All South American.

The plecos are a green phantom and a queen arabesque.

How do you guys go about ensuring the plecos dietary requirements are met in a tank full of greedy bottom feeders?

I have the usual Algae tablets ...

Very nice. I know this is a catfish forum, but what are your cichlids? Geophagus? What species?

Thanks, Eric

Thanks,
They are:

2x Geophagus Tapajos Redheads
2x Geophagus Altifrons

Currently living in harmony with a school of 11x Rummy Nose Tetras whom I actually bought as dither fish to bring ...

bekateen wrote:

Evolution Stu wrote:Best make a brew before you click this one pal... LOL

By "brew," do you mean coffee/tea.

Ha Ha, over here in the UK, a "brew" is a nice cup of tea.

bekateen wrote:Welcome Evolution Stu. Glad you found us. Look forward to hearing more about your fish and tanks.

Cheers, Eric

Thanks for the welcome.
Best make a brew before you click this one pal... LOL

http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =4&t=43929

Gotcha!!
The white balance is all screwed up so these colours are all a bit wrong, plus the camera was set to ISO 6400 as I had to dim the tank a lot to make the Plec's a little more active. All the same.. what a Pleco!! :)

http://www.stewartsandersonphotography.co.uk/img/s2/v60/p2114566678-4.jpg ...

So I went to the LFS today and came home with two rather nice plecos.

1x Queen Arabesque Pleco (L260)
1x Green Phantom Pleco (L200)

They havent been in the tank long, took me 2.5 hours to drip acclimatise them to my water.

Essentially I put them in a large plastic container and then syringe in ...

So... I got the booster pump and fitted it, temporarily for now as I just need some RO!

http://www.stewartsandersonphotography.co.uk/img/s1/v21/p1891963507-4.jpg


And now we have pressure. Too much pressure I think. A tad over 110PSI. I will call them tomorrow, but for now ive restricted the ...

So... I got the RO unit hooked in and have done some testing.

While I was at it, I plumbed in a dual TDS meter to monitor TDS in and out and added a couple of taps to halt flow should I want to.

http://www.stewartsandersonphotography.co.uk/img/s9/v88/p1945892216-4.jpg

My TDS into the RO unit ...

Everythings now in and running fine - but as I expected, the hum from the three fluval external filters is driving me nuts.

In my workshop I use an anti vibration mat from Draper that sits under such things as grinders and pillar drills to damn oscillations from motors. I figured it would work ...

So, after work the next day we got to work installing all the tank internals and doing our first aquascaping job. I got frustrated with it and gave up... so the wife took over and I must say she has done an excellent job.

I really like what she has done with it.

http://www ...

Finally, a decent update! The tank has arrived. :)

I enlisted the help of my wife, daughter and a friend and soon had it up on its stand and the black background applied. I was going to leave it at that but just couldnt so I added some substrate, filled it with 200litres and gave it a good scrub ...

Second week... What have I done?

Well, ive bought a second Fluval heater for safety and some electrical sockets and such like to outfit the cabinets with, but I remembered that I am still short of any rocks or slate.

With that in mind I decided I would pop to our local quarry (4hrs round trip ...

**Update**

So... I have decided I want some quality UV Sterilisation on this aquarium and after lots of research I have gone with the TMC Vecton V2 200 which is the biggest that will physically go inside the cabinet.

Because this isnt technically the right model for my system (UV's are based on ...

Hi Folks,
I am a new member on here, I am certainly no expert but I have previous experience from long before I used forums so a lot of what I know is probably well outdated now. Thats why I am here, to learn more.

This is a tweaked topic from another forum I use that is sadly closing down, so the ...

Thank you.

Hi folks,
New member here from Blackpool, Uk saying hello.
44yrs old and returning to fishkeeping after a long 15yr break from it.

I am trying to do it properly this time and have built a nice 360L system up that should just work and do the job properly, learning from previous mistakes and new ...