Hi, I am in the process of planning a new 1000 ltr ultra low maintenance tank with a sump, I know the marine guys are moving on from filter socks/sponges to rollermats like the Clarisea and was wondering if anyone has any comments or experience of using them in a tropical setup, a roll change every ...

My breeders have been about 6 inches for a while....i think this is about max size....maybe my biggest male is 7. However, i think your fish is L-007, based on the black band on the trailing edge of the dorsal and caudal fins that 240 has and yours doesn't. Still gets to be the same size as i under...

Hi, the kind folk here have identified my pleco as a L240. I have had it for 9months and it has not changed in size, it is still only around 6" / 15cm. I understand they grow to around 24cm, does anyone know over what time.

Further update, have discovered a baby Oto circa 1cm long so must be getting something right. Apologies for the bad quality picture

Thanks Darrel, any advice is much appreciated it's all relative as I am a noob with all the gear and no idea

The 8 hours for the oase 650 is because it is the second filter and used to supplement the juwel filter bioflow L stack as the standard juwel set up has less than 3x turnover for a 350ltr tank at 1000lph as well as only being specified for tanks upto 60cm. As this is a standard configuration for Juw...

I agree with Darrel. Pics and more details of filtration, etc would be helpful. Are you using KH boosting media in your filter? Where I live on the southwest coast of Canada, our municipal water is basically rainfall and snow melt with a TDS of < 30 normally. In a 24 cycle, my planted tanks swing f...

Filtration standard Juwel rio stack, foam and ceramic media full time with oase 650 biomaster canister filter again with foam and plastic balls operating 8 hrs per day. So possibly overkill on the filtration but you can never have too much can you????

I had similar parameters and results that you are until I switched to RO (DI is overkill for freshwater) now nitrates, nitrite and ammonia all 0, and I can control KH with addition of tap water. So far running dKH at 3 and everyone is happy in the tank

Hi All I use RO water in a medium planted and stocked 350ltr tank which is currently at 3dkh, everything seem happy and parameters are 0 ammonium, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate and are consistent between my 15% weekly water changes. I have read stories about tank crashes and am concerned that the low KH coul...

After a bit of sneaking, I managed to get this

Thanks for the info, he is very timid so tends to hide when you get too close to the tank so may take a while for better pics. If he is L240, not sure what to do as LFS said it was close to fully grown at circa 15cm, according to excellent info here he will grown to 24cm, not sure my 350ltr tank wil...

Hi I purchased a beautiful pleco and was told it was a galaxy pleco with unusual markings, I have not been able to find any pics of a galaxy with yellow spots so am wondering if the LFS incorrectly ID'd him any help with an ID would be greatly appreciated