Hi all, Hope You are All well.

Hi hviviers75, shot for the welcome, Love the Tiger Barbs, way cool tank

 

Hi, Hawk, shot for the welcome
Love Your 100l, way cool.
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Hi, Ashleigh, thanks for the welcome

Love cake too.
"Where there's cake there is hope, and there is always cake"
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Thanks dude. The tank doesn't look anything like that anymore. Gonna change it to a low tech tank soon. Will have another high tec tank running soon enough though. Focussing on my cube for now.

Best advice I can give is to take it slow with planted tanks. They take time to settle in. Adding Co2 and all the high tech stuff from start takes a firm understanding about plant requirements with regards to fertilizers, light levels, substrates and Co2 usage. Adding everything from the start takes alot of maintenance and also lower levels at firts to get your plants settled in. Another thing to note is with high tech tanks when things go wrong it takes alot of your time to stabilize everything again. I picked up a algae outbrake when I used EI fertz for a while. So best thing you can do is invest in test kits to monitor everything to pick up potential issues early enough to sort it out.

Best defence is to avoid a problem rather than treating it. That's the golden rule in fishkeeping as a whole.

Planted tanks really makes this hobby IMO. It's really satisfying knowing it's your hard work.

But be warned... You will have to treat the Mrs. every once in a while as this becomes an adiction. :tongue:

 

Hi, DewaldC, shot for the welcome
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Hi, f-fish, shot for the welcome
thanks for the info, i have just installed the new light, much better.
will post pics just now.
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Thanks, for all the info, much appreciated

 

Hi, Wyvern, thanks for the welcome
love Betta's, truly beautifull fish.
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Hi, Reedfish, shot for the welcome
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love your setup it really looks awesome .. hope to see more in future.

 

welcome brosef.

 

Hi, Jenn thanks for the welcome
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Hi, RaD, shot for the welcome
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Hi, BravoC, shot for the welcome
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Hi, Macmish, thanks for the welcome
love Your planted tank how old is Your setup?
thats a lot of Discus fish, very cool fish.
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Hi wsteene, shot for the welcome
thanks for all the info, much appreciated
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Hi @Freshwater Micael, thank you, planted tank is 3 months old.

 

Sweeet dude, thanks a mil my Tiger barbs are freaken awesome.

Good luck with your new fishy journey.