Recent content by AlStu

I ordered a job lot of 50 random excess plants, so I'm not quite sure what I got... Will post pics from my phone in a sec! I'm hoping not to have to cycle for toooo long, but am obviously testing it to make sure it's actually cycling rather than just jumping in early!

Tank on 03.10.19 - starting to clear up but also looks like I killed some of the plants in transferring them over but hopefully have a big delivery coming next week to replace them!

Thank you!

I'm setting up a 60l tank for B. smaragdina, hopefully the fish will go in in about a month (waiting for tank to cycle and breeder's females to grow out). I've seen mixed opinions on using aquarium salt with Betta, with some people swearing by it and other people saying to avoid. Does anyone...

Not sure it counts because it doesn't have *any* fish in yet and is still very much cycling! Here's my 60l Betta smaragdina tank, set up pretty much exclusively with things I had lying around the house/ in an abandoned 125l. It's set up as a semi-Walstad tank, with soil underneath the sand at...

Yeah, it's a really pretty light! Hit lucky and got two on them when I bought a second hand Xanti a while ago, just not sure if 3W will be enough... Guess it's just a case of wait and see :p

Thank you! Will avoid in the future :)

The white light is the 3W light you get with the aquamanta xanti aquarium kits and I'm not sure about the purple one - my parents got it for me for my house plants years back! Still digging out the old aquarium stuff and should have a second of the aquamanta lights burrows somewhere which I can...

@PhoenixKingZ thank you! Very happy with it given everything but the calathea and parlour palm were just lying around my house!

Added photos in the comments! Interesting about the melafix, I'd read that bettafix was just a lower concentration version of the same thing? Doesn't really matter as I'm planning on doing a couple of pretty much 100% water changes before I get the fish anyway (nitrates already off the charts...

Cloudy after adding fish food to cycle: S. natans added: