Recent content by Aquatopia

I will be doing loads of water changes anyway. Once the fish are here I'm going to be monitoring the Ammonia and doing water changes as necessary to keep it at a safe level. One more water change isn't going to make much difference, plus I have them sorted so they won't be much hassle. To drain...

The CO2 Fire Extinguisher's arrived last night. They ended up sending me 3 of the 2Kg CO2 Fire Extinguisher's because they were out of the 5Kg one that I ordered. I guess I have an extra Kg of CO2 for free but I'll have to change the bottle sooner and more often now. Hopefully next time I need...

The dosing pump has also arrived now.

These have just arrived. Having fun unpacking and installing them now. With these arriving it's brought me to a point where I have to make a decision on when I fill the tank up. The filters are here, my biomedia (Matrix) is here, the CO2 reactor is here, so I could set them up and get them...

After recent discussions here and elsewhere I've made some changes to my fish list. I've decided not to have the Apistos (or any pair of fish at all), this is because they would struggle to behave naturally with the rest of my fish, there are just too many active, shoaling fish and bottom...

The gyre has now been tested and is installed in the tank/cabinet. It can certainly throw some water around, I doubt I'll need to run it on high! 😄

This has just arrived. 😁

I've not kept the Roseline sharks before but from my (extensive) research people say they should be fine. This is an example from the Planted Tank forum: I will be doing a water change every week. I have to because of the EI fertiliser I am dosing, it has to be reset every week to keep things...

I don't think of fish in terms of centrepiece either, as you say the eye goes to whatever catches it, whether that is movement, a splash of colour or just something unusual. All of the fish can catch your eye at different times for different reasons. Like the Kuhli loaches, hardly seen but when...