Recent content by Aviici

Update - Week 1:   Picked up some 2-3mm black gravel, which glistens nicely to be my substrate yesterday. Now just gotta wait for the lighting to arrive and the it's lid construction time!  

I've recently got a 6"6 tank and have had the same issue - deciding on lighting. I've gone for fitting an entirely new set up, so buying Hagen Flo T5 starter unit, Arcadia 46" Plant Pro, and Tropical Pro, and also buying the reflectors. All in all this cost about £100 so not too bad, but it's...

Not sure if they come under the category but since my first one, snakeheads have always been a firm favourite. SO addictive, and so interesting to watch + lots of variety!

Used the same, sinking pellets. New Life Spectrum Betta pellets were what I fed my community tank with, Serpae tetras grabbed a lot on the way down and the pellets were just the right size for the cories! It definitely brings out the colours in your fish too. :)

Update:   After a fair bit of research I've decided to completely replace the light unit and entire aquarium hood. Both for insulation purposes and security, don't want any escapees! Going to build a new hood with hinges, making it more tight-fitting, and fit it with some 46" T5 Arcadia lights...

I'm definitely looking at perch, and from my experience with predatory fish like that they need a LOT of filtration! Usually go for about 3 or even 4 times the volume of the aquarium per hour :)

Thought my Golden Cobra snakehead would be fine too. In a bizarre twist to the topic of this thread, he had his dinner before I went out, lights went off. Got home rather worse for wear and headed straight for bed, woke up in the morning and looked for him in the tank - nowhere to be seen.   He...

Agree with Ninjouzata, have a second small tank with some Elodea in it, and chuck a load of Ramshorns in there and they'll multiply like no tomorrow!

10 Celestial Pearl Danios, 4 Venezuelan Cories, and a Male Betta, a white one!   Think those colours would look cool with black sand :P CPDs are amazing little beauties!

I'd be interested to know if you could with plants, we've got a pond with a variety of plants in it, and I guess the tank's probably big enough for most pond plants! Going to get the substrate this weekend, and maybe an extra filter, I bought the tank second hand and it came with an All Pond...

Yes, it all came to light though when I was in my LFS a while back and they had some perch in a tank near the koi ponds, so I enquired and they said they can order in from lake and pond suppliers more or less any cold water fish that tickles my fancy! There's a variety of online shops that sell...

Hello everyone, welcome to the diary of my new 6"6, 700L tank!!   After taking a break from the hobby and only keeping a small Fluval Edge for a long period of time, I've decided now's the time to come back and come back with a bang!  The tank is going to be in the garage, therefore a coldwater...

I had a full planted set up with two tiger oscars, they were fine. The only plants they didnt like were ones like vallils, and the taller thinner variants of crypts. Anything flimsy that moves about in the flow a lot they'll get rid of, but you'll definitely be fine with the sword. Mine never...

10 Gallons is too small for cories unless you've got pygmy ones. As it goes for the danios and tetras they need more space than 10G too. The options that are realistic are quite narrow but obviously a male betta springs to mind, pygmy puffers too? or just keep shrimp.   Merry Christmas!

Yeah the Jack Dempsey will get too big for the tank, and in my experience they're too aggressive for anything that's docile and/or smaller than them. I've had one bully an oscar.