Recent content by Clump

Well my fish tank has decided to give me a christmas present... Just did a test and the thing is finally fully cycling 5ppm of Ammonia in 12 hours Had I known it was going to take this long when I first got it I wouldn't have bothered

Day 10 - Sunday - 28th October 2012 Well, after much hunting around for detail on this mysterious "smoke" and not finding anything I took pictures of it to about 5 different LFSs. None of them had any idea what it was. So I followed some advice from a different forum and did a massive water...

Day 8 - Friday - 26th October 2012 Still no movement, water tests still the same as the previous days and it is a little less cloudy. The addition of ammonia on day 5 hasn't yet kicked anything in. Having said this it could be down to using strip tests. Come on post man where is my API...

Day 7 - Thursday - 25th October 2012 Nothing happening in the Clumparium, water tests exactly the same as yesterday, water still slightly cloudy I did redose filter start again today Hopefully the API test kit will turn up tomorrow so I can do more accurate tests

Day 6 - Wednesday - 24th October 2012 Not much of an update today, just sat around waiting for things to happen. Redosed filter start 16ml - not entirely convinced that this is actually doing anything. Shame there isn't a test that can be run to show bacterial levels Test results for today...

Day 5 - Tuesday - 23nd October 2012 Added 5ppm ammonia - This was a bit of a pain to buy as nobody seems to sell it, eventually found some Jeyes Kleen Off (as recommedned here) in a corner shop. I used the calculator here to work out how much to use: 3.26ml for 63 litres at 9.5% ammonia in...

That is a great looking tank, as a newbie myself it has given me some good ideas One question, and its a newbie one, with all the planting how do you go about hoovering the gravel when doing water swaps?

Hello all, This will, I hope, be a journal for a successful tank cycle by a newbie. You can expect to see some really stupid mistakes (already made a few clangers) and maybe some unique insights into the process (I doubt that ;)). It will be something of a brain dump, hopefully this will help...

I think I have looked at just about everything, but that seems to be a nice mix as you said lots of colour. How many endlers do you have the in the tank? A little googling tells me that Endlers prefer hard water and mine is soft to moderate - I would prefer to not add to the chemistry overload...

Thankyou :) Not entirely sure, however using the kettle as the measure it doesn't get furred up A quick google for my area yields the following: "Most areas have soft to moderately soft water: 0 - 100mg per litre as calcium carbonate equivalent." The tank is about in our main living area...

First of all, hello all! This will hopefully be the first of many posts here... After much reading about nitrogen cycles, Ph levels, nitrates, nitrites, bacteria, filter media, substrates, autotrophic, heterotrophic etc etc (etc x 100) I am pleased to say that I am now the proud owner of a 64...