Recent content by Cobraxassassin

I've spread out the floating plant, I've the feeding square, the heater and the filter power cables to stop the current taking them to one corner is that better?

the light is on for 7 hours every 24 hours roughly between 3.30pm and 10.30pm

wow first of all thank you, that's probably the most informative answer I've had! i will start dosing the fertilser for sparsly planted then I've probably been way over dosing causing the green water. i replaced my main filter for the unifilter 750 hoping it would clear up the green water but...

Would you say this is moderately planted?

I will look into that, it came highly recommended form people that use it with fish in tank. But I will definitely find out

Easycarbo is liquid co2, I have a floating plant covers about 10% of the water surface. I havnt added any fertiliser to the tank for 4 weeks now. So you recon 50% water change daily for a week. Then start back with my schedule and if the greenw after returns cut back to less than 7 hours of...

Hello! So I've been in the hobby for just over a year, made all the mistakes at the start and learned a LOT. I now have a nice healthy tank of fish, I wanted real plants and have planted the tank got it balanced not too badly(or it wasn't balanced in the first place and it was just luck) but...

I fought for 8 months with the tank, ammonia spikes all the time constant water changes every fews days weeks on end eventually I lost the tank of fish, My ph was always 6 on the api master test kit. So I purchased a digital ph test meter and the calibration liquids and the ph was 3. I recycled...

Buffing the kh every 3 weeks has stabilised it completely, I dose the exact same amount every 3rd water change the ph never changes now, only the kh drops. So after 3 weeks I buff it back to about 8 and is working great. Where as before the oh was dropping to below 3 or 4 after a week or 2 with...

Thank you!!

I wasn't buffering before and lost a tank of fish, my tap water come out tap 6.8ish, with 0 kh, after 1 week it gets as low as 3 or 4 complete acid bath it was effecting my bio filter and everything for 3 months buffing the kh has kept the tank stable. Even 30-40% weekly water changes wasn't...

I have an albino hoplosternum in another tank was told they would eat the neon tetra but I do love catfish what species can live with neon tetra and ottocinclus? Thats good to know the soft water is fine. I had to start buffering the kh as the oh was swinging like mad. But I will try and do it...

What would you recommend fish wise? 105 litre 16 neon tetra an 6 ottocinclus