Recent content by Dickie

Excellent, thanks for that George :D Dickie

George, How have you done this....just have the airline tubing from the bottle going straight into the intake? I wouldn't want to restrict the water flow too much and would be worried that this may happen. Dickie

Hi, For my up and coming setup, I was thinking of adding a DIY CO2 setup to it (yeast and sugar in an empty bottle). I'm going to be running an Eheim ecco 2234 external filter....I was thinking that a good way to diffuse the CO2 would be to feed the CO2 directly to the inlet of the...

What problems would there be having a betta in a tank this size? I've kept one for 3 years in a tank of 36x15x12 with similiar tank mates with no problems. Dickie

Hi, I'm setting up a new tank after a while doing only saltwater tanks. The tank is 48x18x18. I plan to have it quite heavily planted. I will be transferring fish from a setup my GF already has. Currently this is 3 bllue rams (1 male 2 females), several guppies, 2 swordtails (1 male and 1...

SirMinion, regarding your answer in my question about the Carib-Sea Tahitian Moon sand......do you have any pictures of the tank with this in it? Also, I'm trying to work out how much to put into the tank...I'm mixing it with planting substrate and was thinking at a ratio of 2:1 with the...

That's exaclty what I was wanting to hear :D Thanks for the replies guys. Dickie

Hi, I'm planning the setup of a 48x18x18 planted setup. I'd like to use a sand substrate mixed with plant substrate. Initally I had thought of using a whiteish coloured sand, but due to colours of plant substrate, have changed my mind and decided to go for black sand. I've not had much luck...