Recent content by ellejay

Ah ok, I didn't know that, thanks!

Thanks Byron. Seachem Flourish is a name I've been hearing a lot, both on here and Reddit (highly recommend the Planted Tanks sub, there are some amazing tanks on there) so I'll look into that.

It is day 36 and my tank is finally cycled, hooray! First time cycling and no major dramas so I'm quite pleased with myself. I will be stocking my tank with sparkling gouramis, pygmy corys and cherry shrimp (following advice on another thread re tank size/water parameters etc). However, I can't...

Definitely! Love the look you've got with the grey sand and smooth rocks, really effective :)

Thanks for for all the advice, its interesting to hear how other cycles are progressing. I'm getting there slowly but surely, just added my maintenance dose today. Ammonia and nitrites seem to be dropping quickly so I'm hopeful it won't be too much longer (although hopefully it will wait until...

Ok will do, thanks. Don’t worry I’m nowhere near adding fish yet.

Well I tested last night and I finally have nitrite, hooray! Never been so happy to see purple :) I want to get some plants in there before I stock it with fish, can I put them in now or will it upset the cycle?

Thanks, I'll give it a go

Apologies, misspelling, I meant nitrites - the sticky thread says they should have appeared by now. I'm not bothering to test for nitrates yet.

Hello I'm cycling my 64 litre tank following the guidance on the sticky thread (which is brilliant, I've learned loads). My pH is 7.4, temp 25 degrees. I dosed on Day 1 with 2ml ammonia (in hindsight I should have used 1.8ml when accounting for substrate etc), I then tested 30 minutes later...

Whoops just realised you’d already mentioned a couple earlier. Ok great I will look into those, thanks

Thanks all. I will get them all together, but closely monitor the water parameters. I’ll also make sure the plants are in before they are. Any advice on plants? I’m planning on getting some moss to attach to the wood (probably Java), and I’ll get some floating plants - I’ve had amazon frogbit...

I'm going to bypass the angelfish discussion, it's way out of my league... As for stocking, I don't think we reached a consensus on the gourami numbers. I may have to order the sparklers online depending on what I can find locally (the pygmy corys too for that matter). From a financial point of...

Thanks both, I will change it out ASAP.

I meant the gouramis, I'll be getting 8-10 pygmy corys. And no, definitely not a biocube :) Ive got a Fluval U2, it actually seems quite gentle.