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At the end of the week they are 40ppm. What type of floating plant would you suggest? I have ordered some filter media that claims to provide an anaerobic place for nitrate reducing bacteria. I am getting it for a tank that I plan to set up (just so I had some cycled media) but I'll let it...

Have any tips for keeping the vals alive and healthy? Some are going brown towards the end of the leaves and nitrates still not going down. Thanks.

Thank you so much for all the tips. I had my water company test my water last week and the results came through today... My nitrates are at 36ppm... That shows how inaccurate the test strips can be, or maybe I just misjudged the colour. I think I will look into the nitrate removing filter or...

Those tap water readings are from test strips which I am unable to tell if its closer to 40 or to 80, though I shall be picking up a master test kit soon... I have some vallisernias which I put in a few weeks ago and it seems to be slowly doing something. I shall have a look at biohome. Thanks.

I have high nitrates in my tap water (40-80ppm). I have been looking into the options for reducing them. I have plants etc in my tanks and have a diatoms issue in one tank and a brush algae issue in the other tank. Is a nitrate reducing filter a good option? They seem relatively cheap although...

I don't seem to be coming across any T8 overhead hood options... If you were to say LED, what would I specifically be looking for in order for it to be sufficient?

Thanks! I did try searching what type of colour they were and did read that T5 was more powerful. I shall keep searching. Thanks again!

Thanks. How does "T5 Aquarium 24" Fish Tank Overhead Lighting Two Tube System 60cm" sound? Again, it is the cheapest I can find (40GBP) it comes with 1 x 10000k and 1x Actinic. What exactly is the difference between these two? So would you think that the light overall could be causing the...

Thanks for the info. It is annoying to find that many different websites have different information e.g. that diatoms is caused by light and that it isn't, glad to finally have an answer. I bought the cheapest LED light that I possibly could when I set up this aquarium which is why I think it is...

Hey im new here. I have some shellies (multies) and basically my problems go like this: (Basically I had cyanobacteria and then that went now I have a weird brown 'algae' that won't go away) 1) Cyanobacteria appeared 2) I asked advice on another forum, and proceeded with a 7 day black out 3)...