Recent content by JPW003

thank you, I've just watched this, very informative 👍

Thank you, that's really helpful:) I set the tank up in May 2020 during Covid, so it's almost four years. I've trimmed other plants but this one started off about four inches long and is now touching the filter, so I've been thinking about doing something with it! Thanks for your help, Jonathan

Hi there I need some advice on trimming this plant please that's getting too large for the tank, or at least I think it is. The long stem plant that's highlighted in blue that runs the full length of the tank now, I forget it's name sadly. If I cut it where I've marked it pink on the second...

Hi all I have a well planted tank (see attached), and in the past week of so, started to see what looks like an algae on a few of my plants. I've circled one of the pictures white so you can see. This is a new thing, and wondered what it was, and what I can do about it. Is it hair algae? The...

Thanks again. Wouldn't bother as in "don't bother adding minerals?". Do you think 90 TDS is okay to keep & breed RCS with all the other coniditions (gH/KH/pH etc)? Appreciate your help mate, J

Thanks Seangee I'm 5 and 3 respectively on my tap. Can I just use Salty Shrimp on my tap to increase it very gradually or do I have to invest in RO/RO unit?? J

Hi all I have a second planted tank (10g) ready and waiting for red cherry shrimp. 8 weeks left to sit and do its stuff re biofilm etc, and it'll be a shrimp only tank. Ammonia 0 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0-5ppm and pH is 6.8. The TDS from my tank water however is 90. I believe I should be looking at...

Hi all I've recently (Sunday) planted up my second 12g tank with lots of fast and slow growing plants. The fast ones are already showing growth signs. I've got the white fuzzy stuff developing on my driftwood which I understand will go away on its own. I want this tank to be a dedicated RCS...

Thanks Essjay, I'll have a look. :thanks:

Fab, thanks so much Byron,, will switch to Lite before we get the boys in :) J