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I think I'm going to go with harlequin rasboras when the time comes. Maybe a shoal of 12.

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It comes out of the tap at 7.8ph and after 24 hours dechlorinated settles at 7.5 in my barrels so my other tanks are at 7.5. This tank is 7.3 and has been all along so it is buffering the effect of the fluval quite well. The fluval looses its acid buffering after about 12 months so that is when...

It's moderately hard at 200mg/l

Tank now settling down nicely. Less that 0.25ppm this morning.

It's ironic that I chose an active substrate like fluval which usually drops pH to between 6 and 6.8 depending on tap properties and ended up by accident putting in limestone which has counter acted it completely to a pH of 7.3. The fluval stratum is supposed to drop kh to zero but its at 3/4...

The driftwood gassed off for the first 24 hours because of the tannic acid acting against the base water but now its absorbed the base water it's stopped gassing. I'm getting on average about 1 to 2cm of growth per plant a day with 5ppm co2 but my nitrates are at 40ppm out of the tap. Lot of...

It's hard water out of the tap, kh is 6. Gh is pretty high too so it won't dissolve calcium like soft water would. The limestone is not gassing off Atm.

And how long would you leave it before you'd put fish in? What type of fish are less likely to rip up the plants?

Thanks, yes I seem to have lost quite a bit of the bacteria which keeps the nitrites down in the swap. So my sintered glass noodles I swapped over from my other filter must contain the bacteria that keeps ammonia down because my ammonia is 0%. The other type which keeps nitrites down must have...

My Aquaone 850 developed a fault and had to be replaced with a new filter. This is a 150 liter tank with temperate water fish, 8 fish and well established bio filter, PH 7.2 22C room temperature water. I transfered my bio media to the new filter but couldn't transfer my sponges from the...

I'm setting up a small 72 litre planted tank and read about inert rocks so I chose lava rock. Went to the pet shop and bought three large lumps of lava rock. Me not being a geologist and the owners of the pet shop not up on rocks either, they placed tufa limestone in with the lava rock by...

Today's readings are ammonia 0 and nitrite 0. Plants are growing nicely. Currently have 6 black ruby barbs, 4 guppies, 2 flame dwarf gourami's and a bristlenose plec. Getting close to full stock.

We went another few days with no ammonia or nitrites so I bought a small bristlenose pleco today. Brown algae was starting to bloom so I've reduced the light schedule and put this little fella in there. He didn't mess around getting to work, he's already stripped one ornament of algae...

Amended, I meant nitrates. The only ammonia present is after you treat with prime and the chloramine releases small amounts of ammonia.