Recent content by MrJerry

Hi guys and girls We'll my very old hand me down heater is starting it give up the ghost .... It's starting to let the temp slip down by many degrees :( So been looking online for a new inline heater .... The hydor inline heater So went off found the right one .... Bought it .... Then had a...

welcome :)   the forum is really help full and you will be up and running in know time .......   good place to look at or ask if your stuck i know cos iv done it haha :)

We'll before I read that all the plants are fake I thought they were all real !!! That tank looks awesome ..... I would deffo remove that warning sticker tho :) In all good job :)

just bought tetra plant complete substrate and going to cap it all off with some jbl manado ...... lovely substrate for my future plants    also cheers shoulders for the heads up on the manado substrate.

well the response to this thread has been great :)   cheers all    the photo that primous uploaded is absolutely stunning .... wish my tank was like that haha   so basically the jist of what i'm hearing most from this thread is that low light plants are easier to look after as you get more time...

tunagirll -   yeah my tank is about 22 ish gallons i remember calculating many moons ago haha yeah getting 2x 24w is no problem .... was just going to get bigger because i thought i didn't have enough light   would i still need to add co2 and fertz or because there so slow growing at this light...

Stimo -   awh glad to hear that that heater is working for you, read online that they tended to fail quite quickly, how is yours holding up ? and only 2/3 mm my gravel at the min is liked 3/4 cm haha   coolie -   awh so gradually bring in plants not all in one go , could you recommend any plants...

Yeah I have heared that the size of the grains can hinder the plants growth, hopefully when I purchase that jbl manado and use it to cap the addatives to the bottom hopefully wount washout any of the 'goodness'

Hi guys and girls     So I’m trying to get a fully growing planted tank but always seem to fall short of the mark   I first tried with plants that I liked the look of in my lfs (school boy error) bought them and planted them into plain orange gravel with no fertz, no carbon and as you can tell...

sorry about the slow reply ...... right ive got a 24inch t8 light 20w - its the glo power glow - 18000k as to the plant i have no idea .... locally bought fish shop ... plus back then i had no idea wat i was doing haha will have to upload some photos of them  i have a external filter that was...

Hi fellow fish fanatics :)   ive caught the planted/aquascaping bug and gone and bought a bunch of different types of aquatic plants from plants alive(101 different plants). know ive had 3/4 plants in the aquarium for about 2 months know and are not looking very healthy and i have no idea why ...

    As promised picture of our first set up / first tank ever   the tank is a 3 x 1 x 2 foot tank  filter - All Pond Solutions 1000EF with added fluval zeo-carb and fluval clearmax for extra filtering 4 7 inch air stones powered by interpet av2 pump and a thermostat dont know the make went and...

Hia Guys and gals, just posting to say hi to the TFF community :)   hopefully have some pictures of the first tank and setup we have just started and hopefully pick some knowledge from all the learned lessons from the forum    lets see how it all goes  :)