Recent content by shmikuk

I have 3 dp's, 7 ottos and 6 kuli loaches. They are all fine together now, but when i first put the otto's & kuli's in the tank, the dp's thought it was great to nip their fins. I don't think it was in a nasty way.. i see it more like a baby who needs to 'eat' everything to figure out what it...

Not sure about throwing some in there.. but i am sure they would be ok. I have dp's and i get most of my specialist advice from the 'Dwarf Puffer forum' (dwarfpuffers com) Bunch of good guys and lots of helpfull advice. :good:

I have in the tank 3 dp's (dwarf puffers), kuli loaches and a few otto's. I have checked my local info on dp's and it said that they prefer a ph of at least 7.0.. i am not quite sure what to so now.. Maybe i should stick with tap as i normally do. :unsure:

Just wondering if anyone could give me a bit more information on R.O. water.. I have looked for information on it but can only find it linked with information on marine set-ups. Can you use it for tropical set-ups too? My reason for asking, is because I have a tropical set-up and am looking to...

i changed the gravel as i didn't like the stuff i had. It was much to big in the tank so i changed to the very small pea gravel (i was going to go for a flourite substrate but decided against it for now as my plants are doing well without the added helping hand.) Ok i will do a water change...

Just changed my tank about a bit (put new gravel in/cleaned it throughly but kept atleast 1/2 original tank water) and my 2 boy pufs look very unhappy. They are normally very good eaters, but they don't seem interested at all in food (even snails) and are just hanging about the back of the...

I would like to change the (medium sized pea) gravel in my tank for something that looks a little more attractive and offers the live plants that i have more nutrients. The tank i have, is an Aquaone 510 and holds about 75 litres. I have looked into buying the RedSea FloraBase substrate but feel...

I would like to change the (medium sized pea) gravel in my tank for something that looks a little more attractive and offers the live plants that i have more nutrients. The tank i have, is an Aquaone 510 and holds about 75 litres. I have looked into buying the RedSea FloraBase substrate but feel...

hi from guildford! which lfs you been using? In a similar situation, we found www.plantgeek.net really helpful along with these forums. We did get sold some high light plants for our lowlight tank at first before we'd done some research by a local lfs.

Oh and we are also running a Sochting Carbonator too:

Hi, we have an aquaone 510, home to three dwarf puffers and a fair few plants. After losing some "high light" plants that we were sold by the LFS we have recently restocked with hardier, 'low light plants". So we now have Java ferns which are thriving since day one, a couple of anubias, and a...

:good: Thanks for all the advice and for th nice comments re: the tank! A sunday afternoon well spent setting that lot up. Nice when more experienced folks think we've done OK. :blush: Well, we've done a load of research...here, online, and around the local (and not so local) aquatic shops...

Thanks! Maybe we'll miss out on the puffers this time then, as we'd like a few more fish in there than two 3cm fellas! LOL! Any other suggestions? Cheers!

I recently set up my aquaone 510 tank, with gravel, bogwood, and some live plants. Its a 75 litre tank. (Been set up two weeks, and we wont be putting fish in until the new year..so approx 5 weeks cycling) Weve searched the forums, and threads and found some very useful but often conflicting...

Hi there Thanks for the welcome & replies! Yes your suction cups look like ours.. its a very strange substance as when scraped, it flakes off.. weird :/