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Tom's excellent work is on here Bucket of mud 2 words-Gravel tidy

Planted tank ? I have the EX600 (excellent filter) on my 60L and the flow is only just good enough. If you're looking for value for money then something like an APS might be better.Get the biggest you can afford, the flow drop off is quite large. Tetratec & Eheim are excellent filters but cost...

CO2 on a crypt only tank? Bit of waste IMO Nutrious substrate & don't blast it with excessive lighting My C.Balansae is 50cm+ after a couple of months, in a low tec. Mid ground C.Tropica & C.Undulata for contasting leaf shapes. Front C.Parva, or Amoricum, or Willisii A lot of Crypts seem to do...

  Excellent question !

2 for starters JBL E700 & Tetratec EX600 or EX700 other brands are available I have the EX600 on my 60L.It's great. edit:if you've got the money for it, consider an inline heater.Best kit i've bought all year

Try searching for topics in the algae section 'Bottle Brush Algae' plus this algae guide Also, if you're using liquid carbon, you really need a fert with N & P. Ferropol doesn't & neither does Easy Life Profito?

If you'd have said shrimp, i'd have been right there with you.Not sure how many SAE's i'd get in my 2' tank To the OP.I know this sounds like a dumb question, but humour me.How many live plants are in there ?

Yeah, because the original pagan festivals all had plastic neon witches & other associated cheap rubbish and filled kids full of pick & mix Happy Halloween greeting's card anyone?

Do you know what algae you have ? Algae guide When you say co2, what are we talking about? Are you dosing additional ferts to go with the co2? TBH if you're using pressurised & decent ferts i'd expect virtually no algae. edit:do you do weekly water changes, and what was the lighting period...

Sounds good, going to try 1-2 out next time, but want to leave this scape in till spring, see what kind of growth i can get, long term. I'm new to Apisto's, but quick teaser pics of the Male Borellii.

Some things have stalled a bit, others have grown a bit.This is the problem when not using pressurised, patience is needed. Need to swap out the H.Corymbosa (probably for H.Difformis) & the Lud.Glandulosa.Maybe for Lud.Repens or something simple edit:oh yeah, have a M/F pair of A.Borelli in the...

just to confirm is this the algae My link

This would be my guess