Recent content by Tropicanafishbanana

@Byron @--Mike-- @anewbie wow i didnt want cause a fight i want a peaceful tank lol, my main fishies will be me corys there my main health and heart of my tank i love catfish, the pleco she wants for the algeo and cause tehy look so damn cute, i read the BN plec is happier with a mate, i have...

so barbs are nippy didnt know that !!. but u makeit sound like the ruby barsbwont be nippy? no mension on the gorumai? i ahvent baught anything yet my tank is growing plantation first, then filling and stabilising before i buy them 1 species at a time, im planning out what my possibillities...

i managed to swap her hillstream loach for a bristle nose longfin pleco x2 there size and requirements are alot less , there bright and amazing only get to 12cm, clean the tank again, aq says 152% filter and 52% tank capacity. just looking for somthing to fill the mid to top like 2 fish id say...

my tap hardness is 450-500 so i use a 6 stage filter on my water which makes is 005 and then takes it back up to 50 on stage 6, adding ca mg etc id assume using this for my fish too as the chrloarmines floride and other bits cant be good or gauged for the fish if there not for me, i had a skin...

im in a 120l tank,. its 38x12x14high, im using the aqadvisor to change the fish i previously wanted that didnt match corys, now ive been given a list of 96 fishies alot to look through but as i find out alot of themn arnt always compatible too due to water gh gk needs etc it can reccomend some...

what fish would yoou put in a cory tank bare inmind there soft watered as a main display ? the mrs let me have cat fish but said she wants a brightly coloured friendly fish to swim about on display too ?

awsome, yeah i have a Full RO 6 stage system drinking water and reminieraliseation, i would have assumed this safe for any fish? like ida thaught some fish hard water all fish soft , but a soft fish wotn go in hard ? i have 3 plattys my kids love em, i got them as advised there good to tank...

forget cycling?? i thaught it was the important stage to set the filters and bacterias into motion? doesnt that stil apply with planted aquatics? i have a 120l tank im filling aswell does that need cycling ? ive never heard of throwing plants in and forgetting? i was going to wait 2 weeks and...

heya my new tank with low fish atm waiting for the cycle fore i add more fish atm 3 plattys is all thats there, seen products like this https://thenutrientcompany.com/products/tnc-complete and been told i needed plant food too ? ive just started using n02 and no3 test strips and the gk gh atm...

Borneo Sucker Loach 5cm max size common pleco 5cm but max 46cm, ( i will upgrade tank at xmas) Gold Laser Cory 3cm max 7cm x2 Bandit Cory 5.5 cm max x4 ( bandit gold chase hehe apparently these 2 mix well) 3 platty fish, 7cm max 2 angel fish 15cm max thats 96cm, at 1litre per cm, i need 96...

theres no red hardly above 6k..

so a green yellow only? these bxex have 80-90 cri, and the green is the main reason i used them as green was the forgotten photon its definatly a benefit to all plant life, these strips have very very high green compared to many lights out there, they outpreform most cob lighting hands down

610 - 720 nm or 2700k light This is the red band. Large amount of absorption by chlorophyll occurs, and most significant influence on photosynthesis. Yield results are very close for ‘Red/Blue’, ‘Warm (3000K)’, ‘MIGRO (3500K)’ & ‘Neutral (4000K) Green is almost as effective as Red in...

thanks buddy, so 5k is good still lol, but i do believe that 5k lights typicialy only produce around 5-8% red, 3500 producing 11% and 2700 producins around 15% so i dont think atall the 5k and up has much to any red at all as there specificaly blued up and used to green growth, they have no...