Recent content by valeofglam

Cheers, I was reading up on Pakistani loaches and all was going good until I got to the part where it said they eat shrimp also! That rules this one out!

I bought some plants that came with added features in the name of snails. They seem to have multiplied and now it's baby snails everywhere! Picking them out as I see them doesn't help as its a losing battle! I have Malaysian trumpet snails that I introduced and happy with as they keep...

Yeah I understand the shark grows big but it will be exchanged for a tiddler in my local fish store when it starts growing no where near full size so thats not an issue there. The pleco has a diet of algae wafers, tank algae and courgette discs I put in and it's a relative small pleco, body no...

So I have a planted 90 litre 2.5ft tank that currently has 6 Neon Tetras, 2 mollies, 2 platies, a rainbow shark, a bristle nose pleco and 6 cherry shrimp. I'm looking for a 'feature fish' to finish the tank off. I have a Fluval 4+ that's set to half flow as its uber super powerful and one side...

Ah brill thanks

Superglue ? Sounds my kind of thing! No messy cotton thread or fishing lines! How long do you wait for it to dry or is it just glue and put back in straight away? Is it safe? Do you need to avoid any brands or types of glue ?

Hey, I attached some java fern to my bogwood using some sewing nylon thread. It looks unsightly and I r bought some new carpeting plants so is there a more preferred way of attaching them together?

SLIM - I read your link with interest! I wanted to know if there was a way to dose ferts in but to do a lesser quantity water change as I don't fancy a weekly 50% change! I do 20-25% changes fortnightly!! I bought today the 2 carpet plants in question as well as the Tetra Plant C02 depot...

Cheers all! I saw a YouTube clip on making yeast c02 so for now I'll do that until I get my hands on the valve thing my brother will lend me, hopefully I'll manage to get it in a few weeks. There's a maidenhead price ticket on the empty canister that's attached to it for £20 f that helps with...

Ok, so I have a few plants and in tanks gone by I've always had real plants as well. I've never fed them, just relied on water changes to restock the nutrients. My latest tank, I'm planning on stocking it heavily with plants including hopefully, if it'll take as I have gravel only and no soil...

Agreed, the surface water area sucks so I want to upgrade it ASAP. The mollies have sussed they can swim around the tank in circuits uninterrupted ! It's the only good thing about the biorb! As the fantails grow I'll probably end up upgrading the tank which is good as the light is strong so I'm...

The boys tank is a 40 litre tank so I think that ones alright. The biorb is the 60 litre version, it also has an internal filter hidden behind the bog wood :)

My wife wanted something down scale from our last tank and she wanted a Biorb so we got a Biorb 60. It's ok but I'm keen to tell my wife the pitfalls of it so I can get a 3 or 4ft normal tank! I did consider drilling it, installing 15mm round pipes so I could discretely run an external filter...

Hello all, Just joined up. I've kept coldwater, tropical and marine but now back to tropical!   I'm in the Vale of Glam ;)