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[marksmini]

13 years ive kept tropical fish and still learning. my current tank 300L cleaned by an exturnal filter system.

pictures are off my phone so not very good but as you can see, its a tank, it holds water and theres fish in there.
ive put up differant lighting and differant things in the tank some green some rock, to give some ideas of what or how to go. i change mine depening on the sort of fish i decided to keep at that time.

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[davidv]

Looks great above but as you said you have been with the Hobby a long Time.Quality tank and Stand.

[D1k1m4y]

been doin a spot of reading and ive decided on a fishless cycle. ordered the bottle of ammonia today should be here tomoz i will look into improving the lighting and get back in touch when its all done.

that tank is great mark.

thanks alot rich

[marksmini]

you might find your plants wont last. it taken me years to get plants to grow in my tanks. never got them to grow in small stones but ive got them to grow in sand. the best i found of growing them was on bog wood with a small tie around the plant to keep it on the wood for acouple of months till the plant takes hold. time will tell you might be lucker than myself with that.

[D1k1m4y]

yh got a bit of bogwood with some plants on it so hopefully they'll be ok. other than that i got some plant nutrients and stuff so it might help a little.

[phil_clubman]

ive got a huge black ghost knife fish in my tank. must be close to 11" now. ive bin into it for about 3 years now and never managed to keep plants alive. went on here www.plantsalive.co.uk got a few plants and some tablet food to put in the gravel under the plants and they doing fine now plants. 2 are even trying to take over my tank.

i started with plattys and corys then slowly added diferent fish. i never managed to keep a guppy alive for longer than a week

[davidv]

If you also wanted to have a go at growing plants i would get a seperate Tank for a try.If it went well you could also sell some.Keep an eye on Snails.Take great care with all the chemicals you use.
Now this Thread is Swimming Along i would like another go with fish something nice to watch by the PC etc...
Since i have had my new PC and large screen it never gets switched off.

[davidv]

If you also wanted to have a go at growing plants i would get a seperate Tank for a try.If it went well you could also sell some.Keep an eye on Snails.Take great care with all the chemicals you use.
Now this Thread is Swimming Along i would like another go with fish something nice to watch by the PC etc...
Since i have had my new PC and large screen it never gets switched off.

[phil_clubman]

got a problem in my tank, was wondering if anyobdy has had any experience with Velvet disease? my black ghost was a slimey browney green colour this morning and am totally stuck with what to do? any adivse be great, i wont be able to get to my local fish shop untill at least friday

[davidv]

Velvet Disease.
Raise water temp.
Dim lights a few days
Add Aquarium Salt
Treat with Coppersulphate for 10 Days
Switch Carbon Filtration OFF during Treatment
Good Luck

[phil_clubman]

Cheers boss, I'll give it a try, i've managed to get tmro off so I'll go get some aquarium salt.

Cheers again

[Nick Warwick]

to grow plants well you will need a good amount of light for example my tank is 22Gallons and i have 72Watts of light over mine and the plants go mental. I have CO2 diffusing into the tank, substrate fertilizer(gravel that contains nutrient's for plants) and liquid fertilizers when i remember to put them in haha, i will get a photo of my tank for you

[davej]

I`ve got a 180 litre tropical tank in my room with just your general tetras, mollies, a plec and another kind of cat fish kind of thing which I can`t remember the name of. A did have a bala shark which grew to about 6 inches long but he unfortunately died earlier this year He was ace but my god so scared of anything, heard him trying to jump out of the tank numerous times in the middle of the night

Just scanning though the thread reading about new tank syndrome and cycling. I just put a few neons in after a couple of days of the the tank being set up then did 1/3 water changes every couple of days and never had any problems.

I`ll get a marine tank one day when I have the time.

[phil_clubman]

ive just bought puffer fish