Recent content by Tryne

I am still wondering if API liquid Carbon is any good. I stopped using it like 5 months ago in my tanks. Everything is going well without it and my plants look way better, really.

I have the same filter on a 10 gallon. If you have a alot of dirt in the filter, then just remove it completely (the whole thing not only the filter cardridge) and clean it in some tank water. Do the same again next day if needed. Removing only the cardridge will not be enough if theres too many...

You can cut that stuff down into micro parts and it will grow back don't worry. It starts propagating by itself pretty fast as well by losing little parts which attach themeselves somewhere else in the tank. I have been using it in my latest tank and it grows into thick bushes if you leave it...

I've had a 13 hour power outage recently. Nothing bad happened.

I have a dozen pygmy cories and 6 panda cories. I give them 1 Supervit Tablet B every saturday and 5 Hikari sinking wavers every wednesday. Plus the food for shrimp and chilis which they of course also snack on. Cories also go pretty crazy on live Artemias as they end up stuck on surfaces in the...

What do you mean by 'filters haven’t been cycling for 6 weeks' ? They didn't run for 6 weeks? Or you started the tank 6 weeks ago? If something is not right with the filter(s), then that's the first thing to fix.

What about using that tank only half filled with water? you could have stones/wood above water level with nice plants in and out of the water. You could for example build a nice Vampire Crab tank.

I have 2 different filters without any protection for shrimp ( Tidal 35 and Juwel Bioflow M ) but the reality seems to be, at least in my tanks setups, that they really don't care about the filters. They litterally go in and out as they want to. There's hundreds of babies in my tanks constantly...

Basically, all the surfaces in your tank, especially the filter media, are constantly and slowly getting colonized by bacteria depending on the amount of ammonia and nitrite available. Just don't add too many at the same time and you're fine. Regarding the cories, I would add 3 more if I were...

Even if you don't keep them in the long run, always start your tank with floating plants. They are very effective and lots of fish love them to hide from the *sun*. Praise the sun. Add way more plants to the rest as well. It helps in so many ways. Absorbs nasty stuff from the water, creates...

I use airline and bought a set of these air flow controllers from amazon. Works well: 5 Pcs Aquarium Air Flow Control Levier Valve en Acier Inoxydable Tube À Air Distributeur Fish Tank Vannes Monotête Aquarium Pompe À Oxygène Valve De Contrôle Accessoires : Amazon.fr: Animalerie

LOL I copy pasted the wrong lines on my list for sat. and sun. sorry :p fixed

I have had 6 panda cories for about 3 months now. Plus 12 pygmy cories and 20 chillis and shrimp all over the place. 120L, 25 plant species. No fatalities so far. I am still learning. Here is what I feed the tank every day, I don't know if that's too much or not enough but it seems to work so...

I have had a power outage last friday evening at 11pm paris time. The power came back the next day around 1 pm. 14h without power. I had no possibility at that moment to do anything and could only wait and hope power will be back the next morning. During this time, the temperature dropped from...

Crayfish will consume some of the algae but not nearly as much as shrimp or snails. You won't see any noticeable difference with or without. Crayfish are especially usefull for removing dead plant matter, they love to tear apart dead leaves. That's what mine did in my first tank. If you want to...