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i have a ar980 that is quite heavly planted too, i have a co2 setup running on it and also got good tubes for it and also added an extra 30w tube under the lid were you feed and the plnats grow crazy!

what kind of lighting have you got? how many watts and how may liters?

yeah nice fish love the o's, that looks like a nice jag too! got another pic

yeah thats what i would do to. if you cant move it them you could add a divider, this also will keep stress down from changing tanks

at the moment i just use a cheap thats $2 a bottle, its jbl. its for 200l. also some co2 would help you could make a diy co2?

i think it will be a lack of iron or magnesium. any way a fert will fix it.

the stem plant looks like red hydrophlia (sp?) (could be wrong) but if it is should be sweet as i have some in my discus tank which is 29 degrees

yeah im feed as much as possible throughout the day, the plants are only there to help lower the nitrate which they are doing really well! if my nitrate is 0 does that mean i can get away with less water changes(every week) or is there other toxins that the plants dont use that will slow the discus growth?

cheers alan, thought that would be the case. when i got it, it had little leaves but now all the new ones in my tank are nice big leaves and are a nice red colour when first grown.

ok so in my situation how often should i WC? my nitrates are always at 0ppm and they get well feed? the plants seems to be growing really well and all the leaves are green, there is one plant tho (some type or sword) that grows nice big red leaves and then they turn green after awhile is this a difecincy? should i just do WC once a week or more often, the discus come first the plants just there to remove the toxins.

i have a 250l bearbottom tank that im using to grow out my discus. i have many plants in the tank in pots. i also have co2 and heaps of lighting. the plants pearl all day long. the thing is that when i check for nitrates the test always reads at 0ppm. does this mean that i dont need to do water changes, or is there other toxins in the tank that needs to be removed. also should i start doesing nitrate? any help appresitated

ditto

does anyone know of any wateragers that are 'amine-based slime coat products'

you might have crossed threaded it. i done this on one of my taps and it leacked. just unscrew it and then rescew it back on

i have this. what is it? is it bad for the plants and fish. and how do i get rid of it? thanks for any help!!

got any updated pic to show??

found this site: http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_plan ... e_calc.htm im just going to use mg sulfate, and potasium sulfate for now, mg sulfate is just epson salt and easy to find, i just got some from down to earth it tahuna and also got it from switch on gadener. hope this helps.

is it possable to put a proten skimmer on a FW? and if so would it help reduce the nitrates?

yeah that sucks man i just lost my tigerbarb, he was my first fish i ever brought had him just over 2 years.

looking good! its come a wee way since the last photo i seen of it! youve got ground ferts ay? when you ganna get the new lights?

ok i have my 5 discus in my 250l bearbottom tank with a few plants in pots. im running a canister filter and also a small 500lph internal running purgin. they have a few tank mates, baby atum angles and a few dwaf cichilds. im pretty much only feeding them novo bits and bloodworm at the moment. sharn said to feed mysis shrimp, i have freeze dried ones but they float and the discus dont seem to like them. should i get frozen ones? what is the highest i should let the nitrates get before water change, at the moment i have been keeping them lower than 5ppm. any other tips for superfast growth?

i usaly just do the water change trying to avoid them, thn after when i go to tip the water out check for the fry and catch them and put them back

yeah!

yeah its been so hot down here the last couple of days! mrblueram dont forget the pics of what you get!

nice pics! good luck with the fry