Navarre

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or you can do what us lazy fish keepers do Buy tank add water cycle add fish watch

and good point re daltons a bag would cover most of your tank sand is to seal it in but you may still get a white cloud/film for first few weeks little gravel is to allow plant roots to snuggle into and dig down into that rich mulm that with time will build up in tank substrate base plant roots find it hard to move around big boulder type 4-5-7 mm gravel so like that smaller stuff also you can get more range so can use base to help alter...slightly ...the pH of water but more importatntly the pH of the gravel and therefore taylor that to your plants likes. As most gravel the colour can detirmine the pH but colour doesnt really matter to us (as you hope) that most of the gravel will be plant infested i have used under gravel heating in a couple of tanks...it helps ...but not sure to the extent that it is worth the trouble. In saying that I have seen a room heated with undertank (yes undertank) cable and that worked VERY well HTH

hopefully the world will end so then I dont have to hand in my assignement due on the 30th..must start it soon... pffft who needs another degree anyway right always work for the working

yup do that used to be alsorts of rules about wats per gallon and this k or temp of light for that plant basically choose what plants you like put in teh gravel mix as I have suggested and light/dose your tank to meet growth requirements and sorry for speeling and typing as some have previously suggested it is a reflection on my IQ LOL

JackP ok where are the photos Joe I have some stuff here next time you/caryl are down you can have spare tanks and bits and pieces ok

have seen lighting done all sorts of ways and you get what you pays for I have always used old style lights mostly cause that is what I know and can afford but if you have "new" stuff it can be done and done well not sure I would bodgy something up...might import it...but mostly cause I wouls spark myself accross the room if I tried to do something like that with teh dollar high I woudllook at some cool things like Si brought in or talk to specialist light place oh and you may need to think about 2 types of light one to grow with one to watch with depends on where tank is tho

have had tanks running like that and never replaced under gravel ferts have spiked teh bigger plants occasionally but as you never gravel vax the mulm accumulated breaks down and becomes self fertilising in saying that many many of those tanks haver the WATER dosed as well

layer 1 1-2 cm deep some sort of undergravel fert-daltons aquabasis laterite etc layer 2 2-4 cm deep sand good ol play sand layer 3 gravel 2-3 mm in size any colour you choose under gravel heating if you choose closest thingto that foreground look microfolia, latefolia, subdulata? pygmy chain sword (couple of types) novo zealandia that sort of thing HTH

3 types of substrate plants lights fertilisers water fish that wont beat the snot out of it look at Si Spinx's thread Nav

once you have babies I will rasie them for you or give me rocks with eggs on now if you like

no problem azures not going thanks for asking

meh

try redwoods they had some last time i was there

Or Kribs well done on your new fish and welcome to the weird world of water keeping Nav

heidy

yes started out much much more than that

time to test the waters me thinks

hmmm

my fry tank is a stolen idea but it is 1200x 45 x45 and it has a sheet of glass runing length ways end to end 100mm in from the back wall this houses the heater and the filtration. the glass is fixed at each end tank floor to tank top. the tank is then devided into four length ways and these deviders are glued top to bottom but not along the floor of the tank. this allows for water movement between all 5 chambers I can grade and grow out many fish in this set up vacum one or more chambers or house adult fish within reason if i have to you can do the same with movable deviders if you wish HTH Nav

Lace monitors have been here in Zoos before But when the pair that were here died they were not replaced much like the varieties of shingle backs and a few other bits and pieces so if they have been in containment in the past maybe no impact reported needed as they were here and an existing orgainism prior to the 90s

looks like it is a wild krib

are you talking about L144 L144a or Ancistrus temenaki albino spotted there are red eye black eye and blue eyed albino cats short and longfin calicos and spotted or not

spathaphyllums are good plants get a few colours now put them at the back It is looking good

you will need to upgrade your lighting me thinks