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welcome to the forums Regarding your problem, most algae is caused by an imbalance of light and nutrients. I doubt the carbon is helping the problem also how much light is your tank getting? (sunlight included) lowering this could help quite a bit

it could also not be enough, I think 1/2bps is good for smaller tanks. best way to do it would be getting a drop checker and going from there

there was no battery for the good camera :oops: so I couldn't get them on to my lappy and now the camera is on the way to hastings for a week for some cricket thing :oops: :oops: :oops: I could get some point and click ones though? not sure if they will come out too good....

the way you set it up with noodles, ect doesn't really matter... the blue sponges probably just take some of the load off the top layer in terms of mechanical filteration and provide a bit of biological...

well it looks good there..... :lol: pics will be up in about 10mins ish

Last time I tried that it diddn't work.... but this time it did :-? will get up some pics once I find the good camera :lol:

It's an algae ridden tank atm :lol: and I need to get an image resizer for windows 7 now... mostly everything is growing as well

not really :lol: , it probably has to do with the adult sizes of some of your loaches (clowns,yoyos get bigish) and your common pleco and you must have a few discus

thats S. subulata though, it grows way taller (like 30cm+ tall) while the one adodge has is S. microfolia which stays a lot smaller

its like 1mm glass... and I found a square one *nano iwagumi in the making* on another note could I enter this in the comp if I get a single daphnia or something to live in there? lol

just get a shot glass

I was talking about Ira's post -.- andthe fact that I have lots of spare time on my hands, but nothing to get me anywhere

Great minds think alike :lol:

Oooooooooooo thats a nice tank.... some wild discus would of been better but plant wise Droooooooooool

2.54cm to an inch, so its 4.72" long... nothing was wrong with mine apart from the points I made before either and yes my tank is smaller, 24"x12" but 30"x12" isn't much bigger

for a start they need high humidity (mine are in a tank with a full glad wrap cover) and most of them do better with some kind of warmth (mine have a heater in the water with a small pump circulating) All of mine have a substate of about 1 part fine sand, 1 part topsoil and 1 part daltons, and a few oak leaves then a thin layer of gravel on top (isn't really needed) then a single JBL ball underneath all of this is in pots with a single plant per pot fert wise I don't think they need much else apart from that ^ but I have started to stick a drop or 2 of PMDD directly into the pot to see if it will make them grow faster, excel won't have any effect sunlight should be fine for most of them, mine have a single CFL over top(with whatever else light gets to it) but they will probably grow faster with higher light with replanting them just stick the whole thing in, then it will most likely melt (the leaves will decintergrate) you can cut all these leaves off and after a while it will grow back with emersed growth keeping the water leave a few cms above the base of the plant seems to help HTH :lol: quite a few of the really nice ones we don't get in NZ though

lol^ they were pretty much all in agreement, apart from a BGK as they do grow slow but get big the only thing I don't agree with there is the zebra loach, what did you put the minimum size tank for them as? (with this tank being a 2ft tank) as they get to around 8cm and I would think they would be fine in this tank One thing you could change for the fish after checking it is something for the hillstream loaches, as they live in high flow and high oxygen enviroments. high flow as if in 10feet/3m a second so you could stick something like: "hillstream loaches apreciate higher flow enviroments" and "hillstream loaches need higher amounts of oxygen in their water to live happily"...

you should send me some of those swords so i can position them around the awesome bits of wood I found :lol:

+1 most people overseas with nano tanks use the CFL's try and find a 23w 6500k bulbs for one

^LOL Looks like a lot of fun damn not having a drivers licence :evil:

if its showing nitrates it means trhe tank has cycled now as you add more fish it will go though mini cycles

can you get some babies off that purpley black sword for me?? :lol:

A lot of betta breeders overseas use to help them/induce them to breed, it does make them more aggresive though, also used for condition ing them for fighting got something to do with the tannins/acids in the leaves and AFAIK they do work

cherry barbs get to about 4cm though... so you could stick: ember tetras scarlet badis betta CPDs a few male guppies? pygmy corys sparkling gourami would work, only get to 3ish cm suggestions so far + ones that I can think of atm

how much gravel did you get? if its a 15kg bag can you weigh it? lol Whats going to be in this tank?