Bishop

Did not know that. :smln: I ended up asking on TM, just waiting for some ingredients and enjoying xmas probably.

It is but he is out at the moment, hasn't had any for a while.

Hey look somebody needs help lets make fun of them.

He lives.. :thup:

They might be in the country but not that easy to get a hold of.

Good to know Cheers.

Yip yip thanks. Didn't see any reason it wouldn't be but wanted to ask for the piece of mind before I move all my tanks.

Might have to move there, just wondering what the water supply was like, cost of changing water ect, anything would be heplful. ta

Looks amazing mate, well done.

Good to know mate cheers. Financial break down, although somewhat private info would be invaluable to anybody wanting to set up int eh near future.

Cheers mate, Bunnings and Mitre 10 here only have that expensive Marley stuff and in very limited amounts.. Bit expensive just to cut up and play around with.

Little of topic, where did you get your pvc pipe? Tank look great by the way, great to see everything come together.

lol, off the wagon he says, not keeping fish he says. :dnc1: Good stuff man That Beta looks nice, I would be keen to get some photos of him one day. How are the fry coming?

That is awesome, plenty of room, well over the 10% I was talking about earlier. I think from memory somebody on here had a massive planted tank with a sump, maybe Henward? Be good to get his findings see what advice he had too.

That's actually a good point, depending on your turn over of that last segment in the sump, for almost total diffusion something inline would be ideal but as close to that power head as possible. I would assume though that the turnover would be huge, so you might not need it. However drilling a hole in a bit of pvc isn't that hard if you need it. The issue I personally have with that is customization, I like to move stuff around and experiment and also the diffusion of 1 bubble through the return, be nice if you could get a diffuser in there also. Can you roughly work out how much area you have for media?

I am envious looks like you have a great set up in the making. I have been up to my ears this last week in information about substrates, water flow and filtration. I am redoing two of my tanks and thinking seriously about adding a sump. Only to find the small tank I have to convert to a sump will in no way fit in my cabinet. I won't bore you too much with my findings but I can say that others run sumps with C02 for sure with only limited problems. I am thinking about making a thread on here if all goes to plan. Even Amano himself is running sumps on a few of his new tanks rather than his famous filters. The reason I believe is that a filter needs oxygen to process the bacteria into beneficial bacteria. I can't find the article, but there is an interview with Amano a while ago second guessing filters for this reason. The problem with sumps and C02 is the wet/dry system. The problem with that if course is that with so much water agitation you loose a fair bit of that carbon in the sump. The goal of filtration I have discovered other than the bacteria process is to get at least 10% of the volume of the tank in media in the filter not the turn over of water and I might add that you may want this media as flat as possible ( rather than thin and stacked high ). Although I am still researching this last bit, all seems to lead towards that. I would put your co2 diffuser in the return segment of the sump ( along with heater ect ) and let the pump suck it up from there, longest possible mixing time with the water. If I understand your question right. I also think I might get a bit of an argument from the usual, but for media I would say a small amount of poret foam in the first segment and the rest just bio noodles/ the best stuff you can find basically and as much as you can get in there. Non of those crappy plastic bio balls ect. Have a read here, this is the thread that started me on my journey that only ended today, lots of notes and theories that need to be tested. http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/showthread.php?t=130344

Good work mate :cophot:

I don't think you need it at all, but I could be wrong Turn it off but leave it set up and see how the fish are. If they start hanging out at the surface and gasping for air you will need to run it over night or something but I doubt you will need it with that many plants in there. Can't comment on your stocking, not really my area. But I will say the more you try to grow plants the more you need an algae clean up crew, SAE's, Ottos ect. They really help. If you use JBL balls I would bury them as deep as you can, with the substrate you have the nutrients will get into the water column and you will have an excess.

How much ambulia you got? if you have plenty in there up-root one and check the roots to see what condition they are in. Don't really need an air stone on all day as the plants will produce oxygen ( if they are healthy ) Lighting should be fine in the old watts per gallon system but 5 hours isn't long at all. Personally I would up that 1 hour a week until I hit at least 10, but keep an eye out for algae. Sometimes it can be difficult to find a balance. You need to find the optimum for your set up, just do it slowly to avoid algae outbreaks. Co2 will help the plants absorb the nutrients, but it will change the balance of everything Also how old is the tank? how long have the plants been in there? What substrate do you have?

They are some hardy plants in my experience. How many watts is your light? 5 hours seems a bit low. Any co2 addition?

ha, oh dear my poor fish.

It is usually very good, I always go straight from the tap, although I don't have much fish. I think there is a link around here somewhere to the councils water readings.

Interesting plant. From what I can gather they are in fact seeds. Have a look here. http://anubias-engl.blogspot.co.nz/ Hope that helps.

Unexpected. Rare quality mate especially on the net. Misinterpreting me is a common occurrence these days :rolfl: I am sure a mod will be along to clean all this up soon enough Godly3vil. Well I do and based on this discussion I am not alone. The topic was brought up, discussed and resolved. No biggie. An edited photo might seem trivial but as budding aquascapers this thread forms a standard that we try to achieve. Photos like that are false, if you don't mind edited photos then I can make that tank pink and blue or what ever colour you desire but good luck trying to achieve that standard. Based on the fact that all tanks in this thread have been photographed and both Joe and I are photographers it seems inevitable that the conversation would skew towards that at some stage. You are right though this is a thread for pictures and I appologise also for hijacking it.

I did not say that, I said it was a nice tank. That is fair but still speculation. That just shows that they use different photographers. That photographer also has photos using a Motorolla Droid. so based on your logic the photo could be taken using a phone. Sure lets go with that. As this was really started from ... Which they have, but a graph like that is either Very poor photography or very poor editing, most likely though it is a mix of both just resulting in a poor photo. So they are poorly taken badly enhanced photos that you would be proud of? Come on mate, Your better than that I can tell. Imagine what you could achieve if you did.