Kiwironic

Thanks guys, I think 8 hours isn't so bad, I have an automatic plug with timers. I had it before to start 5 hours in the morning, off for another 5 then 5 when I get home. I will set it up for 4 in the morning and another 4 hours in the early evening. Do you think splitting the day light in such a way would stress the fish being unnatural and all?

Do you guys know how long would you light up your tank for? I used to put the light on for 10 hours / day now 12 hours. Any suggestions?

Hmmm, I have to rethink this and keep a good eye on them. The male usually sleeps down below and the big female sleeps near the surface and the small one goes under the driftwood overnight.

That looks pretty cool, do I have to mow them lawns every now and again?

I just don't want to take chances. I light up my tank with a normal house high wattage power saving screw bulb, everything is healthy though. I also have some snails, got rid of most of them during the cleaning process, but still have some, and don't want to give them more food than needed. Dead plants are their favorite food.

:slfg: not really what I meant by lower maintenance. Weeds are everywhere, but it's not really what I am after. :ske:

This agrees with what I found online. The CO2 isn't an issue really but the lighting is, and the last thing I want to do is to add some plants to die in my tank. Do you know of anything else that does the same job (to create a nice green carpet on top of the gravel) and is lower maintenance?

Yep I'll try to get some off trademe. As for the fighter male, he is chasing the guppy and nipping her especially around feeding time, but she's hardy and can take it, the tank has plenty of hiding places which I put in mind when getting the male and the females together. The guppy is great though and she does tricks like following my finger on glass and swimming fast to the surface when tapping on the glass twice (trained with food association). The bigger female is actually bigger than him and she chases him around (believe it or not) she shows a great deal of interest in him but he's giving her the cold fin :bggrn: anyway, I wonder how would that go on. I am keeping an eye on them. Cheers guys

1 * Bristlenose Pleco, 3 years old, she will need a new home soon as she's growing bigger than the tank capacity. 4 * Bronze Corydoras 5 * Kuhli loach 6 * Glowlight Tetra (not sure, might be some other tetra) 2 * Betta Female 1 * Betta Male 1 * Guppy female They look really good, and I like where this is going. Two questions, knowing that it's only 70L tank, would you still consider them? and, most importantly, where to get them from? :bggrn:

Thanks Adrienne, it took a long time to clean and re prepare. I kept the filter solid media in the old tank water to keep the bacteria alive. It's working fine as expected no NO2 nor NO3 :happy1: I don't know about the gravel, I got it from Animates some years ago.

Hey guys, I am new here, just done a hard core clean for my 4 years old fish tank, put some new plants, threw away some of the old ones and introduced some new fish too. I have posted a video to Youtube to show it off. Would appreciate if you take a look at it and let me know if you have any comments or ideas to make it better. Here is the video: Cheers, Mena