Flora Base Pro substrate - Invertebrate Aquarium

24th May 2017

I have added a litre of "Flora Base Pro" substrate to my invertebrate tank. It raised the substrate level by about 5-10 mm. The plants are more secure now.

I have started dosing with 1ml of Easy-carb and a couple of drops of Easy life Profito fertiliser. The plants are starting to look fresher so hopefully they will soon start to grow more. 

The Flora base is expensive, but seems to be a superb substrate product. There was virtually no clouding of the water and because the beads are small, they bedded well around the plant roots.

Bournemouth Aquarium visit.

20th May 2017 

I really like this lovely open-top Amazonia aquarium at Bournemouth Aquarium.

May 2017 Snapshot of Aquariums

8th May 2017

This is a snapshot of my indoor aquariums.

Jan 2017 video update

19th Jan 2017

Here is a short video showing my aquariums at the beginning of 2017.

Baby Kribensis

4th March 2016

My Kribensis has hatched a brood of babies this morning. Hopefully she will manage to keep some this time and not eat them all. Sadly the male won’t see them as she attacked him before I had chance to remove him and he subsequently died :-(

Aquarium update November 2015

November 2015

My aquarium update.

Endler Tank

5th Feb 2016 

This is a photo of my 24 litre (5.3 gall) Endler guppy ( Poecilia wingei) tank.

It contains about 15 home bred Endlers.

Reworked window tank

3 Feb 2016

I have reworked my 24″ x 8″ x 8″tank. I didn’t like the plant soil so planted up the crypts etc. into small trays filled with plant soil, then put gravel around the trays to hide them. It will be interesting to see how well the plants grow. The tank is situated back on the window sill - I am hoping I am able to black out enough natural light to prevent rampant algae growth.

Aqua Nano update

28 Jan 2016 

My Aquanano 40 with Blue Guppy, Harlequin Raspora and Honey Gourami.

Plants are Mainly Cryptocorne and Anubias

Red Cherry Shrimp setup.

28 Jan 2016 

The Red Cherry Shrimp are growing and breeding nicely in their own tank. The tank is 12" * 7" deep and 9" high. this gives a capacity of 11 litres, (2.4 UK gallons). I also use a "hang on back filter that draws water from the tank via a sponge covered lift pipe.

Initial setup of Aqua Nano 40

December 2014

Initial setup of my 55 litre Aqua-Nano 40. I bought this tank locally through Ebay, Nice thing about these tanks is the huge filter, pump and heating arrangement that occupies the full back of the tank behind the black panel.

Window sill aquarium.

I bought this tank about 15 years ago to house a goldfish on a window sill. I had it constructed to fit the window sill, it is 24″ long , 8″ high and 8″ wide. It has a capacity of 4.84 gallons (22 ltr).

The goldfish was moved into a friends outdoor pond when he became too large for the tank and the tank was not used until June 2014 when I decided to try it as a tropical tank. This was something I had not done since I had a 24″x12″x12″ aquarium back in the early 1970′s.

This is a photo of the initial setup with no fish added. I left the tank to cycle for about 4 weeks. With a bacterial starter added to the internal filter medium