Hey Mark - I think your female rams have internal parasites based on the white stringy poop. They also need to be kept hotter than most tropicals - like discus hot. 28-29c. May be part of your issue there, which I know is a challenge for plants. Enjoy Interzoo!
Something interesting for an experiment as well is temperature variation, like a relatively high temp setup (30C) vs relatively low (your normal temp). Curious to see how that goes and compares with each other. Great vid btw! Experiments are always good learning opportunities :)
I use RO water along with seachem replenish and TDS at 120 is the goal. PH 6.4. NO algae problems along with plants and fish are doing great. Great video
Hey Mark, nice to see the good results in RO water. I think there's very less diatoms in the RO tank which is a welcome move. I remineralize the RO water to 120 TDS with 2 in 1 KH/GH booster. Anything below 100 is bad for plants I feel. You should be fine with 150 I feel. The calcium and magnesium content in the remineralization powders is important for plants..else they show up with twisted leaves, or drooping leaf tips... Hence 120-150 should be fine... Kh 3 and GH 6 ideally
I use RO water and I remineralize to a GH5 and KH 3, conductivity results 140-150 TDS. Plants and fish are very happy, except for Guppies which I think prefers hardest water, especially if they’re small and have to grow up. Enjoy interzoo MJ and make a nice video for us!
Once again an amazing video. As soon as exams are over you bet i will be re scaping one of my tanks ! You provide so much inspiration and in such a relaxing format :)
Super interseting! For sure going to switch to RO water, anything that makes my tank look and grow better is good in my books. And all the tanks are looking amazing, keep it up.
Nice video, I never think to go fish the daphnies. My tank is 40l. my recipe for treating 10l of reverse osmosis water is to use 2gr of reminaral+ and 1gr of shrimp king beesalt (Dennerle). I also fertilize with V30/E15/S7. I get kh 4 and gh 7. I add co2: 4 times half an hour per day for a pH 7.2, 8 times 1/2 hour for a pH 6.8. The results on plant growth are impressive.
I think the PH is a little on the low side in the RO tank !Ph 6.6 and 30ppm of co2 ,20ppm of Nitrate ,5ppm of Phosphate ,15-20 ppm of Potassium ,Mono Potassium 5ppm and high light not sure of Par at the tank floor
As always super intersting 👍🏻 I think that to make a real difference in the comparison you need to mineralize more the tap water and less the RO. In this way you can compare two very different water hardness.
Mark that’s pretty sweet you can walk 5 minutes from your house to get live fish food! I was shocked how much you actually got! Bummer about the female rams maybe try another source for a new female when they pass on. I’ve had my male female pair for about 9 months they are truly amazing fish when happy and healthy! Enjoy your trip and be safe I can’t wait for you to re scape the big shallow
very good as always, thanks for showing us a piece of the beautiful place where you live, the moss tank looks completely amazing, I just started my first project in a more serious way, I hope to be able to show to you one day. Have a good trip
So far with my first tank I seem to have alot of problems because of my tap water. High phosphate, silicate that causes me diatoms and chloramine. It's wasn't in my plans (or budget haha) to get an RO system but I'm starting to consider it
@@aquahobby1982 they should as long as it doesn't freeze down to the bottom, their should be local daphnia in the wild so they will manage the temperature! If you just have a small bucket that would freeze just keep some in a shrimp tank in winter (got copepods a daphnia in my blue velvet no filter nano) and in spring just put the water changed out from your tank in a bucket and add nice green water... And.... It's done ^^. You can get a tank for mosquito larvae too, easy! Just be careful not to let them grow ^^
Hi Mark, I've been using RO since Day 1 of my setup. I was remineralising using Aquadur, and was up at 7dKH and 5dGH, which was way too much ( :o ) for the inhabitants I want to add as I'm going for a Amazonian biotope sort of thing. I now make my own fertilizers and remineraliser, and am hitting 2dGH and 1dKH, with a calcium level of 9ppm and magnesium of 3ppm. pH is under automatic control and is set to 6.15 which is correct for 30ppm CO2 and 1dKH Keep the videos coming ... I'm battling with a form of cyanobacter at the moment, I think it's a flow, and poor maintenance issue for me, so upping the water changes.
Cool video as usual Mark! I like the way the big shallow is looking! Sometimes the super groomed tanks look to fake! I’m excited to see what your rescape of the big shallow is going to look like! Such a nice foot print of that tank! Hope all is well mate!
Living in Australia, allergies are quite common particularly in the dry states such as South Australia. We call it hayfever. Anyway, speak to your doctor about DYMISTA 125/50 Nasal Spray, you won't look back. Great video yet again as always, thank you.
The lower pH with tap water is also due to the soil not being saturated yet. I have ada amazonia v1 in my nofilter 20l cube with tap water and the pH was 7.5 just after water change and 5 at the end of the week for about 2 month. Now it only lowers it to about 6 and more slowly.
The higher GH in the tap water aquarium might be due to evaporation. Some of the water evaporates concentrating the dissolved solids and the water change is not removing enough solids from the water, slowly raising GH. I had a similar problem with a no filter vase y used to top off the vase with a bottle of drinking RO water from the store before I did a water change which kind of defeated the purpose of a no filter, low maintenance vase. It did solve the problem though.
what a great lush tank you have... nice job MJ. I build a new 45 liter tank iwagumi style last week. I am using tap water, it makes my surface really dirty with white particles thing. My S. Repens in that tank is not doing so well. The leaves has brown spot that spread to all the leaves. Maybe they are melting 😭
I use rainwater in my tanks, I have two huge water tanks that are currently overflowing because of all the rain here on east coast of Australia. Lately tho it has a pink tinge, I hoping it doesn’t affect anything. Would love to see an experiment with rainwater. Love your vids❤️🇦🇺
for your blue velvet shrimp tank. Are you using Cuba for your carpet? i know you stopped the co2. with no co2 will the carpet be able to hold its color?
We call it hay fever here in the uk mate. I suffer from it too and take anti histamines for it and also try local honey that helps too. I cant believe you can just go to your local pond and take fish. If we did that we would get arrested!!
Not having access to a ro system I just set up a 5.5 gal tank with rain water that I then ran through a Pure water filter. TDS is almost 0 , I’m planting it tonight. Curious to see if I run into any issues.
I use R/O water the TDS comes out to 3, Ph 6.5 - 7, I don't count KH and GH. I have looked multiple times in my own experiments and a TDS of 120 - 130 is about 3deg. My process is to remineralize using Seachem products. I use Alkaline buffer to raise Ph to 7.5 (when I am doing it right I will increase ph of bucket but usually lazy). After pumping the water in I then wait about 10 mins to let the run thru the tank for a bit (cleaning glass and such) then I check TDS as the alkaline buffer will increase Kh on it's own. Once I get that reading (usually about 70-80 at this point) I will then use Equilibrium weighed out in grams until I get the amount I need to raise my TDS to 120 - 150 for a water volume of about 33 gallons. What I have seen doing it this way is that my KH and GH levels both come out to be about 3deg -3.5 or 4... Spot on to what my fish like... (per google). I also have very little algae issues with it this way (unless you count algae on rocks but was what I wanted on them)
Hey mj you're aquariums look great, i have a question is there a difference between lighting strength vs duration on plant growth and red colors ? Lets say 6/8 hours high light vs 12 hours medium?
Yeah I'd like to see this as well... I had my Chihiros on 82% with algea growth... Turned it down to 32% trying thay right now for the next two week. I just cut stem plants I does Seachem full line of ferts. Going to see how it reacts.
I don't think there will be a difference in plant growth, but achieving red colors probably yes. Might be nice to test this with another twinscape experiment.
Hello Mark! I wanted to ask you about the hang on filter on your green rasbora tank. I just bought the Oase BioStyle75 (It looks like you have the same) and i thing the noice that it makes is far from a "Very silent " filter as the company claims. I had it swaped at the shop with one of the same, but still the same noise. What are your thoughts about it? ....Great videos by the way . I love your uploads.Keep up the good work! 🙂
I just started using RO water and I'm having problems with high Ammonia and nitrites, Is is it because of a adjustment period from tap water? I've been dosing extra prime
If you are using RO water why are you using prime, there is no clorine in RO water. I would recommend adding stability or another bacteria as RO water doesn't have any nitrifying bacteria.
Great video as always. I have a question, I have a densely planned aquarium with a wrgb 2 and co2, and I would like to remove the co2, how much do you advise me to lower the lighting, currently in "bucephalandra" mode, thanks!
I use RO/DI water, my biggest advice is DO NOT buy a aquarium RO unit buy a good Hydroponic unit. The good hydro unit are cheaper(in the long run) and far better and the filters last longer and waste less water to filter. I still get 4ppm from 500+ppm tap water after 4 years without changing any filters yet, sure it was twice the price but the first aquarium RO unit I bought the filters lasted 3 months of the use I put it through. A RO/DI unit is great to have if the humidify your place to the RO water helps the humidifier from building up all that Ca.
I'd guess those rams have parasites I've seen it and solved it with a few tiger barbs, you probs have a spare tank your able to setup as a temp tank for them as they can pass on the parasites remove them from any stress factors use an anti parasite med 3 days in you'll see there colours start to pop again if that's is the case. worth a shot as the do kind of deserve to have a shot at life. salt baths also help but check a rams tolerance and much warmer water. seems like a lot to do but its worth it seeing a fish you received with issues come to thrive in your amazing tanks.
Great video again! Quick question regarding the daphnia, how do you know if local water contains it other than just trying to catch some? There's a ton of water around here (Den Bosch) so I'd love to catch some daphnia as well but I'm not sure how to get started. Thanks!
Holy shit arent you afraid of bringing home nasty parasites/fungus/viruses etc from the pond ?! You should have quarantined and threat the females for internal parasites with Seachem Metroplex+Focus+GarlicGuard. A fish treatment video would be cool!
Nope, and not always safe for plants either, can cause melting. Good to use in point blank treatment, shut down filter for 15min and use a seringe, overdose locally to kill algae but not when the filter spread it all again.
Hey Mark - I think your female rams have internal parasites based on the white stringy poop. They also need to be kept hotter than most tropicals - like discus hot. 28-29c. May be part of your issue there, which I know is a challenge for plants. Enjoy Interzoo!
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I'm amazed that you can get away with filling up your tanks to the brim like that! I'd have amanos jumping out if I did that! Great video as always!
Same here, already lost couple adult Amanos becouse high water level. And its not caused by water quality which is good.
@@Agnus78 yeah me too unfortunately😢
I found a nerite snail in my kitchen... he survived but the shrimp tank he was in now has a glass top 😅
Really love your green rasbora tank turned out so beautiful.
My green rasboras are my favorites in my community nano tank. "Rasbora Kubotai." I highly recommend them!
Something interesting for an experiment as well is temperature variation, like a relatively high temp setup (30C) vs relatively low (your normal temp). Curious to see how that goes and compares with each other. Great vid btw! Experiments are always good learning opportunities :)
a temperature variation test for plant growth will be great.
That’s a great idea!
Temperature tests would be cool to see. Personally I have found I get algae at higher temps
Great suggestion!
I use RO water along with seachem replenish and TDS at 120 is the goal. PH 6.4. NO algae problems along with plants and fish are doing great. Great video
Great! Thanks for sharing!
Hey Mark, nice to see the good results in RO water.
I think there's very less diatoms in the RO tank which is a welcome move.
I remineralize the RO water to 120 TDS with 2 in 1 KH/GH booster.
Anything below 100 is bad for plants I feel. You should be fine with 150 I feel. The calcium and magnesium content in the remineralization powders is important for plants..else they show up with twisted leaves, or drooping leaf tips...
Hence 120-150 should be fine...
Kh 3 and GH 6 ideally
I really like that you also gave a quick update for the other tanks! Again beautiful video 😍
I use RO water and I remineralize to a GH5 and KH 3, conductivity results 140-150 TDS.
Plants and fish are very happy, except for Guppies which I think prefers hardest water, especially if they’re small and have to grow up.
Enjoy interzoo MJ and make a nice video for us!
Once again an amazing video. As soon as exams are over you bet i will be re scaping one of my tanks ! You provide so much inspiration and in such a relaxing format :)
Hooikoorts in english is actually hay fever being one of the few literal translating words. Keep up the good work!
Super interseting! For sure going to switch to RO water, anything that makes my tank look and grow better is good in my books. And all the tanks are looking amazing, keep it up.
Nice video, I never think to go fish the daphnies. My tank is 40l. my recipe for treating 10l of reverse osmosis water is to use 2gr of reminaral+ and 1gr of shrimp king beesalt (Dennerle). I also fertilize with V30/E15/S7. I get kh 4 and gh 7. I add co2: 4 times half an hour per day for a pH 7.2, 8 times 1/2 hour for a pH 6.8. The results on plant growth are impressive.
Great comparison, you never know what you’re gonna get sometimes in wondering about water parameters. Good stuff!
hope you will enjoy your trip to germany and stay safe!
I think the PH is a little on the low side in the RO tank !Ph 6.6 and 30ppm of co2 ,20ppm of Nitrate ,5ppm of Phosphate ,15-20 ppm of Potassium ,Mono Potassium 5ppm and high light not sure of Par at the tank floor
As always super intersting 👍🏻 I think that to make a real difference in the comparison you need to mineralize more the tap water and less the RO. In this way you can compare two very different water hardness.
Mark that’s pretty sweet you can walk 5 minutes from your house to get live fish food! I was shocked how much you actually got! Bummer about the female rams maybe try another source for a new female when they pass on. I’ve had my male female pair for about 9 months they are truly amazing fish when happy and healthy! Enjoy your trip and be safe I can’t wait for you to re scape the big shallow
Perhaps try some Esha NDX for those stringy poops... I'm wondering if wild caught live food may be introducing the problem.
very excited for the big shallow rescape!!!! hoping for a brazilian style or diorama style :D
Thanks for your experiments, very helpful for a beginnen Like me😀
very good as always, thanks for showing us a piece of the beautiful place where you live, the moss tank looks completely amazing, I just started my first project in a more serious way, I hope to be able to show to you one day. Have a good trip
So far with my first tank I seem to have alot of problems because of my tap water. High phosphate, silicate that causes me diatoms and chloramine. It's wasn't in my plans (or budget haha) to get an RO system but I'm starting to consider it
I wish i had a pond nearby to collect Daphnia..... awesome video 👍🏻
You can easily breed them, I got plenty in my lotus pots (they keep water clean and out compete mosquitoes larvae for algae so no downside!)
@@philippecapron8010 Will the survive Canadian winter ?
@@aquahobby1982 they should as long as it doesn't freeze down to the bottom, their should be local daphnia in the wild so they will manage the temperature! If you just have a small bucket that would freeze just keep some in a shrimp tank in winter (got copepods a daphnia in my blue velvet no filter nano) and in spring just put the water changed out from your tank in a bucket and add nice green water... And.... It's done ^^. You can get a tank for mosquito larvae too, easy! Just be careful not to let them grow ^^
I love this time of year also, I think you can get antihistamines for your hay fever mate if thats any help?
Helps a little indeed 😊
Hi Mark, I've been using RO since Day 1 of my setup. I was remineralising using Aquadur, and was up at 7dKH and 5dGH, which was way too much ( :o ) for the inhabitants I want to add as I'm going for a Amazonian biotope sort of thing. I now make my own fertilizers and remineraliser, and am hitting 2dGH and 1dKH, with a calcium level of 9ppm and magnesium of 3ppm. pH is under automatic control and is set to 6.15 which is correct for 30ppm CO2 and 1dKH
Keep the videos coming ... I'm battling with a form of cyanobacter at the moment, I think it's a flow, and poor maintenance issue for me, so upping the water changes.
Great growth
Hi MJ...I had the same problem with my rams...and the mistake was that i had just 24' temperature in the tank...they need 27-28 degrade
Really looking forward to the big shallow rescape .
Great video MJ as usual. I hava a suggestion in you next twin tank experiment. With Aeration after lights and CO2 vs Without Aeration.
The seasonal allergies you're talking about in English is called Hayfever.
Cool video as usual Mark! I like the way the big shallow is looking! Sometimes the super groomed tanks look to fake! I’m excited to see what your rescape of the big shallow is going to look like! Such a nice foot print of that tank! Hope all is well mate!
Wow, your place is such a good place to vlog🙄👍👍👍
Your tank with yellow schrimp is beautifull... i like..
Living in Australia, allergies are quite common particularly in the dry states such as South Australia. We call it hayfever. Anyway, speak to your doctor about DYMISTA 125/50 Nasal Spray, you won't look back. Great video yet again as always, thank you.
Awesome, will check it out! thnx!
1:24 we call it hay fever in the uk, love the content as usual!
The big shallow still looks chao.....wait, what??! U rescaping them?!!
Noice!!🤩
everything is looking so great cant wait to see what you have planned for the big shallow, have a safe and fun trip ;)
Thanks so much! 😊
Loving the free love food hack. And in English we call the seasonal allergies 'hay fever'.
In English the sort of allergy you were talking about is called hay fever. I am really looking forward to a big shallow rescape!!!
Tanks are all looking great, have fun at interzoo Mark.
Great growth 👍👍👍
It's a direct translation in this case -> hooi = hay, koorts = fever
Keep up the good work💪💪
Always!
The lower pH with tap water is also due to the soil not being saturated yet. I have ada amazonia v1 in my nofilter 20l cube with tap water and the pH was 7.5 just after water change and 5 at the end of the week for about 2 month. Now it only lowers it to about 6 and more slowly.
maybe for the RO tank you could do some sort of black shrimp? i think with the rock color it would look pretty awesome.
tap water did pretty well
The higher GH in the tap water aquarium might be due to evaporation. Some of the water evaporates concentrating the dissolved solids and the water change is not removing enough solids from the water, slowly raising GH. I had a similar problem with a no filter vase y used to top off the vase with a bottle of drinking RO water from the store before I did a water change which kind of defeated the purpose of a no filter, low maintenance vase. It did solve the problem though.
Nice update 👍🏻
Thanks 👍
what a great lush tank you have... nice job MJ. I build a new 45 liter tank iwagumi style last week. I am using tap water, it makes my surface really dirty with white particles thing. My S. Repens in that tank is not doing so well. The leaves has brown spot that spread to all the leaves. Maybe they are melting 😭
Dirty water surface is quite normal in the beginning.
@@MJAquascaping well i ended to use hob filter with skimmer on it
I use rainwater in my tanks, I have two huge water tanks that are currently overflowing because of all the rain here on east coast of Australia. Lately tho it has a pink tinge, I hoping it doesn’t affect anything. Would love to see an experiment with rainwater. Love your vids❤️🇦🇺
Pink rainwater? 😁
Yes, funny hey! I did a water change today but didn’t risk it. Used dechlor tap water…
for your blue velvet shrimp tank. Are you using Cuba for your carpet? i know you stopped the co2. with no co2 will the carpet be able to hold its color?
Hello from France! I only use gh+ because technical soul does lower the kh, so no point using kh+ and I aime for 250-300 microsimens.
We call it hay fever here in the uk mate. I suffer from it too and take anti histamines for it and also try local honey that helps too.
I cant believe you can just go to your local pond and take fish. If we did that we would get arrested!!
Not having access to a ro system I just set up a 5.5 gal tank with rain water that I then ran through a Pure water filter. TDS is almost 0 , I’m planting it tonight. Curious to see if I run into any issues.
Hayfever maatje, je bent niet alleen
Soooo jealous of your supply of daphnia, I've been trying so hard to source some.
I use R/O water the TDS comes out to 3, Ph 6.5 - 7, I don't count KH and GH. I have looked multiple times in my own experiments and a TDS of 120 - 130 is about 3deg. My process is to remineralize using Seachem products. I use Alkaline buffer to raise Ph to 7.5 (when I am doing it right I will increase ph of bucket but usually lazy). After pumping the water in I then wait about 10 mins to let the run thru the tank for a bit (cleaning glass and such) then I check TDS as the alkaline buffer will increase Kh on it's own. Once I get that reading (usually about 70-80 at this point) I will then use Equilibrium weighed out in grams until I get the amount I need to raise my TDS to 120 - 150 for a water volume of about 33 gallons. What I have seen doing it this way is that my KH and GH levels both come out to be about 3deg -3.5 or 4... Spot on to what my fish like... (per google). I also have very little algae issues with it this way (unless you count algae on rocks but was what I wanted on them)
Awesome! Thanks for explaining your routine
Hey mj you're aquariums look great, i have a question is there a difference between lighting strength vs duration on plant growth and red colors ? Lets say 6/8 hours high light vs 12 hours medium?
Yeah I'd like to see this as well... I had my Chihiros on 82% with algea growth... Turned it down to 32% trying thay right now for the next two week. I just cut stem plants I does Seachem full line of ferts. Going to see how it reacts.
I don't think there will be a difference in plant growth, but achieving red colors probably yes. Might be nice to test this with another twinscape experiment.
What are those "Shrimp Lollies"? I've never seen them before and I was wondering what they were.
how about doing root tabs vs liquid fertilizer using plants like crypt and swords?
I reckon Rili shrimp of any color would look good in the tanks
0:27 which plant is that??? The emersed grown ones....
I bet you can grow them in your scape aftr cleaning them.
Pls guys, whenever you measure for TDS tell us if you refer to ppm or mcS/cm. Also, calibrating the kit is advisable every now and then. Thank you!
how do you continue to fertilize when you have switched off the CO2 system. can you explain what you do?
Hello Mark! I wanted to ask you about the hang on filter on your green rasbora tank. I just bought the Oase BioStyle75 (It looks like you have the same) and i thing the noice that it makes is far from a "Very silent " filter as the company claims. I had it swaped at the shop with one of the same, but still the same noise. What are your thoughts about it? ....Great videos by the way . I love your uploads.Keep up the good work! 🙂
Yep I wouldn't call it very silent either... a little bit disappointing...
you did not add liquid fertilisers to both tanks? what were the rates of nitrates phosphate and potassium?
Rili carbon. I was surprised by their look, they are very different from each other, not a fixed look, and very pretty
Nice video! Misschien off-topic, maar zijn er geen grote risico's met het wildvangen van waterluizen uit open water ipv parasieten enzo (karperluis?).
Misschien wel, zelf heb ik nog nooit problemen ondervonden.
I like your tool stand. Where did you get it?
It was a gift from a subscriber 😊
That eriocaulon cinereum in the blue velvet tank seems to have gotten lost. I see the little bulbs.
Hey MJ, which salt do you use to reminalize reverse omosis water?
Saltyshrimp salts 😊
@@MJAquascaping Thank you
My RO is remineralised to ~2Gh, 0Kh.
10ppm calcium and 4ppm magnesium.
I just started using RO water and I'm having problems with high Ammonia and nitrites, Is is it because of a adjustment period from tap water? I've been dosing extra prime
If you are using RO water why are you using prime, there is no clorine in RO water. I would recommend adding stability or another bacteria as RO water doesn't have any nitrifying bacteria.
We call it hey fever in uk. Is stupidly common for an allergy against pollen.
Do you not worry about disease or parasites feeding live caught daphnia?
Those allergies are called ‘hay fever ‘ in English. Pain in the butt! That Fissidens moss aquarium is gorgeous ❤️
Seasonal allergies, typically called "hay fever"
Wats that long stick in the middle of the tank? Shrimps look.cool climbing it.. and we're can I get one
It's a shrimp lolly!
Thx..That is awsome!! Just order one rite away.. all your Aquascape look.amazing
I miss the MJ signature "Welcome to another video everybody, I hope you're doing well" 😆
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Great video as always. I have a question, I have a densely planned aquarium with a wrgb 2 and co2, and I would like to remove the co2, how much do you advise me to lower the lighting, currently in "bucephalandra" mode, thanks!
If it's densely planted I would decrease the intensity by 30% or so.
@@MJAquascaping thanks!!
How come you never encountered any diatoms on begging of these tanks?
Hello.
You think its goed Oase thermo 100 for 45liter tank?
Duw
I use RO/DI water, my biggest advice is DO NOT buy a aquarium RO unit buy a good Hydroponic unit. The good hydro unit are cheaper(in the long run) and far better and the filters last longer and waste less water to filter. I still get 4ppm from 500+ppm tap water after 4 years without changing any filters yet, sure it was twice the price but the first aquarium RO unit I bought the filters lasted 3 months of the use I put it through. A RO/DI unit is great to have if the humidify your place to the RO water helps the humidifier from building up all that Ca.
Nice one! I will check out the Hydroponic units!
Are you dosing nutrients in your yellow neocaradina shrimp tank (not filter), if so how much?
Yeah roughly 1 pump of masterline potassium per week and 1 pump of masterline macro every 2 weeks.
@@MJAquascaping Awesome, thanks!
Im using RO and never add KH, because soil is eating KH... So if you add KH to aqua soil, buffering life of the soil will be shorten.
Hi!
Waar heb je die kast gekocht? Hij is precies wat ik zoek
Leen bakker!
I'd guess those rams have parasites I've seen it and solved it with a few tiger barbs, you probs have a spare tank your able to setup as a temp tank for them as they can pass on the parasites remove them from any stress factors use an anti parasite med 3 days in you'll see there colours start to pop again if that's is the case. worth a shot as the do kind of deserve to have a shot at life. salt baths also help but check a rams tolerance and much warmer water. seems like a lot to do but its worth it seeing a fish you received with issues come to thrive in your amazing tanks.
Hi, can you provide me an opinion about bio hom filter media, is it superior than seachem matrix..thank you
Sorry never used Bio home filter media
I think the english word for your allergies you're looking for is "hayfever"
In English it’s called Hayfever. I feel your pain 🤧
In afrikaans its hooikoors too😁
In english, hay fever
Great video again! Quick question regarding the daphnia, how do you know if local water contains it other than just trying to catch some? There's a ton of water around here (Den Bosch) so I'd love to catch some daphnia as well but I'm not sure how to get started. Thanks!
Just go and check it out! You should be able to see them on a clear day. (small bugs swimming in the water)
Holy shit arent you afraid of bringing home nasty parasites/fungus/viruses etc from the pond ?! You should have quarantined and threat the females for internal parasites with Seachem Metroplex+Focus+GarlicGuard. A fish treatment video would be cool!
For cycling the tanks, look in to "Dr. Tim's Aquatics" products. His bacteria products cycle tanks really fast... you'd be done by now!
Interesting! Haven't seen this in any dutch stores yet though.
I couldn't see a heater rams need to be kept at 28°C degrees to 32°C
Heater is in the filter 😊
Hay fever! :D
I didn't know about carbon... is it safe for fish/shrimp/snails to high dose with carbon?
not safe for fish
Nope, and not always safe for plants either, can cause melting. Good to use in point blank treatment, shut down filter for 15min and use a seringe, overdose locally to kill algae but not when the filter spread it all again.
Thanks, you two!
We call it "Hay Fever."
Feeding bloodworm can cause issues for Rams!
We call it Hay Fever.