Hi everyone.

I'm Charlotte;

I am 28 and live in Fareham, Hampshire.

I have been keeping fish for about 17 years. My passion is for oddball fish (Pristolepis sp. and FW Puffer) and of course planted aquariums!

I have a couple of large planted aquarium and 3 smaller heavily planted tanks.

Hi everybody, My name is Dan and I live in Daventry Northants.
I have a juwel vision 180 and it is in the process of becoming a planted tank.
It's only a week old so there is still lots of work to do and i'm gonna need loads of help so you may have to get used to me beeing "that annoying guy whos always asking questions".

welcome Bigdanne

Questions are good ask away.. noone knows everything, this is why places like this are heaven sent!

Greetings one and all
Im Paul from the Wirral
Ive a sneaky suspicion that I know a few friends of Moody who used to and still work at the zoo.
I am currently on Inc Benefit so have lots of time and little money, I have just purchased a 4' tank which I pick up on saturday.
I used to keep fish and plants years ago but builders conspired to keep me tank free for a while (they broke my tank!!)
I am very practical and love making things so DIY projects do it for me.

Things have moved on apace so Im getting up to speed with they way things are now.

Hi - I'm Sue
Living in Kent and married to a fish tolerant hero for 23yrs
3 kids - 16, 14, and 13 but in my 'spare' time have been keeping fish for 15yrs
At my 'worst' had 6 assorted small tanks - but now trying to balance one big one!
The rest are in the garage (maybe) until the kids leave home
Great to have a UK site - hope to see any locals soon!!

Hi,

I'm Keith and I am new to this game but have kept a reef tank for 13 years.

The reef tank was supposed to keep me happy in my retirement, some nine years so far and counting, and I was happily using 1500 watts of halide lighting until Staywarm caught onto the fact that I was using a bit more energy than other people in old folks bungalows - hence my move into planted tanks.

My main hobbies are, now, planted tanks, scuba diving and running my two allotments. Oh I have just become a great grandfather.

I am financing my tanks from the sale of my salt water equipment and converted my four foot tank four weeks ago using the Barr modified Walstead approach and am very pleased with the results so far. I started with 200 hygros and now have 30 neons in there together with four corys and 10 Amano shrimps.

This afternoon at 5.30 I will be taking delivery of my new 6' x 2' x 2' tank. The back and one side will be painted black with blackboard paint and I will be glad to get the substrate out of my bathroom and into the tank. For plants I will be getting two collections from Greenline, to see which plants like my environment, and supplementing them with 200 cuttings from the small tank.

I had better stop now.

Regards

Hi Guys,

Just a quick hello.

I'm Paul from Plymouth.

I'm returning to keeping fresh water tropicals after a 5 year period of marine reef keeping. I'm shutting my 48"x24"x24" reef as i'm getting busier with work commitments and feel that i'm not doing my reef justice. My corals, inverts and fish deserve more attention! Not that i'm under any illusions that keeping a planted tank will be maintainence free

I previously kept fwt for 15 years and my last tank prior to my reef was a 36"x12"x15" planted set up running a basic aeorsol CO2 system.

My plan is to re-establish my present 100 gallon reef tank into a planted system and use the sump contaning another 30 gallons as an external filter type set up. I've already stripped the tank down and have throttled all the flow back to avoid de-gassing. Absolutly silent over the weir and down the standpipe to the sump, no bubbly noises at all!

I'm going to re-employ the existing pressurized CO2 system i'm currently running on the reef, all be it with modifications. I've just bought the Aqua Medic reactor 1000 for CO2 diffusion, looks the business but we'll see how it performs.

Lighting is intially in the form of two twin 55w T5 units with decent reflectors, so appx 210w. Not sure on which T5 lamps to use yet guys? Any suggestions? I want good plant growth obviously but don't want to make the fish appear washed out.

Fish stocking will consist of a large shoal of Boesmani rainbows, A large shoal of Rummy nose tetra, marbled hatchets for the top and some corys for the bottom. My wife has also insisted that we get a pair of kribs as she loved the ones we had in the last set up!

I'm liking the resources available via this forum. Learning new things and refreshing old knowledge!

Cheers,
Paul.

P.s I posted this elsewhere on this site before realising we had a uk section! Doh!

Hi I'm Paul (another one, seems everyone is named Paul or James...) I'm 26 next week and live in Deal in Kent.

I have kept tropical fish for about 3 or 4 years now but have not had other the last few months. I have just set up my 4ft 160l tank and decided to go for a fully planted setup as I always likes having planted tanks but could never get any plants to stay alive (and now I know why ).

I'm going for the "hi-tech" route because in short I'm a geek and that kind of thing appeals to me. On the same note I work as an IT support engineer but I'm actually giving serious consideration to getting a job in a LFS as Tech support is driving me nuts!

I do have a couple of other tanks sitting in storage but no space to set them up at the moment.

hi all,

i'm Gill, im 26, from Redditch, (near birmingham). i love my fish and other creatures in tanks.. i have a 4ft reef, a 2ft planted tank with cherry shrimp and bristlenoses, a baby gsp currently in a 20 gall planted as well as it can be with gsp, a 25l aquacube- planted otos, rummy noses and , a 5 gallon planted, a 5gall coral tank, my boyf has a coffee table fishtank- hard work but worth it! and a i have a little four gallon tank into which all the rogue hitchikers from the reef tank end up - so far a couple of crabs and a mantis shrimp i also have some land hermit crabs, and some giant snails!

we met george and graeme and dan at the festival of fishkeeping this weekend, they set up a couple of great tanks, was entertaining to see them working away with hangovers!

i bought a 'show tank' to use as a mini planted tank for on my desk at work, i have wanted a tank at work for ages but water a computers isnt a good mix, but this tank is the equivalent to a couple of large mugs of tea, so might get away with it, i have some interesting mosses to use so will be a nice little project, especially as im going to have to create some lighting for it !

Hey, I'm Caz, I'm also 26 and I'm Gill's partner in crime I've got 4 tanks set up at the moment, the biggest is a 37 gallon with some congos, a pair of bolivian rams and a trio of Hoplos. I'm juggling the other tanks at the moment, I've got a 25 gallon, a 12 gallon and an 8 gallon and the fish I have are- 1 adult peacock goby and a whole bunch of babies and 9 celestial pearl danios. I haven't decided where they're all going to end up yet but after this weekend I want to re-aquascape all my tanks

The festival was wicked this year and it was nice to meet the guys from UKAPS. See you there next year!