Originally Posted by greenthunder

Fluval Roma 240L thanks for the kind comments too,appreciated.

Would a fluval roma 125 be too small for chichilds?

Originally Posted by sargie

Would a fluval roma 125 be too small for chichilds?

Nope, it should be fine mate.

few updated pictures
Picture
1: Cherry Barbs, Neon Tetras, Guppy
2: Glass Catfish
3: platties
4: Planted Tank
5: Otocinclus (otto)

Your plants look well john what ferts do you use? Also do you know what lights you have? My plants are not doing so well.

I'll check what it's called in the morning Matt, I know it's a cheapish one as I bought it on the quick just so I had some ( thought something better than nothing lol) I've read easy carbo is good

The lighting are T5 tubes

I started to suffer from a bit of hair algae that I'm trying to keep on top of now
You can see the grass looking plant ive cut all the tops off lol and I cleaned the java fern with a toothbrush to remove it
Getting there though and I'm really enjoying it too, the fish not the algae lol

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cheap but seems to be doing a pretty good job tbh

Hats of to you rats i been wanting to do an aquarium for years my mum and dad used to have 2 6ft tanks and i remember watching the fish when i was little they truly are fascinating to watch and your tanks looks well kept and very fine one indeed.

Keep the pics coming as i enjoy reading this thread and gives me a bit more knowledge about aquariums.

Thanks mate
I just wish I had the room for a bigger tank lol as there are so many pretty fish Id like to add

Matt this it the hair algae problem I had
it really only affected 2 plants the grass mainly but also a bit on the java fern, it seemed to go mad like that when we had the bright sun and hot days

as I said the java fern I managed to clean with a toothbrush as the plant has wide leaves and it cleaned up pretty well tbh, the grass I tried to clean a few ways but it was no use so I decided to cut the tops off, if it re grows all good if not i'll just remove and replace it

Tanks looking good mate. Good job

Update:

the grass never recovered lol think I $acked it too much
the java fern is looking good again

the hair algae is now under control, a little bit but nothing unsightly so Im happy with that
although Im not totally happy with all the plants Ive got so may re plant at some point


I had to take the Cherry Barbs back to shop as a few of them was nipping a certain guppys tail (guppy in post 28), this was a week or so ago and its healing up nicely now the Barbs have gone

Ive added 2 nice Mollys today, 1 Black and 1 White
and 2 blue Dwarf Gourami, these along with my Ram Cichlids are my favourite fish

Ill get some piccys up later