I've had this guy for around 6 months. He lives in a 70 litre planted "El natural" tank, heavily planted, with a bunch of cherry shrimp, 3 otocinclus and a handful (about 8?) of ember tetras and Endler's livebearers. The tank gets around 30% water change every couple of weeks. Nitrates are...

Overview The Estimative Index (EI) coined by Tom Barr is a straightforward method for providing nutrients for a planted tank. The idea behind EI is simply introducing an excess amount of nutrients within an aquarium, throughout the week. This excess of nutrients floods the water column and feeds...

Apologies for stepping out of the planted tank subject.... To anyone in the Southeast that has an aquarium interest, there is a big aquarium trade show, the Carolina Aquatic Expo in South Carolina on Oct 30. I have a table and will be selling autographed copies of my book Ecology of the...

Will there be any small meeting any time soon. I haven't seen any dfwapc members post in a long while. are we still active?

Hi everyone, decided to keep a sort of online journal here, if that's ok! Wanted to share how it's been going, now that it's been...oh dear, a few months now? With my El Natural set up. How it started: I quickly realize there wasn't nearly enough plants, I had to resort to putting in carbon...