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It turned out to be yet another great meeting with many regular attendees and a few new faces! David Mai shared images and information from a recent trip to Japan, with a special focus on Shrimp and aquascaping. Paul gave a great speech outlining the judging criteria used and how we came to decide upon the winners. (Disciple we will have some more info for you soon) We had an informal round table, where everyone could share their current projects, any issues or successes they are having and left it open for input and suggestions for all others in attendance. Makes for an enjoyable chat and gives everyone a chance to share their knowledge in a specific response. I am wrapt with how many SKF folk we have in attendance, hope to see more of you in August. I have added the event to the calendar.

New theme just uploaded to give the site a more facebook look and feel for those that like that. You can change the theme via the drop down in the page footer.

So a sneaky preview from my new biotope tank for keeping zebras. Here is a video of them munching on some Boss Aquaria snow.

Here is a link for an english version of a german website that some of you might find helpfull ! http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=3&hl=en&langpair=de%7Cen&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&u=http://www.crustakrankheiten.de/service-und-hilfe/diagnosetabelle%3Fmobile%3D1&usg=ALkJrhjiqzfsuwct1BYJmBSJFnMIJz79lg

And some more good news from today....

They're everywhere in my tank. Doing better than the damn shrimp lol

I've put chatbox up, see how that goes.

​No, there will be. The guy that wrote it has been having a number of issues getting it to work for the new version so I'm just waiting for him to fix the bugs. There is a similar one called chatbox too which I might take a look at.

The group discussion I feel is one of the greatest things we've done. Love the problem solving the group achieves. Do we know what was the name of the plant with the super leaves? Really plan to look into it.

Haven't seen your pictures yet, so no idea how bad the BBA is. But can you remove it manually from ornaments? Or are they growing on older leaves? With 150W on a 45cm tank, you have put yourself in the High Tech tank category, which means you will run into problems if the CO2 and Macro & Micro nutrients aren't balanced. BBA thrive in nutrient deficient tanks. This means you are either lacking in Macro or Micro ferts or both. Add to that the CO2 inject needs to be at 30ppm. Such high light is going to cause the plants to suck up all the nutrients in the tank really fast. When there is none left the older leaves suffer. BBA take hold on these older leaves first. 150W of light for 8 hours straight is also too long. The best thing I did for my tank is to get a controller that mimics sunrise and sunset with my lights. Turns on at 7am, light intensity slowly ramps up until 100% power at midday, then slowly ramps down the power to the lights until 7pm mimicking sunset. 7pm - 8pm, moonlights run, so I can come home to see my fish/shrimp after work. 12 hours of light but note: only about 1 hour of full light intensity. This is the daylight cycle. If your tank is running 8 hours of 100% power, it's very unrealistic, and no wonder algae becomes an issue in our tanks.

cool photos does that snail have teeth cause god damn its scary lookin lol

Quick update. I did a big boo boo and didnt set up the timer on my light for the tank properly. I ended up leaving the light for the whole day making the tank temp go above 26 degrees. I managed to get the temperature back to normal over a few days but i lost 4 crs and a couple of gbs. My bbs lost a lot of colour too. It seems everything is ok now. Good news is the prl i got off JP hatched her shrimplets. I also managed to breed a crs to the male prl. These guys are about 2 or 3 days old. I have counted 5 but maybe more. I will be taking out the normal crs and leaving the prls.