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Cheers guys! :)

I need to make an apology on one of the topics here but i cant find it. The topic was regards to keeping a Betta with shrimp. I said it should be ok as we have a male betta with about 20 cull RCS and they get along ok.. Well.. The Betta has found out that shrimp taste good, After the daughter didnt feed him for a day or so, and now we have no shrimp in the Betta tank. Even the biggest ones have been devoured.It took a couple of months for him to figure it out but my recommendation now is dont do it. Sorry if whoever read my post took my advise and set up a tank with this in mind.

All coming along nicely. I've added some seasoned material and half a dozen red ramshorn snails, and a treatment of "Aquasonic Bio Culture", which is said to be a cycling bacteria additive that actually works. Time will tell, I'm watching/testing carefully. Plants are responding very strongly to 6 hours a day of light, set on timer. Water is much clearer now, but certainly not finished and highly aerated with both an airstone and the filter box out let. I dropped the level to about 6cm from the cover edge to allow the light to fully reach the surface for the frogbit (which is taking off). If I wasn't having floating plants it would be fine filled right up. Camera didn't quite focus properly, I'll play with the settings more next time.

OK, so I've been a bit busy with kids, work and whatnot, but I'm back on the job. At least I know my paint is fully cured. Can anyone recommend a good heater other than the Eheim one with the calibrating rings? I don't like them and want to try something else. I've got my mangrove root in the dishwasher (wife is delighted with that) and will try to get more done tomorrow. I'm a little disappointed that I couldn't get the glass cleaner. It seems to have some etched in calcium stains or something.

While im grave digging old threads, hows this tank going?