Lots of you keep and grow HC and I stumbled across this YouTube clip by the excellent aquascaper Mark Evans. He shows just how you need to clean your HC in a planted tank.Firm yet gently pushes on top of the HC means the dirt is removed by the roots hold the plant in place. Just perfect.
Ordered the 120l aquarium kit for a new setup we’d bought my dad for his retirement and I was blown away by the variety and quality of the items provided.
Everything was in perfect condition on arrival and, despite sourcing the wood locally, everything just worked around it.
My dad is over the moon with how it came out and the aquarium looks like it’s been established for a while already.
Highly recommend and would definitely shop here again
What a wonderful story — thank you so much for sharing this, Craig! Setting up an aquarium as a retirement gift is such a thoughtful idea, and it's brilliant to hear your dad is over the moon with how it came out. It's always great when everything comes together so well, especially when sourcing wood locally. We hope he gets many years of enjoyment from it — and we'd love to see a photo of the finished setup sometime!



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there’s no easy fix once algae has appeared. Do you have shrimp?
in a co2 infused aquarium flourish is no good as it’s only for non CO2 tanks. Use Neutro+ instead.
I made a rookie mistake with my hc and now have alge growing quite rapidly. What would be the best direction for cleaning? I was even going to look at h2o2.
I have enough light..maybe too much.
I belive I fed it too much florish , not excel.
Co2 is at 3 bubble per 4 sec. In 6 gallon tank.
PH 5.5 can go as high as 6.
I am attempting to get hc to grow in my fluval edge.
Use a syphon http://www.aquaessentials.co.uk/superfish-aqua-syphon-set-p-3901.html
I just started with HC. What cleaning equipment did he use for that?