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Yep, a far cry from 1930 stocking of Redmire.

Nice fat catch but, but such an odd shape fish!

Sound like you need a bigger reactor.

I did a log tank about 10 years ago….. https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/my-log.13682/

I am still build guitars but only to order and only one or two a year, my speciality was (is) Tenor Guitars in both solid or acoustic. Recently finished this 21” scale electric….

I had not been to Bath for 38 years but as we are staying in Bristol for a week we decided to pay Bath a visit. Just a short train ride, £10 return and only a 12 minute journey. On arrival, we soon discovered that Bath’s main thoroughfares are most certainly a contrast to Bristol city...

G mac, I have made and sold around 40 guitars, I am not sure if I ever made more that a few quid out of any of them! It is certainly not an easy way to get rich!.

Hi Darrel, I did look for you but you were not around!

You say nano system but dont mention the size of your tank?

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Welcome on board….

I would find it hard to believe that dried flake uses good quality ingredients.

Looking at the picture you posted, there could be some expanding foam showing on the left hand side? Years ago when I was working with hard landscaping, you could buy black expanding foam but I have not seen any for sale of late.

At last and only just in time for a mega re potting this weekend, our club managed to secure 44 bags of cat litter, here is my own haul of a mere 4 bags!

Sounds like a good start, well done for doing the setting up without any fish and well done for double checking you are on the right track. I would buy a PH pen as this makes things so much easier and then carry on testing and fine tuning for a few more days but, ultimately you will be...

A bit more info and pictures of the reactor would help us I think.

There will always be a risk when using C02, there is an excepted or recommended upper target of 30ppm but more and more folk seem to want to push this limit! So if you are concerned about your fish, then you can stick to 20-25ppm. However mistakes can easily happen when you first start out and...

Was it good then, do you speak Chinese?

Yes I can imagine that would need re reading a few times!

Sorry Darrel but that sound more like study than pleasure!

A very in vogue plant a few years ago but we dont see it featured so much lately, good luck.

I dont think my 50 year old orchids are as spectacular as usual but still not a bad display, I did split one pot last summer and I will do the other big pot this summer.

I am sure we have done this before? Unfortunately for me, your diagram is difficult to understand! So the pump supply comes directly out of the bottom of the tank through a drilled hole? I assume you will have a very good quality ball valve to isolate this facility and enable you to safety...

I am sure Tom did do a very successful non C02 tank, I seem to remember it had very bright lighting too?

This is a good one to read through….. https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/low-energy-soil-substrate-scape.65484/

Difficult to keep in prime condition! However a lot of these exotic plants cost less than a bunch of flowers and will last at least twice as long!

Are you keeping any fish?

Hi and welcome to the forum, I was just wondering what you are basing your disappointment on? We get a massive and broad range or C02 consumption post on the forum and people are often surprised they use so much but as you can already see from the above post, consumption can vary a lot as can...

I have kept them in my planted tank with no issues apart from only ever seeing them once in a blue moon!

Noise factor may pay a part too, small impellers require high revs and larger ones require more power, I would guess manufacturers take a lot of things into consideration when marketing their products. Most pumps that produce a high head of water like swimming pool pumps or central heating...

It took me until today to install my Christmas present, solar green lights inside the dragon skull. Happy new year folks …..

Yes, in fact they both flower three or four times a year but always punctual for Christmas! The closer one is probably 40 years old, the other one is only about 5-6 years old. The older one has huge thick stems and I trim it regularly throughout the summer, the other one had yet to be trimmed...

Christmas cactus were looking good on Christmas day!

This is a very good forum, many of the massive 50-100k membership forums from the early 2000s dont even exist anymore but we keep going…….

Happy holidays…..

Hi Pete, welcome to the forum, I can understand why you have asked your question, there could be a few in depth answers. However let’s start by asking how long is your brighting up period ? To simplify the situation you could make this period as quick as possible, say over 10 minutes then you...

The latest version is ready and rocking for Christmas ……

There is a lot of good info here Emersed Growing Here is a good example World's Oldest Terrarium / Sealed Bottle Ecosystem by David Latimer

That would depend on if you have any living creatures in there? If not, you could turn everything off, put it under natural light and seal the top, should be good for 50 years or so …. Or at least that seems to be the record for a sealed terrarium !

I am an avid reader and more recently also a listener with audio books. I have found that finding really good books can be very frustrating as so many start off well and then fall to pieces after the first few chapters, or the ‘five star’ Amazon ratings are just false! Back in the day before...

This is only my personal opinion but, pushing known limits close to where fish are likely to suffer is not something that appeals to me. I cant imagine sitting at home trying to relax knowing my tank is pushing the boundary's and my fish are in Jeopardy every hour of the day, Of course I can...

You can find plenty of youtube videos featuring Brian Cox talking about his thoughts on alien life but, here is his very basic abbreviation!

The majority has run through now, the 102 mph gust have dropped to 65-70 mph. We have lost many trees, over 60 have been cleared from the roads but there must be hundreds down all over the island. We have lost a couple of fence panels but I cant check the garden until later…

We are both in the middle….

We are in the eye of the storm, hitting us now but main destruction starts at 2am!

There are numerous ways to form an overflow, my own preferred method is a cut out at water level in the tank glass, rather than a hole! Unfortunately this is only really feasible on a custom built tank. The cut out will depend on tank size but on my 200l it is 150 x 28 mm so that allows a...

12 years ago I was still learning to play but managed to make this video for Halloween….

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Yes you can DIY a tree stump Paludarium In the making.

You can incorporate a sump however bear in mind that all the water that flows down the overflow will effectively be ‘de gassed’ of C02. If we use an example of a bottle of super market fizzy water ( a bottle of water with added C02) and imagine pouring that down an open pipe, by the time the...

Well if you are planing on using C02 then there are a few issues with tank dimension as well as aqua scaping. The injected C02 gas need to be evenly distributed throughout the water column, this is a key factor. Obviously you are experienced and understand how these things work but getting the...

Deep square tanks are probably not the easiest to maintain and scape and definatily not the most popular. At over one meter deep I would consider a cave tank design with the bottom half being a large cave or caves and the plants living on top of the roof of the cave. A lot would depend on the...

Dino, I know I am beating my drum again but why dont more folk try native marine? I used to place my old live rock (dead live rock) in the sea in a crab pot, launched from the rocks, and change it every six months or so. I would collect all my stock from the half tide on the shore and also...

I am not sure what they are? Some type of steel cage or a locking seal?

Well you have come to the right place, there are very few unturned stones around here and we love problem solving as well.

There are dozens of Dolmens in Guernsey, lots were destroyed during the granite industry and quite likely ended under the tarmac of Londons thoroughfares. One of the best known is the Deheus Dolmen and that is only 150m from my front door. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-56663491

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Looks like Armillaria Gallica, edible for some but dubious for others. like most Armillaria they need cooking and never eaten raw but from my perspective I would leave well alone.

Where I live on an island, there is presently testing going on with a large drone plane that can deliver pharmaceuticals across the 70 miles of sea from England. I think it has an 8’ wing span and travels at 100 mph.

We have just had a sweep of covid across our island, it seems quite a nasty virus as many people have been quite ill. However we had it in our house, with two people sick and two no catching it at all. I have had it once, my wife twice and we were all really ill, on all occasions, for over a...

Tim, here is a good example post 293 Post Your Pics & Videos of the Great Outdoors

We have loads of them where I live, many are hundreds of years old, dating back from when they were imported to help with our boat building industry. The tree can develop very tight bends in their branches and this feature was important to the boat builders . Hundreds were cut down by the...

The dragon is standing guard in my front garden ready to eat trick or treaters …..

I dont know why he no longer post but perhaps he is having a break from planted tanks, I seem to remember he has other hobbies like bass guitar and bonsai …..

It is great to see you being so enthusiastic, you are obviously enjoying your new adventure, just dont rely on those test kits being accurate! There are hundreds of post relating to test kits but you will be hard pressed to find many promoting their use! As there are no planted tank police, you...

Well it holds the bait on my hook when I cast out but apart from its designed purpose, bait elastic comes in white, black or clear and is very stretchy, self locking and is easy to use while affixing plants….. not much else to tell…

What you want is fishing bait elastic, nothing else will come close!

There is a picture in the opening post showing the amount of gas build up and it looks very standard for this size and style of reactor.

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In fact in was a two day mini adventure as we went to Sark the day before, the sound is a bit naff but it gets the facts across. I can tell you that our calves are supper stiff this morning ha ha.

I have another video that tells the story about the mine but basically it all happened around 140 years ago just before the advent of dynamite. People who lived nearby (not many at all) complained the 140’ long mine or maybe more accurately tunnel, was draining the land of water and it was...

Lovely weather and huge spring tides allow us to access the old silver mine without the normal swim!

You will soon find out that growing plants with their foliage out of the water is about a million times easier that growing them underwater. Floating plants have full access to all the C02 they need at around 400ppm, the plants under water, in a tank without injected C02, will have around 5ppm.

Yes, in many ways, I am not totally convinced that the hobby has advanced that much over the last 30 years! It may of headed off in different directions but there were many fantastic feature tanks back in the day! Of course we have some technical advancements like LED lights but it is...

Ha ha well I am working on an audio version that might help with pronunciation, I need to find a suitable narrator who can carry through the emotion and be capable of emphasising the multiple accents. The story has yet to be completed and a follow up thread has been promised ……

There is no doubt that different folk have different ways to achieve the same goal! The dry start is something you might want to study, there are hundreds of examples on this forum, you will find using Google with your search question and add UKAPS (forum abbreviation) will help you find the...

Dark starts may well work for some folk but, if my tank was in a prominent position in my house like in my lounge, then there is no way I would waste six weeks of my life looking at a blanket coved tank. (Not to mention the wife's opinion) Have you considered a dry start, a lot more interesting...

Makes sense, welcome on board.

If we look at this is the most basic form, then if you were not using any light, you would not get any nuisance algae. If you allowed 16 hours of natural sunlight, you would have a green algae bath, so somewhere in between is a sweet spot. The sweet spot is determined by various criteria but C02...

You could do a dry start, then the plants will thrive rather than survive……

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This thread keep many of us spell bound for a few years!

Sky divers today.

Our club put on a display at one of the summer agricultural shows.

Well yes I would say so too, pre 2000s there was a good choice of aquatic literature available . I can think of three uk aquarium magazines and one American, two koi mags, four sea fishings mags two weekly freshwater fishing mags, five music mags, two woodworking mags and many more I would buy...

The good old days in many ways, you have to wonder what will come next as there seems to be a huge decline in forums and even facebook traffic seems less active?

I was in my locale builders supply shop yesterday and took a couple of photos, the tubes range in price from £3.50 - £22.

What a great afternoon taking advantage of Festung Guernsey open day around Albecq headland on Guernseys west coast. There were four German bunkers open including two new ones recently restored that we had not previously seen. One of the bunkers contained a state of the art mortar launcher...

This one is around 40 years old, it has been in the old mixing bowl for two years as I am trying to add a bit more hight.

Yes that is how many many reactors work.

I was commissioned to build it for her, Birdys record producer contacted me and then came to guernsey to see my work. So I never met her in person just via email.

Ok here she is 10 years ago, not long after writing the theme for the Hunger Games movie aged 15! However this is my real question … who built her guitar?

She is Welsh if that helps?

No but she is very famous, one of her youtube vids has over 200 million views!

Ok not actually a song but who can tell me who this is?

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The Beatles played in Guernsey exactly 60 years ago today. So in honour of the fab four, there was an amazing tribute band playing the same set tonight and even at the same venue. Lots of interesting facts about the original gig were told to the large audience, originally they only played 9...

Spectating motor sport has been a life long interest, not sure I would say a hobby though. There is a lot of motor sport on our island including a round of the British hillclimb championship. Incredible machines.

I loved the old stye mats that came with a thermostat and seemed more powerful, they were made from rubber with an almost visible wire running up and down the mat. However they also seem to be sort lived, maybe one or two years max and there was no way to get them out from a fully stocked tank.

Well I have quite a few pictures of my immersed set ups on the forum if you can find them! However I am just taking down this large 90x 90cm x 10cm tray, it has been running for a couple of years with two 90 x 30cm heat mats. In the winter the surface temp was never more than 18c and the base...