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How frequently are you doing water changes and how much ?
Calzone said:Actually, the inlet pipes aren't actually touching the ceiling, it's mor like they have a decent horizontal distance to travel, and I may have pulled them too snug. I may be able to address this with a bit of jiggling, or find some way of changing the curve they go through...
On water changes, am currently changing about 50% once a week - no lights, no algae and a cycling filter. 4 ppm seems the right nh3 level to cycle the filter, but obviously this will take more than 3 weeks, and it's not mature enough yet to remove all the ammonia. The question is whether I need it to be able to suck out all the AS ammonia spike, or whether slightly more PWC would be better and still cycle the filter fine.
Calzone said:Rubbish flow on the G6...
on these 45deg bends - do you have in mind filter attachment--> short 16mm hose-->pvc bend-->rest of hose ? With the pipe bends glued to the hose?
I always struggle to fin 16mm id pvc pipe round my way. I suppose this is about 5/8".
Thinking about it, given the hose isn't touching the ceiling, not obvious there's any need to lower the filter. I think I probably just need a bit more slack.
Calzone said:Could work, but I wouldn't want ribbed going all the way to the tank as not a fan of the look. Could join the two using eg eheim tap I suppose.
Let me jiggle to see if I can improve it. I fear I may have not enough slack to make much difference....
right decision and shove the 45o bend in at the same time Tell you what, if you ask a saltwater aquarium keeper they will put you right on where to go for every imaginable pvc tank fitting needed. They have it down to a fine art I think we planties are a little behind on that score (though some are definitely using hard piping I see from some threads)Calzone said:I think it's inevitable. Makes no sense to go to all this trouble to get things out of the tank, buying great looking kit, then have fluorescent green tubes all over!!
Calzone said:Question regarding water changes:
Am currently using a hose running into the kitchen sink (10m?)' attached to a 1000 LPG submersible pump to drain, and am filling by simply turning the pump off and attaching the hose to the tap (hose lock tap attachment). Works well hydraulically. My problem is this: my house has a mans water softener, essentially ion exchange swapping sodium for calcium. Apparently the kitchen cold water tap is excluded for health reasons, but I suspec the hot water is all softened. So if I try to temp match I'm running maybe 30% hot water which is not salty as such, but certainly high sodium given my tap water is very hard (working on the basis all those calcium ions are swapped for sodium). This may partially account for the significant pH reduction which I thought was all due to the Aquasoil.
My question is am I better to carry on temp matching the new water even with this high sodium content or should I use the hard but v cold tap water. To give you an idea, my tank was at 24.5 deg C before water change, and I put about 30% PWC using only cold tap water tonight and the temp dropped to 20.2 deg C. What kind of a shock will this give the fish? The 500W heater in the filter has already increased the temp to 20.4 in the last 5 mins, so we' re taking at least 2-3 hours to get back to 24+ degrees.