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Got one of those brine shrimp hatcheries you screw a pop bottle into. Has already been named the shrimp lava lamp There is no spoon.

I spotted that and found this: Trophies | UK Aquatic Plant Society Still none the wiser, of course. There is no spoon.

Welcome! I'm sure the good people on this forum will soon have you swapping those plastic plants for real ones.

Truly inspirational teaching there. The journal entry also shows just how much they understand already. Well done kids and well done teacher(s). Only trouble is my (year 4) 8 year old daughter wants one, too. She's already surveying the house for a likely spot and it's all your fault!

My reply was to the post suggesting that you use the waste water for other purposes. 700l is how much waste water you would need to find a use for each week. You'd either need to store it or use it as it was generated, which is a big ask if you're going to "save" water by using RO.

If you have a decent sized tank you'd need truly epic amounts of storage. Considering the size of the OP's tank and assuming "standard" 50% weekly changes and an optimistic 5:1 rejection rate he'd need to find storage for over 700l a week. If you had that much storage you'd be better off...

Guppies are farmed on a vast scale and as a result of much inbreeding many of the guppies available in shops seem susceptible to just about every ailment there is. Most guppies are nowhere near hardy! In common with most of the poeciliidae family they "naturally" hail from hard water areas.

It also looks like the rear of the needle is catching on the face of the gauge, which is why it won't go back to zero. I'd ask for a replacement.

I'm sure quite a lot of "reefers" use planted, lit, sumps for removal of excess nutrients. I considered a reef tank a few years ago and there was much talk of mangrove roots, miracle mud and macro algae (caulerpa prolifera) at the time.

I'm reluctant to appear as a pedant, but what actually happens is an increase in fluid velocity as the cross sectional area of the orifice decreases. There may be some reduction in flow and pressure, but these will be due to losses from friction e.t.c. Water is largely incompressible so as the...

Thank you! Let's hope you don't disappear under a torrent of spam.

Aha! It's working.

A lot of providers IP's are dynamic, so unblocking will only work for a while. The IP you appear to be posting from may well change, getting you blacklisted again. I know little about forum management but I suspect it's possible to tell tapatalk to ignore the blacklisting database. No idea...

Me too - can read forum posts, but I can't post from tapatalk due to being blacklisted. Who knows? I'm assuming there's a database somewhere that my IP's on for reasons unfathomable.

You could always make your own. There's a good guide here: http://www.theplantedtank.co.uk/allinone.htm