Recent content by squid102

You need to remove Guildford Calor Gas from this list. It changed hands in July and is now run directly by Calor Gas. They do not do Co2. Unfortunately, if you already have a bottle from here and were charged a hefty deposit, as I was earlier this year, you have lost it.

I've discovered a good side to having poor co2 and loads of algae in a new tank - my otos have started breeding! They are about 3 weeks old now, although we saw some newly hatched ones a couple of days ago too. At the last water change, we counted 22! On leaf: On glass: It makes cleaning...

Update: Calor Gas Guildford Deposited now required for 6.35kg bottles: £50 Refills: £18.98

I want to build an inline reactor after one of my Eheim 2217s but am having trouble finding something to connect the eheim 12/16 tubing to it. I ordered a pair of bulkhead fittings off fleabay but the dimensions in the description were wrong and I have to sent them back. So I need some sort of...

Yes, I remember reading that thread. I shall still feed this failure back to NA though. The tank has only been in operation for 4 weeks so I am a bit disappointed.

Was that the NA ones too?

I cut strips from a brown plastic punnet from Sainsburys that came filled with mushrooms. It worked really well. The mushrooms were good too.

A minor disaster! I came home from work today to the news that three of the clips for the glass lid had sheered off when my daughter was putting the lid back on, plunging the sheet of glass into the tank! :o Fortunately, the bits of wood stopped it from hitting the rocks and she managed to grab...

I have the Movel Wide in the matt oak finish - beautiful finish. The Elite is nice but you can only have the filter on one side so was too restrictive for me since I have two filters. Here's mine. It's a shorter, non-standard height though:

You can get Wormer Plus (flubendazole based) in some Maidenhead Aquatics stores, especially the ones that sell Discus. I've used it successfully with dwarf puffers, new fish and as a regular de-wormer.

So stick with it then? I had another thought after posting. I have lots of little shards of granite from the sledgehammer sessions. They're a bit razor sharp but we have an old kids rock tumbler in the garage that could be used to take the sharp edges off. If I sprinkle those round the bases...

This is getting tiresome. :grumpy: Five plants floating today. I'm considering removing the top inch or so of cat litter and capping it with something heavier. It will be a bit of a pain, especially with the disturbance to the glossostigma and the hemianthemum but probably easier now than...

The hole in my cabinet is level with the top of my filter so the shortest route would have been horizontal. I just used a longer bit of tube to loop down and then back up so that the heater is vertical next to the filter.

Or this could just confirm that home test kits are rubbish... There's plenty of fresh rainwater about. See what result you get off that.

I agree with fox fish. It looks like a light/co2 imbalance. It may well be contributing to the problem. Not the amount of flow but the direction(s). You seem to have a very confused flow pattern with outlets pointing in all directions. You need to position the outlets so that the water either...