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If you have seiri stone mountain rock in your aquarium, depending how much you have In your tank your kh will raise ever day. My kh in my tanks that does not have that much mountain rock in it raises by 1dkh daily . khco3 will raise the kh as well.

Hi guys heres my tank been up and running for about 10 months now gonna rip it down soon and start a new one dutch diorama 200l optiwhite 3 x tmc 1500 led lights 9 hours a day Ro water adjusted to 3dkh + 3 gh Adjust kh daily as it raises with seiri stone Lean ferts Co2 am reactor 3bps 2 hour...

Hi forum I have been trying to measure my kh of my tank water for the last few weeks,I have 3 kh test kits that I have been measuring the tank water with, I no all test kits are not going to be accurate and will give different results. So I have tested all 3 test kits to a 4dkh solution that...

Just had better results with ro water over the years ...

I want to find an ro system that produces ro water quickly that has an 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 waste water rate ,5 to 1 seems a bit excessive and to buy this ro system a cheaply as possible. I was looking at buying just a 400gpd pump on its own for about £70...

Hi Andrew Thanks for the reply I thought that because the ro unit was producing water quicker that it would do it with less waste water as well. That's good that it will have a tds of 0 ish was not shore because of the big membrane it uses 400 gpd I was hoping to fill 100lt of tank ro water...

Hi all Just found this thread on ro units,really good information about high end ro units did not no that you could get ro unit that projuice ro water so fast. Iv got a basic ro unit at the moment 50 gpd with no ro pump but last week my home has been put on a water meter so it's costing me to...

Cheers anubus Just looked up my reading :eek: Nice one....

Hi Just thought id ask the question has anyone got a water report for south east london,I live in the croydon area and I what to find out my kh and gh level and everything else about my water,I tested my water a few year ago and the gh and kh was very very high about 27dkh ,but you no how...

Living water aquatics store in croydon,at a guess about 7 or 8 years ago....someone gonna tell me this forum hasent been running that long...lol

hi paul i use seachem equilibrium in all my tanks to raise the gh,i have a ro unit and i use 27l plastic containers that i fill up then i dose 3/4 tsp of equilibrium to the container then just take 27l of take water out and replace,this keeps my gh at about 3 degrees then i dose fert once a week...

I have extremly hard water living in the south east england,my kh is about 27 dkh,iv been in to the planted tank hobby for the last 15 years, always had a planted tank going in one way or another.Just use staight 100% ro water with a gh booster to keep the gh betweem 3 and 5 so you have some mag...

Just been reading this post about diatoms algea,iv had a tank running for 2 years now so it is very mature,over the last 7 months I have had diatoms in my tank I have tryed everything to get ride of the this algea and nothing has keep it at bay,iv tryed blackouts,dosing hydrogen...

I had hc in a very tall tank 24 inch from light to substate,with 2 x 39w light I was trying to grow in for about 4 months it just would not take off,I tryed upping the co2 more flow, nothing worked,it was not till I upper my light to 4 x 39w that it started to spead and take off,I think the...

Hi John, iv tryed doubling the phoshate and trebling the the phoshate to get ride of gsa in he past it made a bit of a difference,but I think light is the main couse for gsa try moving it about to a shader spot,as for growing anubias,I have really hard water and I always stuggled to grow them...

Not shore if blue light grow plants I would keep all lights off till co2 has been running for 2 hours,I would not focus on the drop checker to much,its degassing faster then the bigger tank because its smaller in size,just set the co2 at a good rate and leave it,the trick is to get the co2...

Here some pics of the wet and dry sump with eheim pump and the herbie style overflow+another pump inside the sump to run the reactor....

Hi rebel,Not shore what carpeting plant it is sorry,I know it is not hc it looks similar to hc just leaves are a tiny little bit bigger. it is about 2 inches thick I have only trimmed it once in 1 year that I have had the tank running. The co2 is running at about 2 bps,I've tryed running it at 5...

Hey Chris m I'll take some shots of the sump and pump tonight,...

Here some more pics

hey forum haven't posted on hear for a while still been in the hobbie I can't get enough of just gone of the high demanding tanks now,have not got enough time with work and that,tryed the Dutch thing and fast growing stem plants,now I'm just in to the slow growing low maintenance no hassle...

The tank is a diy ada style tank that I built,it has a braceless optiwhite 200l tank on it, 100cm,the lighting is 2,1500 tmc tile with dimmer,the co2 is run though a filter and aqua medic reactor,I'm running about 4 to 5 bs, so quite high co2,I'm useing strate ro water in the tank, as I do on...

Hello ..here is my 200l try at Dutch

I use 2 Ultima 1500 on my 100 cm wide tmc tank with dimmer,I would definitely go with 2 of the 600 with dimmer for a 60cm tank

im going though exsackly the same as you,now, i have had diatom for 3 months now,tank is fairly old 7 months,tryed every thing,some say to turn the lights up,so the plants start to grow more,and out complete with the algea,i have found an old thead that cegs says to do a 3 day blackout,every day...

i dont like the look of the led,s light when you turn them up,extremly bright,and thay dont do nothing for the colours of the plants,greens and reds,i only run my leds at a maxinine of 50% over my 120cm tank thay are very very powerful as i have found out,with a algea outbreak,with t5 you get a...

i was going to buy the maxspeck razor but decided not to because of the light spectum,only had it in a 8000k instead of 6500k ,brought 2 tmc tile 1200 in the end with dimmer unit,wish i would of gone for mh lighting, do not light led light after spending 600 quid...

Just brought the resun external filter,had it for 3 day now and having nothing but problems with it,keeps on getting air build up in side it,then it starts making noises,then it stop after about 12 hour,tried working out wots wrong with it,just took it of tank,and looking at the Boyu one,waisted...

rasumus realy like the tank :) brillient....

hello i messed about with the flow in my tank so many times iv lost count the best way iv found,is wot cegs surgested to me about a year ago,one hole length of spray bay along the hole,back off the tank,about an inch under the surface,pushing the flow to the front off the tank,then down the...

Hi tunafish Like the tank mate and the discus

Really nice tank Seb Really like the look brilliant

always fancyed trying a cabinet build,the price thay charge for cabinets is alot.....got to be a lot cheaper making it.....

realy like it matt liking the jungle look,looks like it has no algea witch is all good:thumbup:

whitey 89 tank looks amazing,:).......

love the jungle look voo,tank looks immaculate,no algea.good.good :)

wow stunning piotr....different league mate....:)

love the 46l edge low tec one realy good mate......

hi mark some of your tanks stunning mate......

Re: 120 x 55 x 55 @ 7 weeks and a Canon 550d hi mark,really like the tank :clap: tank looks crystal clear,plants realy look green and pop,like the design of the rocks and the hc at the front :thumbup: ...mark were did you buy your tank and cabinet from im thinking off getting one..

hi chisjj i brought mine of ebay,and it come with the lead as well,which was good,cost me around 4o pound,brought eletric timer as well,i just done some tests on how much it would pump a minute,mine pumps 19mm a min of solution,i just dilute my fert solution down,with ro water, and thats it...

just put the drop cheaker in,about 5 min before pic was taken,i will see if i can find some pic of it a1matt.....

hi forum here some pictures of my 260l osaka tank,started it about a year ago,moss moss moss :P Shot at 2011-05-01 Shot at 2011-05-01 Shot at 2011-05-01 Shot at 2011-05-01 Shot at 2011-05-01 Shot at 2011-05-01

thanks for the replys ,im thinking i must of sucked them out of the tank when iv done water changes,iv bin looking in the tank for a few days to see how many i can spot iv only spoted 3 or 4,at least i no for the future,to be more careful......

hi forum iv set up a moss tank about 3 month ago,looking to breed shrimp,cherry shrimp,,i had a little bit of hair algea a month back :crazy: ,so i got some bigger shrimp,amano s, and japanise s,thinking thay would eat algea quicker,iv notice that my cherrys have breed,but i can only see 3...

hi corki,iv only been doing planted tanks for about a year,but i dont think you have to dose mg that much, iv got a 260l tank, high light ,so it nearly as big as yours,i only dose 3 teaspoons a week,

hi forum...just moved my tank to the dining room to day,took 5 hours to set it back up :roll: broke the bubble counter doing so :evil: then went over the parents house,come home an hour later,to find out that my auto doing machine,has dumped 3weeks of ferts in my tank,it had gone on to the...

hi fly fisherman..thanks for the reply.....that does make sense,when i put the fe bottle on the handle seemed a bit wobblely at the top,when i sqeezed it to open it,so thats why its staying open all the time,but am still wondering why the psi on the reg is not working :?

just got in tonight and changed my fe bottle,but i think iv over tightened the reg ,and broken it :( now the fe bottle is staying open all the time,when conected to the reg,there no leaks but ,if i push the handle to open the fe bottle, its open,if the bottle is shut close im still getting...

hi ceejay..thank for the info....i thimk im gonna do the water changes every 2 day 75% and over dose, easycarbo for a week,and lower my light and see if that effects it,at the moment im dosing 10ml of easycarbo a day, on my 260l tank,iv got some cherry shrimps in there,just wanted to no, how...

hi zed....just bin reading this post,and im in the same position as u were,iv got all rhizoclonium in my tank,i think it started because i over dosed trace,the algea is in the hc,and iv just notices that its got in to all the mosses,can u tell me if the 50% water changes and over dosing easy...

hi tom....im trying to find out the same thing as you,iv got the same tank as you the osaka 260l,iv been on some of your theads,uv had some nice tanks,iv got the acadia luminaire otl 4 x39w but im realy shruggleing to get a hc and glosso carpet going iv been running 8 hour 2 x39w with a 2 hour...

heres my tank specs..... 260l tank fluval osaka 4 x39w t5 arcadia otl[lighting running 8 hours a day] co2 presurized 2 kg[3 or 4 bps filt fluval 405 1200lph,ehiem 2000 compact2000lph running a reactor,koralia 2 2200lph ferts are full ie,plus 10m easycarbo a day drop checker lime greeny yellow...

hi there danial...the flow,ferts,and co2 in my tank are really working well,the sub is nature soil.iv up everything in the tank except the lighting,i think it is the one thing that is making my carpet not spread....im thinking of running a 5 hour midday burst to see if i can kick start the hc...

hi all...i have an arcadia 4 x39t5ho light only running 2 of the bulb,iv tryed a 2 hour midday burst but my hc and glosso carpet stil is not speading ,had the plants in there for 2 months now and nothing,i think its the lighting and the tall tank i have,q1 how would you experience people, run...

hi forum...bin buying discus fish from maidenhead aquatics in morden for the last year now,brought 5 in total ,cost me 450 pound,decided a few weeks ago that i dont wont to do discus anymore so i rung them up to see if they would buy them back,not at full price,mabe 40 pounds worth of credit or...

hello forum..just out of interest how many people are running there co2 24/7,on large and small tank,and do you think there is any benefits...

thanks for the info guy,read some posts,saying not to plant to closely together,not inoth light gets to bottom leaves,so iv spead the plants out abit,only planted it about 4 day ago,so its still rooting in,seen some really nice photos of this plant on the net,it can be a orange colour,or a...

hi forum...just brought 2 pot of rotala macrandra from plantsalive,could anyone give me any tips on growing it.... heres my tank details 260l tank lighting 2 x 39w t5 8 hours 4 x39w t5 4 hours midday burst ro water ei fert fe,co2 :crazy:

thanks mattyc,i thought it was a very low carpet plant,thats why i thought it was getting leggy,because i dident have enouth light,im going to make a few slight tweeks,like cegs advised,and just leave it for a bit,see how it go,s

thanks for the info guys..cegs im going to try to fine tune a couple of things,see if i see better results,co2 at the moment comes on 2 hours before lights come on/go off 1 hour before light go off,mite try 3 hour before light comes on/2 hour before light go,s off

thanks for the reply flyfisherman...do you think im being to hasty,should i give it more time to grow in.....

hi forum..gonna try and grow hc in my tank again,just striped my tank down,put new substate in it, and new filter pump to get better flow down to the sub.two weeks ago i planted 6 pots of hc, up,d the co2 to 4 to 5 bps,drop cheaker is going yellow at the end of day,theres some good pearling on...

hi forum..this is an old post,and just to let you no,that i failed with the hc the last time i tryed,i think a lot of things dident help, the flow of my tank was below par,and the substate was not the best, to grow hc,i know you should be able to grow it in any sub,but iv read on the forum that...

real pain :?

only thing iv thought of doing is shading 1 of the bulbs may be :crazy:

hi billy...if you take the 1 of the bulbs out ,2 of the bulbs dont work thay must be on the same circuit 8)

hi..looking to run my otl luminaire with 3 of the bulbs,but its only got 2 switches on it ,to run 2 bulbs, or to run 4 bulbs,so iv got a problem,u would think they would of fort of this when thay designed it :twisted: and for the money it costs it wasent cheap :evil: has anyone wired it up to...

thanks for the reply gordon,realy helpful,the tread told me everything i wanted to know,i will be buying a eheim pump,probly the 3000,as soon as i can,mit try aquatics online...cheers...lee

thanks for the replys guys .... is there anyone on the forum that is useing the ehiem universal sump pumps the powerful ones 1262 i think,the one that is rated at 3000lph, or now any think about them'was thinking of buying one,running it to my aqua medic 1000 reator,was gonna get rid of my...

im running two filters on my osaka 260l tank,a fluval 405 and a 305 running in to a spray bar along the back wall of tank,but thay dont seem to be cutting it,the flow is not very good,and im not happy with it,iv had to add a koralia 2 in there,to up the flow,dont want it in there,looks ugly,is...

i there any way of scubing green spot of plants,with out uprooting the plant,or any lotions

hi billy..only had my tank up and running for about a year now,total beginer before that,its bin a step learning curve,but realy like it as a hobbie... iv got 4 discus in there at the moment,il be puting another 1 or 2 more in there,but thats it,dont wont to over crowd it. as for the co2 iv...

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my tank 4 month on,starting to realy mature,carpet starting to fill in,il post some more pics, only work out how to post 1 at a time

hi chis thanks for the info,iv bin messing about with the flow for about 8 months now,iv changes it and messed about with it so many times i cant remember,but i posted a thead about 4 mouth ago about flow,and cegs replied and explained how hes is set up and this has bin working realy well for...

thanks for the reply guys,appolagys for the lack of info,my tank is a 260l osaka,so it is a very deep tank 24in deep,i have 2 filters running in to an aqua medic reactor,running in to a spray bar along the back rear of my tank,pushing the water to the front,i have a pressurised c02,my lighting...

can any one help..iv had cladophora and green spot in my tank for about 3 months now and just cant get ride of it'i have eco com substrate,and the cladophora is all in it,every week i get a tooth brush and remove most of it' but a week later it just grows back and i can see it again,as for the...

hi peter k,i have my co2 come on 2hour before lights on and go off 2 hour before thay go off and it works well,i read you can do it 1 hour on and off but i have quite a big tank,as for the drop cheaker if you fill it with 4 kh solution and 2 or3 drop of reagent blue,it should work,it shouldent...

thanks for the reply stricky11,done it last night,it was a lot of work,toke about 3 hour of messing about wiht it ,but i think it was werth it,got both the filters combined togehter running thought the aqua medic reactor,in to the spray bar,and it seem to be running ok,it has realy in proved my...

iv got a oska 260l tank with 2 filters running ,fluval 305 & 405,iv had them on each side of the tank one in the left cabnet one on the right,i want to put them in the same cabnet to free up some space,my question is, could i conect the 2 intake pipes up inside the cabet with a t piece conection...

i planted so ludwigia inclinata var.verticillata cuba,about 6 weeks ago, it seems to be doing ok.but it seem to be growing a bit leggy is there any tips to get it to bush out,instead of growing up woulds,iv heard you can nip the tops off ,is this true with plants,or could it be something to do...

i have a aqua medic 1000 reactor running on my 260l tank and i get 100 percent defusion,i cant see no little bubbles at all,so i would say something isnt right,i have the bio balls jn it as standard,i have my fluval 405 running it 1200lph,the only thing is i get a slight build up of co2 at the...

just fiddled about with the set up to see if i could find the ploblem,dont think its the reg or solenold,because if i disconect the tubing at the cheak valve so the co2 is not going in to the reactor the co2 bubble come out a bit faster but at a constant rate,as sone as i conect it back up...

cant return it,brought it off internet from germany ,and iv lost the receite,if its the same with the solenold disconected,then surly its got to be something rong with the reg,might be a good idear to take it apart and have a look at it,to see if i can see a problem,iv got another cheak valve...

just tryed taking the solenold vavle off and its made no difference,in fact its running faster with the solenold on than off ,more bps,cant work that out,but both ways,the bps were still running erraticy,the reg and the solenold are only 8 mouths old,i now reg and solenolds are not to cheap as...

thanks for the quike reply paul,yes i am useing a solenold valve,and it is clicking on and of ok,i will conect the co2 ,straight to the reg and see if thats the problem,is it easy to cheak the o rings on the reg or do i have to take the reg apart ..im going to change the co2 tubing to the reg...

hello..i changed me fe co2, 2kg bottle,about 3 weeks ago,tweaked my co2 till it was just right its been running fine for about 3 weeks now,iv been looking at the bubble counter and the bubbles have been coming out at a constant rate,over the last 3 week,about 3 bps,but the last week iv been...

thanks for the info guys,

cegs, i am finding that out,there is no such thing as an easy carpet plant,i dont no if it is because i have a deep tank or the eco complete,substate,is not the best substate for carpets,but i seem to be stuggleing to get mine going,i have turned my co2 up til it goes nearly yellow,so i cant go...

could any one suggest an easy ,fast growing carpet plant for my tank,i am using eco complete sub,and i have about 2 wpg,wiht co2, but the tank is quiet deep being a oska 260l,i have failed with hc,and at the moment im trying,hair grass,its been in there about 2 months now and it hasent rely done...

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