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Well the water left to its own devices when the anaerobic bacterial bloom was in the tank the water was going a black colour, i dont mind the cost of the excel to be fair if i double the dosage it would only cost <£10 a month. The tank as it is at the moment looks fine plants all like nice and...

Thanks for the advice, i will remove the airstone but that bacterial bloom was just to much it stunk the whole top floor of my house out and made it nion impossible to sleep in the bedroom. I'll remove the airstone when i have the chance later today and today is water change day anyway, how...

Well i added the airstone after i had the problem with Hydrogen Sulfide because of low amounts of oxygen in the water collum, and i did check and an air stone wont effect excel if i did go to presurized CO2 then i would remove the airstone, but after that nasty bacteria bloom i am a bit...

Update 13/04/09 No more smell thankfully, and everything seems to be going ok at the moment have been doessing ferts and excel for a about 4days, unfortunatly one of my arcadia dual starters decided to pack up on me so am only running half lights untill i can take it back to the shop a...

Sigh it seems everything that could have gone wrong with this tank has, have been away for a few days come back to find the sand has gone a nice colour of black and that unmistakable smell of Hydrogen Sulfide has stunk out the whole bedroom, have done 2x 90% waterchanges today and yesterday...

Update 01/04/09 Its so dipressing to look at, at the moment :( hopefully this will have sorted itself out by the end of the week.

Thanks thats a really useful website, im glad i took the carbon out when i did, i may have to wait a week for the tank to clear but im glad i got it out the way when i did. I'm deffinatly looking at getting a presurized CO2 and really didnt think of using a FE, and i had already checked out...

Re: Once upon a time at the riverbank 125Ltr Wow that looks awesome, i love harliquins also :)

Some places i researched say that it can have an impact on trace elements and thats why i made the switch from carbon to purigen which has a minimal impact on trace elements.

Well the filter is a 2028 model, and yes i would've liked to get in presuerized CO2 but the initial cost was just to expensive for me at the moment even the most basic of kits are like £200 :( And i made another school boy error already, when i took half the media from my non-planted 55gal i...

Well my ferts and 2L of flourish excel arvived earlier today from aqua essentials so hopefully ill have something worth posting soon unless you guys really want to some hair grass that has just gorwn and grown and grown :) . The tank is a joy to wake up next to in the morning (i even set the...

I will get a better picture when its not mid afternoon :) Firstly would like to say I’m new here :) and would like to give a big thanks to all those whom have had the time and patience to answer all of my (sometimes stupid) questions over in TPT IRC channel, so i give a big thanks to...