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Hate to sound like I'm whingeing, but I when asked to be put on the list for the next batch there were only two names down for it. Now there's five on it and still no sign of poor me :cry: :cry: :cry: BTW posted for mine please. Cheers

Tom, Tony & Dan and anybody else involved, thanks for taking the time to organize this. Great to see people taking time out of their obviously very busy lives to help others :D :D :D :D Could you add me to the list for the next batch please :?: Thanks again Cheers

Just out of curiosity, has something been done to sort out the search as mentioned here :?: It's just that I typed BBA and got 324 hits :shock: :? :wink: Cheers

Iv'e been "charging" a batch of akadama for three days, so far only with Ca + Mg + K. Along the lines of Amoeba's question, would the akadama take in any micros? I was thinking of adding Trace and FeSO4 for a couple of days. Cheers

Thanks Looked at the separate kits yesterday, definitely wouldn't consider spending £13 odds on either of them. The GH one was dear enough at £6.50 especially if as you say it's inaccurate. Guess I'll just go with keeping things simple and let the plants do the talking and hope I can keep...

I finally bought a GH test kit (Tetra liquid type) and my tank is at 8 dGH. I've reduced the Bi-carb to 1/16 per 10 litre aiming for a KH of about 1.9 Does anyone know if the tetra kit is accurate? Also what ppms of Ca & Mg does a GH of 8 represent? Cheers

Hi I bought a pair of these last week (the 250mm pair). http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?cri ... &source=15 Their pretty good & cheap enough. Cheers

Thanks for that James I'll dose Ca/Mg according to the water change volume then. I did a search for potassium bicarb but couldn't find it anywhere, is it sold under a different name? Were do you get yours from? I'm in N. Ireland. I dose EI, all dry ferts, + EasyCarbo, non CO2. Got some akadama...

OK Either there's a lot of inconsistency in this hobby or I've made a huge miscalculation in my ferts :!: You say I'm using 16x more than I need, if that's the case then can you explain why 20ppm calcium & 5ppm magnesium is 16 times more than is needed? Because this is what is being suggested...

Hi Thanks for the reply. I just wondered if using Kalk would reduce the amount of CaSO4 needed and raise the KH so I could kill two birds with one stone, :roll: but if it only adds calcium I'll stick with what I've been doing. The tank is 115 litres and I change about 80 litres/week. It's...

Hi all I know absolutely nothing about the chemistry concerning the chemicals dosed in planted aquaria, mainly I go on what people like yourselves and The Barr Report site say. I've read that using bi-carbonate of soda adds sodium to the water when used to raise KH/pH, so I wondered if calcium...

Hi James Great setup BTW. I'm about to re-do my 120 l with Akadama and have been reading this thread with interest. Is there any reason why dry ferts couldn't be spread over the layer of peat instead of Osmocote? Or even using both together to give an initial boost to the Akadama from the ferts...