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Spiking is probably the wrong phrase, I was going on James' post viewtopic.php?f=17&t=741 Hoping that, by replacing the water daily the KH drop would be minimal by the time I put it in the tank as a number of people say they carried out as much as 90% daily water changes for weeks before it...

Cheers, I'll leave it as it is & see how much more I need once it's in the tank. It'll be a week or two before I put it in the tank, I'm planning on leaving it in the bucket & change the water daily, hopefully it'll help with the spiking associated with Akadama.

Hi All, I'm setting up a 4' * 2' * 18" tank to replace my 3' I'm going to use Akadama with a Peat moss base as the substrate. I bought 3 * 14ltr bags of the hard quality double red line as sugested in many posts. I emptied all 3 bags into a plastic bin, by which time the bin was full to...

Just to confirm the following still do refills for £12, had a 2kg filled this very afternoon :D FSE Fire Systems Location : Wilford Industrial Estate,Nottingham Email : helen@fsefiresystems.co.uk Website : http://www.fsefiresystems.co.uk Tel: 0115 981 2624 Services : £12 for a 2KG FE...

According to the Eheim manual, the vent can be plugged for a short period. This allows the filter to run continuously, (disabling the wet/dry feature), for use when medication has been administered & you need to filter through carbon by removing/replacing the substrat pro. I tried this method...

The 2071 arrived Tuesday, fitted it in the evening. All I did was to transfer a basket full of the sustrat pro from the 2227 into the 2071, along with the small amount of gunk from the bottom of the 2227 as well as all the aquarium water from it, thus filling the new filter with the old stuff...

I've been using a 2227 for a few months on a 100ltr tank. Mine was second hand & had been used in a marine setup, so I replaced all the seals & boil cleaned the media. It's located in a small cupboard under the tank & I can't hear it in use :D It's really good at what it does, but I have...

Re: Eheim Pro 3 2075 Review I'm using a 2227 with installation sets 1 & 2. I have the spray bar about 1" below the water surface with the water jets angled slightly upwards. The jets hit the surface about 25% of the way across the tank & causes a nice ripple. I did it this way, because having...

Re: Thank You Here's a few pic's I managed to get, not that good, but gives an idea :D The mighty "Gordon" - now known to be female Moonlight Gourami & by all accounts at almost 6 year old - should be dead! Shrimp Corner - look close & you'll see a few red/pink blobs - baby Red Crystal...

Re: Thank You Yeah, tried that, but I'm on a relatively low light setup in the tank. I'm asking my daughter to pop round & have an attempt - she does photography as a hobby & has some pretty good pics of her partners Malawi tanks. Plus, I've just swapped the tube from a daylight to a PowerGlo...

Just wanted to thank all the peeps on here for the wealth of knowledge that exists on this forum :D It's helped me create a planted tank where the plants are growing, pearling & need pruning, the fish are "happy" & the cherry shrimp are breeding :D Well chuffed :clap: I can't really say...

Yeah, I read that water boatman eat (or should I say suck the insides out of) tadpoles :shock: Certainly don't want anything like that in the tank lol

Hmm, 2 weeks into setting up a new tank, plants are growing nice & it all looks stable. No fish yet, want to give the plants a head start :wink: Bought a few plants from Maidenhead Aqatics in Nottingham about 10 days ago. Since then, a few snails have appeared - no big surprise there. Today...

Cheers Peeps, I'd thought about boiling the media, but was a bit worried it might destroy it ? Think I'll give a few soaks in hot water before doing the daily water cycling with the water tank. Oh, & save up for some new media in a month or two, funds are low thanks to holidays :wink:

Hi All, Just won an auction on Ebay for a used Eheim 2227 :D It comes complete with used substrat media. From what I've read on the Eheim web site the substrat can be washed & re-used several times 8) Which is useful because it seems sooo expensive. Anyhow, the previous user has used the...

Thanks for the quick replies. The hood has a full length reflector for the tube, the only way I could up the lighting to two tubes would be to remove the reflector. I'll have to try & strip the hood down a bit more as the inverter is hidden in what looks like a sealed area along the back of the...

Hi, Just introduced myself over here http://ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=163&start=240#p81081 Basically I've just started setting up a new planted tank, story behind it is in my hello above. The tank is a Juwel measuring 100cm * 30cm * 40cm with the standard Juwel hood containing a...

Hi All, My name is Gary, I live in Nottingham & by trade I've been a PC engineer for almost 30 years :shock: I've plodded along on what was a green'n'pleasant land for 51 years :roll: Over 25 year ago I used to install aquariums for friends, but got disheartened when they got neglected &...