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Over the years of having varying degree's of difficulty planted tanks, I've always pulled the stem plants up cut the bottom off, leaving the top to carry on proliferating. Its getting a bit of a ball ache pulling up my Alternanthera reineckii and Ludwigia repens every two weeks and cutting the...

Having kept tropical and marine tanks for a few years, I always came back to a common problem, flow. I either couldn't get it all around the tank, or enough of it, when i did it involved large, obscure pumps. I have been thinking of my options for more flow in my planted tank, considering a...

Sorting through one of my sheds today i found some old marine equipment and immediately wondered if I could turn this into a co2 reactor, with built in heater. It already has a gromit whit a cable goes through for a pump, I would then Take this out and push my heater cable through, sealing it...

This evening I was doing some work on my tank and adjusting my co2 solenoid wiring, i needed a bit of extra length to reach my new plug, so without thinking I tugged on the solenoid cable. I came back 10 minutes later after going down stairs to a boiling noise. When I had tugged on the cable it...

I have just purchased a new regulator and it has come with two different washers, one is the white Teflon type one that i am used to, but there is also a black O ring, I cant imagine them both needing to go on as the Teflon one usually makes the seal. Has anyone else come across this? Jon

I was wondering how Trace Element mix;s compare from company to company in terms of effectiveness? AquaEssentials: Boron 0.14% Copper 0.13% (chelated by EDTA) Iron 1.01% (chelated by EDTA) Magnesium 15.18% Manganese 0.76% (chelated by EDTA) Molybdenum 0.03% Zinc 0.30% (chelated by EDTA)...

Having moved back from marines to planted tanks again, I am planning a 36x 18 x 24 high, high tech planted tank. I have sorted everything so far. But still have a niggling in my mind about lighting. I have a 250w dimmable halide ballast and reflector etc, I also have T5 starters for 6 x 39w T5's...

Found this site, may be of use, as title says 6kg co2 £13 not sure what to do with the bottle afterwards, im going to see if they will re-fill them for me. http://www.waverleytbs.co.uk/default.aspx?CATID=5349