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  1. oldwhitewood

    Oldwhitewood's NA 60P new layout

    Hi everyone, I thought I would post this journal about my new layout, having not been on here for a good few years (but still keeping my eye on the hobby) I've decided try to share some of the progress with my tank. Not much has changed really, I've had a few different layouts in my little 60cm...
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    eradication of snails

    Hey guys, hope everyone is well. I'm setting up a new tank over the next few weeks and wondered if you had any advice on getting rid of snails.....i.e terminating with extreme prejudice! Well I say this but obviously there is nothing in the tank at the moment and most of the plants I will be...
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    recommend an external filter for a rio 125?

    Hello, I'm thinking of removing the supplied juwel filter and replacing it with an external. I'm an eheim guy really but am interested to see what else is available. I want to use it with a spraybar and inline diffuser, can't be bothered with glass lily pipes anymore. What do you guys...
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    Tripod Help

    Helloooo, What do you guys think of this? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-MANFROTTO-190 ... 2ead0b1ef8 I've got a Manfrotto tripod at the moment but it's not too good, it's really for compact cameras and I find it wiggles around too much. Is it better to go for a ball head...
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    Dead camera what to get?

    Hey guys, My beloved Nikon D40 has bitten the dust this weekend care of the concrete outside my apartment! I'm looking to replace the body with something better and was thinking about the D90. I figure this is a good bet, it's a nice upgrade from the D40 and I could use my existing lenses if I...
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    Oldwhitewood's new 60cm NA

    Oi oi, At the request of Mr Farmer I'm putting up a thread here about my new layout. This is what it looks like ... I've had a lot of trouble setting up this aquarium over the past few months, I found out my heater had packed in, my inline heater, the light decided to stop working midway...
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    Cabinet building materials

    Hey guys, I'm getting a bit bored of my cabinet and wanted to build another one with a better finish. I was looking at getting a kitchen cupboard type unit and trying to strengthen that on the inside. The other option is to get some conti board or similar which already has a finish on it, I am...
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    Trying wood together

    So rather than using an elastic band or cotton you can use tie wraps right? What about that garden twine which was mentioned on Sunday. Won't the metal inside the green plastic coating rust and pollute the water?
  9. oldwhitewood

    LED advice

    Hello, Do you guys know anything about LED lighting, it looks to be really good but I'm not sure how many of them one needs, still in the old T8 / T5 / MH zone at the moment :D
  10. oldwhitewood

    B&W buffs opinion needed

    Hey guys, does anyone know much about post processing digitally for black and white images. I took this picture recently and tweaked a few things in Lightroom and have got the below image. Problem is I don't know much about B&W and am not sure if this is maybe too much, too contrasty. There...
  11. oldwhitewood

    The Wire

    Does anyone watch The Wire or are into it?
  12. oldwhitewood

    My aquarium circa 2000

    An interesting find from one of my friends last night, he sent me a picture I had taken of my planted tank 8 years ago. I had forgotten completely about it but seeing it now brings back both warm memories and a lot of amusement actually about how little I knew. Note the plain aquarium gravel...
  13. oldwhitewood

    Shrimp horror stories

    Does anyone have an irrational fear of shrimp? or more specifically, airbourne shrimp? I can't seem to handle them if they escape and when they jump it actually makes me scream like a big girls blouse! Even removing them from my tank to put them in a temp home really freaked me out, you've never...
  14. oldwhitewood

    easycarbo usage

    Does anyone have any kind of advice for using easycarbo? I've never used it before and am looking for some pointers if I run into algae issues. Cheers!
  15. oldwhitewood

    Neil's NEW 60cm Nature Aquarium v3

    Ok here is a step by step of my new layout. As you may know I've been running a tank using the same equipment for about a year and a half now, but I'd become a bit bored and frustrated with the old layout and wanted to try something different. There were a couple of reasons for this. mainly the...
  16. oldwhitewood

    HELP needed on lack of filtration

    Hi guys, I've just rescaped a new layout and after it had been running for a few hours I noticed the level in the tank had dropped and my carpet was a bit wet. Much to my horror one of the taps on my eheim external was leaking water so I had to turn everything off and stop the filter. I've...
  17. oldwhitewood

    Lomography - Don't Think Just Shoot

    For a while now I've been fascinated with the whole Lomo scene, truth be told I own a few film cameras of that ilk myself, a Holga, Vivitar Ultra Wide Slim, Smena, and a Holga 135 too. I've never bought a Lomo LC-A mainly because of the price of them for what they are!!! But to me the point of...
  18. oldwhitewood

    urbex / derelict stuff

    So armed with my new lowepro trekker (good advice guys) and manfrotto tripod I've been trying to find interesting things to shoot. I've been looking at urbex stuff, where people will basically sneak into abandoned hospitals, derelict buildings, old officeblocks etc and take pictures. It looks...
  19. oldwhitewood

    Decent Tripod

    Me again. Does anyone have any opinons on Tripods? I've been using a jessops one I borrowed recently but I find it really heavy and cumbersome and quite unwieldy to use. I do a lot of stuff walking round woodland and I want something I can get quite low down with also, so I've been set to get a...
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    Decent bag

    Can anyone recommend a decent bag to carry a DSLR with lens attached and 2 other lens? The ability to hang a tripod off it too would be nice. At the moment I use a Lowepro slingshot but I don't like it, too uncomfortable.
  21. oldwhitewood

    e tenellus vs Lilaeopsis brasiliensis

    I'm trying to decide on a carpeting plant for my new layout. I've grown e tenellus in the past and it has always been fine, but any lilaeopsis I have long since given up on, I have very soft water so that might have something to do with it, I'm not sure which one to go for. Has anyone grown...
  22. oldwhitewood

    should I worry about this?

    I've spotted these little bubbles in the silicone in my tank, I have never seen them before but I guess I haven't been 'looking' actively for them before. What do you guys think?
  23. oldwhitewood

    Recommend an external filter + heater

    What would you guys recommend for my tank, are there any filters out there currently with built in heaters which I could use on my 60cm tank. At the moment I use an Ehiem Ecco 2234 I think, it does not seem powerful enough at all.
  24. oldwhitewood

    Rescape plan

    Hello, I'm looking for some advice on how to rescape my tank, my 60cm one. At the moment the plan is as follows, this is how I'm going to approach it. Get a huge plastic container and raise it up on some stools Take out the water from the tank and put it in the container setup external filter...
  25. oldwhitewood

    New Camera! woot woot

    So I finally got a Nikon D40, I'm really impressed with it guys, I love the viewfinder and the control you have, even though I have no idea what I'm doing I just shot some pictures on Saturday using 'A' mode, i.e setting the aperture but letting the camera take care of everything else. See...
  26. oldwhitewood

    X-Factor!!!

    Let this thread be a discussion on Xfactor. It's not so much the programme I don't like, in fact I do find it grimly fascinating, it's just the horrible VT clips before each performance. They're so carefully engineered to get the public scrambling for their phones and voting, I'm not sure how...
  27. oldwhitewood

    Nikon D40

    Thinking of getting one, what do you guys think?
  28. oldwhitewood

    developing film

    I'm about to embark on using a Holga medium format 'toy' camera for creative photography. The only problem is it's been years since I've had any film developed at all. Do any of you guys know where I can get medium format film developed and what kind of prices I should be looking at? What...
  29. oldwhitewood

    ADA/Amano's aquarium on YouTube wooo wooo!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-XMkXlCv0 Feeding his altums! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHDHfHVq-Tg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyqQMpPNLtA The ADA Gallery in Niigata This is personally for me a big thing, as I've never seen any footage of Amano or the ADA gallery, I knew eventually...
  30. oldwhitewood

    Neil's 60cm Nature Aquarium on YouTube

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9KOhsstze4 This is my tank back in June, the editing is a bit stupid but I've improved since then. More vids to follow.
  31. oldwhitewood

    Neil's 60cm ADA inspired Nature Aquarium

    Just replicating what I posted over on AE. I've removed the extra wood, it just didn't look right and I think the layout is better for it. What do you guys think?
  32. oldwhitewood

    Layout changes?

    How often do you guys change you layouts? Basically I've had mine going since December. I am pretty happy with it I must say but I would love to have my tank slightly different. Mainly just with moss and crypts, a very simple layout which would be more about the shapes of the moss covered wood...
  33. oldwhitewood

    Nature Macros

    I've just bought a new camera and am getting to grips with it slowly, using the manual aperture mode and letting the camera look after the shutter speed at the moment. Here are some macro shots I've been taking which sum up a kind of methodology I am working towards. Basically I'm trying to...
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