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    Tonys 'Triassic Hollow' 420L - Now FOR SALE !

    Re: Tonys 'Triassic Hollow' 420L Hi Tony, I know this doesn't strictly apply to this tank, but I have a Discus tank 350l and was wondering where you purchased your Discus for the precious tank setup as they were awsome colourations an quality? I'd really like to know. Cheers Kev.
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    125l - 'on the edge'

    Thanks Chris the link explains all. Regards Kev.
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    125l - 'on the edge'

    Atomiser looks interesting, any chance of explaining how it all fits together? Regards Kev.
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    lighting distance for frogbit?

    Hi, The hairs are part of the plant, the hairs are what they use to extract vital nutrients from the water. any fish that likes vegatable matter will certainly eat these hairs away as SAE's did on mine. The plants will live after hairs have been eaten but will not thrive to their true potential.
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    Cambodia Blackwater Pool Biotope

    Yes, I think I will only be using 1 t5 as I want quite a blackwater, shady kind of feel and won't need too much lighting as am not intending to plant into the substrate. In my planted I use 1 reddish hue tube with 1 daylight spectrum.
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    Cambodia Blackwater Pool Biotope

    Sorry George, just noticed the lighting on the link you provided. Cool. Thanks Kev.
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    Cambodia Blackwater Pool Biotope

    Thanks george for the info, I've gained a lot of knowledge from this forum and am most grateful. I already dose my 5ft planted tank with Excel along with fe CO2 setup so have the liquid CO2 incase BBA appears. I'm looking forward to starting my discus biotope and think that my discus will be...
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    Cambodia Blackwater Pool Biotope

    Hi George, really nice tank. I have missed out on getting the PFK biotope series of articles, what month did you start doing them? I am planning on doing a Discus Biotope soon and am probably gonna be using Sand bottom, very sparse plants, (maybe some frogbit, lots of roots and peat filtered...
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    powered pump for siphoning water changes?

    Hi Flyfisherman, sorry to but into this post, but I am going to try this method of changing water and was just wondering where you got the clips to attatch to the inside of your cabinet. The ones that the pipes are secured into. Regards Kev.
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    320l Discus tank, becoming planted !

    Hi Tonser, just after a bit of advise. I too have a planted discus tank (albeit not as beautiful as yours) and have enjoyed your journal immensly. Below is a pic of my tank. 60" x 20" x 18" It is fairly lightly stocked, only having 4 discus and four cory sterbai and I run a FE CO2 system...
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    Redwood roots

    I got them from Ebay quite a while ago, 3 large pieces. But have only just decided to do a rescape. Tanks looking good now just waiting on some blyxa and crypto balansie from the green machine. Regards Kev.
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    Drop checker

    Thanks for your help guys, I do have a consistent limeade green colour now in my drop checker!!
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    Help with identifying algae

    Hi all, thanks for all your help with my tank. since your replys I have done the following. 1) Reduced the lighting two 2 55w lamps on for 8 hours a day. 2) Dosing 16ml Tropica plant pro + twice weekly after twice weekly water change of 33% 3)Dosing daily with Flourish Excel 4)Set up a 2kg FE...
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    anyone know where best place to find these is?

    Hi All, Where would be the best place to get Cryptocoryne balansae and Blyxa? If anyone has any they are getting rid of I would gladly pay for it! Regards Kev.
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    Drop checker

    No this is upon first intsallation of the drop checker before I have even put it in the tank, not after a water change or anything like that. See this article http://www.ukaps.org/drop-checker.htm . When setting the drop checker up upon initial use adding 1.5ml of 4 Kdh water and 3 drops of...
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    Redwood roots

    I know that boiling reduces the time, but am not sure how to boil a two foot long peice of branch :? Regards Kev.
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    Drop checker

    Thats great, I know it takes time for the Co2 to react but I was only querying because on both this websites Co2 article and the JBL instrucions it states that it should immediatly turn ph7 colour, which is definately not the colour this is. Regards Kev.
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    hydor eth

    Thats great thanks Sam, will the standard tubing fit the input/output nozzles on my Fluval filters? Regards Kev.
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    Drop checker

    Hi all, I have just recieved a new JBL drop checker and have a problem. I followed the article on this website using exactly the same checker But after putting in 1.5ml of 4Kdh water then 3 drops of the reagent, my colour is a definate dark dark blue, not bluey green indicating 7ph. so I have...
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    Redwood roots

    Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could tell me how long to soak Redwood roots for prior to placing in tank, as I put them in and they are really bouyant! It is quite a large piece for a 5ft tank. Regards Kev.
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    hydor eth

    Hi, does anybody know if the Hydor Eth 300w will fit a Fluval 104 or 304 external canister filter, as these filters have the ribbed type hoses? Regards Kev. Also does anyone know if this affects the priming function of the filter in anyway? Kev. Or the flow rate for that matter? Many thanks Kev.
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    Help with identifying algae

    Hi, thanks for your reply's. Where can I get these raw materials (powders), and can anybody recommend a good online aquatic plant store where I can buy new plants, (looking for some kind of carpet plant). But dont worry I'm gonna sort out my nutrient problem before adding more plants. Regards Kev.
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    Help with identifying algae

    I am running just two 55w t5's at 8hours now!
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    Help with identifying algae

    Hi all, thanks for your responses. I must point out that until now I have been mainly interested in keeping aquariums for the fish life aspect of the hobby, but recently am trying to understand better the cycles of plants in the aquaria. It is almost taking over from my interest in the fish side...
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    Help with identifying algae

    Yes, I would be very interested in setting up a C02 system and could afford £100-150 to spend on it, however I have no idea on what a good system for my setup would be or how much to add so any help would be really appreciated as I do like to try to get the best from my tank.
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    Help with identifying algae

    Hi all I have a problem with algae in my tank, I'm a new guy here so may need some help with uploading pics for identification. I have taken the pics and have them in my pics on my comp, but do not know how to insert them onto the topic sheet! Anyway the algae seems to be a brownish, hard...
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