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Hi all! Sorry, long story...I turn to you with this (at least to me) mysterious case what began last September-October as we started collect rain water for our five aquariums. This was because we have a bit nasty tap water with pretty hight TDS (450-530uS/m) with lots of NaOH and NaCl, other...

Hi again! This has been discussed every now and then and -where, according to some discussions or conclusions it is harmfull to have N2 gas in aquarium but on the second place its just good for plants and just one nice and easy way to get rid of N (NO3). I guess this varies and maybe depends...

Hi all! I just yesterday carried home my new tank, size of 130x40x35(tall)cm. Waterlevel about at 22cm from substrate, temp +24c, open rimless tank (yaaaaahooooo, I finally found it!). I have already planted some big-growing swords and Acorus calamus (wich I like very much) but Id like to give...

Hi all! This is my latest attempt with paludariums and emersed culture. Veggies moved three weks ago from 250l to this 600l wich was converted to be a paludarium. There is a mix of few emersed aquarium plants growing on and between bogwoods but also room plants. This is still under...

Hi! Yes it me asking again... Im a fan of liquid carbon after having so much troubles with gaseous CO2 technic (not with the gas itself!) and never had problems with Glut. However, so many has reported problems especially when starting dosing, I wonder why? What happens or might happen in the...

Hi all! I desperately need some advice what to do next. I finally got my JBL RO-unit. There is washingmaschine installation preset (immovable if not cut away) to take clean water. Since wm is definetly necessary for our member-of-six-family, what are options to connect RO to something else...

A member of local aquarium forum asked help. My best bet was that the main issue is something else than a pest, but what do you think? Something is definetly going on, but what? She described that a pest or some kind of insect is monstrously eating her plants. Fast. The insect is very small...

Howdy! This must be a stupid question, but never done this before... So, I have a big Hamburger matenfilter in my 600-litre tank. Young fish, not-so-crowded so I think it might be good idea to get rid of filtration now (or never). It has been kind of wannabe-amazonbiotope for six months with...

Hi! Maybe this issue would belong to under CO2-thread, but here we go anyway... I consider it as a fert. Well, the problem is melting Java ferns, many sorts of species. I slowly stopped EasyCarbo in May->June, redused/adjusted lightning at the same time but still kept/keep fertilizing, as...

...and greetings from Finland! I just realized I havent introduced myself, sorry for that, thou I have written a journal for few months already. We have five tanks: 45l, 65l, 250l, 300l and 600l wich are nowadays low-techs after being more or less hi-techs for over an year. Unfortunately we...

Hi! Thinking of this ever lasting discussion of how effective aistone is when it comes to oxynating the water, why doesnt it add nitrogen to water along the oxygen? Air contains nitrogen 78% and oxygen 21% so if O2 were dissolved why not nitrogen? Is N so hardly dissolved...??? I personally...

Could it be possible to grow something at the end of the bogwood, its pretty ugly? As you can see, there`s java moss growing submersed up to emersed, but oh so slowly! Iv been thinking to tide some moss on the wood and then plant something (but what?) in some way on it but all ideas are...

Hello! I have come from high to low last spring and everything has gone pretty well but every now and then I find myself thinking some strange things like... 1) I have used almost an year root tabs wich are made for houseplants. They contain ammonium. There hasn`t been any problems with them...

I found shrimps by name Neocaridina sp Black-bee but it seems by Google such species does not exists, just Caridina Black-bee. Wich is right? Our tapwater isn`t very good (hight EC for exaple), so Im trying to avoid Caridinas and give a chance to Neocaridinas wich I know to be kept here with...

It seems that we are exeptional blessed with high electrical conductivity here in my hometown. Usually EC here in Finland is pretty low, 100-200uS but we... We do have (tap)around 600uS, wich is more than in lake Tanganyika as far as I know. Sometimes I feel a bit lonely when landmates talk...

Sounds impossible, or does it? A hobbyist fellow of mine has noticed that that adding Fe, K and Mg to a water with NO3 (tap 12,5mg/l), NO3 disappears totally. He has repeated this few times in a bucket with the same result. How come? He has been using JBL drop tests so I think they should be...

Dear UKAPS friend, ...here we go. We have five tanks at home, 600, 300, 250, 65 and 45-l. 600l has been running fot three months after selling our 450l away. In that I used to have metalhalides (and T5s for some time) and pressurized C02 with EI, 300l used to have T5s and pressurized as 65l...

Hello all! Iv been lurking here for a while and have found this forum very informative. It seems that british hobbyists used to do things quite same way as we here and technic seems to be quite same. I live in Finland, some of you might have seen pics of our tank in some other forum. I also...