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so you are still adding ammonia???? maybe thats why its showing on a test kit? i think its probably good for the plants rather than bad, some ppl add a form of it as a fert. but is one trigger for algae in a tank. so why add it? plant heavily add fish early.

could it be that the test is not giving you accurate results? if there is anything leaching ammonia will the bacteria colony multiply very quickly to deal with extra small amounts? when you first put the fish in the ammonia levels will rise at some point chances of you measuring this at the...

bogwood usually lowers the ph! :0/ did you leave the tap water to degas? it can be high in co2 straight from the tap, leave out for 24 hours or so and try the ph test again.

Has your tank recovered from that slight oversight yet? Because i'm still fiddlin daily with my set up, tweaking and checking, i managed to avoid having any problems from it happenin, thankfully! Remember what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger........or so they say. I've always thought...

i've noticed over the course of a two week period another down side to evaporation, the spray bar disturbs the water more as water levels drop so co2 levels therefore decrease as the week goes on! so daily top ups for me now! kinda obvious really tho i guess, it appears i'm a little slow on...

do you guys top up with RO or are you not worried about that? i don't get condensation on any window, patio door is often open tho. i guess air humidity/flow and the water/air temps would be the main factors driving evaporation. ah, and surface area! from what you guys say tho my loss is...

i've just gone from two 50% changes per week down to one 50% weekly water change. so if i stick to this routine, evaporation and the resulting tds increase wont be and issue? thats good to know! thanks

hi, i have a 240l open top tank and at the moment its probably losing around 10l's a week to evaporation. i'm wandering if i should be using RO water to top up? as if i top up with tap water or just wait and refill at next water change, wont the gh and kh steadily increase? my tap water is...

hi, is this correct, i thought it was perfectly aceptable to plant a tank (fairly heavily) and and a few ottos or whatever after a couple of days? is that saying you do cycle with fish??! :0/ i was just asking because, i've planted mine tank and added some fish in first couple of days...