GreenNeedle
Member
A quick tip on the 'hard to remove' water lines.
You will scrub for hours to try and remove the white line of calcium etc BUT if you go into poundland (or a DIY store) and get a glass scraper (they are called wallpaper scrapers in Poundland) then these are awesome.
The Poundland one is like a 3-4 inch stanley blade which is the wrong way round for wallpaper stripping. undo the 3 screw and turn the blade around and you have the stanley razor edge.
I use these to scrape deposits off my windows, ceramic glass hob Oh and the tank before using the scrubber just to thoroughly clean where it was.
I would go for the Tetratecs IMO. For the money you can't really warrant spending double for not much extra. They are easy to use anyway, have a 3 year guarantee and Tetratec normally send replacement parts if anything goes wrong with not many questions as they need to build a reputation with the EOC always recommending Eheim filters as unbeatable.
As for filtering/flow I tend to have my filter just there for filtration and ignore wether its output is any good or not, then use a Koralia to give me the flow.
This should be a good tank. Would be good to see some pics with that background gone. A clean background is much cleaner looking IMO than printed ones or sculpted ones which to me are just distracting from the fish and plants.
Keep us updated
AC
You will scrub for hours to try and remove the white line of calcium etc BUT if you go into poundland (or a DIY store) and get a glass scraper (they are called wallpaper scrapers in Poundland) then these are awesome.
The Poundland one is like a 3-4 inch stanley blade which is the wrong way round for wallpaper stripping. undo the 3 screw and turn the blade around and you have the stanley razor edge.
I use these to scrape deposits off my windows, ceramic glass hob Oh and the tank before using the scrubber just to thoroughly clean where it was.
I would go for the Tetratecs IMO. For the money you can't really warrant spending double for not much extra. They are easy to use anyway, have a 3 year guarantee and Tetratec normally send replacement parts if anything goes wrong with not many questions as they need to build a reputation with the EOC always recommending Eheim filters as unbeatable.
As for filtering/flow I tend to have my filter just there for filtration and ignore wether its output is any good or not, then use a Koralia to give me the flow.
This should be a good tank. Would be good to see some pics with that background gone. A clean background is much cleaner looking IMO than printed ones or sculpted ones which to me are just distracting from the fish and plants.
Keep us updated
AC