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Try something like Seachem Clarity and putting a sheet of fine floss in the filter for a day or two. I have used this many times after a major plant re-arrange and water went cloudy, the floss after a day or two was covered in a fine slime !!!!

Should use silicone oil on the seals, not petroleum based products, Vaseline etc as this will degrade the seals. I used push fit plumbing silicone oil from Wickes.

I cut my Juwel lighting unit open after it stopped working. Reason was it had water in it after previous owner had left one end in water. I got it open, got it dried out and it worked again. However I was never able to 100% reseal it again, as the original units are plastic welded shut. Best I...

You really ought to have a 3rd empty (or little bit of water) catch bottle before the tank just incase bottle A or B overflows. Any of bottle A or B entering the tank will kill all in the tank.

Here if you want seriously more light for the Rio 240.... 4 Tube 120cm T5 Light – Juwel High Lite Compatible, Rio 240, Rio 300/350, Panorama 200 – iQuatics

See this on the ways to convert tube to LED. Swapping T5 to LED

Should be fine. My tank & filters went for a couple of days, one winter, after a sub station neutral fault tripped the RCD in the house, whilst I was away. Another reason I use a PLC to control the tank . I made the display flash red when the filter and heater are off, after having done exactly...

My surface scum only appeared for a couple of weeks when the tank setup was "new". Removed by floating a sheet of kitchen towel on the surface, when necessary, to pick up the scum. Best removal was an air curtain at the back of the tank, running after the CO2 had turned off, for an hour or two.

You cant use a solenoid with this type of setup as when the solenoid is off the pressure will continuously build up and either burst or leak the system. What you do is use the solenoid to vent the bottles ie solenoid on a night letting pressure out the system. You just have to cope with yeasty...

Some of the "marine boys" batch dechlorinate their water. Something like this (taken from my PLC project). It can actually be a bit simpler. Fill water container with HMA filtered water. Use a peristaltic pump to dose the water with Seachem Prime. Dose sufficient Prime assuming chloramine...

Or you have a leak on your piping after the meter. Turn stop cock off in house and see if meter is still moving.

Sometimes the scratches won't show when filled with water. or many people have used this type stuff. GLASS POLISH SHOP - Smart Restoration & Polishing Products

When my mate kept marine fish (in the early 1990's) , he stored the generated RODI water in an outside water tub, with a 50W aquarium heater in it (set to lowest thermostat setting) and never had issues with the water freezing.

Yes this has been done before with a solenoid valve. You must never put a solenoid on the output of yeast CO2 container as in best case pressure will build up and pop off tubes and worst case decorate your room with yeast and sugar mixture. The only issue reported was the smell in the room from...

Something left this over the weekend, whilst they were eating all my carefully grown lawn mushrooms....