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Are you using the bucket method to do water changes? Once I moved over to using a pump and hosepipe with a 218L tank it was much easier to do much larger water changes, this has really sorted the algae out. I may be totally wrong, but I'd take a guess at 30% water change not being enough for a...

I don't have any ceramic rings at the moment, just grog in the bottom and foam in the top. So if I buy some Ehfisubstrat and some ceramic rings, I'll fill the bottom tray with ceramic rings to the point where I can still fit the foam in on top of it, then fill the top tray with Ehfisubstrat...

Thanks chaps. Lol Clive, alpha grog for alpha male - "a man's drink". Here's what the alpha grog looks like. Ed, point taken on the empty space, I'll leave as is. As I'm unlikely to use peat or any chemical filter media, would it be a good move to put some Ehfisubstrat under the foam in the...

Just wondering what I can do to this external filter in the way of improving biological filtration. Not sure this filter is really big enough for the 218L tank it's used on, but it's all I've got at the moment. Think it's rated at 1000 lph, also have a koralia 2 running when co2 comes on. In...

Yeah 3 is just a lump of plastic lol, so just leave it alone like I mentioned earlier. :) It certainly does look like the insulation on the mains wire isn't quite right where it inserts into the solenoid. Lee, if the insulation doesn't go right into the solenoid housing I'd send it back.

Egmel, the outlet for the co2 is just above the needle valve adjustment, so there's nowhere to fasten the tubing onto number 3.

Help yourself if you want to spend over £13 more than you need to.

I don't see the point of getting that reg, it's gonna cost £67 with postage. The Wave ones in the link above are only £53.76 inc. delivery and several members here are using them including myself. As far as I know, no one's said a bad word about them yet.

Lee, number 2 is the needle valve adjustment, they are very sensative. The solenoid will be in the off position when there's no power going to it, so get a timer to plug it into and set the hours to send power to the solenoid when you want the co2 running. I'm not 100% sure what numbers 1 and 2...

I don't hear any noise from the solenoid. Not sure about the 1 bubble every 5 secs, I use way more than that.

Same shop and same reg as mine, no problems so far. A bonus is not losing £20 + in postage costs from far east if it goes wrong. :wink:

The wave regulators from firststop aquatics are excellent, I've had no problem with mine. Look back in this thread for a link.

If fitted as it comes, the wave regulator only adds approx 4cm to the total height on the FE that I use, because the output from FE is well below the height of the handles. In case you didn't know, the regulator nut that fastens to the FE is on the back of the dials and not the bottom. Don't...

Sorted. Cheers

Cheers LD. I dosed trace today, so it will be easy to slip straight into that regime. So going from Friday to Monday with a 50% water change in between isn't anything to concern me then? Also, is the rest day only to keep the dosing days the same, or is there a scientific reason behind it? If...