Recent content by wolfewill

Ok. Thanks for that. It sounds daunting. The TDS measurement from our tap water is 85 to 90 ppm. Does that sound too high? I think I'm starting to see how this may work. The peat or leaf litter decomposes and the UG uses the active organisms, or water borne algae as it's primary nutrient...

zozo: What do you mean by 'EC'? This is very good to know as I understand it. The article(s) to which you refer are great. Thanks. But, what do you propose I do with respect to water column ferts. I've read at least one article that said it did well in a nutrient rich substrate. We have very...

I’m been attempting to grow Utricularia graminifolia as a carpet plant in an 15 gallon iwagumi set up. This led me to do an online search to see what conditions have worked for others. In addition to the usual specialty web sites I looked at various blogs as well. So what follows is the progress...

Ok. It's a relief that it's only as poisonous as baking powder. Seems a waste of money though. Cheers everyone.

This would be a relief if it's true. How do you know this?

I'm hoping that this is all it is. A fellow hobbyist, new to the hobby, has been sold this from the LFS. She has two very young children and I'm concerned that she and her family are not aware of the potential harm that may occur should her children get into this stuff. But that being said, even...

I'd be very interested in what you read. Can you send me there?

Does anyone have any experience with Ista CO2 tablets for the planted tank? If so, what are the ingredients? And, more importantly, does it work? The videos I've seen suggest that the gas goes straight up and gasses off without any consequential amount dissolving in the water. Also, there is a...

Do you do any testing on these tanks? On any tanks?

That's a really important point. And I agree with sciencefiction: When doing a water change, the incoming water needs to be similar in all respects to the water in the tank. For my breeding tanks I have a separate tank in which I prepare the water a week in advance to doing the water change. I...

So you're adding 10ml per 50L, three times per week of the EI starter kit: That's 4 tspn of KNO3 into 500 ml, dosed at 40ml (please correct me if I'm wrong)? That works out to be a stock solution with 24 gms of KNO3 dosed at a rate of 40ml.... that's 24gm times 40/500 (ml/ml), which = 1.92 gms...

If you're sure they're really Neocardinia davidi, then my experience with them is that you cannot kill them unless you have too much nitrites, ammonia, copper or predators (West African cichlids are the worst in my experience). I breed them for my own tanks and for friends and despite all the...

That's a terrific drop, and the reactor volume is about the same as mine. What is the KH of your make up water? And what kind of diffuser(s) were you using? Do you know the flow rate into the tank? This is great! I've never had anyone with which to bounce these numbers around. There are very few...

I've done that to avoid gurgling from undissolved gas trapped in the reactors. I don't like the noise and the inline diffusers can only deliver so much gas until the bubbles get too big to dissolve, even with the high dwell time of the large reactors. I have a GLA gang kit of four bubble...

What size is the reactor or reactors? And how many inline diffusers are you going to use? I have a 330 g tank with two reactors in series (each ~24 inches long by 4 inches in diameter), with four inline diffusers ahead of that. I also have a devoted Sicce 5.0 pump to run it..... and this is...