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    Having to Move... Best New Home for Fish?

    Sadly due to moving I shall shortly probably have give up my aquarium. (New house not suitable at present for my tank). I have a number of fish, all of which I have had for at least the last 2 years, some nearer 3 - so I would like to do the best thing for them! (10 Harlequins, 6 Cardinal...
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    JamesC's remineralising recipe

    Just been looking at JamesC's remineralising recipe on his site - http://theplantedtank.co.uk/RO.htm A few questions about it if anyone's able to help - 1. presumably when magnesium and calcium sulphate is sold it is usually in the heptahydrate and dihydrate forms? 2. why add chloride, why...
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    RO Water Storage

    i know that there is little benefit to ro water in terms of most plants, but i'm interested in keeping soft water fish and so am contemplating creating a set up using ro water. adding an ro unit under the sink looks fairly straight-forward, and i can see how with a float valve and shut off...
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    inline devices

    call me sad, but reading about using 12/16 reactors with 16/22 filters got me thinking, what is the actual reduction in flow from going from 16mm tubing to 12mm. i am sure people's practical experience is more valuable, but... if we assume that all the resistance to flow for the filter comes...
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    plant list by growth time?

    i have had my tank set up for about 6 months with a number of stem plants i got as a starter set from an online retailer. i have a juwel rio125 tank, 48w t5 light, fe co2, james' pmdd, juwel int filter with 1000lph powerhead, 25deg, tap water gh15. most of the stems i have are pretty prolific...
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    any reason why not dose EI?

    the benefits of EI dosing are well explained elsewhere - but in a nutshell, all nutrients are present in excess so plants won't develop deficiencies, and if co2/lighting/flow/maintainence are all appropriate there shouldn't be a problem with algae. but i know some of you use other dosing...
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    upgrade to juwel internal filter powerhead

    i have an old juwel rio125 tank, the internal filter has a 204 powerhead, rated at 400lph. i know the ideal might be an external filter, but has anyone upgraded the powerhead in their internal juwel filter? i know the new 600lph and 1000lph powerheads can be attached (with the help of a new...
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    plants ?pearl following water change

    i have a 6 week old 125litre setup with about 1.5wpg of light and diy co2 (my drop checker with 4dkh water is consistenly green). am using james' pmdd. following a water change (changing between 25-50%) my plants (and unfortunately the algae too!) seems to pearl for the rest of the day in a way...
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    stress coat in dechlorinator

    just read on another forum that plant extracts in stress coat included in dechlorinators can make algae worse. is there any truth in this? (could this be behind some people's observations that using ro water, and thus perhaps inadvertantly avoiding dechlorinator, reduces algae??)
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    snail control

    am looking for a fish that will eat some of my snail infestation. at the moment they seem to come back as fast as i can pull them out of the tank! clown loaches are out, as the tank is only 125l. like some other people on the forum i have noticed that dwarf/chain loaches seem to be really...
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    adjusting pmdd for tap nitrate of 30

    My tap water has nitrates of about 30ppm. I am basing my dosing around James' PMDD page (http://theplantedtank.co.uk/PMDD.htm, thanks for the awesome site!). Presumably if my plants use approximately all the nitrate added each day then I should add just as much nitrate as anyone else. In this...
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    lunapet system with FE

    can anyone confirm for me that the regulator from the lunapet / Aquarianerversand system on ebay (http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Aquarianerversand) will work with a FE once the supplied bottle has run out? has anyone had sucess getting the supplied bottles refilled? has anyone found a cheaper...
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    improving light distribution

    my 125 litre tank is 800mm long, but the light tubes are only 550mm long. as a result my plants seem to grow towards the middle of the tank, ignoring the upper corners of the tank. any ideas on how to improve this? even if i changed the lighting seems the next light tube up in size is 850mm so...
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    co2 and water changes

    in a low tech tank very infrequent water changes are recommended on the basis that exchanging water causes fluctuations in co2. i know there is a tom barr piece of work that shows fluctuations in co2 resulting in increased algae growth. (i think this was in a high tech tank experiment??? or is...
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    fish to suit planted tank with hard water

    after feeling a bit disheartened that my hard water (dGH 15.8 according to water company) will not cope with cardinals and rams am now looking for some suitable colourful fish for my 125l planted tank some of the rainbow fish species look good have thought about a pair of kribs any other...
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    dkH drops with time?

    looking on the tropica website: www.tropica.com/article_fullscreen.asp?type=news&id=683 it shows a graph at the bottom of the page showing that in a planted tank dkH drops with time. why does this happen? my local water has a dGH of 15, does this mean i can expect that to fall with time in my...
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    algae control without co2

    trying to avoid algae before it starts... i have a juwel rio 125 tank (33 US gallons), 2nd hand, new set up. substrate is tropica plant substrate with fine gravel on top. it is an old style juwel tank with 2x18w t8 tubes, i have bought another starter so now have 2x24w t5 tubes also in the...
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