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tested my water change bucket tonight after having the water circulated for a few days. KH is 0, PH is lower than my test kits goes <6.4. so i now know my RO water is good, this does imply either something is buffering the water in my tank or it is just a case of doing more water changes and...

don;t have any stones or rocks per say, wood, sticks from the woods and oak leaves, alder cones and other SA botanicals. in regards substrate, small amount of sand (can't remember the brand but its a amazonian type), crushed lava rock (in zip bags) to build up the back, mashed up oak leaves and...

to be honest i'm not sure, my water is a mystery to me. i do need to test my RO, maybe that's off. it could be something in the tank buffering but not sure what that would be. i did start off with tap water until about 5 water changes ago. maybe there is still tap water in there although with my...

been a long time since an update but its getting on for 6 months and the tank has matured no end. water is now stable as kh of 3.0, PH of about 6.4 (i just can't get it lower). For this i use RO and water change every 3 weeks at about 25%, i run peat in an internal filter along with peat in a...

not much of an update. Did a water change/tank clean up. moved some plants about. For the water change i used the water i'd had been filtering with Peat. 4 days of this brought my ph down 6.2 kh down to 3, my gh down to 10ish (water in the bucket). it was only 12 ltr so i did not really expect...

i suppose predictably the beaten up male has died, i actually thought he was going to make it, just goes to show they can look like been on the mend, then just go down hill quickly.

its loose Irish peat, i put it between two bits of filter floss in an internal filter, so not allot really. I was not sure how much i needed as i'm venturing into a topic i don't really understand as i've never really tried to lower my ph beyond the target desired when injecting CO2 for a...

i think your right. 48hrs into my peat in a bucket test. 12ltr of tap water starting params ph=7.2 kh=6 GH=14 48hrs in ph 6.8 kh=3 gh=10 so they have come down but not by allot, not enough to really make any difference to anything. I also found these teabags, might give them a try...

thanks for the info, i'll take a look today. my peat arrived this morning, so experiment one is under, 12l of tap water with peat in a filter, lets see what it does to the water params. I also have some RO now, so i'll mix that with some tap water, see what the params come out at, i might then...

thank you for all the advice and kind words. The additional male is currently in a breeding container floating in the tank, fins are shredded but he is alive. i will let him get better (if he does) and then return him to the shop. I can't remember what botanicals are in the tank but i got them...

well not good news, went back to the tank to see the new male motionless, his fins are shredded so put him in a fish breeding holder in the tank, i would be surprised if he pulls through, keeps going on his side etc

hi all, about 4 months ago decided to venture into biotope and decided on a rio n egro black water scape in a 15g (i broke down my previous planted tank), 2 pieces of wood,l ots of sticks, branches, botanicals, oak leave litter, substrate is mixture of fine sand, lilly plant substrate rinsed and...

hi all, about 4 months ago decided to venture into biotope and decided on a rio n egro black water scape in a 15g (i broke down my previous planted tank), 2 pieces of wood,l ots of sticks, branches, botanicals, oak leave litter, substrate is mixture of fine sand, lilly plant substrate rinsed and...

thanks both, i suspected CO2 as one of the reasons, i currently run an inline CO2 Art diffuser connected to my fluval 307, given the drop checker is always green and ph hardly changes can we assume its poor flow rather than quantity? Or should my ph be dropping x amount from the starting point...

after some more help please. things have been going well but over the last 2 weeks or so i've started to see issues with my plants. the stems are starting to get holes in the leaves, a little bit more green spot algae and leaves starting to drop off. I suspect maybe c02, nitrogen and potassium...

think i found the source of the issue, my doser was not running, i have a jebao 2.4 (single channel wifi version) and the interval was set to 1 which i belive is wrong. i did some maintenance over the weekend, removed all the dead leaves and replanted the stems, so far so good.

Thanks Darrel, i'll have a read, so the plants in the second in my first post are ok? they don't look great, full of holes, disintegrating? i watched my doser yesterday at the time it was suppose to run and nothing happened, so i suspect my doser is playing up, i've marked the tub so will see...

just took some quick pics of the floating plants. in comparison to how the plants looked 2 weeks ago they look a right mess (not all of them it has to be said)

hi all, over the last 2 weeks my plants have started to look very leggy, leaves going yellow with holes in them, green spots on the leaves. Setup for about 6 months Dennerle 55l scaper fluval 307 filter CO2 - about 2bps - comes on for 5 hours (1 hour before lights on, off 2 before lights off)...

thanks for feedback all. Originally i was dosing tnc complete but my nitrates where too high, so i then switched to tnc lite...i may need to switch back now my tank is fully mature. in regards the lighting period. my lights quickly ramp down/up from 30% down to 1% at the start/end...giving just...

Hi all, i have an established tank and have started to use CO2 in the last4 weeks or so. I'm not convinced my drop checker is right/or my test kits are reading right. I say this because they contradict each other. My DC never changes, it's always a blue/green colour, more blue i would say. i...

sorry to dig up an oldish thread.....to the OP what bottle did you go for in the end, i'm almost at the point of ordering the co2 art reg but when it comes to the bottle and adapter i'm abit out of my depth. cheers

cheers for the update, i may just buy a second bottle and then i can swap them, i've only got a 55ltr tank so one bottle should last some time (i only bought it about 3 weeks ago and it emptied within a few days, i think somewhere in my plumbing i had a leak

you make a good point, suppose i got sucked into reading recommendations on place co2 super market! it certainly makes my life easier, do you have any recommendations for the hosing, thanks for the advice

hi all, hoping someone can help. i have the ista 0.5ltr standard setup (single stage, simgle gauge reg with no solenoid), i'm looking to add a solenoid but from what i've read it should really be directly screwed to the reg, not via tubing. can i remove the mail connector from the reg and then...

sorry to drag up an old thread but i'm in the same position as you where. i have actually send mine off to be re-filled via ebay but would want a longer term solution. what did you do you in the end?

hi all, long time member but usually just a watcher so to speak. Finally got my 55l up and running and settled so thought i'd share it. Back story Having started with planted tanks some years ago with a 40lt south American tank (with a pair of Rams), i moved to a mbuna tank (my favourite of all...