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Building services engineer - spend most of my time nowadays advising on low and zero carbon homes and how to integrate renewable technologies into buildings.

I had a 53 Laguna, got about 55MPG combined until it blew up after 85,000 miles (i'm so glad it was a company car!). The new Ford Mondeo's are supposed to be good MPG wise.

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Thats quite interesting, I was using it about five years ago, got it from my LFS but they haven't stocked it since! Where are people getting it from now and for how much? I might try it again.

Akadema is a great substrate, I had a 500 litre set up a few years ago with Akadema, plants really did flourish - also mixed some laterite in with it as I was using mostly Ech. species. I would encourage people to give it a go if they can get hold of it.

Yeah, it's weird, MV has never caught on over here but if you go to Holland and Germany they were as popular as T5 is now over here.

Forget that last comment -having re-read it a couple of time - you discuss spectrum under the 'full spectrum' part of the types of lighting spectrum.

Good article Aaron, You forgot to mention mercury vapour lighting though! Slightly Cheaper alternative to MH. Geissemann do a great 80/125 W fitting thats perfect for corner tanks. I had one on my Trigon 190 - George suggested it when I posted a Question on PFK - great fitting with good levels...

Just ordered some plants from TGM (some Blyxa and glosso), came the next day and were very good quality - they even threw in a couple more blyxa as they thought the ones they had in were a bit small. Top class quality and top class service.

I just use 5 gallon (25 litre)water barrells - like the larger camping ones.

The Peter Hiscock Book suggested above is excellent. A couple of very good books in my opinion are Christel Kasselmann's 'Aquarium Plants' and 'How to set up a planted aquarium'. The second is good for beginners.