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just been reading the recent thread talking about needle valves and how the needle valves on even the decent brand regulators are not entirely up to scratch. just wondering, as someone who is yet to buy a regulator for aquariums and prone to wanting to improve on things, what makes a good...

sorry I didn't get a photo as I thought this was a common plant, but I saw a bunch of these plants in the pet section of a garden centre yesterday which looked a bit like Java fern or some sword shaped type plant, was green with bright pinky/purple edges. I've looked for ages and can't ID it...

just an idea, should in a worse case scenario a hose pop off your filter and quietly drain the tank from inside the stand and you don't notice or are at work etc, is there some product that exists to stop this? I'm thinking something along the lines of a water sensor attached to a circuit...

I have a hydor inline heater, thinking of sticking a normal heater inside the co2 reactor I'm making just as a back up, it's made with a 20" filter housing so there's a fair bit of room for one. good idea or not worth the bother? I've not used the hydor heater before so I'm unsure of how...

Hi I've not been on here in years and it is kind of a continuation from my very first post about 9 years ago - https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/diy-optiwhite-tank-build.18651/#post-189892 In the heady days of 2011 I made an optiwhite aquarium but never used it, largely down to cost of doing...

Hi ive had an idea with diy co2, a cheapo hopefully low cost way of having regulated co2 on a timer with no pressure build up worries and low cost recipe. I live very near some crumbly cliffs so have a never ending supply of chalk. that mixed with acid of some sort creates co2 but it is not...

Hi chaps Am i right in thinking that the dimensions on lily pipes are going by the internal diameter and the outer is not mentioned? so the I/D would be 13mm and the O/D would be around 15mm for instance? cheers!

May i ask, someone here who may have lily pipes, if i could get a measurement of the nub bit that sticks out from the pipe to attach a suction cup to and the dimensions of the suction cup please? so the diameter of the protruding nub from the pipe and its length and if possible the diameter of...

Hi Ive been lurking for a while, doing lots of reading for the past few months. Im at a point with my diy build where its worth showing to people now and if anyone would be interested, i hope it would be people on here :D My plan is to build an optiwhite cube type tank for my first...