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Just my warped sense of humour. :wacky::wacky::joyful::joyful: Meaning that once the solution to the problem has been solved, then no need for further discussion.

If you haven't already decided which KH Booster you are going to use, I can highly recommend this one. Available from any Maidenhead Aquatics store. Absolutely brilliant. Close the thread...

So err...this Duckweed Index...just chuck a bunch of Duckweed in the top of the tank, if it turns yellow, then low levels of NO3, if it stays dark green and spreads like wildfire, then NO3 levels too high right...:confused: Just read other articles re 'High Nitrate Levels' and saw the...

Just spoke with one of the tech bods at Hach Laboratories in Manchester. The replacement Reagents for another 100 tests costs £29.70. so once the initial test kit has been bought, the subsequent tests with the replacement Reagents would only cost around 3 pence per test. I asked some other...

Looked again at the Hach Website, it says it will do 100 tests. So at £99.00 that works out at just under £1.00 per test, I.e. 99 pence. The measurement range is up to 40 mg/l. Does that mean if your water has more than 40 mg/l you can't tell how much? If I tested my NO3 six times per week...

:eek::eek::eek::eek: http://uk.hach.com/nitrate-test-kit-model-ni-11/product?id=26427780260&callback=pf Just looked at this testing kit, it's priced at £99.00:eek: But on reflection a bog standard NO3 testing kit from Tetra or API, JBL etc etc cost around a tenner a go and give you between 30...

I have done some crazy things based on the paranoia from the results of test kits. Like staying up all night mixing kettles and pots full of boiling water with tap water in an attempt to virtually refill a tank after almost 100% water change in a few hours. Someone once said on this forum, 'The...

Picking up from where I left off earlier. I forgot to mention in addition to all the other foods I am feeding my Discus I am also feeding them Live White Worm, so as varied a diet as possible. Back on the subject of NO3, I think we sometimes underestimate the ability of fish to adapt and...

Every time I have tested my tap water no matter what test kit I used there is according to the test results, absolutely zero NO3 present. I live in Wales and the tap water is of excellent quality, soft, low KH and GH PH around 6 to 7 and a TDS of 130. Steve

I have tested the water for NO3 four times today, before and after the water change using two different test kits, one from Tetra and one from Waterlife. Before the water change the Tetra kit was a slight yellow tinge giving a reading of 5 ppm, after the water change virtually the exact same...

All, Please don't jump all over me for posting this ,or report me to Clive Ha Ha because I know as advocates of the perfect planted tank we add Macro and Micro Nutrients to help our plants grow. I once tested my NO3 Levels and the coulour changed to a deep dark Merlot Wine colour:eek: But the...

Hello Hyosine, Sorry for hijacking your thread.:rolleyes: One of the bottles I had said on the label that it was not possible to overdose so not to worry. But I usually follow the instructions on the labels to the exact letter, if it says 5ml per 20 gallon, then that's what I put in. I have...

Nice one Big Tom, Don't think I will go down that route, I have got cupboards full of powders and potions with out adding to it. It drives the missus nuts! But thanks for the tip! Someone else might go for it. Cheers, Steve

Hi Rebel, Sorry but this stuff smelt really bad and I don't like putting smelly stuff in the aquarium, especially when I am doing a water change to make it all nice and clean;) Cheers, Steve

Thanks for the absolutely awesome reply with an explanation of what the rotten egg smell was. I decided to bin it as it had been opened for a long time. Thank you, Steve

On the subject of Water Purifiers, I opened a half full bottle of Eheim Dechlorinator the other day to do a water change and noticed a strange sort of bad egg smell coming from the bottle, really bad. I opened another half full bottle of Waterlife Dechlorinator and that smelt almost as bad. Does...

Cheers Tam, this all makes perfect sense. One thing I noticed was that the colours of the discus seemed more vibrant after the water changes with RO water and a lowering of the TDS. Steve

No mate, I leave the filters running the whole time, 100 litres out and then just leave the hose from the RO unit in the tank to replace the water, takes ages but this way I don't have to pfaff about carrying buckets and containers and worrying about temperature changes etc. After all this, I...

Just measured the TDS coming out of my V2 Pure 100 Advanced RO filter - water going in is at 152 TDS and coming out at 7 TDS going by th ereading on the built in TDS meter, using my hand held TDS meter the TDS reads 8 TDS so not much difference between the readings which tells me the one on the...

Removing 100 litres and then letting the tank fill back up direct from the RO unit, this week I have changed three hundred litres and so far no negative effects, no swing in PH etc, just need to check the KH and GH today in case my Crypts start melting. Steve.

My RO filter does not have the resin cartridge. Steve.

Thanks Tam, Big clown, tomorrow I will compare the TDS reading from the meter on the RO unit to a measurement with a seperate TDS meter and see if there is any difference. The water has been going in straight from the RO unit, so no buckets involved. Incidentally do you know if the lower TDS in...

Ha ha ha hysterical, that was me too.:D

Cheers Tam, The tank is an Eheim Incpiria 400 litre tank, but with all the rock and substrate there is probably only 300 litres of water in it. If you have got a tank with 100 litres in it and the TDS is say 150ppm, if you emptied the whole tank and added RO water at 5ppm million, wouldn't that...

Cheers Kirk, I suppose we can't have it always, one or the other no matter how hard we try! Steve.

Hello All, Anyone who has read my journal 'The Full Monty' the planted Discus tank lately will know that the Easter Bunny brought me a TMC V2 Pure 100 Advanced Reverse Osmosis system. I have not used an RO filter for years, so far I have been using a HMA filter changing around 150 litres per...

I tried keeping nerite snails in my discus tank - epic fail I am afraid, none of them survived, the acid water destroys the shells:arghh:

:wideyed::wideyed::wideyed: Your V2 Pure RO Unit is pushing out water at only 2ppm:wideyed::wideyed::wideyed: and you want to change the filters.:eek: How old is it. I have only just bought mine and the water goes in at 154ppm and comes out at 5ppm, I thought that was brilliant, are you...

Brilliant, that's just what I wanted to hear, simple, no fuss, job done relax and watch the bubbles rise... Thanks for putting my mind at rest. Steve.

Sounds fair enough to me... Thanks, Steve.

Oh thanks, sorry by the way I just posted this question up as a new thread. The combi boiler is from Vaillant and is four years old but as far as I know does have all kinds of fancy gadgets like pressure reducers, non return valves and other things I don't really understand. I heard that hot...

Hi All, Sorry if this has already been answered, I have looked through loads of threads and some are quite old. Now that I have got my 400 liter tank up and running I have been reviewing threads on water changes, especially 50% water changes. 200 litres of new water is a lot, obviously just...

London Dragon, Now that I have got my 400 liter tank up and running I have been reviewing threads on water changes, especially 50% water changes. 200 litres of new water is a lot, obviously just using the cold tap this is going to drop the temperature considerable causing all kinds of stress...

I have a Microsiemens (electrical conductivity) meter which I used to use to make sure there was as little amount of TDS in the water as possible when I was breeding Discus Fish. The TDS (salts) used to penetrate the eggs and make them all go white even though they had been fertilised. All this...

Hi Mate welcome to the forum, I see you joined in September this year :) These are some great photographs of bad algae. As the tank is only three months old it is not unusual to be experiencing problems even after three months, especially if something is not quite right. The trouble is working...