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The other week I spent about 5 minutes comparing bin bags to get the best deal. Was annoying as sone quoted their size as height x width, some height x diameter, some included litre-age some didnt. Eventually settled for paying 32p more than my normal brand, but due to a special offer I got...

A country (and probably more local) location may prove helpful in making recommendations?

I knew a guy at uni who literally melted his state of the art Pentium II! At 5GHz though this is the highest end of commercially available pre-overclocked systems I have seen and they are usually packing twin watercooling systems: one exclusive to the cpu, the other to RAM, NB etc. I have seen...

Id personally go for the deeper (front to back) tank, it allows for more decent scaping positions and depth creation.

I ask this question first because it is an extremely important issue: how are you cooling?

Ive got two leopards in my zebra school (9 zebras) and they seem unaware of their particular disposition and are happy in behaviour, pretending they are one of the clan.

A fantastic read. I have looked at the spiders & scorpions many time in my les (local exotic store?) And whilst I find them intruiging have never felt the desire to buy one yet.

I have used ebay a few times, could not complain. Edit: thought I would add, I also used java plants for a collection years ago. As long as you dont mind having a complete variation of plants from around the globe in your tank i found them to be good value for money. If you want quality...

Its better if you can put the airstone under a tube - 1" drainpipe or hosepipe, with some waterflow slots cut into the tube above the stone. The idea is the air rushing up the tube sucks water up with it. You want to put this in the centre of a larger tube e.g. a soda bottle, and fill the inside...

Do you have an airpump, stone & airline? Could potentially use it to drive flow through your existing media old school style? Darn dr rob in there moments before me haha

I'm about to introduce a light cycle that goes lights off - lights on - even more lights on - some lights off - lights out. Essentially low level <1 wpg for "daytime" racking right up to about 3wpg for high noon impact.

FYI i have been looking at increasing the light in my own tank recently and found the following: DIY T5HO is cheap enough to do, until you add waterproof bulb holders. At that stage, might as well spend a few quid more and buy the ready made unit from arcadia or other supplier. LED is ideal...

I like! Tank that is.

Right now I have no idea lol. I do know I want it to be a habitat replication of a reasonably fast stream. Subtrate, plants etc. to match probably an Asian location. Filter intake at one end, output at another and a couple of power heads inbetween, forcing the water to travel the length. I...

Lol how times do change :) You make a valid point though on substrate and filtration. These do impact the type of fish you should stock in your tank.

You have many questions and may need to go googling each part and read up a bit. But to get you started: Cfl are usually self contained units that contain an electronic ballast, so its a standard bayonet/screw type holder. So they dont need your existing starter. You do get compact tubes...

I would put a ruddy giant hole in my hallway cupboard wall and sit the tanks flush to the hallway, with access for maintenance in the cupboard. Alas however I dont own the wall, so that 96"x10"x10" will stay empty right now.

I had 1 in my first tank which was 24"x15" width/depth. This very forum was where it was recommended when I was a beginner and I can say this: For swimming room, 3' is preferred but at 3" long, at worst it has 4x its body length in the shortest swimming direction: I feel this is adequate for a...

A zebra loach is pushing the size boundary but I disagree about schooling: they can live in groups, but its not necessary.

Hi Tony, and welcome! Depending on your filtration, experience & what fish you use, the "rule" can be different. Also depends on who you ask and what documentation you read. For you size of tank, you are likely to stick to smaller, slender fish, no more than 2-3" in size maximum. With this in...

Yup indeed. Seller was putting them on using bidding starting at £29.95, spotted one with an end time of 4am on a Tuesday, so used a bid sniper. Was the only bidder on that unit >:D

Is that a mod priv. getting to edit posts without an edit showing? I could swear you said KM first :p If I want accuracy, I ought to have entered it in nanometres!

I have now got the hydor 300W on my large tank, freaking love it. Steal at £30 bnib

Using an aquarium builder just now, went into builder mode and entered the lengths in mm. Took me a few minutes to figure out why it estimated my tank with water to weigh over 1 million kilos! cm Dave, not mm, it wants cm!

Its not the voltage, but the power that define their overall cost. For example im looking to push 600W through a single relay, so I am about £8 for one that can do this. But that is just the relay. Im controlling this via usb interface as well so software can monitor the temperature & humidity...

Its mineral deposits from your evaporated water coming out of the hole there. Its more excessive due to the proximity of your heater. Either cover the hole (clingfilm?) or move the heater further away. Edit: evaporated is the wrong word, but it is from this process.

This controls all 4 sockets via one timer, not independently. I am currently building a raspberry pi powered system for my exotic pets, but even that is not cheap. Its really the relays and interfacing that costs the money. For a really cheap solution, get to your local trade electrical...

Sad to hear about loosing your girl :( we lost two adults, one our most successful egg layer, after upgrading their housing & mister: resulting combo had the humidity too high resulting if a fast deterioration in health in just over 24 hours, by 72 hours we figured the problem after getting our...

Ax'ls are the only ones that I know of readily available that stay submersed. However, I do not know of any where a mixed tank will definitely work. IF you want to work on the parents for a gecko, research Crested Geckos. Whilst they benefit from live foods like crickets, cockroaches and worms...

This was the first place I found and seemed to have a significant amount of UK posters making much of the information relevant. Been here ever since. In fact, this forum has seen me through meeting my other half, 2 children and getting married. The only thing I've had longer has been my 20...

AQ can be a good starting ground but like everything should not be your only source. I have a habit of finding fish I like, check AQ, check here if green lighted, check my book of fishes then make my own educated decision.

A huge part of my brain is kindling science memories telling me you cannot gass-off chloromines, just chlorine.

I would need to do this for near on 180 litres to cope with my weekly water changes :s Think I will stick to my £2 bottle that looks set to do me for over a year.

Techen, I will take a bunch too in that case. I'm going to be really cheeky here and ask if you are likely to be near your LFS/Dundee over the next few days? Alternatively happy to pay for postage as the Mrs is stealing the car for the weekend. If the latter, PM me details.

ebay the phrase "Concentrated Aquarium Tap Water Dechlorinator"   I got a bottle for £2 in a sale, now back to normal price but it is meant to treat 14000 litres of water. Enough people on the forum use it without ammonia spikes so I assumed it was safe and... it is.   As for the water, cheers...

Sarah, do you want to take all or happy to split? I'm okay with it either way :)

Use grape juice, bingo you have wine ;)

Ive not really known a temp difference like that to change the ph but I have seen it from different substrates, decor etc. Ps once those bottles are empty: 5 cartons of tesco value apple juice (the breakfast stuff), yeast, sugar, 2 weeks, bottle cider, 2 weeks drink. Those bottles are good for...

Do you have more than 1 lot of it?

Sorry for being off topic, but I have to say this: I understand. Speech therapists have spent 4 years encouraging my daughter to talk. 2 days into the summer holidays and we want to know why they didnt teach her shutting up too!