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test your tap water.................

is the filter adquate? is the tank overstocked? is it a poor test kit? some cheap test kits will show the minimum ie .25 when in reality there is none when it rains the H2O reacts with the carbon dioxide in the air..... think greenhouse effect and excess CO2, this produced H2CO3 or carbonic...

i wont go into the science as it baffles me most of the time but the byproduct ammonia from monochloramine which is the byproduct of ammonia (and other things)and chlorine evaporates naturaly form the water as its the chloramine thats still working. fish poo wont as its not the byproduct of the...

:lol: guessing that's not a practical solution for most people, suppose not but i use mine for my everyday job any other way to find out? nope, well not really but you could spend £150 on a comparitor instead and use the same tablets (fishkeeping test kits are known as comparitors) is there...

yes buy a palintest9 and dpd1 and dpd3 tablets subtract dpd1 from dpd3 that will give you the reading you are after think my palintest7 kit cost about £800 when new, the palintest9 is a bit dearer dont ya just love water chemistry..... you should see the other sh1t the water companys put in...

ok here is another one the clorination process and by products are spit into 3 1. monochloramine, if the water ph fluctuates towards ph 8 you will get ammonia release. WILL NOT BE REMOVED BY DECHLORINATORS BUT WILL DISSAPATE AFTER 24 HOURS AS FREE AMMONIA 2. Dichloramine, byproduct of...

ok lets put it another way the breakdown in cloramine can aid the release of NH40H combine that with trace elements of H2SO4 and you get (NH4)2SO4 or................. now if there is NH40H in the water by warming it up ie raising it from tap temperature to room temperature you get NH3 as in...

ok here is the basic description, those of you want the formulas let me know....... chlorine is added to tap water, when the free chlorine does its job it converts to chloramine which inturn converts to ammonia which is released. its how swimming pool disinfection works.

started a new thread on the updates

ok the build so far.......... about to start on the base and hood but ive been playing first, painted the sides and back, then fitted a anti condensation perspex hood then added more live rock then raided the sons pc and stole a cold cathod tube and fitted that to an adjustable power pack so i...

well its a couple of weeks old now, no salt creep what so ever! the back and sides have been panted light blue, there is 3kg of live rock in now and waterflow is 400l/hour there is a prefilter layer of floss at the top of the trickle tower and all 4 hermits have upsized already next ill be...

its actually facinating to watch but im thinking of some sort of modification but with it all on show its quite a talking point considering how small it is, 16" long x 10" wide and 18" tall im going to paint the back blue over the weekend and take it from there. at least the hermits are having...

still got to get some plastic to cover the outside of the filter and the back, then put in the cheato lamp but the hermits dont seem to care here are the hermits enjoying thire new home

i posted it in the wrong forum by accident but put a link in the correct one

a friend is a glazier, i gave him a rough drawing and he cut all the glass from off cuts in 6mm glass to my drawing. i built it up, cut up some old conduit for the media, bought a £5 heater, £3 pump and £7 lamp. what started as an idea is now my hermit home...... well will be in the next week or so.

got 3 like that already, if we didnt experiment fishkeeping wouldnt be where it is today and it will be home to a dwarf hermit when it is ready and the live rock is in there

ok had this idea for a while, a pico with sump, refugium and trickle filter all in one unit the tank area is 9 ltrs plus 5ltrs in sump and 6ltrs in refugium total cost £15 for equipment i got the glass for free

live rock and sera external with only sponge in it which is cleaned weekly to stop the bacteria growth and now on a tiny boyu external filter

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just went accross to my shrimt tank which has 11 cherries and 5 amanos and the amanos are swilling very fast around the tank, the cherries are just watching.......... ok is this some sort of weird mating ritual???

anyone

ok my nano has been stocked for a week now. 4 hermits and a clown goby. stats are UV has been running since initial tank setup 5kg (approx) of live rock 1.023 ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 1 ph 8.2 the first morning after getting the goby and he actually came out my daughter noticed he had white...

its actualy more stable than it looks the new cabinet im building will house the 40" shallow tank and the nano all fully plumbed to 2 sumps so its just a temp resting place at the moment

yup, been listening to my 4 year old to much :rolleyes:

well i took the kids to the lfs and came back with 4 dwarf blue legged hermits and a clown goby the nano the nano with flash the gobi after 30 mins in tank the hermits grazing and still grazing still grazing the full setup my mysterious red thing dead center, i did say it was small...

i thought as much with the fish, ill wait till my other tank is built for them. hermits it is then. as for the red thing, ive got feather dusters on the rock as well. this is scarlet and the tentacles are thicker shorter and are almost squid like, its very odd ill try and get a picture but its...

just to add im building a 15 gallon (with 10 gallon sump) system using swimming pool technology (spares i have in my van :unsure: ) open topped with overhead T5 lights and all will be transferred to that when its ready so no jumpers :good:

well ive gone and got some live rock for my "inadvertant nano adventure" what started off as a small tank to get my molly back to health it ended up as full marine and the molly is doing great. popped in 5kg of live roch, one piece is covered in green hair algae and 4 or 5 tiny tube worms and a...

some of you may have read my posts in the scientific section, but for those of you that havent or have and have been baffles with technobable i have been keeping fish on and off for more than 20 years and have kept/tried everything. im a swimming pool engineer by trade and love water chemistry...

about 15 years ago i bought a new project external for my 100gal oscar tank and woke up one morning to a parted hose by the taps and about 20 gals left in the tank...... the rest was an indoor carpet water feature. insurance company wast happy but paid out :unsure:

ok base level ph for an empty tank is 7.2, you have experienced ph 6 with your bogwood in the tank..... hmmmm would have thought ph 6.5-6.8 really but not impossible. you are boiling the taninin out of the bogwood. what else is in there that may effect the ph? i wouldnt worry about the...

what is your tapwater ph after being stood for 24 hours or after dechlorination?

hi may i suggest the infamous waterdrop thread http://www.fishforums.net/content/Scientif...d-Raising-Them/ have fun and lay off the bicarb until you have tested your tap water

why would you want to when a good accurate one is cheap :blink:

it looks like they were copepods :rolleyes:

i had long thin wormy things as well but the swimmy things were just tiny specks very scientificaly put considering my other posts in the scientific section :hyper:

ive just stripped down my shrimp tank and transferred all my shrimps to my aqua one 320. after they were transfered and i was draining down the water i noticed there were hundreds of tiny white swiming things in the tank. they were about the size of a pin head. i only noticed them because of the...

i could be wrong but i always thought that the red spectrum was used by plants to photosynthisis so wouldnt that make algae worse??? do a quick search and there are lots of topics on all types of lighting. you have a desired look in your mind, look at the pictures in the lighting posts and copy...

i use an aqua one 320 as a fry tank for my 4 year olds livebearer offspring, i think its great once you junk the UG filter it comes with and fit a small internal (mine has a elite stingray 5) and i have a aqua one 418 open top for my shrimps, but i will be transfering the shrimps to the 320 and...