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Interpet Beauty Light?

Birstall are very good. They arrive on a thursday and i only live around the corner so i go straigh there after work to pick them up.

Bare in mind that 9 times out of 10 these swords will have been grown emersed and will shed their old leafs when submerged. Its perfectly normal for these to die off and new groth will follow shortly. Just pull these old leafs off from the bace once they start to brown. Not strictly true. Carbon...

Simple answer is that you cant. Tube lighting is not like a conventional lightbulb. Each starter is rated for a certain wattage and you have to stick with that bulb. The only way to upgrde is to replace the starter unit tp a hightt light output. I.E. get a T5 ballast if you have t8 lighting.

Yup.. got some the other day. Looks almost as good as the tropica stuff but its a little bit smaller on the pot size. Havent gotten round to planting it yet but come the weekend i should have.

Don't forget to change your fine filter floss every day. You'll be amazed at how quickly it clogs up when your ridding of greenwater.

Most definatly the lights. with them off it dropts to 25 which is what the heater is set at. Maybe interpet have sorted their product out but loads fo people have had the same problems and last i heard interpet did acknowledge their faults.

I use a combination of both to give good growth and good colouration.

One of the many mistakes i've made getting to the point i have today. I've wanted rid of them for about a year and finally did last weekend. The money I've wasted on learning the hobbie has been immense.

They are fragile, don't have any reflectors to fit on them correctly so efficiency wise they aren't up there with standard linear tubes. The heat they give off is massive. My tank constantly broke 31 degrees in the summer months (even recently when its been freezing). On top of this the heat...

Its possible that its not being caught in your filter. When I had greenwater I used a product called Seachem Clarity. Its stick particles together which can then be trapped in your filter. Took me 5 doses to do it but had crystal clear water after that. Dont forget that the Uv just kills the...

Oouch... £60 to replace a Rio 180 ballast.... I think i'll stick to 4 x T8's. My old Compact T5's were rubbish!

Blyxia looks like the common suggestion across forums so looks like i'll be going for it! Hopefully I can get the tropica variety.

These are just trace elements so you'd still need to dose macro ferts to give the full spectrum thats needed.

firstly, here's my tank: I'm looking from something a little bigger than E. Tenillius but smaler than crypt wendtii to blend from th midground to the forground. I'm pretty certain the glosso is going and will be replaced by HC or something slower growing with less demands so with this in...