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Hey, they were a Fluval Flex 32.5 Gallon/123 Litre and the smaller cube was a Superfish Qubiq Pro 60 LED.

Thanks but it's not something that will improve. Just something that I have to learn to live with.

Because the CO2 Reactor seems unable to dissolve more than around 4-5 bps CO2 (when used with the Oase BioMaster 600 Thermo filter) without filling up with CO2 anyway (likely because of not enough flow) I'm now injecting just 4 bps of CO2 24/7. This is a very low level for this size tank and it...

Thanks. The tank has cover glass and a closed hood.

This week has been challenging for me, to say the least. I am struggling to deal with everything, physically. I have a bad back, bad hip, bad knees, bad ankles and bad joints in both hands/arms so I've been in quite a lot of pain. Mostly from damage to the joints and osteoarthritis. In all...

I got the Gluteraldehyde and the dosing pump today and started dosing the Gluteraldehyde. I started on a high-ish dose, going for 2.66 ml per 50 litres. 680 litres divided by 50 = 13.6 13.6 multiplied by 2.66 = 36.1 I rounded it down to 36 ml. No signs of any distress or any issues with...

Additional note on the CO2 - I've just checked and after turning the CO2 up to 10 bps a couple of days ago the pH drop the first day was 0.68, which equates to around 23 ppm CO2. Yesterday though the drop was only 0.48 which equates to around 15 ppm CO2. I think the bigger drop on the first day...

More... There's been quite a few new additions this week - snails, shrimp and fish. The Staghorn algae has gotten much worse. I'm hoping the Amano shrimps and Panda Garra can make an impact on it now, maybe along with the Glutaraldehyde dosing as well I might be able to see it...