Recent content by blackdove

Hopefully that's it. I've added some bicarb/baking soda to boost the KH back to 4-5 and it seems stable again atm. Another thought I had is that I have a lot of snails in there that came free with the plants. I'm assuming that the calcium for the shells has to come from somewhere but I wouldn't...

I am running CO2 because I have plants in the tank and they are growng very well. CO2 is turned off 30mins before the lights and then on again an hour before the lights come on. With a pH test kit :D I'm assuimg you mean how did I feel it was acidic - well I don't know if I actually did as...

I'm currently doing a fishless cycle on my tank (started at the beginning of Feb) and for some reason my KH (which was at 4-5 dKH initially) has started to drop of its own accord and of course the pH has followed suit. I first noticed it on Tuesday as the water seemed to feel acidic so ran a pH...

Just to follow up on my own post in case anyone is interested, it fits like a glove as supplied :good:

Quick question, does anyone know if you need the Frame Adaptor kit to fit an Arcadia Luminaire on a Juwel Rio 240 tank, or does it fit straight on without? TIA, Chris

That's what I decided on in the end, mixing it that is. I put it in this afternoon, and from what I can see of the tank out of the slowly disappearing flourite dust gloom, it looks quite effective :) One thing I have learned though - even if you think you've got flourite resonably clean -...

Due to the inability to get hold of enough flourite for the tank I've ended up getting 2 bags flourite & 2 bags Eco-complete for my tank. My original thought was just to mix the two together, but after reading that the Eco-complete separates out into 2 layers, I'm not so sure. I'm now stuck...