Recent content by BubblesLotsOfBubbles

    Well with the dolomite lime I see it as a way water is naturally hardened so I'd be surprised if something 'bad' happened. I'm only after a KH of around 5 at the end of the day. I don't know where it will put the pH but hoping it would not be that high. If it is, then reevaluate the...

Thanks for your reply. Don't worry I have read a fair bit about water chemistry and even the Bermuda Triangle references. I read a lot  of the interealtionships. What I didn't read a lot of was the wiki idea about potassium carbonate. I therefore thought I had found a little gold nuget during my...

The little oblong  white critters look familiar. They have a little flagella?  I see one or two now and then in my tank that has nothing put plants. Doesn't look to be a dedicated shrimp / fish eater.

My next experiment is going to be with dolomite lime for Ca. Mg for the redox and osmoregulation and pH stability.

  Thanks but I said all that didn't I, (apart from the seller's words that is) EDIT: Not being picky just making sure we are agreeing on the same points? But you do say potassium carbonate is used to raise pH so you are agreeing with me that what I saw was typical and the Wiki is incorrect?  And...

I ask because the experiment I tried with it sent my pH through the roof and I'm not really sure how a change in pH of this magnitude happened...   It turns out my tap water is very variable and is often very soft and I've seen pH crashes so wanted about 4 or 5°KH for stability as a starting...

Err OK I figured I was still cycling by keeping the cycle going?   ?   It's all there:  0 ppm ammonia and nitrite after 24 hours. It got this this state a few months ago.   I haven't chosen fish yet so I'm just continuing to add ammonia to keep the cycle going ( = cycling?) but don't know if...

...because I'm cycling by adding 2 ppm Ammonia a day, my nitrite is normally zero but hit 0.25 ppm last week for some reason, and my nitrates seem disinclined to relate to my ammonia input and climb more rapidly, but I can waterchange to limit that. Temp is also at 26 C.   I have looked for hard...

Hi I have been away because of the work that needed doing the other side of a door right next to the tank. I'm glad I held back. Percussive drills to take the concrete up (to a depth of what must have been iro  10 inches) and then ashphalted. The ashphelting I had no idea about and am pretty...

Fishless I guess.

I certainly will try. I'm hopeful my heat gun will work after a good time drying out - from forgetting I had it in the backk garden and leaving it out all night in the rain!   Mosses look fab. Now when I look at trees in the distance, their different shapes, structure and colour ...I see mossses!

Thanks for the reply.   I had the idea that higher concentrations of nutrients would lead to faster bacterial population growth to the higher bacterial biomass needed for highly stocked tanks, while limited nutrients would limit the bacterial pop increase to the lesser amount needed for a...

    Does moss on mesh attach itself to the mesh?  And does it grow better once attached?   I have an idea for...drum roll... pebble-shaped-double-layered-plastic-mesh (IF I can shape them) but if the moss would be unhappy held between plastic mesh then the idea is kaput! I really need it to be...

  How did this turn out for you?

Thanks for your reply. I understand the cycling but I have real problems with numbers  - I cannot even add up things like 7 and 8 without using my fingers. Nobody believes me when I say that - untill they see me in action .   Having slep on this I suppose its that I'm wanting to walk before I...