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I zap mine in the microwave for about ten seconds softens it up and it sinks!

As far as i know EDTA is acidic right out of the bottle, hence the warning. I'll look up its pH after lunch. pH 4.3- 4.7 for a 5% solution (very concentrated). You would use it much more dilute than this though.

E.D.T.A. (Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acidic Acid) is commonly used to chelate or bind heavy metals into 'safe' form i think its actually used as a treatment in heavy metal posioning in humans. I use it in the lab to stop undesirable enzymatic reactions which have metals as co-factors, the EDTA...

Hi Read somehere on the internet that melafix is just a 1% tea tree oil solution and that you can make it yourself for a fraction of the price using essential tea tree oil (dirt cheap on ebay). Was thinking of doing this, just wondering has anyone else tried using 'homemade melafix' or know of...

Hi Had the same problem with mine in the first few weeks of getting my tank, tried taking it apart and putting it back together again a few times and was about to take it back to the shop. Then after a while realised it was nothing to do with the pump at all (switched it off and took it out of...

Forgot to add that in my experience people i have known who wanted to work with fish ie marine biologists and the like, I would say about half have ended up doing something completely unrelated. Most still involved in the field are working on not fish themselves but small inverts usually cos...

Thats a fantastic synopsis of the scientific life and the post-doc life in particular, im in the middle of a second post-doc and can relate to nearly all of what you have said :/ . Just to add my twopences worth I would say keep your options open ie do some science subjects but you should...

Why not go the whole hog and talk about bushels of sand or gravel and gills or pecks of water ;)

Signed up!!! seems a good offer :hey: , thanks for posting it!!!

Hi I have an outbreak of whitespot in my tank :-( so popped along to the lfs and they sold me a bottle of british king sw3, i mentioned that i had plants but they said it would be fine. I went home and looked up the active ingredients chiefly malachite green which sounds like pretty nasty...

Hi, I'm relatively new to the fishkeeping game (kept them as a kid years ago). I have a new setup, 3 foot 180L juwel vision. I was hoping to add a shoal (6) of either congo tetras or rainbow fish to the tank when its matured. At the moment i have 8 danios and a pair of dwarf gouramias in a not...