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I don't change the timers on my two tanks, I just needed to remember to feed the fish an hour earlier when the clocks went back a week ago. So many countries change the clocks twice a year. Back in the 1970s I shared a lab with a Chilean student. I wondered how I was going to explain the...

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I can't speak for the rest of the UK but within half an hour drive of where I live I have 2 Maidenhead Aquatics (a national chain), a Pets at Home (but don't shop there) and at least 4 independent shops.

We just can't get it here in the UK. I used to use it when it was available.

That Peterlee seller has a strange combination of things for sale. The one which used to sell Northfin was Dandy Cichlids; they had a 'real' shop and website besides their ebay shop, though I never managed to go there. The seller in the last link is in the USA so I'm surprised at the delivery...

@AJ356 New Life Spectrum products are hit and miss for availability. They were easy to get a few years ago but not now. Northfin products are available on Amazon but many of them seem to be in large quantities - their community flake is in a 350 g pack which would last me decades. There used to...

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He hasn't been around for a while now, though now I've said that he'll probably be back tomorrow :lol: Are sales of hoodies falling off? That could explain why so many new members seem to want us to buy them :blink:

We have the Telephone Preference Service in the UK which is supposed to stop marketing calls, we've been registered with it from the start. But UK based spammers still call. It cannot deal with the overseas spammers who use spoofed "UK" numbers to call from.

In the last 11 days, my email server has put 28 emails in my spam folder. Double glazing - 6 Mcafee expired - 7 (don't use Mcafee) Email account suspended - 2 (obviously not, I'm still using it) Cloud storage expired - 3 (don't use it) Car finance/insurance - 4 (don't have a car) Gambling sites...

Our landline provider will block phone calls from any number they recognise as spammers. I have disabled this as a couple of years ago the same company decided that emails from TFF were spam even though TFF was in my safe sender list and they blocked TFF emails from reaching my account. I didn't...

Slightly off topic, but I bought a new bottle a few weeks ago and found the dose rate different for chlorine but the same for chloramine. Both bottles are 4 fl oz/118 ml. Old bottle - chlorine 1 ml per 20 gallons; chloramine 5 ml per 30 gallons New bottle - chlorine 1 ml per 10 gallons...

Congratulations :hooray:

Welcome to the forum :hi: If you're not too far north in Northumberland, I can recommend a trip to Horizon Aquatics in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. They're aquascaping specialists.

You don't make mosquito larvae you find them in water left outdoors.