Recent content by Fish in the Highlands

Living in the Highlands with an abundance of peat around, it came as a big surprise when testing our newly filled tank for the first time - pH 7.6. Hazarding a guess, this is down to our local water treatment plant - can check pH of the water feeding it tomorrow. Having intended to set up an...

Thanks for comments. Most of our power cuts are of short duration - between 30 mins and a couple of hours. For a long power cut, we'd run the whole tank off a generator. To cover these shorter power cuts, our thought was to connect the filters to our UPS (uninterruptible power supply) which...

Hi Coming back to fishkeeping after a 20 year break - please be gentle! Setting up a 300l Fluval corner tank with external Fluval & Eheim filters and have a question about filter bacteria. We have reasonably frequent power cuts and are wondering how long the bacteria in the power filter will...