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Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
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03 Feb 2008 17:52 #1
by komalley (K OM)
Hi folks!
Am looking for some advice on CO2 for a tropical aquarium.
Am in the process of setting up my 2nd aquarium and am going to try grow plants in the same. Tanks will be ~210l with lighting provided via 2 T5 39watt tubes (Arcadia - Plantpro) and a substrate of plain washed gravel over a base of laterite. I'm not too ambitious wrt the plants so under consideration are vallis, the crypt & hygrophilia species and/or maybe some of the sagittaria family. In my first tank ~80l i've used a fermentation Co2 system (Nutrafin)but am under the impression this type of set-up would be unsuitable for my proposed larger tank.
A couple of questions.....
1.Anyone got experience of the pressuried CO2 systems and any recomendations on the sorts of products i should consider for my next set-up? I don't have an umlimited budget so suggestions on 'value-for-money' options would be appreciated. There are some products listed on ebay...anyone purchased this kit online?
2.Should I be adding fertiliser to the substrate or is a regular addition of a liquid fertiliser to the tank sufficient to generate plant growth.
3. I'm working on the basis of 3watts/litre for lighting of a suitable sprectum for plant growth - any comments on this assumption.
4. I've got T. Amano's Natural Aquarium World Book 1 and there are some very good suggestions of aquascaping within that text. Does anyone know of good sources of information on the planted aquarium on the web?
Thanks
kom
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04 Feb 2008 13:35 #2
by Cardnim (Andrew Hanley)
Hey Kom,
I have a DIY yeast based system on my 180L and I regularly get CO2 levels of between 16-20 ppm and I can go higher with another yeast mix bottle adde dto the system.
Everything was built from scratch, including the reactor which I think may be one of the more efficient Ive seen as it is rumoured to be able to get 100% efficiency!! (not my design)
The whole lot cost me under £50 and the refills of yeast mix are as cheap as chips.
Im not sure its the case anymore that yeast based CO2 is only for small tanks. Its all about the reactor when it comes down to it.
... I did submit an article to the comp on here about making it, so maybe it will be available on this site soon?
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