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  1. martink

    thinking of adding GHO ORGANIC HUMIC ACID SOLUBLE GRANULES 93% humic and fulvic.

    thanks macz
  2. martink

    thinking of adding GHO ORGANIC HUMIC ACID SOLUBLE GRANULES 93% humic and fulvic.

    to lower ph from 6.8 . kh2 gh 3, tds 70. seems like it might be a nice additive along with ground beech bark. anythoughts from someone with better chem experience, im just experimenting. I was thinking of using acetic acid as i soak wood in ascetic acid/cinnamon solution and I think my fish...
  3. martink

    Ivanacara Adoketa. juveniles and seperation.

    So I recently managed to get Ivanacara again after messing up so badly last time with toxic substrate and this time im pretty confident my tank is good. My TDS is a little high at 97 (my meter might be busted as it measures differently depending on temp) but my gh is just under 2 and kh is 2, ph...
  4. martink

    evaporation and water hardness

    i too like this gardening philosophy its a good healthy garden. my letting agent has other ideas though lol
  5. martink

    Ivanacara adoketa information

    i bought some in uk though. there was a guy selling from u.s in march 4th.here
  6. martink

    evaporation and water hardness

    yeah ill buy another one problem is only having on viable drainage pipe. but i could get two maybe three near it. I am not sure if its my roof but there is a little hardness to it 1gh. i live in fife scotland near the sea. I might buy another barrel from wilko they are quite cheap. nice garden...
  7. martink

    evaporation and water hardness

    ok thanks. i use rain water off the roof so a little hardnes 1gh ish but i do have cheap ro unit ill set it up. thanks
  8. martink

    evaporation and water hardness

    so i realised my tank evaporates a lot in my conservatory. so im trying to work out what affect this has for increasing GH. so for every inch lost i lose 2.687 gallons of pure water so i start at 32.46 not including a lot of wood decoration and end up at 29.77 . if my GH is 2. so 32.45 ppm...
  9. martink

    weird accident

    woke up to my sub male abacaxis tailslapping the female and was alerted and thought the male must have died. looked around and saw that he was there, alive, but he was skewerd by a peace lily root threaded through his mouth and out his gill??? I hope he will be ok, he had shock 4 days ago just...
  10. martink

    meaning behind shock in fish

    yeah he is fine now, just doing his rounds and eating fine, looks pretty good to be honest happy to be back with his female. I have plenty rain water so ill just change every second day. I make this ground oak bark tea but there is slight sediment that gets into the water but soon gets filtered...
  11. martink

    My A. Cacatuoides is having some issues

    thats a shame
  12. martink

    meaning behind shock in fish

    i took my sub male abacaxis to the shop but stupid me took the wrong male and the male i was keeping spent a few days in the fish shop. large shop but was in quarantine just. well when i retrieved him I carelessly put him back in my tank immediately, forgetting he had been in different water. he...
  13. martink

    anybody near fife scotland want an abacaxis male? its a long shot but thought id ask.

    male is nice colour and he looks good but smaller male and needs to have his own space which i dont have. free upon collection. im near kirkcaldy. sry maybe should put in buy sell but he is free so. put here.
  14. martink

    what to do about sneaker male who is no longer sneaking.

    yeah problem is that he knows they are there, so if he wants to, he can just go find them, which happens every feeding. ive seen him look under the leaves like a police detective haha.
  15. martink

    what to do about sneaker male who is no longer sneaking.

    im intrigued what happened the first time. I will just monitor. i have 4 nannostromus eques and 3 beckfordi in there too, should have mentioned that.
  16. martink

    what to do about sneaker male who is no longer sneaking.

    So i bought 4 abacaxis 1 male 3 females. one has turned into another male. There is a pair which is fine and a submissive female. So far the small male has to submit but the chasing isnt terrible and he is not afraid or cowering; he explores and seems quite confident. but I gather this may not...
  17. martink

    bbs hatchery problems.... seawater?

    T yeah the last time i did it was straight forward, this time was a nightmare. I just gave up and went to get seawater just so I didnt need to worry about the fish not eating. so im getting the meter for peace of mind really.
  18. martink

    bbs hatchery problems.... seawater?

    Yeah sea water was fine, good until i stabilise my own mix at least. Ill buy hydrometer i think.
  19. martink

    bbs hatchery problems.... seawater?

    haha well ok i never did that but ok ill use the scale thanks
  20. martink

    bbs hatchery problems.... seawater?

    i messed up the temp once but i have it in an old ext filter cannister with a heater, just the old upside down 2litre soda bottle thing in there, 26-28 degrees celsius. airation is usual bubler regular no airstone.. I bought the eggs on ebay but no bad reviews or anything. ? I must be doing...
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