search for the magazine "The Aquarist" from January 1980, the articel inside is from D. C. POWELL, may you find him.

Old but maybe helpfull

an occasional algae wafer What :?: The words doesn`t make sense when I translate it by Dictionary to German :!: If it`s a chemical substanse to clean pond`s it wouldn`t let enough algea for your pl*co to eat. No, it means "on some occasions, I've fed algae wafers", such as the Hikari Alga...

MatsP - You mean that http://www.eheim.de/eheim/inhalte/en/in ... 20860_ehen

The pump Tom (2 pic)linked can be under water as well as out of water

drgold wrote:an occasional algae wafer

What The words doesn`t make sense when I translate it by Dictionary to German

If it`s a chemical substanse to clean pond`s it wouldn`t let enough algea for your pleco to eat.

Also Album only with a big A

and rules = Forumregeln

Hey Jools As I saw the "Site Suggestions and Bugs" of Mats I wonder, becouse I heart that you where planning a album but didn`t notice when it get started, so as I saw at the [url]-thing it belongs to the Forum so I looked at the index of the Forum :( and then at the Rules...-Line at the e...

A Otocinclus sp.
Eat`s the alga that growes on your plant`s

You shouled asked that at "What is my catfish?" this is the wronge part of the forum for that So you don`t have to wonder why nobady answers

Are they maybe smuggled from Brazil to Peru

Make a water change with RO or ention. water

No pic`s in the Cat-eLog but tell`s there are 3

rudie wrote:No I didn't boil the wood, the lfs shop owner said that the wood was already tank friendly and matured. Bullshit, I am now sitting with cloudy water, will do 50% water changes every 2-3 days.

Then put the wood out and boil it

lava rocks - as it is a big filter perferct
bioballs - unusall in Germany, so no idear how good that work`s

Anubias nana and javafarn nice, would put more kind`s of Anubias in

Did you cook your wood

If pH is 7 it becomes 8.
If pH is 8 it will not change, Na2CO3 and K2CO3 then fall out. They just puffer it to 8 or higher

Is that the 3m tank you talked about Doesn`t look so big
Why did you make to 2 bio-filter`s You whant to clean them on different times or
What is the dark thing inside your filter`s coal or black peat:?:

How does your Eheim look inside :?: Usually the LFS shell them with some blue, one white and a coal filter. Best "growing ground" for bacteria culture is to let one blue filter on the ground, then some of the white Ehfi/Sera-substrat (look at the surface/liter -more is better), then put wh...

relax, they're making fun of michigan not germany. to a lay person mittenstate sounds mildly german. there was no offense to germany intended. those of us in michigan just have a sense of humor about ourselves and our state. it's cool, really.... sue So it seemed a bit wronge for me, so let`s relax...

In German state is written Staat so no German thought it is in Germany, but mitten is middle. And the townname Saginaw is not nearly German.
Could it be that you hate Germany, seems so.

Hallo :cheers: Siehe http://www.planetcatfish.com/faq/index.php?qid=41&frommostpopular=yes Deine Bilder müssen auf einem anderem Server untergebracht werden und dann mit diesem Forum verlinkt werden :!: Und nicht vergessen ankreutzen das du aus Europa kommst http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/v...

I found similar methode to my thesie (see above), they use it in a swim-lake in Germany (in German )

http://www.wdr.de/tv/q21/1803.0.phtml

"Das Schilf als Dialyse..." is the Titel of the part to look at:!:

Look under (this was wronge edition)

to 2. Coral`s are "made" of Na2CO3 and K2CO3 both are alkaline so it bring`s your pH down (~pH8-9 valuation), most catfish`s like pH6,5-7,2. But if you are thinking of putting synodontis from the Tanganjika- or Malawi- lake in that isn`t a problem pH there is ~8,5.

Normaly they work well (as I said I use this thinks at work), only if your water has it own colore it coulde make problems.

Most fish`s color look better with dark substrat and dark water (from black peat) And as the most catfish like to sleep when sun is shining the would hide in a dark area of the tank if you put much light`s on

The spectrum of pH test`s depents on which Indicator they use, it is posible to make a bigger spectrum like Ph1-14 by using more indicator`s, but that way it will be not as exact as with only one or two. And if your spectrum doesn`t fit go to a chem. trader they shell such with a other spectrum like...

You have understand me well. The firm`s which shell CO2-Equpment normaly say that it will keep pH at a good pH, they don`t say it will make a good pH. I also sayed that your hardness is going to get harder if you would put CO2 in. Also I sayed that black peat will bring pH and hardness lower :wink: ...

That was what I meaned, but in a extern of course

It`s not only the water supplier :embar: some comes from CO2 Stop with pulling CO2 in :!: 1. pH1-6 : All inpulled CO2 will still be CO2, less KH 2. pH7-8 : Most inpulled CO2 will become H2CO3 but still a bit CO2, middle KH :wink: 3. pH9-14 : All impulled CO2 will become Na2CO3, K2CO3,CaCO3 and MgCO3...

-Pidge
Take black peat to move the pH and also the KH down.

-"Ancistrus Arctica" with many white whiskers over the hole body , so that it look like a Icebear