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That was posted up a little while back mate and the general consensus was it's sh1te..

Well, I went and missed it!

Thanks for the reply mate, I did look into using RO but thought it would be cheaper to try and reduce the NO3 and PO4 levels using the removal stuff. Here's my setup; 450l (approx) tank with no real plants, just artificial ones, a 1400lph canister filter with built in 9w UV (ceramics in the bottom Bioballs in the middle and Nitrasafe and Rowaphos in the top basket along with some poly wool) Fish: 8 Rosy Barbs, 1 Plec, 2 Flying foxes, 6 Siamese Flying Foxes, 3 distichodus affinis, 2 Bronze Cory's and a Sucking Loach. They get fed Aquarium Flakes and the plec has Hikari algae wafers. I've just bought a an artemia hatchery so they'll be getting those as well. I only feed them once a day. Water quality is generally fine NO2 is 0, PH is 7.0, KH is 0 but GH is 180 and NO3 has gone up to 160! PO4 is around 0.25 but still coming down. My tap water has 40ppm of NO3 and a PH of 8.0. The fish seem fine and happy but the main problem I'm having is algae growing over everything. The substrate is around 2 to 3 inches thick but I do have a raised area where it's nearer 6. I do my water changes by syphon off the crap under the gravel. I also have a decent amount of Nitrate removal gravel in the tank near the filter inlet. The nitrate levels were coming down but the nitrasafe bags are needing to be recharged. I've bought a couple more bags of it so that I can keep the filter loaded while I recharge the other ones. Thanks again for your help bud, really appreciate it :thumbup1: Problem is *as you can see) i've still got high levels of Nitrate

Thanks for your continued support mate :thumbup1:

NO, id love one of them but my man cave is full..:(

Nothing like a good beatin' to restore order :)

Barbs are much more interesting to watch, they can be a bit nippy when it come to fins but I've found that if you keep them in large groups (8 or more) the tend to just chase each other round.

Your water quality is probably better than mine mate, so I get quite high levels of nitrate even though I do water changes etc.

I'll give it a go, there's cock all else on over the weekend..lol

Mollies and guppy's are boring dude, get your self some barbs and catfish etc.... Most fish will eat plants, java ferns are pretty resistant to being eaten though. The bags remove Nitrate from the water which helps reduce algae blooms and makes for a better quality of living for the fish. They replace the nitrate with salt but do need to be recharged with a salt solution once they're full.

What channel buddy?

Pics when they're on mate, it's the law..lol

you tool..lol

What's up with it mate?

Quick aquarium question mate; What's the best way to recharge my Nitrasafe bags? The drip method seems a bit hit and miss.. Any ideas ?

It does mate, pity my legs are only three inches long tho'...:lol:

stop bragging...:lol:

A proper mans prezzie that mate :thumbup1:

It's behind the water pump mate, so you'll need to drain the coolant and remove stuff until you can get at it. Putting it back is just a case of bolting everything back up again and adding new coolant. Don't forget to seal the pump with silicon gasket as well..

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:lol: Give it a go mate, you never know!!

Looks to be a nice mate, I don't know anything about how much they're worth though...

What about the poor bugger playing against Chelsea yesterday. Scored 2 own goals and missed a penalty...:lol::lol: