slappers

Turbelle® electronic Kit TF05 found some think anyone using theses any good feedback

streams there was another one tunzes or somethink?? dont want seio havent heard anythink good about these

need to make some more movement i think on controllers any ideas

gees draw your curtains you will get a better picture

if u look over to were the overflow is in both pictures u will see a difference. Mona has had a weeeeee change around in the tank as you can see but in person the brown algae is going. cant help the blurrr its the camera its on auto focus

ok just an update water has cleared about 90% the brown algae has nearly all gone just put in another 10mls BEFOUR VODKA 3 DAYS AFTER

i am putting in a cap full a day about 10mls it says its 37.2% ALC/VOL

whoops\

the fan i am using is from bunnings 90$ 55w and quite

my tank is in a closed room with lids on the tank and sump was having problems with my MH to start with used to heat up and switch off. so i put a extractor fan in, sucking air in blowing down on the lights problem solved tank stays at 14.8 sump at 13.8 fan is on a timer

yes i have lids on my sump and tank. there is cap off say 50mls on the tank, but i lose about 10ltrs aweek i can handle that but i only have 500ltrs tank

yep im just using the cossack vodka cheap and nasty

lol now look what i started ...fay your tank looks so awesome already??? ok dat three i think and the brown is going big improvements every think in the tank happy no hangovers but i did overdose to start with

that's why i am giving one away free unused about 3 years old

hmmm nice clean rocks nice looking tank to do you want and come and do my aquascaping

you wish lol

well spoken fay

ok perhaps i should have just left it, it just looked so yuk not to mention the aquascaping, but i know me i will try any think once I'm happy at the moment and he looks happy to

just put another 10mls in i think its working looks abit diffrent looks like its going it smells like a pub when i go in the lounge

is it one off these you want ?? PM me your address or come around its free

hes ok he always looks like that, hes not that pale its just the camera

The "Theory" Behind Ethanol Additions to Aquariums A German magazine recently published an article suggesting and recommending the dosing of ethanol (as vodka) to reef tanks as a carbon source for marine heterotrophic bacteria in order to increase denitrification rates and bacterial biomass production (Mrutzek and Kokott 2004). Further, they claimed that additions cause rapid declines in nitrogen and phosphorus produced by fish, invertebrates, and algal metabolism (ironic, since many aquarium invertebrates and algae are sinks, not sources, for nitrogen and phosphorus). In turn, the bacteria provide a food source for corals and other filter feeders. The method is recommended particularly for those tanks that are highly skimmed (and probably lack particulate material) and which lack sand beds. Tanks with sand beds or other sediment-based systems, they mention, react unusually and may have adverse effects to ethanol additions. "Experiments" were performed (and I use the term experiment loosely to mean the typical uncontrolled, unreplicated, statistically insignificant sort of "let's add it, see what happens, and produce results that show how my tank never looked better" sort of trials that are often found in aquarium literature). The results showed a precipitous decline in nitrogen and phosphorus levels over approximately one month with increasing doses of vodka. The sample size for the experimental procedure was one (n=1), consisting of a single person's personal home aquarium. There were no controls in the experiment (i.e. an identical tank without vodka being added to see if there actually were results from the treatment). In fact, the sample tank received an increasing dose of vodka during the treatment, making any dosing effect impossible to determine. Additional support for the "experiment" was collected by casual replication in completely different trials in even less controlled conditions; that is, other aquarists began adding vodka and claimed similar "results." Results of this work also showed a number of other effects. A large "bloom" occurred which clouded the test tank, an occurrence that could and often does kill tank inhabitants. It was assumed the bloom was bacterial, but no mention was made if and how the cloudiness in the tanks was determined to be bacterial. Given what I will offer below, it may also have simply been carbonate precipitation brought about by additional carbon addition and possibly microbial mediation. Having fortuitously escaped tank mortalities, the tank cleared and the authors literally state how "the tank water had never been clearer, the coral polyp extension was better, and the coral coloration was more intense." Where have I heard this before? The observed decrease in nitrate and phosphate is an interesting effect.

i don't know but my rocks are pretty brown so i will try any think to clean them up if all else fails out comes the water blaster

cheers wasp, all looks OK at the moment, no probs with the anemone or the hairy mushrooms (what ever they are) will put another 5mls into it later. gave it a bit of a bash yesterday put a good cap and a half in :oops: so i will drop it back to 5mls today the fish are smiling too put skimmer on max too

westly do you have egg crates under all that nice looking rock ???