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  1. DIY Flourite

    in Technical

    Posted

    Found this post, which confirms I'm barking up the right tree :D

    >> Dr. Morin, could you please comment on this? You stated at one point I

    >> believe that Flourite was a naturally mined material. Is it subjected to

    >> high heat (fired) during processing (to increase internal pore space I would

    >> assume) or is it just cleaned, crushed and bagged?

    >Well, I can't say too much without getting in trouble ;-)

    >All I can say is, the material has experienced high levels of heat.

    >It is naturally mined. And the order actually would be crushed,

    >cleaned, and bagged ;-)

    >Hope that helps, but I can't really say much more without giving away

    >a little bit of the "secret".

    >- -Greg Morin

    >Gregory Morin, Ph.D. ~~~~~~~Research Director~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    >Seachem Laboratories, Inc. http://www.seachem.com 888-SEACHEM

  2. DIY Flourite

    in Technical

    Posted

    Hmm, you might be right. I read a post saying you can bake clay at oven temps to set it enough for aquarium use, but to get what Seachem call "stable fracted" you need 1100 C. That's when it becomes a calcined clay, i.e it expands and gets lots of pores formed.

    Bonsai growers used calcined clay, and you can buy it fairly cheaply (really cheaply compared to Flourite, lol) but I don't know the composition of the clay they use - if it's iron rich. Still googling around. I wonder what it'd cost to rent some kiln time from a pottery outfit?

  3. DIY Flourite

    in Technical

    Posted

    I've been thinking about trying to produce some home made flourite.

    Get some iron-rich laterite clay

    Mix in some micro ferts

    Force through a mesh, scraping off the extruded clay every 5mm

    Bake in an oven for a bit

    Lush plants!

    Am I missing something here? I've done a bit of googling, and found a couple of vague references to a few people doing it. I'd like to use flourite when I re-do my 450 l tank, but it's bloody expensive stuff.

  8. Best Tanks on The Web

    in Aquatic Plants

    Posted

    I read his blog "... in these tanks as small non-use or co2 or filtration, just a few drops of fertilizer in each water change (every 3 days), and small snails to keep clean. As light a lamp 3 w "

    I think he meant non-use of co2 or filtration. So just a 3 W lamp basically 8)

  9. Crypt with Gas

    in Aquatic Plants

    Posted

    The tricky bit is balancing your ferts, I find. Nitrate seems to be the limiting factor in my tank. I've almost got rid of visible algae, but I'm finding if I let the nitrate level go too low I get more algae - which seems counter-intuitive to me :roll: I had a massive cyano outbreak at one point when I ramped up the ferts too quickly, but a 4 day blackout cured that. Too much phosphate caused it, I think.

    I really want to strip my tank and re-scape now I've leaned a bit and seen some of the awesome scapes on the web, but I'm enjoying my tank too much ATM, even if it's a bit amateurish in it's layout. Still hunting for that ultimate bit of driftwood to base the scape around, too. And the right stone. And deciding on substrate. And plant availability... :slfg:

  11. Crypt with Gas

    in Aquatic Plants

    Posted

    I've gone high tech with CO2 injection and upped my lights to T5 and LED. I've just about got my ferts sussed out, and now my plants are pearling from about 2 PM till lights out at 8 PM.

    I've noticed my crypts don't pearl as such - they just emit a stream of bubbles from one or two points. Is this standard for crypts?

    cryptbubbles.jpg

  13. 2 Bolivian Rams in a busy 180L community tank?

    in Cichlids

    Posted

    I had around 35 Bolivian Rams in a 450 l community tank (they wouldn't stop breeding!) with Dwarf Chain Loaches, Torpedo Barbs, Emerald Eye Rasboras, Golden Gourami and Ottos. They were peaceful, and only ever got territorial when guarding wrigglers and fry. I've still got 5 of 'em - great fish for community tanks IMHO

  17. computer help needed.. website won't load

    in The Off Topic Fishroom

    Posted

    Try traceroute too. If it's getting stopped somewhere that might tell you where.

    Oops, "tracert fishpond.co.nz"

    Yeah, try traceroute. In a command window, type tracert fishpond.co.nz [enter]

    This will show all the hops (different routers it has to pass thru to get to the web server) and might show why your pings went nowhere.

    If it only gets to the first hop, that'll mean your ADSL router is the problem, or possibly windows firewall or similar

  18. computer help needed.. website won't load

    in The Off Topic Fishroom

    Posted

    It's a DNS error. Does your modem/router have a dynamic DNS or a set DNS? Put it on dynamic and wait an hour. If it's not fixed after that call your ISP

    http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ - Good website to check if it's you or everyone.

    Nope, it resolves to the same IP for me, and the site loads fine here. :dunno:

    edit: no point in doing this - just saw your ping test failed. Try the tracert below :roll:

    If you are running IE try installing Firefox, or if you're running Firefox install Chrome. Just to see if the browser is the problem or not.

  22. where to fly rc plane

    in The Off Topic Fishroom

    Posted

    Is it on-board memory or does it come with a micro SD card? Avoid the low res ones with built in memory - they drop frames because the memory isn't fast enough to keep up with the video stream.

    There's heaps of info on the low res ones here. You want the #3 version - most of the other ones are rubbish :(

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