Archive for the ‘Water Change’ Category
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Marine Aquarium Water Change
Having just completed another large 300 litre water change I am so glad that I planned the aquarium water change process. Within 30 minutes I have changed this with opened a drain valve, closing a drain valve, opening the water change valve and walking away. Coming back to find the float switch has done the [...]
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Marine Aquarium Salinity
I often get asked questions about Marine Aquarium Salinity. So lets start at the bottom and work our way up. How do we measure specific gravity Measuring salinity is a quick process using a Hydrometer orRefractometer. Twenty five years ago a hyrdometer would have been used by anyone with a salt water aquarium but these are often [...]
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Water Change Float Valve
Fitted my water change float valve.
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Food Grade Plastic
I have researched into plastics on the internet and found some useful information from:- http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/plastics.html What Is Plastic? Plastic is made from hydrocarbons derived from petroleum or natural gas. The hydrocarbons are formed into chains called polymers, or plastic resins. By combining hydrocarbon molecules in different ways, different types of plastic can be created. What [...]
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Food grade water butts for mixing salt.
I have found a floor in my plan. The water butt that purchased for the water changes is a rain water collecting butt. This is made from 75% recyled materials and this could potentially have toxins that might cause me problems. I have found that these are fine for RO water storage but when you [...]
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Large Aquarium Water Change Made Easy
When carrying out water changes on my trigon 350 I generally spill water somewhere. I normally change around 70 litres at a time and I have in my garage an RO unit with booster pump and inline TDS meter. I then make up clean RO water into a 100 Litre Water Butt from B&Q with [...]