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Looking good and good to hear the fish are all doing well.
Perhaps you can put a plant request here or in the advert section? Someone might be able to post you some spares...
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Wiggles wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 17:27 pm
Been testing with some wave makers and they definitely help stop so much stuff landing on the bottom (a bit of a problem with such a deep tank) but not sure the fish like them much, think I need some smaller ones.
I did find some nice infinetely variable speed ones but at £300 odd I thought a bit ripe
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I've just looked through your log and its put me right off ever having a sump. Looks like your all sorted now.

How are you.getting on with your wifi plug sockets?
64l kitchen tank: 16 golden tetra.
5ft 425L: 7 blue angel fish, 30 rummie nose tetra, 20 black neon tetra, 1 longfin bristlenose plec, 2 corydoras sterbai, 2 SAE.
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Tbh I think if the tank was brand new you wouldn't have any problems with leaks but really I've only spent a few quid on some silicon I'd like to replace some of the pipework eventually but it's a bit difficult ow the tank is full.

The WiFi sockets work perfectly, timer for the lights and the wave makers and if I have wet hands when I'm feeding/doing a water change I can just say "ok Google turn the pump off" to my Sonos speaker
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mikeyw64 wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2020 19:05 pm
Wiggles wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 17:27 pm
Been testing with some wave makers and they definitely help stop so much stuff landing on the bottom (a bit of a problem with such a deep tank) but not sure the fish like them much, think I need some smaller ones.
I did find some nice infinetely variable speed ones but at £300 odd I thought a bit ripe

Out of curiosity I did look at the prices for the ones I have and they are north of £200 for 4 of them and the controller! Not bad for a £50 tank! Might try and sell them to pay for something a bit less powerful
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could be a plan :)
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completly slipped my mind.

How about one or two of these, small , relatively low flow (but still some flow) and cheap (had one in Fireplace for a bit then moved it behind the foam in Castle just to help move water around through the back area


https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07TW39QXP
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just get a SW-02 :D Maybe they changed the name of them now. a OW-10, PP-10, SW-2

Anyway, about £50 with a controller, Flow Rate - Adjustable from 500 up to 2,500 litres per hour
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Just to update, for some reason spending this much time at home I have found myself paying less attention to the tank. Still doing the weekly water changes etc.

I guess it was more something I did after work sit there watching my tank to de-stress a bit. Everything has been going fine until today I found a dead gourami... Only 2 left now, water was changed yesterday and water showing 0 ammonia 0 nitrite and 20ish nitrate. Tested as soon as I got the gourami out.

Some reason they just don't seem to last great in my tank... However I just did a head count after removing the gourami and realised I can only count 6 rummy noses instead of the 8 there should be, no sign of them anywhere. Not sure what's happened or when there was less than 8 tbh as I haven't been counting them as much lately as everything seemed pretty stable so they might have been missing for a week honestly
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Sorry for your loss(es?) :(
What gourami were they?
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