Hello to all...

[sangsom]

Hello to all plants/fish lovers,

Finally I found the time to say hello to everybody.

My membership of Aquatic Quotient is since 8 of November 2005 and I most say it is a great website!
I am an Dutchman but live in Thailand and found this site via the owner of Ferka-fertiliser.

I have two aquariums; 1 is 100 x 50 x 50 cm, and 1 from 80 x 40 x 30 cm. and both are outside under a roof and they are running well.
It is a mix of plants and fish.
My problem is sometimes the temperature in the hot season, about 38/39 degrees Celsius...

For people with algae problems, I must say check the Redfield Ratio, because that helps me a lot to conquer the problems I had before.

Maybe next time more.

Greetings,

Sangsom

[Wackytpt]

Hi,

Welcome to AQ!

Care to share more about Redfield Ratio?

Cheers

[Airplant]

Hi! Welcome to the forum. Thailand's a nice country! Heard things are considerably cheaper as compared to Singapore's. How are the fish hobbyists over there?

[sangsom]

Dear all,

After I made my introduction to AquaQuotien I got 2 questions.

I wrote e.g. about the Redfield Ratio if you have some problems with algae.
Click on this link http://www.xs4all.nl/~buddendo/aquar...dfield_eng.htm
and you can read everything about it and more then I can explain.

Algae in your aquarium is so boring, that I wanted to give up my hobby all ready, but at the last moment I said to myself, give it a try and put Potassium nitrate (KNO3) in your tank.

Without measuring I put a big thee spoon (much to much) full of KNO3 in my tank and was
waiting for 2 days and then I did it again.
After 4 to 5 days I saw already the difference and after 14 days my tank was free of algae.
My recommendation is now, begin with a small thee spoon for a 100 liter tank, and wait.
But you have to check the nitrate regularly, that is important, and try to keep it on 10 mg/l

I bought the Potassium Nitrate in a chemical shop, but you can try to buy it in a drugstore
or pharmacy and explain the use of it!!!

I live in northern Thailand and it is sometimes difficult to buy what you want, but Bangkok
is 800 km away, so also not a option. If one of you travel sometimes to Bangkok, then visit
the Chatuchak Weekend Market it is nice place for many thinks and of cause aquarium stuff.

Greetings to all of you.

Sangsom