Posted in Aquarium on Oct 24th, 2008
I have been using this UP’s CO2 regulator solenoid for the pass 7 years and it still running fine. The good thing about this solenoid is that it does not get hot as compare to normal industrial solenoid. The power consumption is also very low. Actual measurement is about 1 watt. The industrial type solenoid [...]
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Posted in Aquarium on Oct 18th, 2008
I had purchased many type of Digital Aquarium Thermometer in the past. Not many is as good as the one below. The brand is “Aquarium Thermometer”. But I have seen many similar design from GEX or Five Plan. This one I got is only S$6 as compare to others which cost about S$25 each. Really [...]
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Posted in Aquarium on Oct 12th, 2008
Today, I have been to the shop to take a look at this amazing aquarium LED lighting; named LumenAQUA. Will definitely consider such LED lighting once to price come down a bit.
Actually, I was unable to really test it out fully due to time limit. But in general, the light colours are totally not the [...]
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Posted in Aquarium on Oct 6th, 2008
As I have a Power monitor plug to measure the actual power consumption. It will be more accurate if we do a actual measurement as compare to just take the the power as rated on the equipments. Below is the comparison using the Aquarium Calculator from AquaticQuotient as to illustrate.
List of all equipments for my aquarium [...]
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Posted in Aquarium on Sep 29th, 2008
I used to get “theben” time controller switch to control my aquarium lighting and CO2 solenoid. Now, as I had setup another aquarium for my son. I decided to go for a cheaper timer switch as “theben” price had gone up quite a bit. No doubt “theben” is a great time controller switch.
After some search, I [...]
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Posted in Aquarium on Sep 22nd, 2008
I had been using tank water to add into the solution for CO2 indicator. It was normally stated in the instruction manual which come with the CO2 indicator kit (Drop Checker kit). Many aquarium’s forum-er claimed that it will be much more accurate if we were to use a prepared KH4 distilled water as mixture [...]
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