Ruud

So today was the day that finally my new L numbers would arrive: 5 x L134 at a surprisingly good size of around 5cm and 2x L136B (to complement the other pair I already had at around 3cm). Pics below: I will be uploading updated pics of the 4 tanks later today if I get the chance!

Moved the Sterbai cory's over to their own tank. Emptied the Cube tank - substrate and plants gone, fully bare bottom now. This tank will house the L134 colony when they come in, just need to figure out where to house the L213 that is currently still in here. Pics to follow

Bonus: One of the lemon's

So I figured an update was due on my tanks as they sit currently: The planted tank now runs for about 6 weeks and goes really well so far I must say. I have just a tiny bit of brown algae on the glass that I scrape away every few days. I moved the java fern and the Anubis to other tanks and replaced them with some fast growing stem plants, and cut and replanted the red stem plant in the middle. This tanks currently holds the 8 lemon tetra's who have colored up really well, 2 left over Cardinal tetras, a juvenile moon fish and a balloon molly. I will add another 2 dwarf oto's and probably keep the stocking as is for now. I am happy to say plants seem to be growing well and happy and little to no algae Then next the L136 tank, not much to report. The two species I have are eating and seem to be doing well, seeing them a little bit more each time. I am expecting another 2 specimens to come in this week. Then the final photo is my newly setup tank which will house the 5 Sterbai Cories (sadly 1 cory passed away this weekend, he got stuck in a pleco cave somehow and didn't recover). They need to move house from the 45x45x45 cube tank that needs a full rebuild to house the L134 group that supposed to arrive this week - pic to follow. I am going to setup the cube as a bare bottom with a piece of wood and various caves.

Hello and welcome back! Do share your photo's of your Gourami's - I currently do not have any but do love Gourami's!

Hello all, and thanks for the input. A few answers: - its not the water pressure that's the problem: I have tried anywhere between 3 and 8 bar and at no point I get close to acceptable PPM - Yes I am collecting the RO water and not the waste water. The waste water measures much higher PPM still In the end I gave up on the unit ever working as it should be, whether its a plumbing issue or not. Yesterday I forked over 154 euro for a very basic house model RO system, connected it and it runs 10ppm water consistently as it should, after bypassing the re-mineralization phase.

Yup RO membranen is installed, brand new 50GPD unit. I have looked at the plumbing a 100 times... I can't find anything wrong, everything seems the way it needs to be. The manual and the diagram is super basic but looks to be exactly as is. I'm lost

SO thanks for all the responses.... in all fairness I think my best bet is to just toss it away and get a run of the mill home unit which runs me back about 100 euro. So the unit is bought new - but not getting any of my hopes up in getting the shop or the seller help me out here. This is Spain, not USA. The unit came with the following setup : Sediment -> Carbon -> RO membrane -> Resin. I swapped the membrane and the whole filter setup for a replacement package (4.4 stars on amazon) that would give me the setup: Sediment -> granulated Carbon -> RO membrane -> pressed Carbon For the comment on the missing resin, I swopped the last carbon back to the Resin of the original set.... and get 315PPM readings, so even worse. I have a lot of rejected water, less when I put the pump on at 80PSI. The set says it needs a pressure of 60-90PSI. Again the system came fully hooked up so somewhere I think I just have a faulty system and perhaps my best bet with least headache is getting me something similar from our local home depot equivalent and see if that's a solution or not.

Here it is. White tube on the left filter is my RO out tube. Top tube on the right is the waste tube, lower tube on the right (into the sediment) is the tap water IN tube that runs from the pump. First stage sediment, then pressed carbon, then RO membrane, then granulated carbon

I am measuring with a regular stick pen from Amazon, I have another older on that provides similar (slightly higher) values. Also when I measure water quality with a test strip I still have a PH of around 7, GH of around 4 etc so pretty sure it's reasonably accurate Yes - I am running sediment and carbon filter before the membrane, and another carbon filter after the membrane. The system came pre-connected, just had to connect inlet (that goes into the sediment, through the pump) and the out line and waste line - so nothing I could have screwed up I think. Maybe I should toss out the system and buy another system, bit lost here tbh . Let me make a pic and upload it.

Another day, another issue, another question About a year ago I bought a RO unit, the typical 3 stages with an osmosis membrane at a fish shop. Supposedly specific for fish keeping. I hooked it up to my hard water tap and produced water that had 320 PPM (my tap water runs at 415). I had poor pressure, around 40psi so figured that was the main cause. I got a pump to increase pressure but never got to hooking it up and did use the 300ppm water for some tanks. Last week I finally hooked up the pump and ran my water at 75-80psi.... same result - 320PPM but with a year old system and a 200GPD membrane. Today I changed all the filters - now running a new 50GPD osmosis membrane, PP, GAC and CTA filter and running at 80psi... and I get RO water of 280ppm (still 415 from tap). So the Osmosis system takes out roughly 30% of the particles only.. Now I am not the smartest around this kind of stuff.... but this should produce under a 100ppm water easily, right? What am I doing wrong here - any suggestions? Thanks so much!

I am starting to notice more and more it pays to do a little google shopping search before buying on Amazon, as Amazon prices sometimes are more expensive. I purchased an Aquaclear 70 HOB online with free shipping for 45 euro at a local chain store the other day, send to me directly from Hagen (the distributor) free of charge. Hagen also sells on Amazon themselves, but charges 70 euro for the same item, with free shipping. I needed 2 so just saved myself 30 euro for looking around.

Lovely looking fish!

I have a group of L134 coming in by end of next week, could get my hands on them at a very good price though they are tiny. I have a tank cycling for about a week and a half now and adding said HOB which is now running on another tank with half a used sponge, plus i will be adding bacterias. This tank will house a group of 6 Sterbai Corys that will have to move to make room for the 134's.

Thanks all!