Recent content by MickSG

It is a magnetic glass scraper from Tunze. You can actually see it in the picture. It has a metal razor attachment, but I've been too scared to use that, so I've left the hard plastic default scraper one. It works very well, and can even get the stubborn GSA off. I just need to be careful...

It's been 8 months since my last update, so it is long overdue for a bit of a share. My tank has been in low maintenance mode for the last few months, so sharing where I'm up to might perhaps motivate me to spend a bit more time tidying things up. Despite being close to 1000L in size, I...

Thanks Sharon, sadly he didn't make it through the night. I'm just scratching my head over how fast he degraded. Only 2 days ago he was at the surface begging for food :/ Makes me hesitant to get another betta now.

Thanks, I just read that they actually need to get to the surfaced to breath, so I made a ledge covering half the tank out of filter floss material for him. Given the small volume of the tank I was worried about reducing the height to 1 inch, which would have been less than a liter of water...

Thanks for the suggestion. He is currently laying on his side at the bottom of the 1 gallon tank and he appears to be breathing heavily. Would bloating cause this?

Sorry to hear about your ottos. I had this issue with a couple of my ottos. Despite feeding well and having excellent water conditions, the white marks spread over time, and the ottos eventually didn't make it. My understanding is that they can be hard to acclimatize.

Hi, I've shared a link of my Beta fish who has been unwell the last 2 days. I suspect he got greedy and ate too many blood worms, but I am not certain. Another possibility is that the rams in the main tank have been stressing him out. The final possibility is that he was impacted by the tank...

Got a nice closeup of a carbon rilli shrimp with eggs today. Even though she is just 1 cm long, she filled up the whole frame.

Carbon rilli shrimp has eggs.

superglue will not hurt the shrimp

I love the rocks, like an underwater hobbit house.

Exciting project. Can you share any schematics / design drawings yet? What kind of flow rate are you aiming for.

Co2 concentration in the air is 400 ppm Once your plants go under water they will need to adapt to living off just 10-30ppm. So in the long term I can't see how adding even more Co2 during the dry start will help. Light is probably the limiting factor here. Higher Co2 availability during DSM...

If you soak your soil in a bucket of water a week before the move, you should be able to substantially reduce the amount of ammonia released into the new tank

A few days before the move do a deep clean of the existing tank. In particular vacuum and stir up the gravel, and water change. You dont want that going into your new tank. Also plan to do a big water change 1 and 3 days after the move. And if the water gets cloudy do a water change. And if you...