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Uff... what a day...
I did a lot to my tank today:
- overall 90% waterchange
- removed the leaflitter, that accumulated into a 1cm layer of detritus
- removed the plastic casing for filter and heater to prepare for summer.
- removed dead or yellowed leaves from the frogbit
- mounted heater and filter on the glass walls
- slight rearrangement of rocks and driftwood
- added new leaves for a better controllable litter bed.
Here some pics:
Before:
Halfway through after removing the leaflitter and the filter casing:
After:
I did a lot to my tank today:
- overall 90% waterchange
- removed the leaflitter, that accumulated into a 1cm layer of detritus
- removed the plastic casing for filter and heater to prepare for summer.
- removed dead or yellowed leaves from the frogbit
- mounted heater and filter on the glass walls
- slight rearrangement of rocks and driftwood
- added new leaves for a better controllable litter bed.
Here some pics:
Before:
Halfway through after removing the leaflitter and the filter casing:
After:
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Not today, but yesterday, I added more plants to my tank. It now has a banana plant, two anubias, a bit more free moss, and about 10 baby java plants.
Also, my snail eggs hatched. I am way too happy about baby bladder snails.
Also, my snail eggs hatched. I am way too happy about baby bladder snails.
WC day, threw in some frogbit today for my Gouramis, I’m fighting some cloudy water - possible bacterial bloom as we finished our stocking last weekend. Laying low for the most part. My seeds aren’t doing a darn thing, clearly the light isn’t enough... but still holding out hope that they’ll start sprouting soon, prob changing the light source until it sprouts
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Did my 50% water change today. I don't know if I can deal with this yellow water. My fish probably like it but they look so dull.
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Ok I’m gonna have to stop doing water changes... every time I do one I can’t stop myself from changing things or adding things... I’m out of control! (The marimo balls are just patiently waiting on my other tank to be ready)
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Today I did 30% water changes on both my tanks and I've worked on my plans for putting spiderwood+java moss in my big tank and sand in my small one.
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i went outside, plucked a tuft of grass from my lawn, and put it in my tank. cheapest aquarium plant you will ever find. it dosn't live that long though lol
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I did something very, very exciting to my tank today. I added a fish!!!!!
His name is Felicity.
And, no, that's not red-eye from a flash. For some reason when you look at his eyes straight on, they're red in the center. He can't albino because he has black, right? I didn't see this until I bought him, and I'm thinking of making a thread. It's actually that red in real life. Any ideas?
His name is Felicity.
And, no, that's not red-eye from a flash. For some reason when you look at his eyes straight on, they're red in the center. He can't albino because he has black, right? I didn't see this until I bought him, and I'm thinking of making a thread. It's actually that red in real life. Any ideas?
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I thought that for a second... Except he has black scales, which look way too dark to de caused by anything but melanin. I've also never heard of an albino betta? If I look at his eyes from any direction other than straight they look black, and I'm worried it might be an infection.
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WC on the 75 and 10 today. And although they got detoured a day, my narrow leaf temple plants from Pwilly07 finally arrived in perfect shape! Lovely, large plants! I put most in the black 40 b and filled in some empty spots in the 75.
I’ve been having issues with stem plants growing lately and I’m wondering if it is a light issue. I recently programmed the Finnex 24/7 lights for 9 hours that includes the ramping up sunrise and ramping down sunset.
Algae is way down as is plant growth.
So I think tomorrow I’ll add another 3 hours of light and see if that helps.
This planted tank balance thing is haaaarrrrd!
Picture of the 40 in moonlight tonight with added plants. Some of the leaves are turned over so they look white.
I’ve been having issues with stem plants growing lately and I’m wondering if it is a light issue. I recently programmed the Finnex 24/7 lights for 9 hours that includes the ramping up sunrise and ramping down sunset.
Algae is way down as is plant growth.
So I think tomorrow I’ll add another 3 hours of light and see if that helps.
This planted tank balance thing is haaaarrrrd!
Picture of the 40 in moonlight tonight with added plants. Some of the leaves are turned over so they look white.
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I redid my ugliest tank, the tank that I just kinda threw everything in lol.
kept it super minimum, mostly hardscape. Bare-bottom because it’s a guppy tank (keeps all my excess fry) and I like to be able to easily vacuum the waste.
kept it super minimum, mostly hardscape. Bare-bottom because it’s a guppy tank (keeps all my excess fry) and I like to be able to easily vacuum the waste.
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Did the usual water change on the 120 but decided to do a little land scaping. I moved the giant aponogeton ulvaceus from the front right to the rear right because the thing was 22 inches high and i thought that would clear out the front. Boy was i mistaken i found a wall of java fern behind it:. This wall is about 1.5 to 2 feet long and 1 foot thick - not sure what to do with it - maybe toss it ?
I also threw away 20 lbs of jungle val on the right side of the tank - but kept the mass on the left side. I moved a mellon sword from the back left to the right offset middle (where the serpae tetra is in the picture below - took the picture before moving it); and put a queen marble sword in the back corner where the mellon was). Oh well what to do about the java fern - i kind of like it but even too much of a good thing is well not that good.
I also threw away 20 lbs of jungle val on the right side of the tank - but kept the mass on the left side. I moved a mellon sword from the back left to the right offset middle (where the serpae tetra is in the picture below - took the picture before moving it); and put a queen marble sword in the back corner where the mellon was). Oh well what to do about the java fern - i kind of like it but even too much of a good thing is well not that good.
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I'm a bit late on this thread. Today in particular, I'm just enjoying my tank and feeding my fish.
The first day of quarantine, I tore my whole scape apart, re-assembled the pieces, and have let it sit for about a month and a half. The scape and plant assembly is more to my liking now, still not perfect, I still regret accidentally mixing black and white sand but replacing that is left for another day.
I gotta say, having happy fish and green plants in a naturally algae-less tank with no ferts or CO2, especially for a year and a half, feels like a worthy accomplishment.
The first day of quarantine, I tore my whole scape apart, re-assembled the pieces, and have let it sit for about a month and a half. The scape and plant assembly is more to my liking now, still not perfect, I still regret accidentally mixing black and white sand but replacing that is left for another day.
I gotta say, having happy fish and green plants in a naturally algae-less tank with no ferts or CO2, especially for a year and a half, feels like a worthy accomplishment.
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Good care for the frogbit, so it could outcompete the duckweed from the start. I also removed all floating plants for the last 4 waterchanges and netted off all duckweed. Luckily I never had much duckweed. I got it with some plants from Doubledutch and kept it down from the start.
I am pretty sure I removed all that was left today.
I am pretty sure I removed all that was left today.
I kind of did the opposite; i put all the frogbit in a pail and then tossed as much of hte duckweed as i could collect and then 'rinsed' as much of the duckweed off the forgbit as i could and replace some it (throwing those pieces with duckweed entangled). The problem is getting 100% of it out of hte tank in the first place - the frogbit is easy to remove but little bits of the duckweed runs away and hide when i go after it.
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