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KimW

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  1. Anyone have a decent DIY fix for a broken cross brace on a 120? Currently I have the tank clamped to prevent bowing. I recently just did a reseal and noticed that there was a crack in the brace near the edge of the trim. I should have thought better of it when the tank was down and empty but unfortunately I didn't. I resealed waited and refilled. Within a week I noticed that where the crack was had broken and pulled away from the edge, it is still attached at either end of the break and is basically right where the brace attaches to the side of the trim. At this point it isn't a substantial bow but enough that it causes me concern. The tank does have trim and I attempted during the reseal to loosen it to pull it off but it just wouldn't go it's glued in there really well so whatever repair I make will have to be done with the trim on. I know removing the trim and doing a glass brace across the top is best but in lieu of that is there another option? Something that with any luck can be done with the tank at a half full state so I don't have to put any additional undue stress on the fish in the tank. They dealt with enough during the reseal and are finally starting to bounce back from that, I would hate to have to move them again. Any help? Everything I have found on youtube is basically showing me pull the trim off and do a edge to edge fix, which I can't do
  2. So I just got a 15 gallon tank (rescued tank) with two (what appears to be) Chinese algae eaters and a red tailed shark in it. much too small a tank for all of them to stay in. Wondering what the consensus is on putting the red tailed shark and one of the algae eaters in my 120g planted community tank? this is what's in there 1 skunk loach 14 neons 2 rummynose 2 harlequin rasboras 3 various cories 1 pictus catfish 3 giant danios ( moveable )
  3. Ok so I am running 4x 80W - 60" T5HO bulbs on my 120G planted community Aquarium. It is a well established tank and has been running for approximately 4 years Lighting timings 8am-12pm on 12pm-4pm off 4pm - 11pm on 11pm-8am off Plantlife: Amazon Sword, Anubia, Cryptocoryne Wendtii, Rotala, java fern windelov, and a couple of unknowns. I am struggling a little with algae blooms may adjust light timings to see if this helps. __________________________ Filtration Fluval FX 5 Modified Intake & Output (Spray Bar) No Carbon __________________________ Dosing: Flourish Excel 2 capfuls every week ( too much ? too little? ) Flourish Comprehensive 2 Capfuls bi-weekly (too much? too little?) No Co2 yet ...looking to purchase a new system in a few months yay!! as i am looking to bring some more difficult plant life into the tank _______________________ Substrate: Dirt Base Seachem Flourite Layer Aquarium Gravel ( light layer for esthetics ) 2-3" Depth Substrate overall to 4 1/2" in back of tank ________________________ Tank Inhabitants: Rummynose Tetra Neon Tetra Harlequin Rasbora Various Cories ______________________ From the light to the substrate it's 27" I'm running the 6700k daylight bulbs _______________________ I have been considering playing with my colours a little to do a couple of things.... 1) potential to make the reds and blues in my fish colourings "pop" 2) make the greens,browns,reds in the plant life appear more vibrant 3) potentially aid in plant growth etc Are there any recommendations on lighting colour that will do this? I have been looking into the Aquaflora bulbs? Does anyone have any experience/results with these? what (if anything) would a pink or purple light colour do for a planted tank? as I have read that these colourings will aide in making fish colours more vibrant? Would I have to alter my timings excessively if I were to start messing with lighting colours? also if anyone has any advice on somewhere in Edmonton where I could find 60" bulbs for a reasonable price that would be awesome!
  4. Need these identified please as I cannot remember what all I have in here now lol
  5. Ok so I guess my next question is, which would be the better option? I would prefer to go all natural for getting rid of them as everything in the tank is 100% live/real, and it is a dirt tank. Is there a good community fish that won't hurt the Harlequin Rasbora's and Various Tetra's, and 2 cories I have in there, but that would feed on the snails? I don't need to really get rid of them altogether just sick of having to get them out of my filter, and would like to control them better....lil buggers are sneaky! I'll see if i can get a decent pic of them here in the next day or so for type of snails, as I honestly have no idea what they are and just assumed they are pests This right now is the only pic i have of my tank.....you can see one of them in the right front corner half way up....the others are more cone like in shape and you can see a few along the water line at the top. ( water parameters are beginning to fluctuate here in town now that spring is here, had to do a water change earlier tonight to maintain normal parameters )
  6. Thank you! I definitely don't over feed they all came in on plants that I bought. I feed very sparingly every other day as I only have a few small fishes in there. Where would be a good place to get assassin's? And what would be the best amount to get for a 120 gallon tank? I watch my levels and do liquid tests usually once or twice a week right now as our water here in town changes this time of year. Nitrates etc all within normal ranges and so far haven't fluctuated yet...although I do expect a spike soon.
  7. Hello! This is a re-introduction of sorts I guess.....I have been creeping for awhile but haven't posted anything for about a year. Just been busy doing my fishy thing So a lil about me....I'm a mom of 6, a wife bla bla bla.... Been fishkeeping for what seems like forever! Started with a small 20G freshwater guppy tank, then a 30....then went a whole other direction and got me a 60 long and branched into african cichlids, then got me a 90G, and a small 5g for freshies, and a 10 LOL let's just say it got to be a bit of an addiction ( I know shocking right? haha)....Somewhere in all there had a pile of kids.....cichlids were too much maintenance bi-weekly cleans with 6 kids in the house and 4 of those under 6 was a little bit of a daunting task! So ( because hubby's never been a fishy kinda guy ) hubby got tired of me complaining about how hard it was to clean all the tanks...he made me promise to get rid of all of them if he bought me a 120G! and an FX5 filter...needless to say I said yes....albeit a little reluctantly.....sold off my cichlid stock and got me a 120 freshy schooling tank! Had that set up for about 6 months.....modded the filter inputs and outputs, and decided I was going to go dirt planted! Wooohooo! Haven't looked back Tank has been planted for almost 2 years now and I LOVE it! Back on here now to get some serious fishy stock in it PS hubby doesn't know it but I have a 10G hidden away hahahahaha
  8. Anyone know what the best thing is to get rid of these little pains in my butt? They are in everything :'(
  9. KimW

    Your Tanks

    So this is my tank.....Definitely needs a trim! 120g Freshwater Dirt Could use some help ID'ing the plant in the foreground left and right Thing grows like crazy!
  10. Has that seller answered your question? If/when let me know what they have to say I am curious. I have been eyeballing a pack they have up for "buy it now" free shipping.
  11. Just reading up on that wiki5858 seller, and the feedback on the plant "packs" seems to be pretty reasonable. Ebay is tricky though because you can't tell how far those plants had to travel to their final destination. The price is right though......Funny thing is I have had a lot of people say not to buy on ebay for aquarium plants due to stringent customs requirements. I have yet to have a problem though? So I guess the choice is yours. At least buying that way I guess you are paypal protected? I have been considering a purchase through this wiki seller so I may go ahead with it after the weekend, I will let you know how I make out.
  12. I considered ordering from that seller too. Chose to go with AquaticMagic instead from i think Malaysia everything i ordered arrived within 10 days and was in decent shape for how far it had travelled.
  13. There is fluorite about 2-3" of it underneath the gravel. There is only a small layer of the gravel on top of the fluorite, mainly for effect
  14. Wow, I hope my tank winds up looking that good! Great job!
  15. So I thought I would post a picture now that I have planted the tank and am pretty happy with how it looks so far. It will of course get better once I am using pressurized co2, right now I am using flourish excel so we will see how it goes.
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