BettaFishMommy Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 i agree, change out your filter floss often and that should help things, along with some water changes with the new water poured into the tank slowly and over something, like a dinner plate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted November 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 i gave in and did an 80% water change and now it is nice and clear I have 2 cories in the tank and i heard flocculating agents are very bad for gills and whatnot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted November 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2010 (edited) Full tank shot 11/29/10! Ooh reds. Tank is ready for fish and has been for a while! 0ppm ammonia, tap water runs at ~.5ppm ammonia. Have not really been testing. Sorry for image quality :frown: no CO2 =] Closer, a little more yellow in real life.. Current occupant, my mom's betta. Edited December 27, 2010 by ridethespiral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted December 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 Update! FISH! Got my corydoras hastatus, 3 golden oto's for algae cleanup, and the 6 synodontis petricola. Apisto's did not come, and will be waiting until jan to pickup the tetras. 12/24 compare to: 11/29 Seem to be having a nutrient defeciency where the tips of the limnophilia grow in very tiny and almost like a nitrogen deficiency? ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0, and nitrates are 0.. I dose some NPK and seachem flourish when I see this. I also went ahead and purchased an eheim pro 3 2075 along with some purigen on boxing day. Oooh and got two siamese algae eaters! Tank looks really clean now, just need my hydor eth heater! over night my tank dropped to 29C from having the heat turned down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted December 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2010 went ahead and changed the links to make all pictures around 1000px wide! =] should be much easier on everybodys computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted January 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 Some pictures of my fishies from member fairdeal! Except the Siamese algae eater Corydoras hastatus and Siamese Algae Eater SAE Cory's 2 SAEs and cory hastatus shoaling together :icon_smil Sometimes the oto's will get in on this and they all shoal and act like one big family LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted January 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 (edited) edit: lol I'm stupid already posted this earlier Edited January 1, 2011 by ridethespiral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted January 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) Pics Entire setup. I want doors but at the same time I like seeing the equipment! w/flash w/o flash Crop. I really love Google Picasa! (dare you to google it! ) for comparison, before: Full tank shot 12/24/10 Edited January 3, 2011 by ridethespiral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted January 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Plants seem to be doing great after getting over wanting to see my tank all the time :icon_twis and are now on a strict 8hr photo period. Seems that keeping the lights on for only an hour while I'm up before going to work on the weekend and having it on for another hour or so when I get back home while having the lights back to the 8hrs mon-fri. I started off with 3 vals, planted one on each side and one in the middle. The one in the middle is going CRAZY, one to the left of it has barely done anything, and the one on the right is doing almost as good as the middle one. A runner has almost reached the very front of the tank, and is rooting next to the microsword up front. One week and it will hit the front LOL. Random plant I found after going crazy moving around plants... Cannot figure out what it is since it doesn't look like anything else and is still tiny! Almost no algae! =] only one random corydoras hasborus death (out of 25 I don't consider that alarming)..... Getting another batch of fish at the end of the month or beginning of February. Excited! Two SAEs I bought when around 2-3cm long and are growing like beasts! They've grown since this picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted January 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted February 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 here is a pic of my favorite little oto buddy! hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishkabod Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Is the one in the second photo an apistogramma?? BTW i really like the looks of the tank. Good for you on the lack of algae in the tank. What about adding some upper level fish like some Neon tetras or Rasboras? that might help increase your nitrates enough so you don't get the mini leaves. According to my plant chart small yellow new growth leaves is actually severe nitrogen deficiency and more fish or fish food in the tank would help. Thanks for sharing L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted February 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Is the one in the second photo an apistogramma?? BTW i really like the looks of the tank. Good for you on the lack of algae in the tank. What about adding some upper level fish like some Neon tetras or Rasboras? that might help increase your nitrates enough so you don't get the mini leaves. According to my plant chart small yellow new growth leaves is actually severe nitrogen deficiency and more fish or fish food in the tank would help. Thanks for sharing L They are Bolivian red rams (Mikrogeophagus ramirizi) still small and young so not much colour, though every day it shows more and more. I have some Cardinal tetras in, and will be getting more since some did not make it. Needed to do a trim to get a tank shot today. Where do you see these mini leaves and small yellow growth? bioload: ~10 Cardinal tetras 8 F1 Synodontis petricola ~20 Corydoras hastatus (at least I think! LOL, I think the petricolas may have had a snack every now and then) 4 Bolivian red rams (Mikrogeophagus ramirizi) 3 Golden otos 1 Peppered cory 2 Siamese algae eaters that will get the nitrogen going now Uncropped and untouched Cropped and edited. Cardinals and young rams visible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted July 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 (edited) Long due update indeed! Been very busy lately. This is the perfect tank for me haha. [04/11/11] [06/29/11] No water changes other than the few 20% ones here and there because I got paranoid. It's been well over a few months though and no deaths so I assume things are good The two female rams I put in got bullied to death by the dominant ram in the tank I think. He looks like a devil with his red eyes. I would like to move the vals on the left to the back of the tank so they don't occupy so much of the front as well as move the tiger lily somewhere else since it has grown so huge. Maybe place it behind the amazon sword. Idk. Here's a few more pics from that same day. Just didn't have time to go through em all. The pygmy chain sword started out as a single tiny pretty small plant. I found the plant to the right of it floating after doing a rescape. It is unidentified and unknown :icon_ques Edited July 4, 2011 by ridethespiral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridethespiral Posted September 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 (edited) Full size 1.7mB: https://lh5.googleus...s0/IMG_0244.JPG Edited September 27, 2011 by ridethespiral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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