SamH
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Tank looks about the same as last time, minus the chain sword. The plan is not to trim it on Sunday and see how wild it gets, should be interesting. Sorry about the over exposed Rotala, just a quick shot.
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The ferts can be dosed from the get go. What are you going to do about flow in that tank, I can't see a filter anywhere. It will look good when it fills in but I'd add two smaller rocks to "support" the large one.
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Finally done! I did have a lunch break and got a bit distracted but I finished the office too. Time to do the vacuuming and mopping :roll:
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Just so long as they're true aquatic plants. More often than not pet stores will sell bog plants which die quickly underwater. The best thing for your tank would be a large water change to remove anything that may have been in the tank when the neons died.
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Usually I rinse my hands in tap water before putting them in the tank. I doubt it's from smoke on your hands but that's one possibility. Which plants?
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I have slowed down, the office is dauntingly messy :nilly: We don't really do Christmas any more, it's far too commercial for my liking.
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It could have just been a bad batch of fish or something you put in the water (soap, hand cream, etc). I'd do a large water change (75-100%) and let that sit for a few days before trying again with some guppies.
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I'm sick of picking out algae that just keeps coming back! I even cleaned the outside of my bedroom windows
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I'm in a bit of cleaning mood today, mostly because I'm home alone and there's nothing else to do. I'll start with my room, then my office and maybe even the rest of the house
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Woke up this morning at 6AM to finish my last ever internal assessment at high school, drank some funky milk best before today and felt like crap all day. Headache and sicky but after several naps and plenty of drugs I'm back to my normal self. TL;DR, almost finished school and FRIDAY! :lol:
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Definitely go dry ferts, it'll cost you a fraction of the price of store bought stuff and you can tweak it for your tank. Anyone who doses a tank this size with store bought ferts (flourish etc) must be filthy rich! Have a wee look at this, it takes a while to get your head around it all but once you do it's golden
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That's fair enough though, once you've spent all your oil that's it. Nature is forever.
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The most common type of lighting used on smaller tanks are CFL (energy saver) bulbs. They fit into a standard light fitting so usually a desk lamp is used. You'll want bulbs coloured 6500K also known as 865 or cool daylight.
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One might be okay depending on filtration and footprint. Guppies and platys are all good starter fish too. A pH of 7 is superb except for specialist fish that need it particularly high or low.
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*Especially Where do you think most of their manufacturing is outsourced to?
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America has been in debt since it's been founded (excluding one year way back in the day) and it has the power and determination to bounce back. China's not so hot lately, their one child policy is coming back to bite them in the ass.
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America is still a super power, anything they do affects us.
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That's looking superb Adrienne!
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Wait till you've seen as many aquascapes as I have. It's been done to death and usually done badly :facepalm:
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I'm so sick of tree scapes :nilly: I believe an aquarium should have as little manmade content in it as possible. Adding something fake to a contest of this type is just not suitable. I do believe time and effort have been put into that tank but just not in the right way.
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Once you get them, we can advise you on them. I'm 99% sure they're NZ FW shrimp, in which case they require temperatures below 20 degrees to thrive.
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Illegal to sell native freshwater shrimp, legal to catch and keep native freshwater shrimp. No other freshwater shrimp are allowed into New Zealand as far as I know. If they are non native FW shrimp then I'd be very interested.
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Yeah I'm not sure aye, I think those people don't quite understand the caliber of the competition.
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I feel it grows a lot faster than BBA, easy come easy go kind of algae.
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I'd still like some ottos! Water change after lights out tonight me thinks. The substrate is a mix of fluorite, aquabasis and manado I believe. Plants are doing well, so is the algae :nilly: