fordayzbro
-
Posts
400 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Plant Articles
Fish Articles & Guides
Clubs
Gallery
Posts posted by fordayzbro
-
-
A new setup will almost always get algae.
List your filtration, photoperiod and ferts...
Cheers
-
Hi all.... check out the lastest interview with Jason Baliban... he's a legend in the aquascape hobby and has some pearls of wisdom to share http://www.lumersion.co.nz
Great stuff! :happy1:
-
I've cleaned it off already sorry. The lights were not on whilst we were away. The tank has been going in its current spot for well over a year so not new. Do you think its a type of algae? My pH has risen slightly over the last month but its now ideal for my fish. What are diatoms? We have pretty good lights actually GLO T5 HO ones. Thanks.
Sweet, you had diatoms. No light for the holiday has caused it.
-
Could be silicates that have caused the breakout. What lighting are you using? Usually - green algae = too much light, brown algae = too little light.
-
We were away for just over 2 weeks over christmas, a pet minder was feeding the fish and since coming back our jewel tank has this weird brown stuff growing on the glass and heater. We cleaned the tank just before we went away. On the day we got back I scrubbed it off (its easier to get rid of than green algae), and now exactly one week later it is back. Does anyone know what it could be? If I took a photo it would just look dirty! All my levels in my tank are good, with pH now around 7, no ammonia, nitrites, nitrates etc. Fish are all well, although one was bullied badly and died a few days ago (unrelated to this I am sure, a new pair formed and they picked on this guy). Thanks.
Would be easier if you posted a photo, could be diatoms.....
-
What kind of dog?
(sorry to take this off on a tangent
)This photo is a bit old, he just had a haircut...
-
what's the flow rate on it?
Not sure.... Here's the link http://www.fish-street.com/resun_mini_w ... gory_id=35
-
Looks good. I need one of those wavemakers!
This one was $10US. sunsun nano wavemaker. Well worth it, helps with flow and distributing Co2 bubbles
-
After a quick trim......
-
Wow your aquarium is spectacular :happy2: :love: :bounce:
:happy1: !drool: 
I really love those Black Phantom Tetras
They're a really cool fish The Phantoms are my new favourite fish. I'll try and get some better pics...
-
UPDATE
Returned home today from 2 weeks in Christchurch to find an overgrown tank. Only a couple minor algae spots to be seen. I took these pics as soon as I got home, no maintenance done at this stage
-
Well it's happened again........
I'm working down in Canty at the moment with my family taking care of the daily tank maintenance. Got a call from my mother today to let me know that some of my fish were gasping at the surface or sunk to the bottom of the tank. I had to talk her through a 50% waterchange, turn off the Co2, adjust the wavemaker and outlet pipe to get some o2 in the water.... The drop checker was yellow at lunch time. I think it was an overdose of excel which has caused the problem.
All the fish are fine now, no casualties. :happy2:
After experiencing this several times now... I think if you want to run pressurised Co2 and dose with liquid carbon, you really need to use a drop checker to keep tabs on Co2 levels.
-
I'm just "meh" about it. It doesn't suprise me that a petstore has dead fish...... yet it still saddens me to hear hear it.
Should we just agree to reply to these theads with meh?
Meh
-
Nope, but they're going to keep popping up
Yep, that's the gist :lol:
-
All I can say is "it is what it is"......A petstore, not a LFS. I agree that some branches may have bad service and some of the tanks may be have dead fish floating about, but it's about educating NZ's largest chain of petstore's on how to look after animals they have never kept before. It'll take time....
Let's put this into perspective people. Don't get me wrong, I don't work for Animates or care much for it but, if you are are true hobbist you're not going to spend that much time in there anyway.
To cut a long rant short, it's not even worth another thread..... :facepalm:
-
yeah i agree almost every pet store has one-or 2 dead fish in their tanks but 24! thats rediculas(think i spelt that correctly)
and 2 in everytank is not good
i agree equipment is a lil more expencive then other stores but its good stuff
Being a large chain of pet stores they most likely do regular stock takes etc. Questions maybe asked by the management why the fish stocks are so low…… Perhaps more training is required on identifying diseases early on and correct medication to use.
At the end of the day it’s not a good look to have 2 dead fish in every tank. I don’t believe many people would by fish from a tank that had dead ones floating about….
It’s good that you have raised that with the staff, nobody likes to see any dead animal
-
Staff in pet shops are only human at the end of the day. Always try and look at the positive, like atleast there was a staff member available to talk to you.
I always find the staff at Animates cheerful and beleive they have filled a hole in the market where they hold a broader range of products for a petstore. I remember when my local petstore used to sell basic stuff for goldfish at that's about it for the aquarium side of things....
-
Going for a drive to get some plants with fishie123 decided to cheack out animates in albuny mega centre
looking into the tank we saw 3
dead fish floating around so we tell the staff (and they dont do anything about it)
we keep looking and we see some more dead fish in other tanks as we counted them up the total came to 24 dead fish! :tears:
we asked them if we could keep them(idk why we just did
)they said no and told us their keeping them in their or quarinteen and said they might have desieses never gave us a full answer
imm just wondering were they keeping the dead fish in their untill the rest of the fish died?
it seemed almost every tropical fish tank had at least 2 dead fish
we saw the display tank with 2 discus in it one was lamost a black colour so we asked a staff member who was working around the fish area what type of discus the dark one was he said (staff)" its a discus"(us)"yeah but what type of discus?"(staff)"baby discus"(us)" we know that but what speices of discus?"(staff)"its just a discus it dosent have its own speices groups"
we just crept away and started laughing in my opinion if your gonna work at a pet shop know some info about the pest you sell
It's always sad to see dead fish..... You would struggle to find a LFS around the world that wouldn't have at least one dead fish in a display tank though, just goes with the territory. :tears:
My experience with Animates is they usually have at least one person who has reasonable knowledge on fishkeeping. Personally, I’ve bought some nice plants, my tank and a filter from Animates for good prices but never any fish.
-
It's a tough one.... I've come close to losing fish to lack of O2 a couple times now.
At the moment I running my Co2 at 2bps and dosing 1.6mls of excel daily and 3.4mls after water changes. The Co2 turns on 2 hours before lights on and 2 hours before lights off. The drop checker is usually yellow when Co2 switches off. To work some O2 back into the tank I just angle my wave maker to the surface and lift my outflow pipe so it's half sticking out of the water when the lights go out and re-adjust in the morning.
I love having healthy plants and an algae free tank but not at the cost of gasing fish to death...... :tears:
-
Recipes for minimal algae tanks ( don't take my word for it..... it's all over the net)
Hi Tech
- Intense light
- High filtration ( 10x or high flow around tank )
- Co2 injection ( crank it till your plants go nuts, slowly turn down then add livestock )
- Ferts.. Loads of macros, bit of micros then loads more macros
- Maintenence ( Weekly water changes )
- Plants, plants, plants and some plants
- minimal bio-load
- stable conditions
- time
Low tech
- Short photoperiod
- plants that suit low light conditions
- weekly fert dosing
- Liquid Co2 dosing
- minimal bio-load
- time
Not many people have algae free tanks but those who do... have found balance.
yeah.
-
answers to further questions
Photoperiod? 11 hours on a timer
Filtration? Standard Blue Planet filtration - I have remved the carbon so, noodles, and white wool. I do have a u/v filter but don't have it going full time
How much excel are you dosing? I have it but don't use in this tank
I see you are adding Potassium but what about the other macros? I have it but don't use it
can get some of this if needed... http://www.seachem.com/Products/product ... Trace.html
Sounds like you have plenty of plants.... That's a good start - Yeah - have done the stem plant thing and it too much work. So have pulled out all the ambulia, cabomba, vallis and polysperma
Righto....
1/ Reduce photoperiod to 6-7 hours
2/ Start dosing excel daily (check the recommended dose, for your tank approx 1.7 mls per day)
3/ Check the Lph rating on your filter, might be worth adding an extra external or a small wavemaker to increase flow
4/ Dosing with Seachem products can be costly, should be dosing - excel, iron, trace, potassium, nitrate, phospherus or NPK. To save some coin you could try dosing with PMDD available on TM
5/ Try introducing CO2 via diy which is really basic but effective or CO2 injection
I keep a log of my daily dosing, Co2 injection rate, waterchanges, filter cleans and any signs of algae. Makes it easier to work out what could cause a sudden outbreak of algae.....
-
Hey Jen (and others) Can I get a little help with my tank....
Dimensions & volume of tank - 100l Blue Panet Kingdom - 65cmLong x36cm Wide x45cmHigh
Lighting - T5 18w 6400K Red & T5 18w 10000 White
Substrate - Daltons Aquatic Mix & Black Silica Sand
Plants - Green Lotus, Red Lotus, Anubius nana, Dwarf Sag, Aponogeton, Enchinodorus parvifloris tropica, retrospirils & amazonicus, Cryptocoryne walkeri, undulatus, petchii, balansae, & wendtii. Figured that if anything got too big I could just pull it out.
Fish stocking - x3 Oto's x13 Male Guppies and WAY too many GBA's & Trumpet snails!
Ferts - currently using JBL Balls, Sera C02 tabs on alternate days. I do have Flourish Excel, Potassium, Iron and Comprehensive but haven't been using them since adding all the crypts.
Goals - to have a fully planted tank that the GBA's will enjoy and required little maintenance - weeding that is - water changes aren't a prob, I do them weekly.
Problems - Green Lotus taking over! and everything else seems to be growing slowly (red lotus seems to be doing better since I added a load more plants! Even got a pup from it!)
Way too many trumpet snails
I am unsure what ferts to use and how often. Anubius seems to be developing big brown spots on leaves (only a couple) Green algae on the some of the leaves of the parvifloris. I did have some green thread algae but that seems to have gone after I removed it manually and not returned?
Any advice would be greatly accepted :happy2: Thanks
Firstly some questions
Photoperiod?
Filtration?
How much excel are you dosing?
I see you are adding Potassium but what about the other macros?
Sounds like you have plenty of plants.... That's a good start
-
I am actually getting me a powerhead this week as there isn't enough water movement, I was looking at getting two, one high, and one low, the lower one to help shift detrius from the gravel. I admit I leave my lights on for FAR to long, as in 8am till 10 pm. I will get a timer while I'm at it. 8 hours enough? Liquid carbon and co2 injection?
8 hours should be o.k. Is your CO2 on a timer? Do you have a drop checker?
Liquid carbon and CO2 injection is fine.
Stirring up the bottom of the tank without a water change could be a problem..... ammonia spike.
-
Dimensions & volume of tank: Height 57cm. Width 60cm. depth 37. AR620T Like this
Lighting: Stock 2x 18w fluro, and 2x 20inch 20w power glo t8's
Substrate: black gravel from HFF about 50mm deep all round
Plants: Massive Amazon Sword, lots of Java Fern, Dwarf sag?? grass. Getting rid of the repens soon and going with something p44 recommended
Fish stocking: 2 juvenile Discus, 13 cardinal tetras, 1 electric blue ram, 2 adult bristlenoses
Goals: NO ALGAE, and a lush health tank. Currently after about 3 days the glass gets a green spray paint like algae all over it.
CO2: I have a Fluval 88g co2 setup at around 1bubble per second, and all my plants are pearling like you wouldn't believe
Filtration: Aqua One CF1200, and a UV filter.
Currently I am dosing with PMDD off trademe at around 6 drops daily.
I don't mind spending a few hundred on lighting and other bits if I can get something that will work for my tank, and look nice. the lights need to be able to be raised up off the tank about 30-50mm to let the have the filter tubing go over the tank rim.
Sounds like Green spot algae (GSA) or Green dust algae (GDA)
Reduce photoperiod
Increase nutrients
Dose with liquid carbon daily
Check your flow around the tank, all plants should be swaying gently like in a breeze.
Eliminating algae in a heavily planted aquarium
in Aquatic Plants
Posted
I'm tagging out of algae conversations..........