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#81 Stretch

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Posted 17 August 2018 - 11:20 AM

Where’d you get the new sooty from? He looks suspiciously like the one I sold last week. If it doesn’t work out I can hold him for you untill you sort it out. Hope the catty heals

#82 Leichardti

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Posted 17 August 2018 - 11:00 PM

Yeah It’s your Sooty man, was talking to the guy I got him from about it. Guy was moving and downsizing and Sooty was scaring his other fish so he had to go
Might have to see about that, hoping I’ll be able to sort it out though

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#83 Stretch

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Posted 18 August 2018 - 08:59 AM

Thought it looked familiar. He is a pretty chilled fish that one. Like I said, I’m happy to hold him for you if you need or re home if I need to. Your tank is looking really good, puts my bare bottom tank to shame!

#84 Leichardti

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Posted 25 August 2018 - 08:59 AM

The Sooty’s unfortunately been sold. The Coal Grunter started submitting to him then the Sooty decided to chase everyone... what more could I expect.
Anyway, here’s some photos of the tank currently:
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The panels are now attached with magnets to the stand. They all need a couple more coats of gloss however they’re nearly done. Edgebanding was applied a while ago too
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Tank had been wormed and the Neos are now eating prawns like champs
Just need to get the Coaly onto prawns or whitebait now.. pricks addicted to hikari carnivore pellets

#85 Delapool

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Posted 25 August 2018 - 10:26 AM

I like the panel colour.

#86 Leichardti

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Posted 25 August 2018 - 09:11 PM

fish sakes ‍♂️
Been messing around with the reactor for the last week or so due to a very persistent leak. Believed it was due to using a gardena fitting with the poly so today tried to trade it out for a poly equivalent
Woohoo!
No leaks!
Wait... is that a crack?... in the tank fitting?
It is
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Now I’m going to have to cut the top off, replace the fitting and redo (again, did this earlier in the week to try eliminate the leak)..
No leaks at least, atm

#87 Delapool

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Posted 26 August 2018 - 08:43 PM

Oh no - fingers crossed!

#88 Leichardti

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Posted 02 October 2018 - 09:00 AM

Its been quite a while since my last update, and quite a lot had changed in my tank:

Sump
First of all I’ve setup a sump, finally.
A 4x1x1.3 divided up into sections with eggcrate. Ive got 4 bags of scoria as biological filtration which is being seeded with my canisters media. I need some poret foam to go inbetween the eggcrate for water polishing. I’m just running a 2800l/h pond pump at the moment but will be upgrading to a Jebao DC around the 4000lph range
The sump sections are as so:
Water in > foam > scoria > reactors > foam > return
The reactor section is for my Co2 reactor + 2 media reactors. One is currently running some siliphos as I’ve been having some consistent diatoms issues which I believe to be something to do with silicates in the water.
In the other media reactor I’ll be running some Macropore for extra clear water
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Lighting
Im still just running with my two MarsAqua 165watt LED’s, however at the moment I have a custom spectrum Lumia 5.2 multichip being delivered on an active heatsink. I’m going to be makig a bit of a DIY Kessil-like pendant led. For the build I’ll be using Meanwell LDD-H Drivers and a 200w 24v Powersupply. I will also be using a Coralux Storm X to control everything.

Plants
Everything has been growing, although a bit slowly as for a bit of time I turned off the Co2 and dimmed the lights in order to set the sump up. I’ve recently acquired 2x Blyxa aubertii which are a little melted and lacking good root systems which I’m hoping will pull through. I’m now dosing half EI method with the Co2 running at probably close to 15ppm currently. Note they are melting from movement from one persons tank to another and now to mine
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Fish
This is a big one. All are doing well and I’ve seemingly found a source of all problems..
Fish Lice!
Seeing small round bugs crawling around on your fish is seriously really disgusting. Catching the fish and pulling them off with tweezers is even worse.
I noticed the lice on my larger Neo. Ater, I’m not sure if them being the wildcaughts brought them in or something else due to my older Neos previous death which I think may be related
Once I noticed I setup a 13ppm salt bath for the fish. The only two fish I saw with the lice were my Sleepy Cod and the largest Ater. The others were too small and fast to attempt anyway. The Sleepy Cod went in first where one dropped off him and I got another 3 off with tweezers. He then went back into the tank. He was very calm and doesn’t mind me picking him up in my hand to have a look for the lice. Realistically I should have put him in some slightly less salty water so it wasn’t too much of a shock but he was fine.
The Neo went in second. Surprisingly he was pretty calm with me grabbing him too, and let me have a good look all over him, only moving away when I’d been holding him for a while. The Neo had the worst infection, with me pulling about 37 lice off him in one go. I applied Methylene Blue directly to some of his wounds and back he went into the tank after being readjusted.
I bought some of the medication “Lice-Solve” which I dosed last week. The lice seem to have cleared up however I’m going to continue to dose for a little while so that I’m sure that all lice and eggs are gone.
On another note, Fish Lice are known to carry a nasty little disease called Saprolegnia, a water mould. I believe it may be the fungus-y stuff I’ve been dealing with, not Columnaris.
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Anyway, thats about it since last update. Quite a few changes and scares in that period of time but hey I’m slowly getting on top of it.

On another note I went to Bells Rapids with a friend a few days ago, netting some shrimp and plenty of gambusia in the slower / pool sections. A few days beforehand he had been down and netted a juvie mullet. Hoping to get my hands on a couple of mullet for my tank.
Some rarer natives are getting around WA atm. We’ve had Sooties come up on lists, snakehead gudgeons etc but now:
Giant Gudgeon - Oxyeleotris selheimi
Mouth Almighty - Glossamia aprion
Butler Grunter - Syncomistes butleri
Barred Grutner - Amniataba percoides
Bullrout - Notesthes robusta
Spangled Gudgeon - Ophiocara porocephala
Giant Glassfish - Parambassis gulliveri
Jardini - Scleropages jardinii



#89 Delapool

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Posted 03 October 2018 - 10:19 PM

Wow Fish lice - yucko! No more signs of them?

#90 Leichardti

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Posted 05 October 2018 - 08:25 AM

Yes gone for the time being fortunately. Need to continue dosing for a little while to make sure any remaining eggs are dead

#91 malawiman85

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Posted 05 October 2018 - 09:27 AM

Good job mate. Its not easy working out health problems... Seems like you're winning the battle.



#92 Leichardti

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 12:11 PM

Thanks mate, slowly getting there.

Update

A week and a half ago I made a first order for my diy led’s. Today I recieved my custom spectrum Lumia 5.2 on an active heatsink.
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Now to order my powersupply, drivers and controller (storm X)

#93 Delapool

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 05:28 PM

Is that a running fan??

#94 Leichardti

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Posted 08 October 2018 - 07:41 PM

Yeah will be running it connected up to the Coralux Storm X controller once I get it, should be pretty quiet.
Unless you meant is it on and rotating, it is not haha

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#95 Leichardti

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Posted 05 November 2018 - 05:42 PM

Lighting update! My drivers and then powersupply arrived. Performed a test with a cutter 1000mA driver connected up to a 12v dc transformer just to test things out.

Photos are extremely under exposed to show the LED’s

White
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Red
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Green
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Blue
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White
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Powersupply arrived just today. Did a test and it was bright as but don’t have any proper connectors so didn’t have free hands for a photo
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#96 Delapool

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Posted 05 November 2018 - 10:01 PM

What type are the LEDs? Looks bright.

#97 Leichardti

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Posted 06 November 2018 - 09:00 AM

Cree XPG-3 for the whites (6700k) and Cree XPE-2 for the Red / Green / Blue. Channels 1 & 5 run at 1500mA, 2, 3 and 4 run at 1000mA. Very bright indeed

#98 Delapool

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Posted 06 November 2018 - 02:00 PM

Nice - looked at cree’s a while back but didn’t go down road. Had heard they were bright.

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Posted 21 November 2018 - 09:22 PM

Little bit of an update on the tank.
Very sadly I lost the 47cm Neosilurus Ater. Got a few wounds from the Coal Grunter, but him in quarantine with meth blue but whatever the cottony stuff is that keeps appearing when there’s any stress killed him.. sad loss so here’s a nice photo of him. Poor thing.
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Anyway, I’ve decided that since this cottony stuff is hanging around a bit I’m going to keep the tank partly under quarantine, so money’s been going towards plants!!!
New additions:
Hygrophila angustifolia
Limnophila aromatica
Ceratopteris thalictroides (watersprite)

Moss

Fissidens dietrichae
Mini Sydney fissidens
Star Moss
Native Bushy moss
Native flame moss
Native carpet moss
Unidentified native fissidens

Most of these came lose bagged so I’ve stuck them down on rocks with mesh other than the star moss which has been superglued
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Moved the lights apart too. They light up the whole tank pretty well and looks way better.
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The smaller neo doesn’t seem to be much of an uprooter - much to my surprise only 2x Limnophila aromatica stems have become uprooted. He’s a well fed fatty though.
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Unfortunately the Blyxa aubertii I got a while back melted and disappeared. I will be getting some bigger ones which should be better.
Finally the whole “Big angry fish with planted” idea seems to be reasonably coming together.
Only current problem is there’s cyanobacteria growing on part of the background right where a lot of the light hits. Tank’s currently in blackout mode for the week and I need to hit it with some hydrogen peroxide. If that doesn’t kill it ChemiClean will.

By the looks of things everything should be finally running the way I really want around christmas. Getting a pile more plants has been a big help
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#100 malawiman85

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Posted 22 November 2018 - 09:55 AM

Looks pretty amazing.

I do worry about the effects of that substrate on water quality which might be part of your fungus/whatever problem...






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