Delapool's 150 Gallon Tank
#381
Posted 16 February 2019 - 07:43 PM
Cleaned canister, pulled out plants (trimmed ferns right back and wood, got most gravel out in bucket.
Just waiting for it to drain, then scrape out rest of gravel to clean tomorrow. Refill and put plants back in.
Will run with internal filter only.
#382
Posted 18 February 2019 - 07:21 AM
#383
Posted 04 March 2019 - 04:59 AM
Added aquarium soil pellets, ada power one sand (mainly pumice) and gravel from before (could of skipped that maybe but oh well).
Tank seems to be clearing amazingly fast. Think I’ll add the wood and plants sitting in buckets tomorrow and that will do for moment. Next weekend get the canister filter and maybe CO2 going again. Maybe, settled into new house but usual tonne of work to do.
Water change tomorrow while I lay a few pavers for air cons going in Wednesday.
#384
Posted 04 March 2019 - 07:02 AM
Lastly I added 18l of leftover gravel (could of skipped that maybe but like colour better).
#385
Posted 04 March 2019 - 07:08 AM
Eventually I’ll shift tank back against wall but thinking of getting some screens to put either side to hide stuff. Also has large window on right side so thinking I can block the sun as well. Lots to do
Oh yeah - I learnt that I can’t slide the tank on Lino like on tiles....
#386
Posted 04 March 2019 - 09:45 PM
Between stretching into tank and laying pavers for air-con, done stuffed a muscle in my back so nothing further. Need some more plants up back right of tank but left room for CO2 and filters.
#387
Posted 08 March 2019 - 11:42 AM
#388
Posted 10 March 2019 - 09:24 AM
#389
Posted 10 March 2019 - 12:09 PM
#390
Posted 18 May 2019 - 08:50 AM
So been a while of not doing much and took a photo while doing a water change.
Readings of less than 5ppm nitrate (might explain the unhappy bolbitis) and 0.5ppm phosphate (test kit expired ages ago yikes!).
Bought a timer to run the second light for short periods but not really seeing the need. The t5ho doing the job for the ferns and Anubias. Still dreaming of getting to a fish shop when funds permit.
On the good news side, zero GSA on glass since turning off second light. Minimal green algae on glass.
#391
Posted 18 May 2019 - 10:41 AM
#392
Posted 16 June 2019 - 05:30 AM
I ran an experiment for a couple of weeks (ie I forgot I’d done it), where left the second light running. Result was drastically browned off bolbitis (which I’ve generally taken as deficient in majors not algae growth) and green algae on tank glass.
Nitrates read 5pmm so upping dosing. Out of date phosphate test kit read 0.25ppm and new kit read 1ppm (I thought interesting that I’d found out of date nitrate kits to also under-read).
I’m still tempted to run the second light for an hour just as it sits there lol but apart from one plant, the ferns and Anubias I confess seem fine without it.
#393
Posted 16 June 2019 - 07:24 PM
since getting rid of all my americans, my bolbitis and coffeefolia have gone nuts. If you want bolbitis let me know.
#394
Posted 16 June 2019 - 09:16 PM
#396
Posted 15 July 2019 - 07:38 AM
Thinking of just getting some more angelfish or something else for top of tank as empty up there.
One bulb setting has failed on the quad t5ho. I did set up the other LED to come on just for an hour in morning and night so will try that. Bit of glass algae to clean up still as well.
And I did think it was nice it was a bit over an hours work, mainly with scissors and then umm’ing on wood placement. Nicer than the old days of hours and hours
Some early morning shots - just got to wait for ferns to bounce back and see if the liquid carbon dosing was causing melt.
#397
Posted 15 July 2019 - 07:45 AM
Hathcet fish will look good at the top of the tank! Pretty cool too.
#398
Posted 15 July 2019 - 08:15 AM
The dream of discus is looking a bit out of reach (this house is keeping me broke!). Still tempted to check a few shops this week.
Hathcet fish will look good at the top of the tank! Pretty cool too.
Hey, that’s a good idea - I’ll look into them this week. A few people have said now the top needs more fish
#400
Posted 29 July 2019 - 06:03 PM
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