Setting up a new tank - WARNING may contain large files!
#21
Posted 18 October 2005 - 03:30 PM
#22
Posted 18 October 2005 - 03:31 PM
Cheers
Mal
#23
Posted 18 October 2005 - 03:34 PM
Yes please! But only if you are doing a prune. Graeme offered me some but I didn't have the heart to let him take it out of his show tank!
Will PM you.
Alfred
#24
Posted 18 October 2005 - 04:14 PM
Matt
#25
Posted 19 October 2005 - 11:59 AM
This is what concerns me a little if you don't know what in there,Will it be safe for the fish?
#26
Posted 19 October 2005 - 03:04 PM
The gravel and water lily compost is for ponds usually with koi in them, so that is safe. I do not know about the topsoil and if I were to do it again, I would leave that out.
Just took a cup of water from the tank to see it in sunlight and it looks like the wood is still leaching tannins.
#27
Posted 20 October 2005 - 09:15 AM
I will be away for 5 days next week and the whole week after that, so all I can do is to keep my fingers crossed that I won't come back to pea soup!
Did some fine tuning to the location of the rain bar and the filter pickup, Co2 stone and heater. What temp do you keep your tanks at? I have had some wild swings from 29 to 20 and now I an setting at 23. will see where it stables when the lights come on.
It's up to 6 hours today. At the moment I am just using 6 tubes and with the haze not enough light is reaching the MMs so they are starting to climb.
#28
Posted 20 October 2005 - 01:48 PM
I did not soak the pcs of wood that I picked up and some algae is starting to grow on it! Sigh!
I hit it with a pressure washer and no algae grew when I was soaking it, so it must be the nutrient rich environment that is causing it to grow.
#29
Posted 20 October 2005 - 05:52 PM
Soaking does nothing against algae.
Btw, i'd float that difformis if i were you, they grow alot faster that way and the roots would be hanging.
If you can run a carbon filter for a week. It would speed up the process.
#30
Posted 20 October 2005 - 06:34 PM
Thanks for chiming in. The algae is not the usual one we see in tanks. it is growing in a clump and is light brown in colour. I know that I am supposed to soak in chlorine first but got lazy. It must be bacteria or mold of some kind that settled on the wood when they were "out there"!
Tempted to take it out of the tank and scrubbing it then soaking it in chlorine, then again in dechlorinator. Will wait a couple more days to see if it gets very bad. Just dropped 4 bristle nose catfish courtesy of Graeme into the tank. Tested NO2 and NO3 just before that and they were fine.
Jerome - Would you run high CO2 at this stage? Will that help. I have 8 t5s but am only running 6 at the moment.
Hmmm.......... carbon filter for a week, that's and idea, think I have a 1000l/h powerhead somewhere.
cheers
Alfred
#31
Posted 20 October 2005 - 07:30 PM
Good luck
Matt
#32
Posted 20 October 2005 - 08:26 PM
Mike
#33
Posted 20 October 2005 - 09:46 PM
I believe that the carbon will help reduce the amount of nutrients in the water thru absorption.
#34
Posted 20 October 2005 - 11:29 PM
In layman terms, it absorbs all the gunk, smell and what nots.
But bear in mind it has a filter life span of 2 weeks or up to a month before it purges everything and fires it back into your tank.
Mike, i doubt it will clear your GW. It would clear the water up abit, but once you remove it, it's all coming back.
#35
Posted 21 October 2005 - 11:03 PM
I will be getting some carbon off Matt tomorrow, so I will pop that into one of the filter trays.
Question, should I change some of the water? The tank has now been running for 7 days, so the filter is not yet established, The bacteria bloom is not getting worse and is infact starting to clear. I am tempted to skim the surface as there is a film starting to develop which is actually trapping the fine CO2 bubbles.
What do you folks think?
#36
Posted 22 October 2005 - 07:05 AM
#37
Posted 22 October 2005 - 07:44 AM
If the tank does not cycle, it will not be clear. I could always add ammonia to the tank, but it would be easier to add fish!
#38
Posted 22 October 2005 - 02:14 PM
#39
Posted 22 October 2005 - 08:34 PM
1) There is no sediment on anything in the tank.
2) I scooped up a large container of water and let that settle as well( no water movement from the filter) 3 days and no sediment either.
The water is tea color, I am pretty sure it is tannins. I put a piece ( a cutoff so that the piece in the tank would sit properly) in a separate container and it turned the water brown as well. These pieces have not been in water before. I picked them on the road side when I was driving thru the Sterling Range a few weeks back.
I hope there is some improvement when I get back from the week long trip I am taking tomorrow.
Went to Vebas today and got 6 Ottos and 6 SAEs. Matt contributed 7 tiny Bristle Nose cats as well, so I have just added 19 tiny fish. I think that the volume of water should be able to handle it. I hope!
#40
Posted 22 October 2005 - 08:35 PM
1) There is no sediment on anything in the tank.
2) I scooped up a large container of water and let that settle as well (no water movement from the filter) 3 days and no sediment either.
The water is tea color, I am pretty sure it is tannins. I put a piece ( a cutoff so that the piece in the tank would sit properly) in a separate container and it turned the water brown as well. These pieces have not been in water before. I picked them on the road side when I was driving thru the Sterling Range a few weeks back and had soaked them for only 2 days before they went into the tank!!! Stupid me!
I hope there is some improvement when I get back from the week long trip I am taking tomorrow.
Went to Vebas today and got 6 Ottos and 6 SAEs. Matt contributed 7 tiny Bristle Nose cats as well, so I have just added 19 tiny fish. I think that the volume of water should be able to handle it. I hope!
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