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last night before falling a sleep she brought up camera stuff to me

In what sense?


But in all seriousness, sounds like a good idea , glad the wife likes to take pictures too. I have the problem as my wife is scared of this camera, too many options.

Ingo

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Ahh... Mine used to be a photo major so she has no problems with taking pictures. Used to have a problem with digital but thats all over now.

New update on my tank. I brought home 5 chery shrimp tonight for $2 each. They are in a bucket with a very slow drip line. The game plan is to add them once the lights go out. They are pretty small (3/8 of an inch, give or take a bit) and I am afraid of my fish making them a snack. Of one them molted in the bag so I am a little worried about them. Any helpful hints?



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Wings,

Cherry shrimp are pretty durable. I have 3 in my 12g and had no problems. They seem to really love the java moss covered rocks and are on there all the time looking for little goodies. They get along fine with the amano shrimp, kuli loaches and gold tetras. Not sure if rainbows would eat them. The rainbows and rams don't bother my amano shrimp in the 72g.

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Thanks for the input tetra. How big are yours? Mine are quite small.

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Good luck on the shrimpsters Wings. They are sure small, and not having any shrimp I would not know how safe they are in a tank with Rainbows. But don't think that they have been eaten if you cannot find them for a while, they are good hiders.

Ingo

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Here is a quick update before I go and catch some trout on my day off!

Added the shrimp last night right after a very heavy feeding of frozen blood worms. I scooped them with the net fromt the bucket and put them down in the bottem of the tank. The fish didn't even seem to know they were there. I think that's a good sign.

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I now have 6 Cherry Shimp. The most I have seen at once is 3. I picked up 6 Oto's today. This will put my cout at 11 or 12. Something like that. I figure they aren't going to hurt things!

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Well on my two hour trip back home from the Kzoo to the West Coast for a wedding, I made a few stops to check out some stores.

I came home with three plants: Two Lillies (one tiger the other all red.) and an African fern.

I also picked up some new DW. It was stuff that is screwed on the a chunk of slate. The peice had 3 skinny branches on it. I will probably keep using the slate but break it into smaller chunks and reattach the wood.

Sorry no pictures but I think a cammera may be soon.

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Wings,

I am personally not too wild about the "wood on slate" thing, mostly because it is very likely that the wood is not water logged by any means, it probably hasn't seen any water since it was part of a standing tree.

How tall are the Lilies now and how tall will they become? I always liked the look of them and can imagine that one or two will make a nice addition to your tank, if they are placed in a position where they can shine (I think Bob W. has some in his 125).

Ingo

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LF,
Wow people do see my log!

The DW is in a tub with water right now. Rocks are on the wood to keep it down being it is quite dry. I will probably soak it for a couple of weeks.

The Lilies are really small right now but I think they get much bigger. Both are maybe a couple inches tall. I am not really quite sure where I want them in the tank. The tank will change a fair amount in the next couple of weeks as I add the DW. Having a vision of what I want in the tank has been a pretty large problem for me.

Bob does have one in his tank. It looks quite nice! Speaking of Bob I haven't seen him in my store in quite some time.

Camera update: Probably going to be this spring. Things didn't quite work out as planed so we are going to have to take it easy with our cash until spring.

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Hi Wings

For some reason, your log dropped off my active list, so I didn't know you'd posted anything. Can't wait till you can show us some pics of the lillies & driftwood & slate. How did you take your other pics - a borrowed camera?

The LFS where I get my gas filled has the red ones & if they are the same, they are very nice looking.

Cheers
TW

TW,
All my old pictures are from a borrowed camera. My friend that I used to take it from used to live much closer(2 blocks not 1/2 way a cross town) so it was easy to steal it for a night. I will have to see when I can get my hands on it again being the wife and I are not going to have the cash we thought we were until march.

A little update:
I added in the DW on Tuesday. I really like the looks of it. When I added it in, I only messed with very small areas of the tank. Also on Tuesday I added some java moss to a set of rocks in the tank.

Fish: I haven't had any more losses to the tank since right after I came back from the honeymoon. Last night I got a good count on the 6 new Otos I added in a week or so ago. They were schooling back and forth at at the front of the glass. I must say they were quite cute (the wife thought so too).

A new fish tally:
9 Brilliant rasboras
4 dwarf neon rainbows
2 skunk loaches
1 flying fox
10 otos
6 cherry shrimp
1 catfish (might be a baby bullhead)

Shrimp: I don't seem them very often but the ones that I do see, seem to be growing. I am guessing that they are all still alive but who really knows.

Plants: All my plants seem to be growing quite well. I have been messing with my ferts a little using tetra's trick with a little less N and a little more P. This is messing with the color of my Sunset Hygro. Some of the plant tops are hot pink down the veins while more are turning all a redish/orngish pink color at the tops. I am also adding iron with my Micros.

Algae: The only algea I have right now is green spot. This seems to be only on my crpyts and anubias. I have been trying to keep them shaded with my stem plants as much as posible but it doesn't seem to help. Maybe I should cut my lighting back again to maybe 10 hours. I was running at 12 then cut to 11 so maybe it is still too much. Any ideas on this would be a great help!



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Wings,

That is so funny. Just before I read your entry I was wondering about shorter light periods myself. As you may know, my new 40G has started off with only 7 hours and growth was pretty darn good. By now I am at 8 hours and I will increase it to 8.5 this weekend.

I think 10 hours is way enough for a lighting period, the only problem I have with it is that I see the tank then mostly without lights on

About your tank: all seems to be going well, but you really have to work on getting a camera. A cheap 4mp should not cost you more than $200 and would be way enough to get some shots of the tank (maybe no close-ups of fish though). How about perusing Ebay and what not for a used one?

Ingo

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Well, this is how we are looking at it. We could spend a couple hundred and get an alright camera but in a year we would want to spend the bigger bucks and get a really nice one, thus kind of upping the price of the nice one. Things with our cash flow did not really work out as planed. So it is kind of throwing us through a loop and we have to be pretty tight with our spending. Plus it looks as if we are going to need loans for me to finish school and her to keep going. This really wasn't in the game plan. Trust me, I would love to get some pictures up of my tank. I rather enjoy all your input but right now things just don't work out for that. Sorry again for not having picture of my super sweet tank but I guess you will have to take my word for it.

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Sorry again for not having picture of my super sweet tank but I guess you will have to take my word for it.

Well you know if you don't show your picture after a while it's assumed your a protist collaborator

I hear you with the camera. Although my camera is a good day to day camer and it has the ability to take some good fish pics if I had to do it again I would have waited and got an SLR-type camera. Actually my camera (Canon S2 IS) has a new model out already (Canon S3 IS) and it now goes to ISA 800, whereas mine only goes to 400 which is one of it's limitations.

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Well you know if you don't show your picture after a while it's assumed your a protist collaborator

Dang it!

What is all this ISA stuff all about?

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Sorry wings that was a typo, I meant ISO (film speed)

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I talked to the wife and she said that was probably the case.

Tank update:
The red lilly has grown at least 3 to 4 inches since last weekend. While the tiger lilly wich is right next to it for the time being hasing grown at all.

Still have at least one strimp as of tonight....buggers are good at hiding being bright red!

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Some numbers on the night before the 50% water change:

Nitrates: 10ppm
Ph: 6.7~8
Kh: 17 degrees
CO2: 81ppm

1st, If I am adding 11pmm of nitrates 3x a week. Then by the end of the week I should have 33ppm given no up take. My plants then are taking up 20ppm + some for fish poo.

2nd, CO2. Really freaking high! I turned it down a couple of bubles. I caught the dwarf rainbows breathing hard tonight. I can't beleive that I haven't had problems with that high of a count such as fish deaths.



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That is for sure a lot of CO2, and a little to low on the nitrates. Any idea about your phosphates?

Wings - I added a comment in my 125G log on the fish that you hint you would like to add to this tank, check it out.

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So what should my nitrates be right before the water change? Yes I know the CO2 is a bit high...and I don't have a phosphate kit yet. Maybe I will pick one up.

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based on EI, your Nitrates should be around 20ppm just before the water change.

Your Phosphates would be interesting to measure, in particular because I am curious about its proportion with regards to Nitrates (should be about 1/10 of Nitrates).

Ingo

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(should be about 1/10 of Nitrates).

How does tetra feel about this?

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How does tetra feel about this?

Well I usually dose 10 to 1 (no3 to po4) not sure what it ends up because I simply don't test anymore.



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Right now I am dosing:

1/2 tsp of N: 11.37 ppm
1/8 tsp + just a little extra of P: 2.96 ppm
1/8 tsp of K: 2.17 ppm

Left over nitrate then being low would be because P causes more up take? Not that I am overly worried about things in my tank but just looking at what is going on.

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Well on the 4th of July it was like Xmas because my friend with the camera came over before we went and watched some of the worst fire works I have ever seen.

I took a few pictures of the tank but I don't have my hands on them yet. I hope they are good. I only took a few. So lets keep our fingers crossed that I can prove that my tank isn't a big algae war zone.

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oooh, pictures, that will be good. Looking forward to them /:'

Cheers
TW

I took a few pictures of the tank but I don't have my hands on them yet.

Did you tease your wife like this on your wedding night

We're waiting.......

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Yeah, waiting here as well. Was that a regular camera where you have to fill the film first?

Wings - I guess we have to start a fund-raiser for you so that you finally can get you hands on them.

Ingo

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Well you see I haven't been in contact with my friend since the 4th. I want to get my hands on them really bad but I will have to wait as will you. They are coming though! No really!

Did you tease your wife like this on your wedding night

I was just trying to find the place to stay! Lets just say the map was wrong! Thanks Google!

Wings - I guess we have to start a fund-raiser for you so that you finally can get you hands on them.

Fund-raiser for me? That would be sweet! I am not about to turn down cash!

LF,
The camera was a cheapy digital. Same one that 99% of my pictures have been posted from.

Sorry to not have them up yet. I though I would hear from him sooner....

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Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!

Last pictures

Whole Tank shot as of July 4

left side

Sorry for the wait everyone! Dont have much time today cause I need to do my water changes super fast!

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Hey, really nice wings It's got everything a planted tank could hope for, pokey driftwood, splashes of color, and a wisteria carpet.

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Nice going Wings Tank is looking good and the plants seem happy.

One thing that I don't think works is the wisteria foreground. I like it wrapping the sides, but the shape of the wisteria leaves takes away from all those other nice plants behind it. I would go for a darker lower foreground. Moss covered rocks would probably work really well in your setup because of the darker tighter color.


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Pictures Your tank is looking nice, good job.

Cheers
TW

Thanks for all the comments everyone!

As for the wisteria forground: I kind of needed something to feel the gap until I could get my hands on another plant. I used to have dwar sag. up front but when I was getting leaves that werer 9 inches tall it had to go. I like the moss and rock idea from tetra. I have been wanting to get my hands on some pella moss for some time now but I really don't want to order it online if I don't have to. Though I haven't seen it on any of the list at work either. Java moss may have to do for now. I have tons of it so its not a big deal.

During the water change today I pulled up all the large giant hygro in the tank and took it into work. For a replacement I am thinking of adding 2 or 3 Aponogeton crispus. My thoughts with this is that I will have a simmilar leave shape but it will not be as bushy so I can layer in different stem plants. Any thoughts on this?

Thanks for getting back to me once again. Sorry the pictures arn't all that great. I think they go kind of nasty when I saved for the web. Might have to get you a better one tomorrow.

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Different shot and save method
This picture might be a little better. I think half the problem is using photobucket instead of just uploading to the site. Some day when the wife and I get a camera I will have to get a premium membership too!



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Siesta Lighting

This morning I was reading in my plant book (Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants by Peter Hiscock). In there it talks about giving the lights a siesta to cut down on algea. See more on the thread linked above.

Today I am going to start this method to see how it works.

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Here is a little update:

I had some cash burning a hole in my pocket so I picked up some fish, shrimp and plants from work. The fish went into the 40 along with the plants. Shrimp are now working like slaves in my 2G hex.


As for the fish. They are Pelvicachromis pulcher's (aka kribs). My store got them in sometime last week and I really became hooked on them. There colors are much nicer than I have seen on them before. Therefor I bought a male and a female. They seem to be doing really well as of last night. When I first put them in it looked like they came down with ick but it was only air bubbles due to the large water change. A few hours later they looked perfectly normal weaving in and out of the plants.

Hope to be able to steal a camera sometime soon to show you guys! They seem like they are not going to be shy.

Plants:
Picked up a bunch of narrow leaf ludwigea and apon. crisp. I am not overly happy with the scape at ths point but for the time being not too much will change. My boss said he would order me some plants so I might be trying some new things. Will keep you updated!

Edit: I noticed last night that one of my rainbows has one cloudy eye. I have a feeling I will have to put it down.

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Wings,

Sorry about the Rainbow, a clowdy eye is not good. Doesn't that usually come from bad water quality and goes away when conditions improve?

Nice that you picked up some Kribs, coincidentally - I read today in TFH's September issue that they are best bought as juvenile fish in a group of 6 in order to assure that there will be a pair forming (if you like babies).

Apons - didn't I have them in my 125G and they grew out of the water and had flowers ?

Ingo

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I have one in the tank right now and it just put out its 4th flower. I was very impressed.

In terms of bad water... Should I test such things. I have been keeping my feedings light, doing my 50%'s, and adding in ferts as if it was religon.

Buy six kribs to get a pair.... that would be a total of about 30 bucks that I don't have. Though I am not really looking to have a bunch of babies. If I want to see then I go look into my convict tank. Right now I have a second mature female which makes the tank kind of interesting. The younger female shows off to the older female and kind of gangs together to push the male around. They have kept my attention most of the past few days.



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Kribs

Man those are nasty fish, especially if you have a pair. I had two for a while and they terrorized every fish in the tank even my gigantic Angels I used to have. I don't know how many Bensaf has but based on that hodge-podge he only has one. Don't even think about putting any rams in there.

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Tetra,
So far mine have been pretty mellow. Just swimming aroundb exploring their new jungle home. If anything they seem a little shy twords the other fish. That could be though because they are young and also the new fish in the tank. Right now they are only about an inch and a half to two inches.

Where they breeding in your tank when they were mean or just mean to be mean?

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I think to remember that I have read/heard about these fish being rather mean and that would be a reason why they can be even with larger fish in a community tank. And I think to have read/heard that they are rather bad when breeding.

Keep us posted Wings,

Ingo

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Thanks for the warnings. I will keep you all posted!

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Where they breeding in your tank when they were mean or just mean to be mean?

Just plain mean They weren't breeding, but would beat up on every fish in the tank. I eventually scoped them out and put them in my than empty 12g with a rock. And then they had just each other (and a rock) to be mean to. They are African Cichlids.

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Wait to see how they settle in, you may have gotten a mellow pair. Now is the honeymoon period where they're getting used to everything, just keep an eye on them. Like all cichlids, though, they WILL be defensive and maybe even downright nasty if they breed.

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I am still hoping that I got a mellow pair. Although the fish I have in there are not quite whimps. Rasboras, rainbows, loaches and such.

Having convicts for most of my life I know first hand how nasty cichlids get when its breeding time. I do have extra tanks I can put them in if worse comes to worse.

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I forgot to add one thing earlier today. The rainbow I mentioned with the cloudy eye seems to be doing better. I will keep a close eye on them though just to make sure things are ok.

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How come he is better now? Did you do a major water change? Has anything else changed? It would be interesting to know what bettered the condition...

Ingo

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LF,
I am very very sorry but I lied about the rainbow. His eye is still cloudy. I must have just messed it up when looking at them. I haven't done a major water change since Monday and sticking to EI I wont again until next Monday. As tetra says: you can't be all thing to fish and plants.

Until then I will still keep the close eye. Maybe mine is cloudy too thats why I missed it!


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Here is a quick little update while I am slacking off not doing my homework....

I pulled out one of my crypts. It was getting much too large for my tank. In the process of pulling up I also trimed the Sunset Hygro and planted it in the empy space left from the crypt.

I am still keeping my fingers crossed to be able to do a work plant order sometime soon. Thus I needed to make homes for new plants. On the list of plants I would like is: Gayi, baby teardrop, and needle leaf Ludwigia. Maybe some more nana. Thinking of adding in more hard scape.

Shrimp: I have not gotten a good count on shrimp in quite some time. The last one I seen has grown a lot and is now deep red. Very nice looking shrimp if I ever get to see them. (The cat fish I thought might be eatting them is now in another tank.)

My rainbow count is now at 2. One male and one female. The male is the one with the cloudy eye. I am going to do a large water change tomorrow morning. I found a good amount of junk in the tank when I was pulling and replanting. Just out of interest I will probably do a water test tonight just to find out what it has to say.

That is all for now. I have no idea when I will get pictures up again. Maybe when we get Loan money we will get a camera... but probably not.

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Sorry about the fish Wings

As for the P Gayi - it's a weed in the truest sense of the word. Nice as as accent, but left alone it's too thin to be effective, just looks kind of ragged. Beautiful deep green/ brown color to it, but it's not really a stand alone plant. It will take a few weeks to settle in, then when it does, runners shoot out everywhere.

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As for the P Gayi - it's a weed in the truest sense of the word. Nice as as accent, but left alone it's too thin to be effective, just looks kind of ragged.

I saw this plant in a LFS. It looked just like Blyxa.

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Must've been a short stem - it's much taller and not nearly as full as blyxa. Just a tall, thin, reedy plant.

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P Gayii is not my favorite plant either. At some point way in the past, I purchased a couple of bunches, placed them in the tank until the weekend (came mid-week) to do a real planting, and threw them out right then. It somehow doesn't look right, too much space between leaves, somewhat ragged appearance, just didn't cut it.

Sorry about your Rainbow loss, if I read that right then you lost one that looked healthy before (not the eye one). I am curious of the outcome of the water test.

Ingo

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It somehow doesn't look right, too much space between leaves, somewhat ragged appearance, just didn't cut it.

I knew it was too good to be true. The P.Gayi I saw looked very dense and compact like Blyxa. Looked like it could be used in the same way.

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tetra and wings, look at the "before" picture in my 4G nano log and you'll see P Gayi on the left side. I think that's what you can expect from it. I've read about it being used as a short stem foreground plant, so I guess you could use it that way, tetra, but it is rather thin.

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I guess the reason this plant (gayi) caught my eye was the darker shade of green. Right now my tank is 98% hygro and very bright breen. I kind of want to mix it up a bit. Any ideas? If I were to use the gayi... I am thinking of putting it in front of the sunset and keeping it a mid hight.

Rainbows: Saturday morning I pulled a male that was dead in a plant. Sometime later that day the wife picked up a female on the floor. Right now I have one male and one female. The male is the cloudy eye. I did a NitrAte test and it showed about 15ppm. Not all that high.

I did a large water change of about 50-70% this morning and dosed as normal. See what happens with Mr. Cloudy eye. If he is not better by the end of the week then its to the freezer.




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As most of you know it has been hotter than.....well really hot in the northern US. We do not have AC in our house so the tank temp = the room temp. My plants seemed to like this a lot. I had to trim them 2 last week because they just started to over take the tank.

Any thoughts on this?

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Yesterday we got some new plants in at work. So I just had to bring some home to try in the tank. The plants are Rotala Magenta and P. gayi. Right now I just kind of stuck them in the tank but I am sure they will be moving in the time to come. My scape is still kind of at a loss. I don't know where I want to go with it. I would rather not copy one of your tanks or anyone elses for that matter. I need to come up with something of my own creation.



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Any thoughts on this?

At work the air conditioning is broken and I guess there isn't the funding right now to fix it. Last couple of weeks while it was really hot I noticed my display tank was at 92 degrees. Fish and plants looked normal. There are even some rainbows in the tank and they made it through just fine. Plants may grow faster due to the increased temp - I'm not sure if their metabolism is related to temperature for sure though, it would make sense that it was though.

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Forgot to add something. LF you will much happy to know that the "thing" is on its way out to door to one of my co-workers today. You will never see it in one of my tanks again!

when I pulled it out I realized that the Anubias nana had at least tripled in size since I got it. In a bigger tank than mine I think this would be a pretty nice chunk of wood. Moss covered, big nana on it and a nice java fern growing on its side. Maybe I should sell it....

Have a good day guys!

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I guess my question was related to plant growth with higher temps. It seemed as the temp went up the plant growth did too.

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A little sad news on the frontline today. Last night I found one of my cherry shrimp dryed up on the carpet. That for sure moves my count down to 5 but I am guessing there is way less than that in the tank.

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Wings,

Sad to hear that the Thing is gone for good, what do I have now to complain about

Truely sad though is the fact that a shrimp jumped ship. How is that possible? He climbed up the glass or what?

Ingo

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little sad news on the frontline today. Last night I found one of my cherry shrimp dryed up on the carpet

Sorry to hear that. I lost a CRS when I moved my 12g from upstairs to downstairs, while transferring the fish. I think he jumped out of the net while transferring.


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Sorry to hear the shrimp jumped out. Didn't your wife also find a rainbow on the floor. Is your tank an open top?

Anyway, sorry for the losses.

Cheers
TW

I am not sure exactly what happened. I have found the the glass shrimp are pretty good jumpers and I think that cherries are probably the same way.

My tank is an open top. I have not found any water any where on my light so I am not overly worried. I like having an open top so I can look down in there, the lighting is much more even and I don't have to clean it because of the liquid rock for water we have here. I found that with the glass lids they were dirty after only a couple of days and my light was very less than what I get from an open top.

The wife did find a rainbow on the floor too a week or so ago. I think it must have been spooked when she was vacuming or something of the sort.

I am hoping to find a few shrimp in the tank the nexy couple of days when I am around. Some reason I dont think I have many left. Maybe one out of six. Stupid me for having a catfish in there.


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Hope the shrimps turn up

Cheers
TW

Look what I got my hands on...

Pictures of the big tank will be coming in the next day or two. Just a little swamped with homework right now!

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Nice Wings,
That could be fun to scape. I see a nice mound configuration.

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Thanks tetra!

Right now I want to add a larger rock to replace the grey one. Maybe I can get them both in there...

I also wouldl like to add some taller wood to it.

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Well I am being a bad student.... Here are some pictures!

Close ups first:
Guppy
Female Krib
Flowers
Middle of the tank

Full shots:
From the Right
From the Left

Another from the Hex


I think LF had the same thing going on in his tank with the flowers. They go crazy! I have lost count now with how many I have had. It is kind of crazy.

Things are starting to shape up a little bit from my jungle of wild plants. The Sunset gives me the most problems because it grows like a weed. Maybe it is a weed!

I pulled out a lot of the wisteria forground and I now have Java Moss on rocks. I would really like to try some other types of moss though.

Any comments, complants or if you are in the mood...complements are more than welcome as always.

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Wings,
I really like the flower shot on top of the water, very nice.

Here's my view on your tank overall for what it's worth.

The sunset (is that all sunset I can't see the pink in the pic) anyway the poly is just way to big. It doesn't grow in a neat shape like rotala where it can be a hugh mound without looking messy. Poly sorta grows like a vine in different directions and looks better if used as an accent or a smaller group, it's even more effective if used from back to mid like a street sorta the way Dr. Bonke used it in his dutch-style setup.

I like the left side, but with all that poly it almost looks like it's waiting to be consumed by the poly-monster.

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Hey Wings, looking good. I like the middle shot detail. You have a nice variety of different colours & textures.

Did you score the hex all set up, or just no pics until you'd scaped it.

Your flowers are nice. I hope one day I see some too.

Do you have a camera now, or did you borrow for these pics.

Anyway, looks pretty good & your female krib is pretty. Any chance of seeing the male?

Cheers
TW

Sunset color: I figure if I wouldn't trim the tops off on a weekly basis, and trimmed the bottems I would have much more pink color.

Any ideas for a plant I could use in a larger grouping?

The left side of the tank has only really two plants. A crypt and westeria.

Hex: I have had it for a while now. Just havent had much time to play with it.
Old Hex picture

Cammera: Sorry but I haven't gotten my own yet. This one was from one of my classmates. She couldn't get the pictures on a disk for me (not very good with tech.) so she just gave me the cammera to take the pictures from. While I had it I couldn't resist taking some tank shots.

Thanks for all your comments! I like your input.



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Nothing too new with the tank as of yet.

Next week I am going to hook up with a guy to buy about 15 CRS for a buck each. Most will go in the 40G but a couple will get added to the hex.

I still don't have any new thoughts to what plants I wan to try. I might pick up some more red ratala this week if someone doesn't buy it up before I get to it.

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Tonight I picked up 3 Amano Shrimp for 2 bucks each. For the time being I am keeping them in the 2G Hex.

On other fish tanks news:
The neibor guy has a 29G with two 10" oscars in it. Amazingly they are not beating each other up. I agreed to take them off his hands as he needs to find them a better home.

For the time being they are going in my planted tank. Thus why the shrimp went in the 2G Hex. I have a feeling that they are going to destroy my plants but I was told today that I suck at plants so why bother.

Ok so here is the real deal. There really are a couple of oscars and I am going to take them in for a short time(I hope!). They are not by all means going in the planted tank. I have put way too much into at this point even though some may think that I suck. They are going to go in my 55G that is below the 40G. Hope no one makes the jump down there!

So yeah thats about it.....



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I think your tank looks nice, and your plants look healthy. Who says you suck your green thumb?

And are there really oscars in your planted tank? They should move asap. I don't care how much I like someone, I wouldn't take oscars into my planted tank. I'd help them take their oscars to the lfs, but that's about it. Anyways, I hope you were joking, and the oscars are in another tank

I don't remember you adding all that stuff about the 55G....I think you tricked me then edited it *shakes fish at wings*

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