I used a tool as that's what I've seen in most tutorials. Yeah I imagine it must have been a defect, but I will message co2art to see what they think.
Thank you!
Will do that!
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3000 Liter High Tech Planted Tank
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I haven't checked in on this in a while, but it's looking amazing!
Thank you!
PeerUnk
New Member
Maybe a little late on the show, but I had planaria quite some time in my 120G. My Neocaridina population never thrived, I saw the planaria killing them and their babies.
Containing the planaria boom with traps works like a charm, temporarily 🙁. But I've managed to kill them with a product called No-Planaria, a some sort of palm extract. The shrimps and ramshorn snails kept alive in the treatment. I did trap the most planaria all 7 days before dosing, to prevent die-off waste. Dosed once, never saw any planaria again 🙂. I dosed again 10 days later to be sure, not sure that was necessary...
To be sure on fore hand, always test it on all live stock species in a quarantine tank, to make sure you don't have any surprises in the display tank.
PeerUnk
New Member
Anyways, nice tank! Trimming a tank these dimensions is labour intensive , I guess?
That is good to know that works with the ramshorn/pond snails! I did end up using 6 grams of fenbendazole and that seems to have done the trick. The shrimp population has definitely been doing better! The fish fry that kept disappearing in their mini tanks haven't disappeared anymore and are growing (I will make an update on these soon).
I am glad to not have to worry about the planaria anymore, they were having a very significant effect.
Thanks! It's a decent amount of trimming, and I have to get in some awkward positions but it's not too bad. The rock walls on the left/right make the actual planted space much smaller, closer to a 150 cm tank just very deep, but the sloped substrate helps a lot.
He calls the guy Ryan…
Very cool!! I heard he was coming for aquashella and stopping by the aquarium, so I commented to make sure not to miss the planted tank since its very easy to miss. Luckily he saw the last minute comment. I'm happy he liked the tank enough to show it on his channel.
Yeah I don't know where he got Ryan from lol.
I've had the lights for a week now and they are incredible! I think I've found a spectrum that I like. Here is before and after.
6 Fluval plant 48 in 3.0
5 Netlea AT6 pros
During the first and last 30 minutes I like to run the tank really dim.
I will try to take a video of the tank soon, and some more close up pictures. The colors look even better in person. I am very happy with the new lights.
Here are the lights.
I also found some baby fish I've been raising in this tank. I am assuming 3 of them are CPDs and the lone fish is a threadfin rainbow. I also keep some baby shrimp in there for closer observation of their health/devolepment. The colors in the mini tank are great too!
In this video you can see how the red cherry shrimp are glowing now!
6 Fluval plant 48 in 3.0
5 Netlea AT6 pros
During the first and last 30 minutes I like to run the tank really dim.
I will try to take a video of the tank soon, and some more close up pictures. The colors look even better in person. I am very happy with the new lights.
Here are the lights.
I also found some baby fish I've been raising in this tank. I am assuming 3 of them are CPDs and the lone fish is a threadfin rainbow. I also keep some baby shrimp in there for closer observation of their health/devolepment. The colors in the mini tank are great too!
In this video you can see how the red cherry shrimp are glowing now!
Bradders
Member
I just recorded a video of the tank with the new lights. I also have some underwater video coming soon that I thought was pretty cool.
Tank in MJs video
Tank in new video
Yeah it made a huge difference. I was looking at my video and compared it to MJ aquacapings video and wow. I wish he got to see the tank under this nice lighting.
Tank in MJs video
Tank in new video
Bradders
Member
Massively looking forward to the underwater video. Would be great to see that.
Here is a macabre question for you. With such a well planted tank and so huge, I assume that fish deaths go unnoticed to some degree and they just decompose in the aquarium?
Yep! They do go unnoticed. There are so many snails, shrimps and other microfauna that any dead fish wouldn't last long. The only deaths I notice are the times a fish gets in the overflow, but this is rare because I have a big canvas mesh barrier around it.
Even in my heavily planted 200L when a fish dies (very rarely) they go unnoticed and eaten by the plants and plecos in there. i recently lost a small choprae danio from old age I'm assuming, and its body came into the foreground and was gone in 12 hours from the army of snails and other critters
