ahaha wonderful period of my life, the food and the nature ah, damn it is seriously a heaven for people into that kind of 'down to earth' lifestyle. but ya I heard things are not getting well over there in the past years especially after COVID... we are actually planning for a visit early next year so I'm going to see that Josh Sim shop aha (IAPLC regular - he is the #3 this year - and apparently the #1 guy said he is inspired by Josh Sim from that ADA video of top15 winners).
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30cm cube tank
- Thread starter chickennublet
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Darrel you need to try Scottish water! Not that I am biased...
chickennublet
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Hiya
Have not updated on this tank in a long time. I really neglected the tank after my holiday in Tokyo last year. The tank became a mess and my fish stopped coming out so I completely stopped feeding them for months. I don't think the ruby tetras made it. It really makes me feel terrible that I treated them so carelessly.
I am trying to get this tank back in shape and it is getting there. I did get a very bad algae outbreak recently which I think was caused by a combination of root tabs leaching from the substrate (probably cos substrate isn't deep enough) and a wave of unusually hot weather recently. Had green algae constantly on the tank walls which would come back in one day after wiping it off. A lot of algae on my plants. Then the water turned green, and when it wasn't green it was cloudy. I didn't want to get any shrimp or other algae eaters (although I did move some red cherry shrimp I found in the filter of my tank to this one I don't think those few shrimp would be enough to make a dent in the algae).
I think root tabs might have finished leaching because, coupled with more stringent maintenance and fertiliser dosing, the tank is now looking quite decent.
I want to share a picture of what the tank looked like in November last year when I finally decided to do some maintenance after putting it off for nearly a month. I don't have pics of when it was infested with algae but I do have a picture of the tank looking really cloudy! And also want to share a picture from last week to show it's progress
Look at the state of this
20231125_100425 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr
The cloudy water a month ago
IMG_20240508_114604_693 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr
And finally this, just taken a few days ago!
20240506_223550 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr
Have not updated on this tank in a long time. I really neglected the tank after my holiday in Tokyo last year. The tank became a mess and my fish stopped coming out so I completely stopped feeding them for months. I don't think the ruby tetras made it. It really makes me feel terrible that I treated them so carelessly.
I am trying to get this tank back in shape and it is getting there. I did get a very bad algae outbreak recently which I think was caused by a combination of root tabs leaching from the substrate (probably cos substrate isn't deep enough) and a wave of unusually hot weather recently. Had green algae constantly on the tank walls which would come back in one day after wiping it off. A lot of algae on my plants. Then the water turned green, and when it wasn't green it was cloudy. I didn't want to get any shrimp or other algae eaters (although I did move some red cherry shrimp I found in the filter of my tank to this one I don't think those few shrimp would be enough to make a dent in the algae).
I think root tabs might have finished leaching because, coupled with more stringent maintenance and fertiliser dosing, the tank is now looking quite decent.
I want to share a picture of what the tank looked like in November last year when I finally decided to do some maintenance after putting it off for nearly a month. I don't have pics of when it was infested with algae but I do have a picture of the tank looking really cloudy! And also want to share a picture from last week to show it's progress
Look at the state of this
The cloudy water a month ago
And finally this, just taken a few days ago!
chickennublet
Member
Picture of tank from today:
20240512_163240 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr
20240512_163417 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr
20240512_163511 by Lenny Lim, on Flickr
chickennublet
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hydrophyte
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Happy plants in there!
chickennublet
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Better trim them before they turn unhappy again
