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Aaron's 216l journal!

havnt used aquasoil, but i can tell you its hell when substrates powder up over everything, tropica substrate clouded up on me, it was horrible, bits everywhere, covering every single little plant 🙁
 
aaronnorth said:
has anyone else found aquasoil to be extremely messy? everytime it is touched, even if only slightly it is like powder, which clouds the water 🙁
i can see it settling on my wood and on the anubias, despite cleaning it off daily 🙄
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Yes, Aaron. I have found this with my Malaya too. Hence why I will not use it again. I don't like working with it at all.
Tank is looking good btw.
 
I did find it when I first tried it in a tank but not now. Even when I don't use tweezers because I'm too lazy it does cloud quite a bit in that area but settles after an hour tops. I don't find it settles on the plants though. It might be because it's a smaller tank so flow is easier to distribute and I do water changes quite a few times a week.

You'll probably get better at it once you get practise. 😉
 
thanks for all the replies.

rawr said:
I did find it when I first tried it in a tank but not now. Even when I don't use tweezers because I'm too lazy it does cloud quite a bit in that area but settles after an hour tops. I don't find it settles on the plants though. It might be because it's a smaller tank so flow is easier to distribute and I do water changes quite a few times a week.

You'll probably get better at it once you get practise. 😉
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there is only 550l/ph in ther at the moment as the filter is leaking and i broke my 3000l/ph powerhead 🙄 :lol:
 
You could try turning the filter off while you are working on the tank. Then turn it on again after things have settled.

I do this but for different reasons... I get fed up of dropping plants from my tweezers and the flow quickly carrying them away. With the filter off I can grab them again quite easily 🙂
 
Thanks, everything is finally up & running 😀 just checking the CO2 levels etc.
my replacement motorhead came today so hopefully i shall get rid of the staghorn i currently have, albeit you have to be really close to see it lol but i dont want it to develop any further 😉
the other plants should be here tomorrow 🙂
 
i still swear by good old JBL Aquabasis plus, its good stuff (despite being a bit pink). its easy to plant in as well and it grips plants well too.
 
Nick16 said:
i still swear by good old JBL Aquabasis plus, its good stuff (despite being a bit pink). its easy to plant in as well and it grips plants well too.
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it is good, used it in my 60l too, but you still need something to cap it off otherwise it makes a mess of the water.
I think my next investment will be Nature Soil 😀
 
saintly said:
when this baby kicks in it should look great. 😀

is it me or does your drop checker look a tad blue?
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Thanks, cant wait for the plants to grow higher 😀
My FE run out a couple of hours ago, it is usually yellow 😉 i have a spare, which reminds me i need another off Dan!!

thanks.
 
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