Otolith
Seedling
- Joined
- 20 Dec 2012
- Messages
- 4
Hi,
Thought I would introduce myself. My name is Steve. I have always kept pond or aquarium fish, since being a boy, but in recent years have developed an interest in growing plants as more than just a backdrop and a nitrogen sink! I have gradually modified my Trigon setup, upgrading lighting, adding pressurised CO2, rebulding it with a specialised substrate, etc. A regulator failure recently led me to move to a fire extinguisher based system for it. I seem also to have somehow turned my quarantine/hospital tank into a planted display tank. Not sure how that happened. Technically, I suppose that means that I need a new hospital tank, but my wife suspects that if I get one, the same thing will happen to that. She probably knows me too well.
The replacement of my regulator with one compatible with fire extinguisher bottles, and a chance conversation with our vet (hi Graeme!) led me to both a supplier of CO2 and this website. I've been having a look around, and this looks like a really good community and resource.
I currently have three tanks, two of them planted. These are old photos - the two planted ones are looking somewhat the worse for wear at the moment - the CO2 was off for too long on the Trigon while I got round to replacing the regulator, and the small tank has just been neglected and allowed to become a jungle of overgrown crypts and rampant cyanobacteria. Hopefully I'll have them looking good again before too long.
Cichlids;
Unfortunately, the yellow labs have bred everything else out of existence, so the cichlid tank also needs some attention:
I'm not putting any current pictures of my planted tanks up, they're horrific! If it were not for the fish, I'd probably be stripping them down and redoing from scratch, but I'm sure they can be turned around with some attention.
Thought I would introduce myself. My name is Steve. I have always kept pond or aquarium fish, since being a boy, but in recent years have developed an interest in growing plants as more than just a backdrop and a nitrogen sink! I have gradually modified my Trigon setup, upgrading lighting, adding pressurised CO2, rebulding it with a specialised substrate, etc. A regulator failure recently led me to move to a fire extinguisher based system for it. I seem also to have somehow turned my quarantine/hospital tank into a planted display tank. Not sure how that happened. Technically, I suppose that means that I need a new hospital tank, but my wife suspects that if I get one, the same thing will happen to that. She probably knows me too well.
The replacement of my regulator with one compatible with fire extinguisher bottles, and a chance conversation with our vet (hi Graeme!) led me to both a supplier of CO2 and this website. I've been having a look around, and this looks like a really good community and resource.
I currently have three tanks, two of them planted. These are old photos - the two planted ones are looking somewhat the worse for wear at the moment - the CO2 was off for too long on the Trigon while I got round to replacing the regulator, and the small tank has just been neglected and allowed to become a jungle of overgrown crypts and rampant cyanobacteria. Hopefully I'll have them looking good again before too long.
Cichlids;
Unfortunately, the yellow labs have bred everything else out of existence, so the cichlid tank also needs some attention:
I'm not putting any current pictures of my planted tanks up, they're horrific! If it were not for the fish, I'd probably be stripping them down and redoing from scratch, but I'm sure they can be turned around with some attention.
