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MC Mountains - 12g long
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doylecolmdoyle
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Thanks Tim and Andy 
Had to get some new glassware, went with Cal Aqua Mini pipes, both my ebay purchased pipes broke Slightly different flow now, not as aggressive.
3ft Bookself Aquarium by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
Had to get some new glassware, went with Cal Aqua Mini pipes, both my ebay purchased pipes broke
Slightly different flow now, not as aggressive.
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.....Very Nice indeed!
doylecolmdoyle
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doylecolmdoyle
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Almost three weeks after the last trim, algae seems to be at bay without any floaters, tho I do get a bit more brownish glass dust diatom stuff.
Have needed to increase ferts, some of the new growth MC was starting to turn yellow a little, I think from low iron, the increase seems to have helped.
_MG_5904 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
Have needed to increase ferts, some of the new growth MC was starting to turn yellow a little, I think from low iron, the increase seems to have helped.
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bobiciupe
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Looks great! I did have problems with the diatoms in the past, i raised the lamp height to 50 cm above water surface and the diatoms vanished
kadoxu
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Looks really good!
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doylecolmdoyle
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Awesome, would you mind if I copy it?.
No I dont mind, its a fairly generic looking Iwagumi really, but i would recommend MC that stuff just grows and grows, very easy to maintain. Only down side to this style is it gets a bit boring, I would like to grow more plants... but Ill set up a 4th tank for that
doylecolmdoyle
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Trimmed, not the best job, didn't get the front line even only noticed after i had refilled the tank and my arm hurt
_MG_5964 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
EdwinK
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You can apply a painters or masking tape on the front glass to get a straight line. Remove after trimming.
doylecolmdoyle
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Carpets are a real PITA
Imagine trimming my HC carpet in 120cm tank , real back breaker, the worst is cleaning the tank after the job is done
You should have trim it more leave like 1cm top from the substrate
They are a bit of a pain, but one trim a month is to bad... tho I will trim again later this month, I am away on a holiday for all of December so will be interesting to see how my tank fair without much attention.
I will trim down much shorter in about 3 weeks.
doylecolmdoyle
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Took some photos of the shrimp in this tank today, lots of berried Cherries and a few berried Zebra shrimp and some Darwin Algae Shrimp, will be interesting to see how the Zebra's go. Put 10 in the tank today.
_MG_6107 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
_MG_6221 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
_MG_6099 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
_MG_6073 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
_MG_6323 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
_MG_6170 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
_MG_6144 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
_MG_6118 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
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doylecolmdoyle
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texturing looks better anyway
(there's a way back discussion on this in the "archives" - some discussion in one of Mark Evans journals where he's trimming the HC unevenly to create shadows/depth ... don't recall if this is where most of the discussion occurs or if there's a link to another thread)
doylecolmdoyle
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Took this photo of a baby Zebra shrimp (Australian Native) resting on a leaf of MC, they need lower PH levels apparently but hopefully these guys can adapt and continue to breed.
_MG_6370 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
_MG_6381 by Colm Doyle, on Flickr
