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Re: Transparent Tank - reborn
Brilliant. I love your DIY stuff in particular, but will definitely refer to your advice on scaping if I ever brave a rebuild (my wife would go totally crazy if I did that anytime soon - next spring I think). I have used your advice on perspex pipes on my tank. I wasn't able to get the lilly pipe bit to work though - I didn't have enough puff to blow a bubble. I wonder, could you please tell me what the internal and external diameters are for the perspex pipe you use? I'm thinking that maybe the walls of the pipe I have are thicker and that's why I am unable to get the bubble to form. Thanks again. D 😀
Brilliant. I love your DIY stuff in particular, but will definitely refer to your advice on scaping if I ever brave a rebuild (my wife would go totally crazy if I did that anytime soon - next spring I think). I have used your advice on perspex pipes on my tank. I wasn't able to get the lilly pipe bit to work though - I didn't have enough puff to blow a bubble. I wonder, could you please tell me what the internal and external diameters are for the perspex pipe you use? I'm thinking that maybe the walls of the pipe I have are thicker and that's why I am unable to get the bubble to form. Thanks again. D 😀
faizal
Member
Re: Transparent Tank - reborn
Mike the amount of thought and time you had put into that post is absolutely stunning 😀
Mike the amount of thought and time you had put into that post is absolutely stunning 😀
Re: Gestation for cherry shrimp?
You can trim it as soon as the trimmings are long enough to replant. Hack and replant taller ones during weekly maintenance, it'll soon fill in.
mikeappleby said:Am pretty pleased with how this is going. Another week until a stauro trim though I think.
You can trim it as soon as the trimmings are long enough to replant. Hack and replant taller ones during weekly maintenance, it'll soon fill in.
faizal
Member
Re: Transparent Tank - reborn
Sorry for the hijack 😳 but I know that adding O2 during lights out helps with the plant growth in a co2 injected tank but what's your thought on adding O2 during lights out period in an Excel only tank? It should provide the same benefits right?
Sorry for the hijack 😳 but I know that adding O2 during lights out helps with the plant growth in a co2 injected tank but what's your thought on adding O2 during lights out period in an Excel only tank? It should provide the same benefits right?
faizal
Member
Re: Transparent Tank - reborn
Hi Mike 😀 . If you don't mind me saying,...I think you should consider making an article of that super long post that you made regarding the basics of planted tank keeping in the tutorial sections of the forum. It would really appeal to a newbie. It would most likely be read by a larger number of people too. 🙂 A very simple and useful summary of the basics of planted tanks. I personally loved your explanation on the method of co2 tweaking. Very nicely put IMHO.
Hi Mike 😀 . If you don't mind me saying,...I think you should consider making an article of that super long post that you made regarding the basics of planted tank keeping in the tutorial sections of the forum. It would really appeal to a newbie. It would most likely be read by a larger number of people too. 🙂 A very simple and useful summary of the basics of planted tanks. I personally loved your explanation on the method of co2 tweaking. Very nicely put IMHO.
Re: Transparent Tank - reborn
thanks - think it's a decision for the ukaps powers that be... i'm just a lowly journal keeping minion.
but glad people have found it useful. is really very strange to finally be in the position of having two tanks that are running nicely with minimal maintenance and healthy everything.
thanks - think it's a decision for the ukaps powers that be... i'm just a lowly journal keeping minion.
but glad people have found it useful. is really very strange to finally be in the position of having two tanks that are running nicely with minimal maintenance and healthy everything.
shrimplets
away for a few days. then came back to lots of little shrimp lets (my first) and algae in this tank. did a scrub and a water change (carefully!) and now can't see any. hoping they're hiding rather than dead...
Aha! Have just seen one perking about, which gives me hope.
Am going to turn down the lighting
too after my recent success with much lower light in the 259L tank. So will be running with just one Grobeam LED light (rather than that plus a T5) as am getting the start of algae issues on the hardscape, the stauro is carpeting nicely, the HC seems fine, and there just aren't that many shrimp in there... yet...
away for a few days. then came back to lots of little shrimp lets (my first) and algae in this tank. did a scrub and a water change (carefully!) and now can't see any. hoping they're hiding rather than dead...
Aha! Have just seen one perking about, which gives me hope.
Am going to turn down the lighting
too after my recent success with much lower light in the 259L tank. So will be running with just one Grobeam LED light (rather than that plus a T5) as am getting the start of algae issues on the hardscape, the stauro is carpeting nicely, the HC seems fine, and there just aren't that many shrimp in there... yet...
pariahrob
New Member
Re: Transparent Tank - reborn
Great to hear Mike!
Do you have anything covering your filter inlet to stop them getting sucked up?
Great to hear Mike!
Do you have anything covering your filter inlet to stop them getting sucked up?
pariahrob
New Member
Re: Transparent Tank - reborn
That's ok then. I've got an in tank filter in my nano and I have a load of cherries going in tomorrow, now it's cycled. I must remember to put something over the intake!
Lets see some photos of the babies
That's ok then. I've got an in tank filter in my nano and I have a load of cherries going in tomorrow, now it's cycled. I must remember to put something over the intake!
Lets see some photos of the babies
Transparent Tank - reborn
Now have more shrimp than I can count, of lots of different sizes. Rather satisfying. They certainly are frisky. Another couple of months and I'll have enough to transfer a wodge over to the big tank in a mass immigration of a hundred or so that I hope will be big enough to stand up to the dwarf puffers and gouramis having the odd snack. Then will keep this lot going to breed ever more. Am aiming for about 400 in the big tank. Might sell some too.
The annoying news is that I got the CO2 too low when I went away for a week which has played havoc with the stauro. Holes everywhere. Will get CO2 right again then do a big trim.
No macro lens is killing my shrimp photos. Can't get a good one!
Now have more shrimp than I can count, of lots of different sizes. Rather satisfying. They certainly are frisky. Another couple of months and I'll have enough to transfer a wodge over to the big tank in a mass immigration of a hundred or so that I hope will be big enough to stand up to the dwarf puffers and gouramis having the odd snack. Then will keep this lot going to breed ever more. Am aiming for about 400 in the big tank. Might sell some too.
The annoying news is that I got the CO2 too low when I went away for a week which has played havoc with the stauro. Holes everywhere. Will get CO2 right again then do a big trim.
No macro lens is killing my shrimp photos. Can't get a good one!
More pics
Some better pics, now I've had a bit more time.
The daddy shrimp... hoping they all come out this red.
Here's three generations in one shot - gives a sense of the scale of the babies, and these are a couple of weeks old now.
And a full tank shot. Have just trimmed the stauro and put into the big tank, so all looking a bit bare.
Some better pics, now I've had a bit more time.
The daddy shrimp... hoping they all come out this red.
Here's three generations in one shot - gives a sense of the scale of the babies, and these are a couple of weeks old now.
And a full tank shot. Have just trimmed the stauro and put into the big tank, so all looking a bit bare.
Amazon puffers
Moved about 80 shrimp into the big tank, as I figure they're now at self-sustaining levels even with a bit of predation, and it's got enough plant cover for them... Here's how it's looking:
So on to phase two: moved in about 7 ottos and two South American Puffers. LOVE THEM. Here's the approach of death from above on a snail from the garden (they don't seem to have taken to the ramshorns yet):
(Sorry about focus, was a quick shot with no tripod, but it looks kind of eerie)
And here's the video (not for the squeamish), again without a tripod
Moved about 80 shrimp into the big tank, as I figure they're now at self-sustaining levels even with a bit of predation, and it's got enough plant cover for them... Here's how it's looking:
So on to phase two: moved in about 7 ottos and two South American Puffers. LOVE THEM. Here's the approach of death from above on a snail from the garden (they don't seem to have taken to the ramshorns yet):
(Sorry about focus, was a quick shot with no tripod, but it looks kind of eerie)
And here's the video (not for the squeamish), again without a tripod