Hi all. I have just joined you. I’m Bryan Hindle. 62 year old semi retired so returning to fishkeeping to save my sanity.
New tank will take several weeks to arrive. I plan a dark start once it‘s here. Could be weeks before there is anything pleasant and relaxing to look at.
I intend to mitigate that if I can. Hence the canister filter is coming asap. I will cycle the filter through a 25 litre bin with some aqua soil to seed it and a teaspoon of gunk from my hot in compost bin. An air stone will keep the bacteria alive and cheap test strips to monitor any ‘progress’.
Photo to follow and I’ll keep a journal of water parameters. Fish food used to top up the ammonia load.
I hope to have a colony established in the filter by the time I get my tank in three or four weeks (an Oase 200 from Germany).
should be an interesting diversion from thinking about how important my old job was…..
Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
Dryrot.
New tank will take several weeks to arrive. I plan a dark start once it‘s here. Could be weeks before there is anything pleasant and relaxing to look at.
I intend to mitigate that if I can. Hence the canister filter is coming asap. I will cycle the filter through a 25 litre bin with some aqua soil to seed it and a teaspoon of gunk from my hot in compost bin. An air stone will keep the bacteria alive and cheap test strips to monitor any ‘progress’.
Photo to follow and I’ll keep a journal of water parameters. Fish food used to top up the ammonia load.
I hope to have a colony established in the filter by the time I get my tank in three or four weeks (an Oase 200 from Germany).
should be an interesting diversion from thinking about how important my old job was…..
Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
Dryrot.