Dude this is awesome! Way to get on it!
I am obsessed with your potomogeton lucens
I mean, wow!!
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Journal 120 Dutch Ft. Yugang Reactor (Horizontal CO2 Reactor)
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Dude this is awesome! Way to get on it!
I am obsessed with your potomogeton lucens
I mean, wow!!
Great video! I hope the AR works out for you too, hopefully the soil will combat its fussiness
Great first video Mike! Glad to see someone actually putting true dutch aquascaping out there.
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Fingers crossed, it seems to be responding so....
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Thanks, but it's like watching a 7th grade teacher in basic math
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It's almost the perfect curtain plant. Absolutely love it. Got it from Aquarium Plants Factory.Dude this is awesome! Way to get on it!
I am obsessed with your potomogeton lucens
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I hope to get the videos shorter with more information than rambling. I was unnecessarily nervous for whatever reason. Repeated myself too much haha.
Haha that's fair! It gets better with time.
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I think you did extremely well. I don't think you rambled at all, and as for the length of the video.. I thought it was spot on!
Again, well done.
Well, first episode is up. It's laugh out loud bad, but was fun to do
Followed good luck brother. Also kill fan noise for video and get a potable mic like rodes clip on if possible.
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Yeah, we caught that after the upload lol. Should have that fixed going forward. That's our dehumidifier, 4 tanks in this small house causes a good amount of humidity. Bought a rodes that attaches to the camera. Might need to make some setting adjustments. Thank you though, I really appreciate it.
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DorkWell, first episode is up. It's laugh out loud bad, but was fun to do
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After reducing stock load, increasing water change volume and a bit of spot treating, no new cyano problem. Thank you for the help! I hope you were correct and this was the problem.
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Just a quick update. It's looking like the 100 is coming around and I'm winning the battle there. The 120 however, I'm still not in control. The Cyano has mostly gone away, but lower leaves continue to be plagued by this dark green fuzz algae. Tops will come in okay, then go bad when the new sets start popping out. I feel like I'm doing everything correctly, but I have no clue what the issue is. Mostly good things in the other tanks and the YouTube thing is kinda fun. So hopefully I have the energy to continue with it. My off days are now work days and to be honest, I'm feeling it body wise.
It's certainly early to say, but I'm not liking the Netlea soil. I just prefer the Landen's less rich nature and starting curve. Pumping water changes twice a week is exhausting.
Here's the 100 as of a few days ago. Started a Java Fern sp India wall, but it might be replaced with plain old Moss. It is a bit taller than I anticipated. @Burr740, if I had some areas of walled Java Fern, but finished the tank with Moss, would the portion of Java Fern count towards total species?
Not too much to look at, but miles from the disaster it was.
It's certainly early to say, but I'm not liking the Netlea soil. I just prefer the Landen's less rich nature and starting curve. Pumping water changes twice a week is exhausting.
Here's the 100 as of a few days ago. Started a Java Fern sp India wall, but it might be replaced with plain old Moss. It is a bit taller than I anticipated. @Burr740, if I had some areas of walled Java Fern, but finished the tank with Moss, would the portion of Java Fern count towards total species?
Not too much to look at, but miles from the disaster it was.
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The tank is lost! Absolutely no clue what caused this. My only guess, there's a dead fish caught in the back chamber somewhere. As such, I have a week vacation starting Tuesday and I'm going to pull everything out of the back and clean everything while hopefully finding a dead fish. All plants coming out, dipping in H2O2 and doing another deep substrate vacuum. If there's no dead fish, I'll forever scratch my head on this one 
Something that widespread I’d assume your right. Unless you severely bottomed out nutrients, left the lights on way beyond the photoperiod, idk what else could have caused that.
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I'm doing everything right that I know of. 8 hours of light, front loading macros with twice weekly 60% water changes. At this point, I'm hoping it is a dead fish. Otherwise, my next move is going to be expensive!
Edit: Thought about what I was actually doing, and I might be closer to 50% changes than to 60. And not consistent with doing it twice weekly. "ding ding ding"!
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How is CO2?
A tank with that much water and plant mass can usually handle a dead fish in my experience
Holy crap that’s the biggest B. caroliniana I’ve ever seen.
My vote is for dead fauna of some sort. Every time I see that kind of wreckage I find something dead (or evidence of it). Happened to me recently with a danio that got stuck behind the intake and the glass.
