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Been 10 days since my last update.
Plants have been looking good. I didn't get to do my water change last week, or over the week since I hurt my back again. I always seem to injure myself in the strangest ways. Prior to buying my house, I lived in an apartment so any fitness gear needed to be foldable and compact. I had a bench that I'd use for working out with dumbbells and it was always a bit "rocky". I got back into working out and what typically happens is I progress in the weight I'm lifting pretty rapidly, the downside being that my core doesn't quite catch up with everything else. I was lifting the dumbbells up, and as I laid back to do some flat presses, the backrest rocked and rather than just dropping the weights, I tried to manhandle them and tweaked my back pretty badly. I've purchased a much more sturdy bench since this happened, but it's sitting in the box since I haven't been able to assemble it just yet.
But yesterday my back was feeling much better and today it seems fine so I'll be able to get back to doing water changes again tomorrow after work.
I didn't dose anything since the last time I took a week off from water changes, that's when I started seeing issues. So far everything has looked great though.
The one thing that did happen is the CO2 tank finally ran out. Right before the lights came on I decided to check the PH level and it was .4 higher than it should have been and sure enough, one bubble every 4-5 seconds was being injected into the reactor and the gauge was at zero so I went ahead and swapped bottles. I'll need to find some time next week to run over and get it refilled. I basically got about 6-7 months out of a 10lbs tank.
Over the weekend I had a power outage that literally happened for no reason. Power went out, went back on for a second, then went back out again, then came back on a few minutes later. This happened yesterday during the day, except it just went out and didn't come back on for about 20 minutes. Last night when I went to feed the fish I noticed two were dried up on the floor. I don't know if the filtration suddenly kicking off spooked them or what, but there were to Kamikaze on the floor.
I need to do some heavy trimming tomorrow as well since many of the plants have reached the surface. I think it might be a good time to move plants around since I have enough healthy growth to trim off and toss the older unhealthy stems.
I'll get an FTS up this weekend once the dust has settled after the WC and rearranging of plants.
Plants have been looking good. I didn't get to do my water change last week, or over the week since I hurt my back again. I always seem to injure myself in the strangest ways. Prior to buying my house, I lived in an apartment so any fitness gear needed to be foldable and compact. I had a bench that I'd use for working out with dumbbells and it was always a bit "rocky". I got back into working out and what typically happens is I progress in the weight I'm lifting pretty rapidly, the downside being that my core doesn't quite catch up with everything else. I was lifting the dumbbells up, and as I laid back to do some flat presses, the backrest rocked and rather than just dropping the weights, I tried to manhandle them and tweaked my back pretty badly. I've purchased a much more sturdy bench since this happened, but it's sitting in the box since I haven't been able to assemble it just yet.
But yesterday my back was feeling much better and today it seems fine so I'll be able to get back to doing water changes again tomorrow after work.
I didn't dose anything since the last time I took a week off from water changes, that's when I started seeing issues. So far everything has looked great though.
The one thing that did happen is the CO2 tank finally ran out. Right before the lights came on I decided to check the PH level and it was .4 higher than it should have been and sure enough, one bubble every 4-5 seconds was being injected into the reactor and the gauge was at zero so I went ahead and swapped bottles. I'll need to find some time next week to run over and get it refilled. I basically got about 6-7 months out of a 10lbs tank.
Over the weekend I had a power outage that literally happened for no reason. Power went out, went back on for a second, then went back out again, then came back on a few minutes later. This happened yesterday during the day, except it just went out and didn't come back on for about 20 minutes. Last night when I went to feed the fish I noticed two were dried up on the floor. I don't know if the filtration suddenly kicking off spooked them or what, but there were to Kamikaze on the floor.
I need to do some heavy trimming tomorrow as well since many of the plants have reached the surface. I think it might be a good time to move plants around since I have enough healthy growth to trim off and toss the older unhealthy stems.
I'll get an FTS up this weekend once the dust has settled after the WC and rearranging of plants.
