What did you do to your tank(s) today?

[JuJuFish]

I’ve used the Aqua UV Advantage hanger unit. I have a Sicce pump attached to it with a foam sponge over the intake. Pump in the tank, vinyl tubing from the pump to the UV. It’s a wonky setup for sure but it’s portable. The spout has a downward discharge so I made it even wonkier by adding another piece of tubing to the spout with a PVC elbow. Which mostly stays on. The inline version would probably be easier to work with.

I haven’t had to use it in years so I probably need to replace the bulb at some point.

 

[gnatster]

Sunday brings us a water change and retrieval of wayward shrimp from the prefilter.

 

[BenB]

Sunday brings us a water change and retrieval of wayward shrimp from the prefilter.

Blessed are the wayward that they might have unfiltered freedom.

 

[*Ci*]

Sunday:

• Koi pond water change and filter flush
• Fill ageing barrel for next Discus tank w/c

 

[Bubble]

Trimmed the month old tank... nice to have some plants to trim, but that Myriophyllum will keep me busy.

54L tank / 32 days

• Bubble
• Aug 10, 2025
• 54l budge co2 injected iaexp sand

after a trim

 

[DutchMuch]

Well I did something, maybe cleaning the filters pre-filter I suspect, to set off a green water algae bloom on maintenance day yesterday…

Went ahead and covered the whole tank up with cardboard, doing a 4-5 day blackout now… after this can I get an algae break?

 

[techman81]

Added an Oase skimmer to the farm tank.

 

[Asher E.]

today I went to the lfs and got a few plants. And then I did a rescape with two 50% water changes.
It was so much easier to uproot and replant everything in a mix of netlea and apt aquasoil than it was when I had fluval stratum.

 

[Whitecloud09]

Trimmed Anubias plant and spot dosed h202. Also trimmed dwarf sag.

 

[Kwyet]

I refilled the DIY CO2 for the shrimp cube. It lasted 6 1/2 months, and still had frozen material in the bottom that I had to soak out overnight.

 

[Mr.Shenanagins]

Also trimmed dwarf sag.

Trimmed or deforested?

 

[Whitecloud09]

Trimmed or deforested?

Trimmed, I just added 2 on each side of my 20 long, and they are shooting some new leaves out, so I am now trimming some of the older leaves that came slightly yellow. A pic from before trimming.

 

[gnatster]

Added a new one.

 

[techman81]

Finally just finished installing the RO storage tank in the basement and the plumbing up to the first floor. All seems to be working well. Will put it to use tomorrow for the weekly water change.

 

[*Ci*]

Tuesdays and Saturdays = Discus tank water change
Pretty automated:

• Empty 50% (syphon pipe lives in the tank, primed and ready to go with one turn of a valve);
• wipe down glass (hardly anything there);
• pull off 1 or 2 scruffy leaves (swords & crypts mostly and they are doing well!);
• Refill (push a button on a remote to fill from an ageing barrel in the basement - hose end is permanently hooked up over the edge of the tank)
• Additives while refilling (handy dosing bottles filled and ready to squirt measured amounts of ferts, kH and gH salts, dechlor)

I thought the discus would be a lot of work, but all of my pre-prep paid off and it is a super easy tank to take care of now ~•♥•~

 

[techman81]

Tuesdays and Saturdays = Discus tank water change
Pretty automated:

• Empty 50% (syphon pipe lives in the tank, primed and ready to go with one turn of a valve);
• wipe down glass (hardly anything there);
• pull off 1 or 2 scruffy leaves (swords & crypts mostly and they are doing well!);
• Refill (push a button on a remote to fill from an ageing barrel in the basement - hose end is permanently hooked up over the edge of the tank)
• Additives while refilling (handy dosing bottles filled and ready to squirt measured amounts of ferts, kH and gH salts, dechlor)

I thought the discus would be a lot of work, but all of my pre-prep paid off and it is a super easy tank to take care of now ~•♥•~

Goals!

 

[gnatster]

Rehomed some shrimp from the prefilter again. Did not do a Sunday water change. Been following the PPS protocol, and TDS has not risen by 100 since last Sunday. Yet there is some doubt.

Also extracted what I think may be BBA from the backside of some wood.

 

[BenB]

Rehomed some shrimp from the prefilter again. Did not do a Sunday water change. Been following the PPS protocol, and TDS has not risen by 100 since last Sunday. Yet there is some doubt.

I haven't looked at your journal, but keep us up-to-date on your PPS efforts. Most people use EI, and I don't know as much about PPS. Would be interested in following along as you trial it.

I use Excel for BBA

 

[*Ci*]

Added some “modern art” to my discus tank today. This crystal obelisk, in the vague hope that they will use it as a spawning cone ¯\(ツ)/¯
2 pairs are constantly spawning in the tank, one couple uses a leaf or the filter tubes, the other use the side of a glass vase. Eggs hatch, fry get eaten, everyone getting along reasonably well.

In any case, it fit’s in nicely with the glass theme : )

 

[BenB]

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The orange red in your sword matches the orange red in the discus above it. Looks awesome.