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

[Asher E.]

I trimmed off the stunted tips on my rotala macranda to make room for more healthy growth. And I repositioned the filter outlet to see how it works in a different spot.

 

[millerschool]

Im 2 weeks away, from going overseas for a month, and preparing tanks as I get closer. Hopefully to minimise any issues when I get back, and make it simpler for the "Fishsitter".
After some reading here, quite a few threads actually , but there is one in particular kinda brought a lot of previous stuff ive read all together a bit for me
, Resource - Hanna CO2 Test Kit: My experience so far (and why you're probably not starting CO2 injection early enough)!
A few days ago on FB, Tom Barr also mentioned "Ficks Law"


SO, anyway, yes my flow is not the best, surface agitation not so great, and often have not the cleanest surface, Hence lots of googling new Lillypipes which landed me on Aliexpress, see ZRDR, Aquapro. these will have to wait until I get back...
I have removed all the fish, just a few shrimp in the co2 tanks.
In the meantime I have brought forward my Co2 2 1/2 hours, seems to be working. With a good outside shake, to get a degassed state my Ph drop is around 1.4, going by the Api colour chart.

Today was a WC and a weekly dosing, APT 1. (which is a little under, per the dosing calculator)
I will get the "fish sitter" to continue the once a week Fert dose, there won't be water changes its too difficult with the tanks being in rack, requires pumping in and out.
So hoping the extra Co2, will compensate for the continued dosing, without water changes. No fish, just a few Shrimp in the tanks.
The largest of the Medaka Fry, I moved into the Cube, with the others.
I am bit nervous what I will come home to,
Reading posts here has gotten me pretty inspired, will look at changing and trying some new things when I get back.

 

[Kwyet]

Im 2 weeks away, from going overseas for a month, and preparing tanks as I get closer. Hopefully to minimise any issues when I get back, and make it simpler for the "Fishsitter".
After some reading here, quite a few threads actually , but there is one in particular, which I don't recall offhand, discussing the increase of CO2, earlier in the day(light) cycle, and even with poor surface agitation etc, a quicker ramp up and offgas, was better. A few days ago on FB, Tom Barr also mentioned "Ficks Law". You guys will know the post im sure, probably not explaining it too well.
SO, anyway, yes my flow is not the best, surface agitation not so great, and often have not the cleanest surface, Hence lots of googling new Lillypipes which landed me on Aliexpress, see ZRDR, Aquapro. these will have to wait until I get back...
I have removed all the fish, just a few shrimp in the co2 tanks.
In the meantime I have brought forward my Co2 2 1/2 hours, seems to be working. With a good outside shake, to get a degassed state my Ph drop is around 1.4, going by the Api colour chart.

Today was a WC and a weekly dosing, APT 1. (which is a little under, per the dosing calculator)
I will get the "fish sitter" to continue the once a week Fert dose, there won't be water changes its too difficult with the tanks being in rack, requires pumping in and out.
So hoping the extra Co2, will compensate for the continued dosing, without water changes. No fish, just a few Shrimp in the tanks.
The largest of the Medaka Fry, I moved into the Cube, with the others.
I am bit nervous what I will come home to,
Reading posts here has gotten me pretty inspired, will look at changing and trying some new things when I get back.


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You may want to get some kind of cover for the one with the mystery snail. They like to explore. The tanks look great! I hope the clean-up won’t be too bad when you get back.

 

[BenB]

Im 2 weeks away, from going overseas for a month, and preparing tanks as I get closer. Hopefully to minimise any issues when I get back, and make it simpler for the "Fishsitter".

At the end of Sept, I'm going away for 2 weeks. So I'm interested in any tips you have. My advantage is that I don't have any fish, so if my tank sitter will just dose it a couple times a week and top off the water, I think I'll be OK.

 

[gnatster]

Water Change Day!

 

[Asher E.]

I set up a new tank today. I’m doing a dark start with apt feast soil.
I’ll be doing diy co2 for this because it’s cheap and the tank is too small for any livestock.

 

[millerschool]

At the end of Sept, I'm going away for 2 weeks. So I'm interested in any tips you have. My advantage is that I don't have any fish, so if my tank sitter will just dose it a couple times a week and top off the water, I think I'll be OK.

I think taking fish out of the equation, is key, less variables. Im hoping then that things will just tick along, and any issues easy to manage later.
1 tank is pretty stabile now, the other I would be looking at increasing fertilisers if I wasn't going away.

 

[Kwyet]

Yesterday really, but I made a shield to cover the high bay light over my hillstream tank. Hopefully it’ll keep most of the light from shining into the tanks across the room.

 

[Naturescapes_Rocco]

Yesterday really, but I made a shield to cover the high bay light over my hillstream tank. Hopefully it’ll keep most of the light from shining into the tanks across the room.

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You need a light with focused lenses that has no light spill... I know just the brand!

 

[Kwyet]

You need a light with focused lenses that has no light spill... I know just the brand!

I know, I’ve been following and I’m interested, but it’ll have to go on the wish list for now.

 

[SingAlongWithTsing]

spent like 10hrs rescaping cuz the buce got too fat and kept blocking my return line and old leaves from other plants kept getting shot into it lol

 

[Unexpected]

I pulled 3 fish living in the back chamber of my AIO tank and decide to pull the reactor, all pumps and turbo clean all media before reassembling the tank. 4 hour job and now a water change is needed.

 

[gnatster]

Trimmed L repens.
Pulled shrimp from the prefilter.
A Good Day

 

[techman81]

Began remodeling my home office. What does that have to do with my tanks, you say? With new lvp flooring, what do you think will be going in there soon?

 

[PeerUnk]

Trimmed L repens.

Same here!
And dosed my weekly nutrient uptake macro mix.

For the rest like everyday: manually feeding fish and dosed micros.

 

[gnatster]

Over-ordered Rocks, Pebbles, and Wood for the Betta tank. Covered the back with a frosted white background film.

 

[techman81]

Over-ordered Rocks, Pebbles, and Wood for the Betta tank.

First rule of aquascaping, you can never have too much hardscape.

 

[*Ci*]

First rule of aquascaping, you can never have too much hardscape.

Rule #2 - you can never have too many betta tanks : )

 

[DutchMuch]

Today, yesterday, and the day before, I sat and took a good 30 minutes to just look and observe my scape. Not to just relax but to notice if anything is wrong, or take in details that would otherwise be missed at a mere glance. I ended up trimming a couple of older leaves, nothing tedious by any means.

If you don’t observe your own scapes and just perform the maintenance, take that moment to relish your work.

 

[Whitecloud09]

Water change, cleaned up a lot. 20g below