"Green&Grey" (300l) - Last day video

[Pedro Rosa]

If you love Tetra Embers, here is a video of them entering the aquarium and from the next day, when the school was already very beatufil.
Their colors are not as nice as they should be in the future, but nevertheless a very good looking fish.
I think music is very nice for the images

 

[gramski]

Wonderful aquarium, the Ember Tetras are going to look fantastic once they mature.

 

[Steve Smith]

Excellent. I love Ember Tetra. lovely little fish and great to see them in such a huge shoal

 

[Pedro Rosa]

I sincerely hope that their colors improve even more in the next months... but i love them already

Pedro.

 

[greenink]

Really like this tank and great videos - really shows what you're doing. What's the lighting period?

 

[Aron_Dip]

Awesome mate, love the shoaling fish

 

[Pedro Rosa]

Hi, lights are on 8 hours weekdays (16h to 24h) and a little more at Weekends (14h30 to 24h).
CO2 are on from 1h30 bafore lights go on and off.

Pedro.

 

[Pedro Rosa]

Just had my first problem with one of the embers. One of them got a bloodworm in his mouth and could not take it out or in. I took him out and manage to get the bloodworm out with tweezers. I think he would end up dying but seems alright now.
Don't know if i'll give them more while they are so small...

Pedro.

 

[Ady34]

Hi Pedro,
i love your videos, and i too love embers, lovely little fish. Much like yours mine were very washed out when i bought them, took them several weeks to colour up fully, but now are a lovely burnt orange

Just had my first problem with one of the embers. One of them got a bloodworm in his mouth and could not take it out or in. I took him out and manage to get the bloodworm out with tweezers. I think he would end up dying but seems alright now.
Don't know if i'll give them more while they are so small...

Pedro.

Mine take bloodworms now, but like you say may struggle when very small.....even now they look like they are smoking a cigar, i described it like this in a post you may find useful from George Farmer when he added his small embers:
DIY fish food blend... | UK Aquatic Plant Society

Tank is looking really strong and filling in beautifully now.
Cheerio,
Ady.

 

[Pedro Rosa]

Ady, thank you for the link. What a cocktail that George have done
... And yes, they smoke bloodworms they love it.

Lets see on the next weeks what colors will they take. For how log have you got yours?

Pedro.

 

[Pedro Rosa]

Yesterday i made some experiments with lights and taking some more photos of the frenzy embers

This is the one i prefer... but much more to do with photo taking

Two experiments with colors

Ember shoal

Green valley

Pedro.

 

[Ganilhos]

I really love your aquarium neighbor its perfect i hope make something like this in the future eheh

Cheers Pedro

 

[xtevo]

Your previous journal "Throught the distance" was a true masterpiece, I will use it, when I managed to set a large tank in my apartment! But this one is amazing also, the proper work, the "documentation", the fish choice also, Pedro keep up good work! I will follow this thread also, as I did before.

 

[Pedro Rosa]

Some updates from last weekend:
- the first picture from saturday, the day before one more PWC and second HM trimminga primeira de sábado, antes da TPA e do trimming
- the second one after the trimming

(this first picture is 2 weeks after HM trimming)

I can say that everything is going about right but last monday i saw something brown on plants and hardscape. Thursday it got worse.
On friday (on the weekly tests) i saw that NO3 was zero!!! Not right because i'm using Power Sand...

Some one (Nuno M., also a UKAPs member) pointed on a portuguese forum that might be Diatoms, what is about right because it's not a plant problem but something that gets out easly by touching with the hand.

I'm on the 6th week and for what i thought that wasn't suppose to happen at this moment, but it can be because of the 100 ember entering one and a half week before.

I made the usual middle-week PWC and are looking at fertilization issues also (lack of NO3 and PO4).
I think that ADA Brighty Lights are not giving enought macros... just thinking that many things i've been reading about ADA ferts can be right (too much water for the price).

Pedro.

 

[greenink]

Really don't understand why people buy branded ferts. Or excel. When raw ingredients are so easy to get and literally 1/100 of the price.

Tank's looking fantastic though...

 

[Pedro Rosa]

Today i made tests.
Since last tuesday (described above) until toda i used the following ferts:

20ml de ADA Brighty Lights (1,36 €)
15 ml de ADA Brighty K (1,02 €)
10 ml de ADA Step 3 (0,68 €)
Total: 3.06 €

Results:
NO3 - 0
PO4 - 0.25
(power sand stopped giving me enough NO3 at the 5th week... is this normal?)



On my ADA 60P aquarium, 4 ml of Macros + 4 ml of Micros 3x week gave me NO3=20 and PO4=2 mg/l... the cost of this? 0,36 € / week

 

[LondonDragon]

You better stick to dry salts Pedro, before you bankrupt Portugal even further

 

[Pedro Rosa]

You better stick to dry salts Pedro, before you bankrupt Portugal even further

I think that our politics have the exclusive of that

I made the weekly spending and it gives me 25 € against 2 € (EI) for the same litres.

 

[Pedro Rosa]

I have no photos, yet, but yesterday when i was changing water and disturbed HM, a lot of very tiny CRS started swimming around
... i even saw a "junior" (i suppose that it is one 4 mm long that i put with the other 3 CRS four weeks ago. I never saw him anymore and i even thought that he was death...).


Pedro.

 

[Pedro Rosa]

It has been 6 weeks since i last updated this topic.

This was taken sunday at 10am, just before a PWC and a 5-7 cm trim on the HM:

The next ones are from one month ago. Mainly CRS.

Tetra Embers eating boodworms.

CRS ...

Pedro.