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Andys 60l cube

I sent the supplier an email after my post last night telling them the light had failed and how it failed. I have recieved this email back
Sorry to read that you have had problems with your light. I have passed
this email on to TMC this morning and they suspect that it is the power
supply at fault. They have your address and will send you a replacement
direct from themselves today.
Your right Ali it would appear their customer care is excellent, if it turns up tomorrow I'll be a very happy man. I packed it back into its box last night in case i had to send it back, If that had happened I would have asked for a refund
 
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Hi Ryan its working now. new power pack arrived lunchtime so set it all up when i got home from work. Now I can see how much i can nuke this tank and see if this glosso will grow flat. Hopefully the plants will recover. I've left the amania floating in the 35l until this is a little more stable.
 
Hi Ryan its working now. new power pack arrived lunchtime so set it all up when i got home from work. Now I can see how much i can nuke this tank and see if this glosso will grow flat. Hopefully the plants will recover. I've left the amania floating in the 35l until this is a little more stable.
That good mate. The glosso will take over your tank once it get going lol. If you need more just let me know ok
 
Baby shrimp in the 35l i thought the female had dropped her eggs before they were ready
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Thats as good a pic as i can get on my crappy iphone4
 
It looks good. Only thing I'd say is that you probably won't see much of the alternanthera behind the wood as it really stays small, but otherwise it's looking nice :) I found my monte carlo actually grew during a 3 day blackout on my tank for green thread algae - once it gets going it seems to be pretty tough.
 
Thank you
I agree about the alternanthera and theres only 3 stems left after the lighting problem so I'm thinking about something else for there anyway. I'm also thinking about pulling a couple of crypts up to the left of the wood and putting some amania bonsai in and some fissidens on the wood too
 
My ei kit came from aquarium plant food last friday and i started using it when the tnc complete ran out
I think I've finally managed to stop the diatoms outbreak and stopped melting the plants
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Crypts are no longer melting, I've wiped most of the diatoms off but just spotted some missed bits
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Monte carlo and hairgrass front right bouncing back nicely
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Hairgrass at front left starting to show signs of life again, this was the worst bit of melting
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Back right glosso still growing vertical and a few stems of alteranthera hanging in there just, theres a good chance these will be replaced, I'm open to sugestions for their replacements
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Pogostemon erectus new green growth lots of lower leaves gone from too much light, I'm just waiting for a little bit more growth then i can remove the melted bits and replant the tops
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Anubias sp. 'Petit' starting to attatch to the wood nicely
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Added this hang on drop checker on friday this is just before lights on and I haven't change my co2 setup this got set by watching plants
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I've just discovered i don't need to hold my ph pen any more, I can just fix it to the light with a rubber band
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And a very yellow looking FTS to finish
 
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A few pics of the temporary shrimp house
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added an extra 8W t5 light to this now using 3x 8w t5 in here, growth has gone nuts but I am just starting to get a little GSA and GDA on the glass and a tiny amount of BBA on the shrimp guard. I cant get a bigger ph drop than 0.8ph in this tank, with the nano ceramic diffuser because of the trickle filter. I might try a larger diffuser and see if that helps
 
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Added a small patch of Hemianthus micranthemoides to the right hand side and moved the alternanthera reineckii 'mini' from behind the wood to the back right, when it grows a bit i'll replant the cuttings to make the clump bigger
When the amania bonsai, which is in the propagator is ready I'm going to fill the gap between the pogo. Erectus and the alternanthera reineckii 'mini'
 
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