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MC Mountains - 12g long

Time for a big trim and clean tomorrow then going to leave the tank in my mothers hands for a month, hopefully it survives, I have mixed up a all in one fert and she is just going to take a few scoops of water out and replace a few times a week. Decided to leave the lights and co2 as is for the month. I have been using the combined macro micro fert for a few weeks and all seems good, perhaps a bit more green dust algae / spot algae probably due to the lower Po4.

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How do you make such interesting blue light effect on the bottom of the tank? Sorry if you've already answered this before. Just noticed it.
 
How do you make such interesting blue light effect on the bottom of the tank? Sorry if you've already answered this before. Just noticed it.

Hi Alexander, the blue light is created from a RGB LED strip light placed at the bottom / rear of the tank, the blue (or what ever colour you set the RGB strip light to) shines threw the bottom glass panel and reflects of the white wall behind to create a nice back lighting effect. This is the brand of light I used as it was easy to source locally via a hardware store but you can order this style of LED strip of Ebay much cheaper - https://www.bunnings.com.au/arlec-30cm-12w-multi-colour-led-flex-strip-light-4-pack_p7071499

:)
 
Trimmed and cleaned the tank

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This photo is about 40 days after the last trim and clean... I have been on holidays glad it survived pretty much on auto pilot and top ups

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had a hard time maintain the water level , evaporation seem high on 12g , always need top-up every week
 
had a hard time maintain the water level , evaporation seem high on 12g , always need top-up every week

Yes I top up about 2 or 3 times a week
 
lol , i gave up topping up ,will restart again once when i settle mine auto gravity fed water top up , i still like this tank dimension , a nifty small but long length , really enjoy whenever i see shrimps swim from one end to the other .
 
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Brought 20 Rasbora's today, I am not sure of the species they where labeled gold line Rasboras at the fish store but after googling they look a little different and there isnt much info on "gold line" perhaps they are black line?... can anyone ID these?

EDIT - found out the fish are "Boraras urophthalmoides"

Also got around to trimming the MC carpet, was a pain to remove all the frogbit, trim, clean then put it all back in... but the fish and shrimp seem to like the cover and are very active.

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just looking back at the thread , i too had problem with check valve not working as intended , in fact i bought quite a few of those metal ones , none seem to work well what check valve are you using ?
 
just looking back at the thread , i too had problem with check valve not working as intended , in fact i bought quite a few of those metal ones , none seem to work well what check valve are you using ?

I am actually not using any check valve, apparently the bubble counter has one in built but I wouldn't rely on that. I run co2 24/7 at a very slow rate about 0.5 bps so no real need for a check valve as there is always pressure going into the inline diffuser.
 
Here is a quick iphone video of the new fish, I am not sure if the flow is to strong for these little guys as they seem to only hang down either end of the tank and avoid stopping in the middle, they do zoom from end to end but dont really group up in the middle, I have order a ball / spin style lily pipe to see how they like the flow created from that style pipe

 
from what i notice from past keepers this species doesnt like to school , rather free roaming at most times , recently i saw someone use a waterproof shaver to shave his carpet , might be suitable for yours .
 
A waterproof shaver would be pretty handy, tho I am getting quicker with the scissors :p

I adjusted the outlfow valve (from filter to tank) about half a turn and almost instantly the fish started to swim back and forth in a school, you can still see some get pushed down when they swim under the outlet / lily pipe, perhaps I can adjust the flow back even more. Tho possibly it was just a coincidence :p

 
Fish are starting to show some colour, I need to learn how to photography moving objects!

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The Shrimp are way larger than the little Boraras and stay still so are easier to photograph!

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Took another 30+ photos and only one was "good" I need to read up on AI Servo cant seem to get it to work (i.e focus point moving with the fish) I also want a macro lens to capture these little guys... better save my pennies and stop buying fish stuff!

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Starting to get the hang of trying to photograph these little guys, still cant figure out AI Servo on my canon 7d... Wanting a macro lens badly!

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