Re: Fluval Studio 900. 'Coastal Erosion' Journal... PMA!
easerthegeezer said:
im sure two weeks from now you will be seeing a huge different ady as far as the problems go. Being able to control the intensity from your light will make all the difference mate, having a hanging light has been the best move ive made in a very long time.. i was also surprised at how high i ended up keeping it! Looking forward to next sundays update
Those cherries do look very nice indeed, MA cherries are normally really low grade and high price IME.
Diamond tetra and pygmy corys are my current 'flavour of the month', have you thought about hachets, might work well with the theme...just the open top to consider :?
Hi Iain,
im hoping ill see an improvement, and i should have sorted the lighting a long time ago, so simple to do but hopefully very effective...probably had a lot to do with some of the recurring issues in Dragons Crypt also.
Yeah, the cherries looked more like Sakuras, so grabbed a few. Funny you should mention Pygmy cory's, Hastatus were also on my maybe list along with Paraguay tetras which they mimic....but Paraguay tetras dont really school and are a little quarrelsome amongst themselves so maybe not the most relaxing fish to watch.
Hatchets wouldnt be a problem as i have the glass covers i could use to prevent escapees, but id feel a bit bad on them as theres no surface cover, and the water movements a little fast up there....i love them though and they would look cool.
Cheers for the encouragement too
ianho said:
wow, thats some melt mate...i expect it's be a flow/c02 problem in that corner? Are you continuing with the good maintenance of the tank??
I would have a look at Ember tetras, they are great when they colour up, i have some and they are a deep orange, they stand out really well.
Keep the chin up mate, you will win.
ps get some Purigen as well.
Cheers Ian,
tell me about it, the plants melted completely, the stauro even down the roots! Ive been syphoning the mush with an airline every other day along with 60% water changes and regular pre-filter cleaning and algae scraping, so maintenance has been good. That happened to the stauro in 2 days from the start of it, thats the last patch to go which has happened today! The rate at which it fails is shocking
The flow/c02 in that corner is the best anywhere in the tank as the flow goes from top right (where the spraybar is) along the surface to left side and down that side panel to the bottom where its turned back on itself along the substrate :?
I already had purigen in the filter until this afternoon when i took it out to improve flow in my knackered G6
In all honesty dont think im gonna put it back in, im gonna try good old activated carbon again.
Yeah, embers look nice and stay small, do they school?
tim said:
sure you'll make it bounce back ady knowing the solutions is half the battle mate
for me fish wise nice big school of dwarf pencilfish
Yeah pencilfish are also very cool, love the marginatus sp. and they would look great in numbers in the mid/upper water zone, but they may not be fans of the open bright tank and the flow?
Hopefully ill make good the situation, the Ammania bonsai stopping melting has encouraged me that reduced lighting intensity is the key
Cheers chaps.
think you must have been looking at the older photos!
