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here goes nuttin folks....

Gutted...one of the led lamps was faulty :(

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Afternoon guys so the tank is progressing well and my HC actually seems to be growing for the first time!!!! Huzahhhh!!!!
ive also undertaken to build a new hood for my tank so i can control the lighting better...equipment on the way and updates will follow!

Anyone got any advise?
 
still waiting for all the equipment to arrive...well one bit..the lights are already and working...
 
Hi peeps

Well a lot has happened since my last post...I built my hood...which is now sagging so plan for tommroe is to brace it with alluminium tubing.

also the battery went in my timer when we had a powercut so co2 flooded my tank and I lost a lot of stock...

This is behind me now and i have started...operation carpet!!

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Hi All...this is me mixing my ferts

 

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Scales...scale...what in earth are scales for ? :D

Spoons is much easier, just mix x spoonfuls in water job done. My spoons were £2.99 for six from Robert Dyas. ;)

All the original EI research used spoonfuls.
 
Surly that depends on the density of the item your measuring ...e.g. my trace elements are heaver than my potassium therefore you would get a miss match?
 
Surly that depends on the density of the item your measuring ...e.g. my trace elements are heaver than my potassium therefore you would get a miss match?
Within realms of 5-6gr you are fine. Remember your are trying to dose in excess of what the plants require, so dosing 3gr is probably in excess (level spoonful), so is 5gr (heaped spoonful)..so just dose spoonful's you will be fine. If worried about under-dosing use heaped spoonful's, the ingredients are cheap.

If really worried you could weight 1 spoonful of each ingredient to know what it actually is, then alter spoonful dosing accordingly.

EI was meant to be simple and easy and difficult to get wrong, so no need to mess around weighing things, just spoon away.
 
Hi, update time,

I had a big algae outbreak which I have finally got on top of.

Here is what she is looking like now:

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Tank today by leetaylor, on Flickr

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2017-06-14_06-46-53 by leetaylor, on Flickr

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2017-06-14_06-47-19 by leetaylor, on Flickr


Also how do other people stick things up under their tank? ive tried all types of doubble sided tape with no joy

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Hi, so I have been a busy monkey this week.

Firstly my new shrimp have had babies after turning a glorious red colour

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2017-06-22_07-48-51 by leetaylor, on Flickr

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Baby shrimp by leetaylor, on Flickr

So thats the fauna news....

The real news is I have upgraded my lighting and .... oh yes and!!!! I have made my tank Wifi controled!!!!

I have got rid of my extension lead with an inbuilt timer and installed Wifi sockets.

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New bits box by leetaylor, on Flickr

Here you can see the CO2 plug with the two lighting plugs next to them. they only cost a tenner each and the best bit is I now have an app on my phone which I can not only run the timing of them but also manually intervene...

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My WiFi tank! by leetaylor, on Flickr

My tank is in the dining room so if i have people over or just want to check up on things i can control the lights with the app as i couldn't bi pass the timers before.

The lighting I have got is the three bar interpet 75CM lighting bar

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triple_led_2 by leetaylor, on Flickr

The light is a bit "colder" to the eye but definitely brighter than the two T8 led strips I had in there....I shall upload some pics later as the lights have gone on and off too much tonight and I dont want to stress the fish
 
Nice cherries there and a great set-up.

I've been using Wemo to control my tank lighting schedule for a while now and I love it. I travel a fair bit so it's nice to be able to check everything has been running as it should. I also have hooked the lighting up to Alexa (amazon) so I can ask the light to turn on by voice which is good for anything I need to switch the lighting on for.

I have yet to hook up my CO2 to a smart socket, think that's my next task. I've resisted so far in part because smarthome products are still bedding in and an outage which might fail to switch off CO2 when required worries me. I guess so long as you aren't running at max CO2 a blip wouldn't hurt too much.
 
My Co2 is controlled by the PH monitor (the grey box on the right hand side) so even if it fails to turn off then it will never over load the CO2. all the wifi is doing is switching the monitor off and on.

It is awsom to be at work and think...."I can turn the lights off from here" lol

right...time to actualy do some work...Ill take pics of the tank with the new lighting tonight!
 
So pic update of the tank with the new lights.

the plants are pearling like MAD so there must be a lot of extra light in there

So here are the lights in the hood

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New lights by leetaylor, on Flickr

the brightness of them was making the camera not focus

so onto the tank its self...

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New lighting by leetaylor, on Flickr

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New lighting by leetaylor, on Flickr

It is deffinatly a lot brighter...i think i will need to get used to it

I also cought sight of another baby shrimp so had to take a pic :)

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Another baby shrimp by leetaylor, on Flickr

So now fingers crossed there will be enough light in there to get a carpet growing!!!!
 
My Co2 is controlled by the PH monitor (the grey box on the right hand side) so even if it fails to turn off then it will never over load the CO2. all the wifi is doing is switching the monitor off and on.


Nice :) that's the trick.
 
Hi,

My shrimp have been very busy and I have a couple of broods of babies in there now, Its great to see them swimming about and munching the algae.

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Two broods of baby shrimp by leetaylor, on Flickr

This is two babies from the two broods one much bigger than the other.

I thought I would also show a pic from my other hobby, growing the succulent plant Lythops or "living Stones"

This is a plant I grew from seed and have just potted up so I can have it on my desk at work...I've decided to call it Brian

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Lithops by leetaylor, on Flickr
 
So an update, I have acquired a couple of bits of bogwood with annubus attached.

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Looking good by leetaylor, on Flickr

I think its looking quite good now....I think i need to prune the plants at the front though
 
Hi all,
I think its looking quite good now....I think i need to prune the plants at the front though
Yes, it is looking good.

Rather than pruning the Cryptocoryne at the front, I'd take the dead leaves out of the Java Ferns, they won't green up again but new green leaves should grow from the rhizome tips.

cheers Darrel
 
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