Happy holidays and new year.
I went to the states for the holidays, and came back to a bit of a disaster.
I have two tanks.
One is 100l open top rimless
The other is a closed 32l shrimp tank.
We were gone for two weeks.
I would imagine after the first week.
The water in the larger tank had evaporated enough to expose the spray bar.
The spray bar was angled high in order to agitate the surface a bit.
When we got home,
The spray bar had watered the carpet with the tank water until it had reached the intake level, then stopped. Big fish all died, but the tetras are all alive.
Needless to say the shrimp tank looks great. My moss tree is pretty fab
Needless to say the carpet smells like hell. I am going to try to steam it in hopes of killing the smell. Not sure if anyone has had any luck, but I figure it is cheaper than replacement. The carpet itself is that really cheap stuff, so I am not worried about stains and such.
But my question is about mulm.
I am planning on breaking down the tank, and rescaping it with akadama.
I read in the blog about using a layer of mulm in the new substrate to help kick things off. I was wondering how to gather this, and how to store it? Not sure how long it will take to rebuild the tank, and I am curious of how long the mulm might keep.
It might be a springtime build.
Who knows
Cheers
R
Sent
I went to the states for the holidays, and came back to a bit of a disaster.
I have two tanks.
One is 100l open top rimless
The other is a closed 32l shrimp tank.
We were gone for two weeks.
I would imagine after the first week.
The water in the larger tank had evaporated enough to expose the spray bar.
The spray bar was angled high in order to agitate the surface a bit.
When we got home,
The spray bar had watered the carpet with the tank water until it had reached the intake level, then stopped. Big fish all died, but the tetras are all alive.
Needless to say the shrimp tank looks great. My moss tree is pretty fab
Needless to say the carpet smells like hell. I am going to try to steam it in hopes of killing the smell. Not sure if anyone has had any luck, but I figure it is cheaper than replacement. The carpet itself is that really cheap stuff, so I am not worried about stains and such.
But my question is about mulm.
I am planning on breaking down the tank, and rescaping it with akadama.
I read in the blog about using a layer of mulm in the new substrate to help kick things off. I was wondering how to gather this, and how to store it? Not sure how long it will take to rebuild the tank, and I am curious of how long the mulm might keep.
It might be a springtime build.
Who knows
Cheers
R
Sent