Kosh42-EFG
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- 10 Jul 2007
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Well, as soon as my window's are done the living room will be redecorated, which also means new tank time!
So in the lead up to then I've taken the opportunity to set up a small, temporary tank in the front shed of my house. This will be the home for my live stock during the transfer, and I'm also using it as a chance to experiment with cat litter and Osmocote, as it's new to me. This is my current, heavily overgrown tank:
Bought a cheap Clearseal tank to go on an old stand I had from my reef set-up. Fill test:
This is the first time in my life I've ever taken a lovely, clean tank, then squeezed a ton of filter gunk all over it before putting stuff in it. When I was a kid, I used to clean my gravel vigerously with a gravel syphon! How times change:
Spread a small amount of Osmocote over the base of the tank in with the filter gunk:
The washed and ready to go cat litter. No matter what the susbstrate, washing it is always a time consuming and pain in the backside process. Washed it for about 15 minutes to get the small particles out and get rid of the scent.
Ready for the fill. The equipment along the back are sensors for the auto top-up, a pH probe and a temperature probe.
The water for the fill goes through the first two stages of my old RO filter. This is just a fine filter to remove particles, then a solid carbon block to remove chlorine and nasties:
This was the point I realised I only had three foot tubes, but I need two foot tubes to light it.
Readings on the computer just after fill:
That's all for now. Just leaving it to run over night and heat up. Have also now ordered some two foot T5 bulbs!
Thanks for looking.
So in the lead up to then I've taken the opportunity to set up a small, temporary tank in the front shed of my house. This will be the home for my live stock during the transfer, and I'm also using it as a chance to experiment with cat litter and Osmocote, as it's new to me. This is my current, heavily overgrown tank:
Bought a cheap Clearseal tank to go on an old stand I had from my reef set-up. Fill test:
This is the first time in my life I've ever taken a lovely, clean tank, then squeezed a ton of filter gunk all over it before putting stuff in it. When I was a kid, I used to clean my gravel vigerously with a gravel syphon! How times change:
Spread a small amount of Osmocote over the base of the tank in with the filter gunk:
The washed and ready to go cat litter. No matter what the susbstrate, washing it is always a time consuming and pain in the backside process. Washed it for about 15 minutes to get the small particles out and get rid of the scent.
Ready for the fill. The equipment along the back are sensors for the auto top-up, a pH probe and a temperature probe.
The water for the fill goes through the first two stages of my old RO filter. This is just a fine filter to remove particles, then a solid carbon block to remove chlorine and nasties:
This was the point I realised I only had three foot tubes, but I need two foot tubes to light it.
Readings on the computer just after fill:
That's all for now. Just leaving it to run over night and heat up. Have also now ordered some two foot T5 bulbs!
Thanks for looking.