Re: Some piccies of the 40g so far:)

by **aly_starh** on Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:30 pm

whats the stocking going to be?

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:10 pm

betta_246 wrote:whats the stocking going to be?

Thats being discussed here [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

by **lilacamy931** on Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:38 pm

That is great news on the PH Van, glad you can go for the bogwood after all as you can get some nice large fantastic pieces for the lushness Wink

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:25 pm

Update -

3rd dose of stability added

Test results -

Ammonia = 0
NitrIte = 0
NitrAte = 0

Tested the tap water and the NitrAte is zero too. Never had zero NitrAte tap water before?

by **Newfishy** on Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:15 am

only time I have ever had zero is when the test kit went bad.

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:30 pm

Forgot to add Fridays results -

4th dose of stability
All tests zero again.

Yeaterday we were out all day so no tests, but stability was added.

6th dose added an hour ago and will test later.

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Mon Oct 12, 2009 4:53 pm

7th dose added. Will check stats later, but not seen any nitrAtes like i did before?

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:02 pm

Still getting zero for everything? So, either my tests kits are out or the stability is bad?

On the plus side, I have some very small plant shoots coming out from the substrate quite randomly:)

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:08 pm

Had water stats checked at lfs and all showing the same as mine. I have added a filter bag with some cubes of frozen Arteria shrimp to add some load. Will check later to see what happens.

by **lilacamy931** on Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:55 pm

This is what happened to me for a while with this stuff and I think 2-3 weeks in was only parially cycled from adding nothing but the stability. In the end had to do partial fish cycle with added aquastart

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:57 pm

I have a slight Ammonia spike now - 0.5ppm. Will test again later to see if it goes up or down.

by **lilacamy931** on Fri Oct 16, 2009 4:06 pm

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] Yay, those cubes seem to have done it!

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:09 pm

Test results from just a minute ago -

Ammonia = 0
NitrIte = 0.25/0.5
NitrAte = 0

So I have some bacteria in the filter converting the Ammonia into NitrIte.
I took the cubes out as they were going furry. All i have added since is Stability every other day, plant food & a few granules of Discus bits (food).

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:12 pm

So it took 10 days to get an ammonia reading and a further 3 days to get a nitrIte reading. Will test again for nitrIte soon to see how quickly it goes.

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:06 pm

The nitrIte has dropped to <0.25 and i have a slight nitrAte reading <5ppm.

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:37 pm

NitrAte is now at 5ppm
Ammonia is zero
NitrIte is between 0 - 0.25

Still feeding the tank.

by **lilacamy931** on Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:39 pm

sounds good so far, fingers crossed x

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:32 pm

All tests are now clear [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] (have been for a couple of days)
Ammonia 0, NitrIte 0, NitrAte 5ppm.

Rang one of the local shops, and amazingly they still had some of the Pearl Danios left that I'd seen a couple of weeks ago. 6 for £6 [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] .
However, they were sharing the tank with some Rainbows of some sort. When we got them bagged it turned out that 1 of the 6 was a Rainbowfish. So the guy said just call it a fiver [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.] . Its very very similar to the Danios and appears to be happy shoaling with them. Will try and identify it and get a few more friends for it.

by **lilacamy931** on Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:23 pm

Awesome, congrats on the hard work with the stability getting it to function and great news on the danios!!! Bargain

by **Vandraco aka Bronzecat** on Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:59 pm

Not terrific pics as they dont sit still for half a second LOL

Danios
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And the rogue Rainbow who was a real pain to photo lol
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