Thanks zig.
I'm going to spend the weekend carrying out a BBA coup and take it from there. The GreenMachine plants I ordered arrived today so i need to get as much of it dealt with before I plant my new Downii...

I still have that starmoss, for you btw. It's mostly still alive too!

AndyT wrote:
Thanks zig.
I'm going to spend the weekend carrying out a BBA coup and take it from there. The GreenMachine plants I ordered arrived today so i need to get as much of it dealt with before I plant my new Downii...

I still have that starmoss, for you btw. It's mostly still alive too!

Andy are you still around Dublin or are you in Galway full time yet, I will give you a shout later in the week if your still in Dublin. I have some fissedens fontanus for you as well, unfortunatly it arrived over from a member over on UKaps with algae on it though, but I can talk to you later about it.

I'll be in Dublin on Tuesday from about 6 until lunchtime Wednesday. then I'm gone to Galway full time.

Give me a shout...

So, this week i've learned:

1. Don't assume your filter is working properly just because it's only 3 weeks old. If you do you risk not discovering the 6 inches of filter floss wrapped around the impeller reducing flow to very little. Lesson learned.

2. As pointed out to me on UKAPS, drop-checkers are not to be trusted. Your fish may well by perfectly happy with higher CO2 levels. Turn that needle valve and find out. If they're not, add a small powerhead for more surface agitation and turn up the CO2 slightly! Seems to work.

3. Disturbing Aquasoil kills shrimp. I assume the ammonia released was the reason I lost 6 Amanos in 5 minutes when I started re-planting. :? The cherrys are fine though.

Anyway, 6 hours yesterday finally got my Green Machine plant order planted. Nessea pedicellata & Ludwigia inclinata var. Cuba added to fill out the background. 2 pots of Downii added to the foreground.
i removed all the E. Tennellus and went through each plant removing any signs of Algae. It took ages but had to be done. It's shooting out runners all over the place too.
Pruned and re-planted the Stargrass which has gone mad in the last week. Removed the Limnophilia Ses. as it wasn't looking right. Added the Blyxa that milla on UKAPS kindly sent me. (It has died back a bit but looks like it'll recover ok)
My solitary surviving stem of E. Stellata seems to be recovering, I must be doing something right.

I'm dosing Tropica Liquid Ferts daily for the moment as I have some left.
Lights are on from 10am to 5 pm @ 2 x 39W
CO2 on from 9am to 2pm singing through the diffuser. The fish are starting to get a little stressed now at 1pm so I may have to review this level of CO2.









Swapped my 5 inch Royal Plec with my LFS for this beauty.









Anyone know what the plant in the centre is?

Nice to meet you at the weekend Andy.
Golden nugget looks good.

Good to meet you too. As you can see I couldn't resist the swap for the Nugget. He seems to be happy enough in his new home.

The tank is really looking great. The nugget does look happy ok

Is the 540 still on hold?

Good luck with the move to Galway, don't forget to join the CFKS.

Daragh

Andy where did you get those rams, they look lovely, I had some like that in england and got them spawning

looking good,as ever,andy,love the plec

@bjhillson,they have those rams fairly regular in aquapaws,always in great condition


Paul

Those ones came from Wackers a few weeks ago. they're the strongest Rams i've seen so far. Aquapaws have some really nice ones too.