Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
510 L by Captain Slow
After long inactivity on this forum I'd like to present my new tank.
As my name says I warn you that my thread will be long -( photo journal) and mega boring.
I have dreamed about new tank for few years, but everything started about 8 months ago. I have found a space in a dining room and wanted to put there a long datschund - 2.5m long and 35cm high Unfortunately after cleaning space and removing some of the furnitures my better half took this space off me and offered some room in the living rom instead. So after some time I went to Seahorse and ordered custom built tank.
-Tank dimensions
170cm x 50cm x 60cm high
-Lightning
Giesemann Infiniti unit shortened by me from 182cm to 170cm with 3x150w HQI + 4x80w T5.
lightning power can be: 160W, or 320w, or 450w, or 610w or 770w
current lightning period:
30min - 160w,
30 min - 320w,
3h - 450w,
1.5h - 320w,
1.5h - 160w
-Filtration
Tetra ex 700 with glass pipes
JBL e1501 with glass pipes.
small internal filter 400L/h to increase water movement.
-Heating
Hydor 300w inline
-Additional equipment
7L Co2 bottle
reactor aqua medic 1000
indycator co2
-Fauna
200+ RC
20+ CPD ( + 30-50 in near future)
10 Pigmey corry (+ 10 in near future)
9 Tetra rummynose
8 Ottocinkus
5 Hatchettfish (+ 5 in near future)
2 Platys
1 Panda corry
-Flora
Mosses:
- Flame
- Phoenix
- Christmass
- Weeping
- Stringy
- Taiwan
- Java
- Anubias Nana
- Anubias Congo
- Lilaeopsis Brasilian
- samolus parviflorus
- Cryptocorine brown
- Microsorium
- Rotala
- HC
- Glosso
- Eleocharis Vivipara
-Additional info.
I have started with DSM. HC and Glosso were added at the begining of October 2013. Mosses arrived week later. By mid November after 5 weeks tank was filled with water. First fauna was added after two weeks ( from old tank), and just before Christmas rest of fish was introduced.
- temp 25*C
- Fertillisers - EI method
Substrate:
On the bottom - JBL Manado
Mid - JBL aquasoil, Ada amazonia, Aquasubstrate2
Top JBL Manado
Photo Journal part 1
DIY project
That is where aquarium stays
Photo taken thanks to Seahorse who let me in to their cave
part 2 soon
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After reading many articles on the internet and trying these methods in my tank eel free to ask me if you have any questions.
At the beginning it looked like this:
Day one front view:
Day two front view::
Week one front view:
Week three front view
week 5 front view
Day one side view:
Week three side view:
Day one top view:
And now we got the 15th of November:
Part 3 soon
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Lets look inside my DIY project:
First day after water filling - front view: 15th of November
moss
22nd of November
Brown algaes:
more algaes:
Fire moss and algaes:
13th of December
Algaes are loosing.
15th of December - month after water filling
part 4 soon
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below pictures taken just 2 days ago.
Rotala like you can see are green. It lost red colour as lightning period is too short - I only recently won with Algaes, and increase lightning period very slowly
31st of December
THE END
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Estimate Index great choice. Good luck with algee
Do not save Co2 
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Very nice. Thanks for share nice pictures and information.
Estimate Index great choice. Good luck with algee
Would u believe that I set co2 at 1 bubble per 2 sec?
And so far it works fine. As soon as i turn on hqi there are bubbles everywhere in the tank.
I like my inline reactor- thanks to it I have 0% gas loss everything is dissolved in water.
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