The Sunnyside 300 :: Tank Log

[mikeyw64]

and then to confuse myself even further I was down at the LFS today checking on what stock they had in.....

Stand by for new post ;o)

[Martinspuddle]

some of the "old" hands may consider it cheating but as a "n00b" to the hobby and having done it both ways I know which way I would use the next one , and it doesn't involve fish ;o)

I was pulling your leg, having realised the mistake I'd made forgetting you used ammonia for your cycling.

...hang on a minute, less of old! More mature thank you.

[Martinspuddle]

In this case, the angels, as you will be removing 4 probably when two pair up, otherwise there'll be outright war in the tank.
I'm still wary of keeping the apistos with angels by the way.

Normally I would agree, but considering the size of Mikey's tank don't think he'd have to many worry's mixing Angelfish with Apistogramma's.

[mikeyw64]

I seem to recall from another thread where the conversation turned to the first moon landing that I may be a little older than you (or was it the other way around??)

[Martinspuddle]

I seem to recall from another thread where the conversation turned to the first moon landing that I may be a little older than you (or was it the other way around??)

In my politeness, I decided not to remind you!

[Ric]

Just to get back to the fish for a moment: if you're running the tank at 27C, wouldn't that be too warm for your platys? Some of the variatus platties are more temperate fish but even the others are usually good with 24/25C max.

[mikeyw64]

The water is also too soft for them

[mikeyw64]

Sunnyside at 20 Days.

Looking forward to seeing in here later in the week

[mikeyw64]

Well I wasn't expecting that, where's all my Nitrate gone?

Even cracked open a new spare testing kit and retested using those previously unopened reagents.

Nada, zilch, not a sausage.

Ok so there was a very small water change yesterday (actually less than 5%) but that shouldn't have made such a huge difference.

Only thing I can think is that all the slow /still water trapped in the alfagrog under the mound (which is fed by gaps in the lava rock) is acting like a giant anaerobic reactor and the munchers have just kicked in !!!

Note, Fireplace always runs at pretty much zero nitrate. Always attributed that to the fact that the bioload must be lower than the plants take up of nitrate as it rarely gets ferts added, maybe once a month if that.


(under mound structure)


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[plankton]

I thought this tank, although being 300l wasn't much more than 3' long? Hence my comment about apistos and removing angels when they pair up???
Have I got confused with someone else again????