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Kept you out of trouble for the day :D
Looks good Martin :)
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Gingerlove05 wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 19:02 pm Kept you out of trouble for the day :D
Looks good Martin :)
I'm sure the Islands sheep population have felt safe today. :grin:
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Martinspuddle wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 18:48 pm
Andys temperate tank wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 18:45 pm That is going to be magic Martin. Are you adding plants from the old puddle too?
Yep, that's all the old as well as the new ...took most of the day, I started at 9:00am and finished planting 4:30 this afternoon. :]
Sounds like a great afternoon mate. Takeaway and a few beers tonight?
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Andys temperate tank wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 19:26 pm
Martinspuddle wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 18:48 pm
Andys temperate tank wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 18:45 pm That is going to be magic Martin. Are you adding plants from the old puddle too?
Yep, that's all the old as well as the new ...took most of the day, I started at 9:00am and finished planting 4:30 this afternoon. :]
Sounds like a great afternoon mate. Takeaway and a few beers tonight?
Apart from freezing the plants yes, it was although not the easiest aquariums to plant out. The wide brace bars ain't very helpful.

Cheese on toast and a Pepsi ...you can have the beers for us, neither of us drink. :]
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Looking good :)
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Empty now.

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For sale, one careful owner. :] ...only joking, I'm keeping it.
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News just in...

In my email in box, Maidenhead aquatics have just confirmed a replacement Aqua Oak hood will be on it's way in the next two weeks. :]
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I don't think the plants will show any ill effects to a blast of cold water, it wasn't freezing/ice just cold for a short while.
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All looking good Martin, a day well spent. (very therapeutic)
Looking good but will be looking great in another month or so when the plants start to get established, well done. ::thumbu::

I doubt if the water at 16C is cold, I'm sure the rivers where the plants naturally grow is cooler especially during the winter months.
Also if the plants were delivered it was far cooler over-night in the UK.
We generally heat our aquariums to suit the fish and not the plants.

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Clearer pictures this evening although not unexpectedly there's a high volume of tannins in the water column. I did a 170 litre waterchange today, may do another tomorrow.

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Mrs. puddle's new curtains arrived ...guess who had to put the pesky things up. :dodgy2:

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May have to increase the flow as there brown dust from slit or the wood all over the Cryptocorynes, so lower down the flow maybe insufficient.
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