All change...

[2cvbloke]

Well, as I was saying in my other thread, I've moved the snails into my small tank, to make way for, erm, something else in my slightly bigger tank...

I tried my best to clean out the tank of the algae and any other bugs (there were loads of cool little things swimming about in the dirty filter water!!!), but upon refilling the tank I noticed there were still some patches of algae, so I'm heating up the tank and hopefully killing it off (assuming the very hot water I cleaned it out with didn't kill it first)...

Plus I moved my tank to somewhere where I can see them a bit better...

Anyway, piccies!!!:

[theotheragentm]

Tanks look much cleaner. Nice job.

[2cvbloke]

Originally Posted by theotheragentm

Tanks look much cleaner. Nice job.

Thanks, I damaged the filter's outlet tubing though as I decided to boil that too as it was caked in algae, and it seems to have shrunk, and the squirter, with a row of holes in it, has bent!!!

Just need to go back to the drawing board regarding who is going to live in there...

[DepotFish]

Looks like a 10 gallon? Easier to let everything sit in bleach and then rinse like crazy. No chance of ruining too much stuff. Must re-cycle either way.

[2cvbloke]

Originally Posted by DepotFish

Looks like a 10 gallon? Easier to let everything sit in bleach and then rinse like crazy. No chance of ruining too much stuff. Must re-cycle either way.

7.5 I think, I didn't use bleach as I haven't actually got any in at the moment (poor toilet!!! ), but very hot water is just as effective and more environmentally friendly....

And yes, it will be re-cycled, I would like to try BioSpira, but I can't find it here in the UK at the moment, the nearest thing I can find is made by Tetra...

[theotheragentm]

Just remember that products that contain bacteria to eliminate a cycle should be refrigerated. Shelf products may help reduce the harmfulness of the bioload, but only products that are refrigerated like BioSpira contain the necessary bacteria to handle the bioload.

[2cvbloke]

Originally Posted by theotheragentm

Just remember that products that contain bacteria to eliminate a cycle should be refrigerated. Shelf products may help reduce the harmfulness of the bioload, but only products that are refrigerated like BioSpira contain the necessary bacteria to handle the bioload.

I just found something about Tetra's SafeStart, which apparently, like BioSpira, is based on Nitrospira cultures, could be an effective solution for me, thing is that they claim that it can be kept at room temperature for up to 12 months and remain effective...

[theotheragentm]

Originally Posted by 2cvbloke

I just found something about Tetra's SafeStart, which apparently, like BioSpira, is based on Nitrospira cultures, could be an effective solution for me, thing is that they claim that it can be kept at room temperature for up to 12 months and remain effective...

Well, just measure your levels while you're using it to be safe. Good luck.

[2cvbloke]

Well, as a stereotypical old southern-state american would say, dagnabit!!! The Algae managed to survive the hot water cleaning and even though I haven't put any food or anything in the tank, just dechlorinator, it's turning green!!!

I'm going to put a sleeping bag over it tonight and keep the heater on full, so hopefully the nasty green stuff will die off, I hope permenantly, I hate that algae, it's the hairy/stringy type too (the snails live off it happily though in t'other tank)...

But a loooooong way back down the line, it was actually my fault that the algae got in my mum's first tank, taking a sort-of wild pond snail (a well grown hitch hiker on one of my mum's deceased pond plants), which had a "fur coat" of the stuff, and plopping it in the tank, and from then on in each tank since then the bloomin' green stuff's grown in them!!!

EDIT: Oh, I made up some blue LED nightlights for the snail tank too, cos I was bored the other night...

I made them using a dieing set of LED christmas tree lights, some of the LEDs were burning out at about a rate of 2 a day, so probably a dodgy PSU!!! It's not exactly neat & tidy, but it's not the lid you're supposed to look at!!! :P

I would upload some pics, but I seem to have reached my 2mb quota...

[An t-iasg]

2cvbloke,
Click on the profile button at the bottom of one of your posts. You'll see a bar graph labeled "Upload Quota". Click beneath that where it says "User Attachment Control Panel" and you'll see a list of all the pictures you've uploaded in the various threads. Click the checkbox to delete the old pictures to make room for new pictures.