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Marty.h

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I haven't been around for quite some time some may remember when I had my marine tank that got closed down a long while back and recently I thought I would go for a planted tank so got all the bits together and set to work and this is what i have come up with so far 20191026_134122.jpg
 
Nice looking tank. Which aquatic denizens will you populate the tank with?
Thanks there is

5 baby clown loach
50 cardinals
20 Black tetra
10 serpa tetra
10 Rosy Tetra
10 Buenos Aires tetra
10 male guppys ( other half wanted them )
10 cories
1 Red Tail shark
3 Plecs cant remember there fancy names but remain small
30 Shrimp

I think that's about all makes for a good display of colour and movement
 
Things are still growing away at a very rapid rate and looking healthy and currently no sign of any algae

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I also cant seem to get any nitrate reading I've upped the Ei dose and been feeding heavy so looks like the plants are just munching through it.

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The difference 6 days make

26 October
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1st November
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Seems I'm more green fingered then I thought also been managing to keep household plants alive as well [emoji23] by now I would of normally killed them even treated myself to a Bonsai tree a few months back and that's still alive with new shoots ect
 
That's a beautiful looking tank, perfect for a big school of cardinals.
Thanks I presently have around 50 in there hard to believe as they always amongst the plants when I take a picture but will up the shoal at some point
 
Looks awesome. What kind of light do u use and co2 how many bubbles per sec an how big is tank :) ?
 
Looks awesome. What kind of light do u use and co2 how many bubbles per sec an how big is tank :) ?
The tank has 4x54w HO T5's over it but currently only running 2.

Its 6ft long

C02 system is ista and not sure what thebubble count it the checker is green and I see over 1 point drop in PH

You more then welcome to work bubble count out a vid I took

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Having neglected the tank for a month decided today was the day [emoji85]

I got the scissors out and a bit more [emoji23]

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Looking spangly again


I popped into a new LFS and always wanted some carp and purchased 3 very small common carp however on returning home and floating the fish I noticed something wrong i has 2 carp and a tench !! I called the LFS and explained and they said oh he only been here 2 days I said maybe its best he stays on the till for the meantime until he can tell the difference between a carp and a tench [emoji23][emoji85]

So i decided to add the tench they fine in warmer water just they will have a high metabolism and grow faster my mate has a pond i can always move them to later also they all make excellent clean up crew for the bottom
 
Christmas clean for the tank all sponges and filter spangly nice big watechange have a good Christmas all.

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Beginning of December visited and LFS and always wanted some common carp however the lad at the shop didn't know the difference between carp and tench so ended up with 2 carp and a tench sadly the tench was very thin and not looking it's best but have since been feeding very heavy and it's starting to fill out

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Since I'm having to feed quite heavily also decided I better add some more biological media so added nearly 2kilo of alfagrog to the filter this should help over time left the old media in this runs before the alfagrog so will help speed the alfagrog.

The 2 common carp are a friendly pair and have so far been model citizens one thing I have noticed is with them and the tench they do help turn over the bottom nicely which caused issues with detritus/poo settling in the tank.

I was not happy with that so changed out the 2 x 3000LPH powerheads for 2 x 75000LPH powerheads this stired the tank right up and now having 17000LPH of flow in the tank combined with filter return flow rate this got all the detritus/poo nicely suspended into the water column allowing the filter to do its job and pull it out just ment I had to change the filter floss a couple of extra times to while the filter caught all the poo and caught up all the stock dont seem bothered by the flow ans I dont have any dead spots.

Here is a few pictures of the stock and the tank

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There will be some changes in the next few weeks plant wise but I'll update as I go
 
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