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Planted+ 24/7 arrived in the mail today! ☺[emoji1316]
VERY nice!!!
Went to Dick's Sporting Good to finally fill my paintball canisters, so I can at last set up my pressurized CO2 system, only to discover this store no longer does paintball refills...
Then I went to my favorite LFS (Nature Aquarium in Santa Monica) to spend a gift card I'd gotten for Christmas. Fellow fish geeks will understand how excited I was buying $30 of Ohko stones.
(Also got some crypt parva and root tabs for the 10g in prep for making it a planted tank, as the fry I've raised to adulthood in it are going to the LFS tomorrow. My little ones are all growed up.)
Lucky you for the new stone!
I had last week off, so side from giving the house a much needed tidy I got on top of a lot of neglected tasks in my aquarium...
So glad to hear I am not the only one seeing a tank and feeling guilt riden!!! Nice to hear you made so much progress!
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Our stones are 4.99 and up, but nothing good all picked over the last time I went to see.
Picked up Prime a big bottle and later found I was overcharged from what the tag on the shelf said, by $2. :/
Purused the DW options and found one which was a possibility, but decided I will make a trip to a couple farther away lfs in hopes of finding the exact right thing this next week.
Looked at the background for the tank and didn't like any of them. Probably going with frosted background with a little graduated color. Last time I was at a hobby store I saw some nice colored papers for scrap books.
The colors graduated to about 3 tones, say light to dark blues and then one was medium blues to green, there was also a water type pattern. I have an idea to add the frost film then attach a plastic page protector over the colored paper to keep it from getting wet. Adding it behind the frost will give a subtle color maybe.
Hooked up the filter on the 12G Edge, added another bag of ceramic media from one of the other filters that wasn't being used and switched the intake Filter holder and tube because the original tube had plant moss and algae particle on it. I just put water back in and turned on the light for the Java Fern DW. Removed 2 small MTS which had climbed to the top of the water line when there was no water circulating.
When I got home from work, the tank looked nicely clear. I had used a gallon of water from the 46G tank with the heavily tannin tinted water. Before the 46G water change to add a little extra tannin goodness, but not too much. Didn't want to add too many Nitrates or TDS to the new set up which I THINK will be for the PRL, all but decided on PRL over the CRS.
A somewhat risky move as they are kinda expensive, but maybe will pay off when they breed and I have a tank swarming with them in a year... - hope I won't screw something up and kill them! So as long as they are still available for sale on Wednesday I will buy them! Emailing the seller tonight to check.