Recent content by JoelCouch

It's doing ok. Not fantastic but ok. Still don't have shrimp in there yet. I will see about posting some updated pictures soon.

Whitewater rock & supply. I live about a half hour from them. This is where I pick out all my tank rocks. Also got some pink Quartz to go with my wife's pink danios.

First off, questions are good, toss them all at me. It doesn't bother me at all. Now for my very limited experience with drift wood. I love the look and idea of drift wood so was really looking forward to using it in one of my other setups. However in a small tank you have to use a small...

I'm sitting here thinking and thinking and all of a sudden I realized you mean driftwood, right? If that's the case, yes I did not see a good use for DW in this setup.

Sorry, sometimes I have trouble with acronyms. What is DW?

The deeper substrate is mostly lava rock which has been glued together during build up. The water parameters are good and solid. I had a few fish in the tank for a short time and the parameters held strong.

Thanks, Slavo. As for the algae, it was growing in the moss and on the Hydro. I just cut it all out. Now I'm going to see if it grows back or not. Last time I cleaned it up it grew back within a week. I figure if I can keep it on the low side for a couple weeks than I'm good with that. Once I...

Here is an updated image of my tank. This is right after a water change and some cleaning so the water isn't 100% clean at the moment.

So, I got home today and flipped on the lights to my little shrimp (to be) tank and took a look. I gotta say, I believe I'm getting ahead of the algae thing. The water is sparkling clear and no added algae build up. In fact, the algae looks like it has much less oomph than it had before. And...

Good question! I've paid close attention to that myself recently. Absolutely no direct sunlight. During the latter part of the day the tank does receive indirect light. Not a lot but of course it doesn't take much. That has been on my watch list lately. Also, I am going to start doing huge...

I may break down and do it's working in my other tanks. If I understand correctly this is doable without the crew. And that the crews are only needed for newbies (well I am a newbie). However, I want to learn and I think this is the best and fastest way to learn. Once I figure it out I will have...

Nice feedback guys, really appreciate it. My tank has cycled for several months now. So fortunately that should not be a factor for my shrimp when that time comes. I do have a question though. As for the algae, would more frequent water changes help with that? Say twice a week instead of once...

Yeah, I'm trying to be patient and learn along the way. My goal is to have a tank where each component can stand on its own. Hard scape looked awesome. Then adding the plants has been a good stage. Once I get the algae taken care of, I figure it will be about time for shrimp.

It's going well, I have not put shrimp (or anything) into the tank yet. I need to post some pictures. I am struggling with algae and want to get that under control before I put the shrimp in. I've cut back the light to just a few hours a day and still battle with algae. I'm also not dosing any...

Here is an update on this project. Unfortunately the image got resized when uploading. If enough people are interested I can find another way to get the image up.